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  Change of plans: I didn’t end up waiting for the upcoming Minisforum MS-03 Workstation after all, but instead decided on the ASUS NUC16 PRO on a whim. The reason was that Wendell from Level1Techs really praised this NUC in his latest video. He also highlighted the great Linux support from both Intel and ASUS. I’ve linked the video below. And unlike many Chinese manufacturers, you can easily find all the drivers on their support pages (both Intel and ASUS)—including those for Linux! Plus, the d...

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  Die neun Torten #gaumenkino

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  Fluch des Aspik #gaumenkino

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  Young Buns #gaumenkino

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  Top Bun - Sie fürchten weder Tod noch Tofu #gaumenkino

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  The past two weeks with Debian Sid and my new work setup—featuring two NAS devices and a new internal network—have been a success! One NAS serves as internal storage for all my documents, photos, videos, etc., while the second NAS acts as a personal cloud connected to my smartphones, backing up photos and videos I take, which I then copy to my internal NAS at home—if relevant. Conversely, when needed, I move necessary documents, photos, etc., from the internal NAS to the personal cloud so that...

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  Stell Dir eine Welt vor, in der jeder kleine Hobby-Bastler und ehrenamtliche Entwickler sich bei einem globalen Konzern registrieren muss, um seine Kreationen zu teilen. Das ist die Welt, die Google im Jahr 2026 für Android vorsieht. https://keepandroidopen.org/de/ @keepandroidopen

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  A week ago, I treated myself to a new monitor: the BenQ MA270S, a 27-inch model with 5K resolution, 2x Thunderbolt 4 ports, and much more. The picture quality is incredibly sharp—the best I’ve ever seen! It was actually meant to connect to my MacBook Pro, but of course, it works just as perfectly with all my Linux and Windows computers. Once you’ve experienced 5K resolution, you’ll never want to go back. And this monitor is significantly cheaper than an Apple Studio Display, which ONLY works wit...

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  My brand-new powerhouse: MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG Intel Core Ultra 9 386H processor, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe, and much more. What a beast! My first Intel-based PC in many, many years. But the new Panther Lake generation is currently superior to AMD. I couldn’t care less about the “Copilot” feature—who needs that crap? I certainly don’t. But I wanted a new, up-to-date, and powerful computer again for the next 5 or 6 years. And even though it wasn’t cheap, if I spread the purchase price of 1,500 EUR o...

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  It’s actually unbelievable: just for fun, I decided to go through the entire Windows 11 installation process on my new MSI Cubi. Let’s see how it goes these days. What can I say? Unbelievable! It took almost TWO HOURS just for the initial updates before I could even start setting it up! Are Microsoft’s servers that slow? The download took forever, not to mention the installations… And then the worst part: the pre-installed bloatware! Dozens of crappy third-party programs—and of course, they all...

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  Tried something new again: installed a fresh copy of Debian 13 and then immediately upgraded it to Debian Sid. I have to say: so far, it’s running remarkably stable and smoothly. Kernel 6.19.14 and GNOME 50—very nice! As usual, for privacy and data protection reasons, I’m trying to keep the system lean, with only the absolute essentials: Firefox/Librewolf, LibreOffice, Signal, Nextcloud, Localsend, Tuta, Mullvad VPN, and Freetube as an anonymous YouTube client. #linux #opensource #freesoftwar...

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  @cmccullough It’s been a while since I used Tumbleweed, and I wasn’t happy with it back then. I don’t even remember why anymore. Because now I’ve set up a system that works really well. The only issue I had at first was with Localsend; I had to configure the firewall to open a specific port. Other than that, everything works fine now. Debian would also be a solution for me as a global project, but something about it doesn’t like my keyboards or the Logitech receiver. But since I use a mini-PC...

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  @michaelharley you're welcome!

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  @michaelharley Hello! Generally speaking, you can’t go wrong with a ThinkPad for Linux/Debian—as long as it’s not a newer model where driver and firmware support is still lacking. The ThinkPad T480 is generally considered the last “good” ThinkPad because you can still upgrade just about everything on this model—RAM, SSD, NVMe, Wi-Fi, etc. Driver support under Linux is also solid because this model has been on the market for a while, and as a widely used business model, it’s readily available (e...

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCd_t9dGr74 #uberwachung #bigtech #privatsphäre #surveillance #google #facebook #amazon #apple

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  @75afb1faad9076bfc7188d55581ee30b721e3d1773ce93f726418e5ae0c969e1 Yes, as with all my other distributions. And what I didn't mention earlier, which I also dislike, is the recurring problem with malware in the AUR. So I no longer trust this source. Just a few days ago, Brodie Robertson made another video about what to look out for to determine whether a package is original or manipulated... and I don't want to have to deal with problems like that.

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  @wagesj45 In short, in other words: this is fascism. And we here in Austria and Germany know this only too well from our own history and from the stories of our parents and grandparents. Trump is copying Hitler and his methods 1:1. But unlike Trump, Hitler was a highly intelligent madman. Trump, on the other hand, has the intellect of a toddler and the attention span of a housefly. But basically, he's just a puppet of Peter Thiel and Steven Miller—a Jewish Nazi, which is just grotesque and c...

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  @truls46 Sorry, but these aren't mass protests, they're peanuts! Not even one-tenth of one percent of the US population is taking to the streets against Trump! When the first FPÖ government was sworn in in little Austria in 2000, over 300,000 people gathered at Heldenplatz—in a city with a population of one million at the time! Just to put it into perspective.

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  Why the hell do I constantly have problems with KDE Plasma and that piece of crap Akonadi???? Constant error messages, crashes, etc. whenever I try to connect to a calendar! It doesn't matter at all whether I try the Nextcloud Calendar, iCloud Calendar, or Google Calendar. And when I remove an online calendar, everything freezes—the entire KDE desktop. I’ve had this problem for years, no matter which version of KDE I use. I never have these kinds of problems with GNOME or GNOME Calendar. Ako...

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  Crazy... After a week of continuous use with Debian (with daily reboots in the morning), my Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard suddenly started acting up: some letters got stuck and were displayed dozens of times while I was typing. Other keys weren't registering at all. Well, I thought, maybe there’s something wrong with the keyboard—dirt, crumbs, dust, or something like that. So I switched keyboards to an MX Keys—exactly the same issue. No improvement even with a third keyboard (Cherry,...

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  Call me crazy... but I’ve got this complicated setup right now: An old Pixel 8 Pro without a SIM card, with no apps installed—or rather, all apps disabled—and on it I’ve set up a second user profile where only the Aurora Store is running, and from there I’ve installed MullvadVPN and WhatsApp. No contacts saved, no Google account linked. On this second profile, my old WhatsApp number runs via the VPN and over Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, most of my friends are on WhatsApp, and very few want to install...

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  And by the way, I decided to give OpenSUSE Tumbleweed another try today. Since Debian has its little quirks with my keyboards and I don’t want to use a distribution with a U.S. background like Fedora, OpenSUSE would be the politically correct choice for me as a European solution. #linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #opensuse #tumbleweed #europe #bigtech #surveillance

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  @vowe Bitte nicht den Teufel an die Wand malen! Das würde selbst mir als Österreicher schmerzen, wenn unsere Lieblingsnachbarn so eine korrupte Flasche als Kanzler bekommen würden. Auch, weil das gravierende Folgen für Europa hätte.

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  I was bad... so damn bad! I went against my own principles! Out of curiosity, I broke my sacred vow NEVER to use something like artificial intelligence. Especially not for meaningless stuff, like most people use it for. But then... I was looking for a new profile picture for myself.... and then... I got curious to see if all this artificial intelligence hype had any substance... if this AI is really as good in certain areas as many claim... so I tried out an image AI for the first time... and t...

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  Speaking of which: I’ve been back on Debian for a few days now. In the meantime, there have been a few updates—maybe they fixed the keyboard issue? I don’t know. But in any case, it’s working fine now without any problems or keys getting stuck. #linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #debian

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  @cmccullough@polymaths.social They've always managed to pull it off so far. 😉 Ubuntu has always been a bit of a no-go for me, if only because of its reputation as a “newbie distro” and, above all, because of its constant solo ventures or the perpetually outdated and poorly maintained packages. But at least 26.04 looks really good—a brand-new kernel and lots of new programs, with the old baggage thrown out… they’re finally on the right track.

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  Easter test weekend, initial findings. 😎 :fedora: On Fedora 44 Beta GNOME Edition, the file manager crashes every time I try to access my NAS. There are also frequent freezes with apps that weren’t included by default and were installed later. :ubuntu: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS also comes with GNOME 50, and unlike Fedora, it already includes kernel 7.0, which is great—especially for the latest hardware. This beta also seems to run more smoothly and stably than Fedora’s beta. However, it’s impossible...

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  Leider wahre Worte und Analyse, was in den USA vorgeht und was Trump wirklich plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5cV5xgsN38 Donald Trump, der kriminelle, faschistische *urensohn, Kriegsverbrecher, Schreibtischmörder, mutmaßlicher pädophiler Epstein Best-Buddy und verurteilte Sexualstraftäter - ich hoffe, der nächste Schuss trifft richtig, sonst geht die Welt vor die Hunde! #trump #usa #faschismus #demokratie

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  Over the past few days and weeks, I’ve decided to downsize my digital and tech collection. I own so many computers, laptops, smartphones, smartwatches, accessories, and so on—I can never really use it all. I bought a lot of it just to own the latest “hot stuff.” That’s why I’ve gotten rid of most of it—either giving it away or selling it for very little. And I’ve kept only the bare essentials. Often not even the newest or best. For example: I now only use my Peladn Mini-PC with an old Ryzen 5...

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  @justincrozer Rumor has it that GrapheneOS's secret OEM partner is Samsung. This phone was supposed to be released this year, but has now been postponed until 2027 due to the chip crisis and other factors. In any case, it should work out. Then we would finally have a hardware alternative.