Following up on my Exit Synology post, I’ve decided it’s time to move from a consumer grade NAS to something a bit more sturdy. I’ve also been running out of memory on the Synology NAS with all the...

I have/had a Synology DS916+ NAS. This is an Intel based NAS with 4 disk bays, running on Synology’s Disk Station Manager - a nice piece of software that offers an easy way to manage the device, an...

Telenet, our local cable provider, decided that analog cable radio is dead and everyone should switch to either DAB (Digital Radio over the air) or DVB-C (Digital Radio via coaxial cable). For me, ...

Happy new year Y’all!

An second update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019 updates: Tablet history Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 I sold the Lenovo Tab4 10 (well, handed in for a cashback) and g...

I used to use Synology VPN on my NAS (in OpenVPN mode) as an entrypoint into my local network when I’m away from home. This worked fine, up to a few weeks ago - at that point I kept getting AUTH FA...

Some months back a friend of mine wanted to switch over to the Unifi platform (which I’ve been using now for about a year), and get it to play nice with his Telenet ISP setup aswell. This means...

A simple trick to get Linux to switch between tuned profiles to optimize your battery life. The tuned profile is created using a tool called powertop2tuned, which (on Fedora) is part of the tuned-u...

An update on the “My history in gadgets”, the 2014, 2015 and 2016 updates, I bring you… edition 2019! (mostly because I forgot to update stuff) Mobile phone history OnePlus 6 I’ve since sold t...

In 2016 I moved this blog from my own CMS over to WordPress. But seeing what a pain it actually is to keep it all updated, I decided to move to a static site generator. This time round I went for ...