Bitwarden launches new MFA authenticator-app
The use of a second factor to secure online accounts has become a must over time, long before the triumph of passkeys. Although there are already p...
Apple locks users out of their Apple IDs without explanation
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don’t go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have ...
Nitrokey releases new firmware for FIDO2 security key — and you can easily update yours!
Some time ago I blogged about the option to increase the security of your online accounts by adding a hardware-based token as second factor. The N...
How to strengthen your online accounts with a hardware-based security key
As of today, people are more concerned about privacy than years before. The times of classic passwords are gone and users begin to understand that...
How to skip the ChatGPT for Mac waiting list and get access now
This month, OpenAI has released the native ChatGPT-app for macOS alongside GPT-4o. Anyone can install this app yet but your account will still need...
Stability AI loses CEO ahead of reframing business model
With AI already being more than just „the next big thing“, it is more than clear that, with great power, there comes great responsibility. Consider...
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it - Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen
Music is known to be a healing factor for the soul and an empowerment of one’s own senses but sometimes specific pieces of art stand out that under...
Wrong Direction
It didn’t need the great song entitled “Wrong Direction” from Amorphis’ 2018 “Queen of Time”-album to sum many different situations up in one wordi...
How to fix errors with missing subfolders on iOS and Android after doing a PST-import
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
Earth-Day-Challenge 2025
There are always things that motivate us - or visibly help us to motivate ourselves. Apple has solved this perfectly with the rings and challenges ...
OpenCore Legacy Patcher - A self-experiment on the Mac Pro 2013
The OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a separate tool that enables devices long since discontinued by Apple to be operated with newer versions of macOS. ...
The Mac Pro 2013 - when nostalgia finally catches up with you
It’s a self-experiment paired with a hefty dose of nostalgia. My first Mac was the iMac G3 in Bondi Blue, I always wanted the iMac G4 (the “lamp”) ...
Playlisty for Spotify - Migrate Apple Music playlists to Spotify
Switching from one service to another is often less of an ideological issue than a technical one: when you switch from one music provider to anothe...
Apple acquires Pixelmator
There is software that does not come from the respective manufacturer of the operating system and can definitely be described as “essential”. On th...
Arq Backup - a versatile solution to back up your files on Mac and Windows
Backups are essential for any use case and while there are many solutions on the market, some apps stand out for their level of flexibility. Time M...
The condemned live longer — welcome back, Network Utility
Once upon a time, MacOS (or Mac OS X) installations came with a nice GUI for basic networking tasks like traceroute, ping or nslookup. This tool w...
Little Snitch 6 released, taking Mac-privacy to the next level
Four years ago I blogged about Little Snitch 5, a software firewall-like product from Austrian company Objective Development, which successfully ma...
Apple locks users out of their Apple IDs without explanation
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don’t go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have ...
The unhealthful peak of Internet service pricing
While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak of user ...
How to fix seemingly disabled Apple Pay on macOS
There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized that, see...
Dark Noise: Simple. Fast. White noise, refined!
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
Microsoft announces Apple Silicon-optimized Teams-client
Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to ca...
UTM - a great alternative for Apple Silicon-based desktop virtualization
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
Apple is approaching the problem with nagging-CAPTCHAs in iOS 16
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
The End of an Era: The iPod is dead, long live Music!
Incredible to imagine that smartphone and music-player were separated once. Years before the first iPhone and even more years before the streaming ...
Microsoft silently releases M1-optimized Teams-Client for Mac
Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after ...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, whose Face are you showing?
Entering the well-known video-conferences that are our daily business since the pandemic without checking your look could bring you in unwanted sit...
Parallels Desktop: Your Mac’s gate to proper desktop virtualization
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
Is Apple’s construction of privacy crumbling?
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
Apple: iCloud’s custom domain feature is — secretly — available now!
Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s Septembe...
WWDC 2021: Custom E-Mail-domains are coming to iCloud… finally!
I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud, but in the backwash of all those great iOS 15-features, custom E-Mail domains silent...
Sleeve: Stick the music you play right to your macOS-desktop
As many tools, Sleeve (looking like the thing you put the old Vinyls into) is something you might have not missed until you discovered the cosmetic...
Yet some additional and useful apps for your Mac-related life
While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine a while ago”, I discovered that — humbled by the reader’s outstanding appr...
DisplayBuddy — Control external displays from your Mac menu bar
While there are tons of additional useful Mac-tools out there, some shine out One of those apps I recently discovered is DisplayBuddy by developer...
Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine
While macOS always comes along with a bunch of productivity tools (and always was a synonym for being productive and creative!) there is always spa...
App-dated: TextSniper is aiming to put your images into words
There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them. One of those apps is TextSniper b...
Bartender 4: The best thing for a sense of order is a clean menu bar on macOS!
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios. With Big Sur, we h...
How to bypass Apple’s limitations and address more than two external displays with M1-based Macs
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
LuLu by Objective-See: Yet another powerful firewall for your Macr
In my post on Little Snitch 5 some time ago, I already stated that „a firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly...
Microsoft 365-apps for Mac gain native M1-support
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
Little Snitch 5 makes the successful switch to macOS 11 Big Sur
A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet ...
Why Apple One hasn’t absolutely convinced me… yet!
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. On September 15th, Apple has not just...
Microsoft 365 & Synology: A good match for SOHO-based backups!
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Camo is closing the quality-issue of Mac-embedded webcams
Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam. The webcam-issue The picture might be o...
MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup for macOS: A good way to elaborate your backup strategy
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
Using Nextstats to monitor your Nextcloud-instance on iOS
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
Why Apple needs to strengthen and upgrade iCloud
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
Exporting your Apple Notes to Markdown-style at ease
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
Services — It’s all about them… now?
Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services in the fo...
Getting rid of OneDrive synchronization-issues on macOS
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
Microsoft announces Apple Silicon-optimized Teams-client
Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to ca...
Microsoft silently releases M1-optimized Teams-Client for Mac
Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after ...
How to bypass Apple’s limitations and address more than two external displays with M1-based Macs
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
Microsoft 365-apps for Mac gain native M1-support
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
Goodbye, Komoot? German app sold to Bending Spoons
There are apps that make a difference: For people who like to spend time outdoors, Komoot from Potsdam, Germany has always been a good option. Now ...
My default apps starting 2025
It’s a simply idea and despite reminding me on some kind of classic chain letter, I stumbled upon this campaign by swiping through my Mastodon-feed...
Playlisty for Spotify - Migrate Apple Music playlists to Spotify
Switching from one service to another is often less of an ideological issue than a technical one: when you switch from one music provider to anothe...
Dark Noise: Simple. Fast. White noise, refined!
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, whose Face are you showing?
Entering the well-known video-conferences that are our daily business since the pandemic without checking your look could bring you in unwanted sit...
Parallels Desktop: Your Mac’s gate to proper desktop virtualization
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
Sleeve: Stick the music you play right to your macOS-desktop
As many tools, Sleeve (looking like the thing you put the old Vinyls into) is something you might have not missed until you discovered the cosmetic...
Yet some additional and useful apps for your Mac-related life
While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine a while ago”, I discovered that — humbled by the reader’s outstanding appr...
DisplayBuddy — Control external displays from your Mac menu bar
While there are tons of additional useful Mac-tools out there, some shine out One of those apps I recently discovered is DisplayBuddy by developer...
Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine
While macOS always comes along with a bunch of productivity tools (and always was a synonym for being productive and creative!) there is always spa...
App-dated: TextSniper is aiming to put your images into words
There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them. One of those apps is TextSniper b...
Bartender 4: The best thing for a sense of order is a clean menu bar on macOS!
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios. With Big Sur, we h...
LuLu by Objective-See: Yet another powerful firewall for your Macr
In my post on Little Snitch 5 some time ago, I already stated that „a firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly...
Little Snitch 5 makes the successful switch to macOS 11 Big Sur
A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet ...
Camo is closing the quality-issue of Mac-embedded webcams
Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam. The webcam-issue The picture might be o...
MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup for macOS: A good way to elaborate your backup strategy
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
Exporting your Apple Notes to Markdown-style at ease
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
Arq Backup - a versatile solution to back up your files on Mac and Windows
Backups are essential for any use case and while there are many solutions on the market, some apps stand out for their level of flexibility. Time M...
What makes a good backup strategy? The World Backup Day 2025
Today, March 31, is World Backup Day once again. As is now a modern tradition, we need a special day to draw attention to an important topic: World...
How to backup Microsoft 365 with Veeam and Wasabi
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
How to implement Wasabi S3-storage in Nextcloud or Synology Hyper Backup
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
Microsoft 365 & Synology: A good match for SOHO-based backups!
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup for macOS: A good way to elaborate your backup strategy
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
The Price of a Mile
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
The Return to Flanders Fields
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Vladslo German Military Cemetery
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
Tyne Cot Cemetery
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
The Third Battle Of Ypres / The Battle of Passchendaele
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
Hooge Crater Cemetery
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
Perth Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
In Flanders Fields
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
Bitwarden launches new MFA authenticator-app
The use of a second factor to secure online accounts has become a must over time, long before the triumph of passkeys. Although there are already p...
Vaultwarden: Your guide to your self-hosted Bitwarden password vault
Even a day after the SaferInternetDay, managing the challenging riddle to choose a specific password manager is still a tricky task, especially if ...
I am stuck - Writer’s Block or just Silly Season?
After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed? This week in September was a journey of three guys m...
Every year again - The blog reboot
New game, new luck - or: Another start for a new blog with thoughts that have matured over the years! So here it is again, a new attempt to get a ...
Every year again - The blog reboot
New game, new luck - or: Another start for a new blog with thoughts that have matured over the years! So here it is again, a new attempt to get a ...
Bluesky: Blockchain investor joins, where is the journey heading?
There’s news from Bluesky. After I shed some light on the service last year, the new financing round and the term “crypto” don’t bode well. Admitt...
Is Bluesky worth a visit?
While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X - formerly known as “Twitter” - the question is which service is able to provide she...
The Fediverse - A vivid and modern approach to today’s Social Network-landscape
When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape. But, based...
Even with a new name, Facebook won‘t be 'The Metaverse'
According to a report from The Verge, Facebook is reportedly planning to rename the company to better underline its focus on „The Metaverse“. We a...
VMware kills Players, makes Pro free for personal use
While Broadcom still does Broadcom-things after acquiring VMware and turning pricing and portals upside down, at least the question what happens wi...
Tor Browser now automatically bypasses Internet censorship
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
The long hard way to the perfect home office setup
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
How to skip the ChatGPT for Mac waiting list and get access now
This month, OpenAI has released the native ChatGPT-app for macOS alongside GPT-4o. Anyone can install this app yet but your account will still need...
Season Greetings and goodbye forever, 2023!
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
How to backup Microsoft 365 with Veeam and Wasabi
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
Nextcloud and European Governments aiming at building a Digital Sovereign Office
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
Nextcloud Hub 24 aiming at Big Tech-competition
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
How to implement Collabora Online in Nextcloud Hub 22 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
How to implement Wasabi S3-storage in Nextcloud or Synology Hyper Backup
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
How to use Geoblocking with Nextcloud Hub II
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
Deploying your own Docker-ized Nextcloud Hub II-instance in no time
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Nextcloud Hub II comes with major overhaul and Nextcloud Office
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
EU tech sector files antitrust complaint against Microsoft
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
German „traffic light“-coalition promises to strengthen the Open Source-idea
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
Nextcloud introduces authentication with passport supported by German government
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
How to implement Nextcloud’s High Performance Backend
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
Is Apple’s construction of privacy crumbling?
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
Nextcloud releases the digital office optimized for the post-pandemic workplace
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
How to implement ONLYOFFICE in Nextcloud Hub 20 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Nextcloud Conference 2020
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
How to easily implement Nextcloud’s End-to-End-Encryption
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
Nextcloud Hub reaches version 19 and brings even more productivity to the home office
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup for macOS: A good way to elaborate your backup strategy
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
Why Apple needs to strengthen and upgrade iCloud
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
Nextcloud: Talk 9 makes a big step forward by open sourcing the high-performance backend
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
How to enable server-side encryption in Nextcloud
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
How to implement Collabora Online in Nextcloud Hub 22 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Thank you - Not all superheroes have capes!
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
Return to offices is announced, but the model of hybrid work is here to stay!
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
Is our Post-Covid-working life here to stay?
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
Goodbye, 2020 — it just wasn’t a pleasure!
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
Spring Cleaning - Tidying up your Mastodon-instance
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to re...
Protecting your Linux-server with CrowdSec
There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another great alt...
Is Apple’s construction of privacy crumbling?
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
What makes a good backup strategy? The World Backup Day 2025
Today, March 31, is World Backup Day once again. As is now a modern tradition, we need a special day to draw attention to an important topic: World...
How to upgrade a PostgreSQL 16 instance to PostgreSQL 17
Sometimes, updating your system comes with unwanted occurrences- in my case I finally updated my Mastodon-instance from Debian 11 to 12 and found o...
How to migrate your Nextcloud database-backend from MySQL/MariaDB to PostgreSQL
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
Installing the latest version of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Linux
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
Death smiles at us all - all a man can do is smile back
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
How to upgrade Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm
Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to ...
How to install PHP 8.2 on Debian 11
Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration. Debian 11,...
Nextcloud and European Governments aiming at building a Digital Sovereign Office
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
Nextcloud Hub 24 aiming at Big Tech-competition
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
How to use Geoblocking with Nextcloud Hub II
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
Nextcloud Hub II comes with major overhaul and Nextcloud Office
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
EU tech sector files antitrust complaint against Microsoft
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
German „traffic light“-coalition promises to strengthen the Open Source-idea
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
Nextcloud introduces authentication with passport supported by German government
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
Nextcloud releases the digital office optimized for the post-pandemic workplace
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
Nextcloud Conference 2020
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
How to easily implement Nextcloud’s End-to-End-Encryption
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
Nextcloud: Talk 9 makes a big step forward by open sourcing the high-performance backend
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
How to enable server-side encryption in Nextcloud
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
How to bypass Apple’s limitations and address more than two external displays with M1-based Macs
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
How to deploy your own Joplin Server-instance
Using your data on any device is standard these days. Controlling where this data is stored is another story - in terms of Joplin, you can use many...
How to implement Snowflake with Docker on a Synology-NAS
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
How to implement Collabora Online in Nextcloud Hub 22 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Deploying Portainer on a Synology-NAS
Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flex...
Vaultwarden: Your guide to your self-hosted Bitwarden password vault
Even a day after the SaferInternetDay, managing the challenging riddle to choose a specific password manager is still a tricky task, especially if ...
Deploying your own Docker-ized Nextcloud Hub II-instance in no time
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
How to implement ONLYOFFICE in Nextcloud Hub 20 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Nextcloud Hub reaches version 19 and brings even more productivity to the home office
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
How to easily implement Nextcloud’s End-to-End-Encryption
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
How to enable server-side encryption in Nextcloud
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
There are no passengers on spaceship earth - we are all crew
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
UTM - a great alternative for Apple Silicon-based desktop virtualization
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
Nitrokey releases new firmware for FIDO2 security key — and you can easily update yours!
Some time ago I blogged about the option to increase the security of your online accounts by adding a hardware-based token as second factor. The N...
How to strengthen your online accounts with a hardware-based security key
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Earth-Day-Challenge 2025
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth - we are all crew
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
The electronic patient file - the expected failure with an announcement
I have objected. For myself, my wife and also for our daughters. I smelled the rat months ago: The “advantages” of the electronic patient file (“eP...
The long hard way to the perfect home office setup
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it - Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen
Music is known to be a healing factor for the soul and an empowerment of one’s own senses but sometimes specific pieces of art stand out that under...
Internet Services - Vowing for an European change in times of a world going down the drain
With all these changes taking place in America, the former ambassador of the free world, it’s time to think about the personal consequences in term...
The European Union must keep funding free software
Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade...
Nextcloud and European Governments aiming at building a Digital Sovereign Office
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Nextcloud Hub 24 aiming at Big Tech-competition
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How to use Geoblocking with Nextcloud Hub II
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
Nextcloud Hub II comes with major overhaul and Nextcloud Office
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
EU tech sector files antitrust complaint against Microsoft
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
German „traffic light“-coalition promises to strengthen the Open Source-idea
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Nextcloud introduces authentication with passport supported by German government
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
Nextcloud releases the digital office optimized for the post-pandemic workplace
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
Nextcloud Conference 2020
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
How to easily implement Nextcloud’s End-to-End-Encryption
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
Nextcloud: Talk 9 makes a big step forward by open sourcing the high-performance backend
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
How to enable server-side encryption in Nextcloud
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
I finally escaped Facebook - and I am happy with that
Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years. Within 17 years, ...
Even with a new name, Facebook won‘t be 'The Metaverse'
According to a report from The Verge, Facebook is reportedly planning to rename the company to better underline its focus on „The Metaverse“. We a...
Death smiles at us all - all a man can do is smile back
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
The Fediverse - A vivid and modern approach to today’s Social Network-landscape
When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape. But, based...
Spring Cleaning - Tidying up your Mastodon-instance
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to re...
Thank you - Not all superheroes have capes!
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
Is running the ideal kind of sporting activity for me?
I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as a child. ...
Wrong Direction
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Protecting your Linux-server with CrowdSec
There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another great alt...
How to freshen up your worn-out Sophos XG Firewall with pfSense or OPNsense
After accompanying Sophos for quite a long time, the security vendor seems to be stuck between two worlds lately when it comes to its two firewall-...
The Price of a Mile
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
The Return to Flanders Fields
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Vladslo German Military Cemetery
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
Tyne Cot Cemetery
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
The Third Battle Of Ypres / The Battle of Passchendaele
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
Hooge Crater Cemetery
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
Perth Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
In Flanders Fields
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
German state of Schleswig-Holstein bets on digital sovereignty for the modern workplace
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
How to upgrade Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm
Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to ...
How to install PHP 8.2 on Debian 11
Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration. Debian 11,...
Nextcloud and European Governments aiming at building a Digital Sovereign Office
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
Nextcloud Hub 24 aiming at Big Tech-competition
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
How to implement Collabora Online in Nextcloud Hub 22 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
How to use Geoblocking with Nextcloud Hub II
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
Deploying your own Docker-ized Nextcloud Hub II-instance in no time
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Nextcloud Hub II comes with major overhaul and Nextcloud Office
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
EU tech sector files antitrust complaint against Microsoft
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
German „traffic light“-coalition promises to strengthen the Open Source-idea
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
Nextcloud introduces authentication with passport supported by German government
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
How to implement Nextcloud’s High Performance Backend
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
Nextcloud releases the digital office optimized for the post-pandemic workplace
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
How to implement ONLYOFFICE in Nextcloud Hub 20 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Nextcloud Conference 2020
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
How to easily implement Nextcloud’s End-to-End-Encryption
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
Nextcloud Hub reaches version 19 and brings even more productivity to the home office
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
Nextcloud: Talk 9 makes a big step forward by open sourcing the high-performance backend
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
How to enable server-side encryption in Nextcloud
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
Life is vivid - try to live it that way!
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
What if... ?
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
The need for a clean break
Sometimes things and facts are different from what was promised some time ago. Sometimes you get upset about changes that shouldn’t be changes - an...
The best way to predict your future is to create it
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GoPro launches Mac-app which finally lets you use the HERO8 as a simple webcam
COVID-19 has changed a lot, especially the worldwide demand for webcams and audio-/video conferencing hardware. While the pandemic seemed to calm ...
OpenCore Legacy Patcher - A self-experiment on the Mac Pro 2013
The OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a separate tool that enables devices long since discontinued by Apple to be operated with newer versions of macOS. ...
The Mac Pro 2013 - when nostalgia finally catches up with you
It’s a self-experiment paired with a hefty dose of nostalgia. My first Mac was the iMac G3 in Bondi Blue, I always wanted the iMac G4 (the “lamp”) ...
How to implement Snowflake with Docker on a Synology-NAS
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
Deploying Portainer on a Synology-NAS
Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flex...
The End of an Era: The iPod is dead, long live Music!
Incredible to imagine that smartphone and music-player were separated once. Years before the first iPhone and even more years before the streaming ...
How to bypass Apple’s limitations and address more than two external displays with M1-based Macs
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
The long hard way to the perfect home office setup
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
GoPro launches Mac-app which finally lets you use the HERO8 as a simple webcam
COVID-19 has changed a lot, especially the worldwide demand for webcams and audio-/video conferencing hardware. While the pandemic seemed to calm ...
Nitrokey releases new firmware for FIDO2 security key — and you can easily update yours!
Some time ago I blogged about the option to increase the security of your online accounts by adding a hardware-based token as second factor. The N...
How to strengthen your online accounts with a hardware-based security key
As of today, people are more concerned about privacy than years before. The times of classic passwords are gone and users begin to understand that...
Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders
We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans wit...
The electronic patient file - the expected failure with an announcement
I have objected. For myself, my wife and also for our daughters. I smelled the rat months ago: The “advantages” of the electronic patient file (“eP...
The Price of a Mile
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
The Return to Flanders Fields
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Vladslo German Military Cemetery
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
Tyne Cot Cemetery
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
The Third Battle Of Ypres / The Battle of Passchendaele
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
Hooge Crater Cemetery
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
Perth Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
In Flanders Fields
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
Life is vivid - try to live it that way!
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
How to bypass Apple’s limitations and address more than two external displays with M1-based Macs
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
Return to offices is announced, but the model of hybrid work is here to stay!
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
WWDC 2021: Custom E-Mail-domains are coming to iCloud… finally!
I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud, but in the backwash of all those great iOS 15-features, custom E-Mail domains silent...
Why Apple One hasn’t absolutely convinced me… yet!
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. On September 15th, Apple has not just...
Why Apple needs to strengthen and upgrade iCloud
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
How to fix errors with missing subfolders on iOS and Android after doing a PST-import
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
My default apps starting 2025
It’s a simply idea and despite reminding me on some kind of classic chain letter, I stumbled upon this campaign by swiping through my Mastodon-feed...
Bluesky: Blockchain investor joins, where is the journey heading?
There’s news from Bluesky. After I shed some light on the service last year, the new financing round and the term “crypto” don’t bode well. Admitt...
Microsoft Edge bug could have enabled attackers to install malicious extensions without detection
Years ago, I took my first steps on the internet with Netscape Navigator. Today, browsers serve more than just as a gateway to the World Wide Web. ...
Stability AI loses CEO ahead of reframing business model
With AI already being more than just „the next big thing“, it is more than clear that, with great power, there comes great responsibility. Consider...
New Outlook seemingly sends sensitive data to Microsoft
Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Micros...
Is Bluesky worth a visit?
While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X - formerly known as “Twitter” - the question is which service is able to provide she...
The unhealthful peak of Internet service pricing
While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak of user ...
Mastodon - More than an alternative to Twitter and definitely here to stay
Whether Twitter is doomed since Elon Musk’s takeover or not (changes for federated services have never been that good!), it’s always an option to t...
Tor Browser now automatically bypasses Internet censorship
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
Protecting your Linux-server with CrowdSec
There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another great alt...
Apple is approaching the problem with nagging-CAPTCHAs in iOS 16
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
I finally escaped Facebook - and I am happy with that
Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years. Within 17 years, ...
Apple: iCloud’s custom domain feature is — secretly — available now!
Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s Septembe...
WWDC 2021: Custom E-Mail-domains are coming to iCloud… finally!
I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud, but in the backwash of all those great iOS 15-features, custom E-Mail domains silent...
Why Apple needs to strengthen and upgrade iCloud
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
Services — It’s all about them… now?
Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services in the fo...
Dark Noise: Simple. Fast. White noise, refined!
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
Apple is approaching the problem with nagging-CAPTCHAs in iOS 16
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
Is Apple’s construction of privacy crumbling?
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
How to fix errors with missing subfolders on iOS and Android after doing a PST-import
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
Camo is closing the quality-issue of Mac-embedded webcams
Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam. The webcam-issue The picture might be o...
Using Nextstats to monitor your Nextcloud-instance on iOS
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
The End of an Era: The iPod is dead, long live Music!
Incredible to imagine that smartphone and music-player were separated once. Years before the first iPhone and even more years before the streaming ...
How to upgrade a PostgreSQL 16 instance to PostgreSQL 17
Sometimes, updating your system comes with unwanted occurrences- in my case I finally updated my Mastodon-instance from Debian 11 to 12 and found o...
The electronic patient file - the expected failure with an announcement
I have objected. For myself, my wife and also for our daughters. I smelled the rat months ago: The “advantages” of the electronic patient file (“eP...
Data retention - the next round begins
If it were funny, it would be a “running gag”: the fetish of our so-called representatives of the people to finally enshrine the unprovoked logging...
Apple acquires Pixelmator
There is software that does not come from the respective manufacturer of the operating system and can definitely be described as “essential”. On th...
Signal Proxy - a way for people experiencing censorship to communicate with Signal
While most of us have free access to the Internet and its services, certain states and authorities still practice censorship. Recently, this happen...
How to deploy your own Joplin Server-instance
Using your data on any device is standard these days. Controlling where this data is stored is another story - in terms of Joplin, you can use many...
Arq Backup - a versatile solution to back up your files on Mac and Windows
Backups are essential for any use case and while there are many solutions on the market, some apps stand out for their level of flexibility. Time M...
The condemned live longer — welcome back, Network Utility
Once upon a time, MacOS (or Mac OS X) installations came with a nice GUI for basic networking tasks like traceroute, ping or nslookup. This tool w...
Little Snitch 6 released, taking Mac-privacy to the next level
Four years ago I blogged about Little Snitch 5, a software firewall-like product from Austrian company Objective Development, which successfully ma...
How to skip the ChatGPT for Mac waiting list and get access now
This month, OpenAI has released the native ChatGPT-app for macOS alongside GPT-4o. Anyone can install this app yet but your account will still need...
VMware kills Players, makes Pro free for personal use
While Broadcom still does Broadcom-things after acquiring VMware and turning pricing and portals upside down, at least the question what happens wi...
Tusks - Make posting to Mastodon feel like posting to a blog
Sometimes I come across apps that I would never have missed. Apps that come out of nowhere and still find their niche - Tusks by developer Bardi Go...
Bitwarden launches new MFA authenticator-app
The use of a second factor to secure online accounts has become a must over time, long before the triumph of passkeys. Although there are already p...
Apple locks users out of their Apple IDs without explanation
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don’t go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have ...
Microsoft adds recommended apps to the start menu in Windows 11
Microsoft is currently battling a lot of bad press but as if that wasn’t enough, there’s still something else to add: According to a recent blog po...
German state of Schleswig-Holstein bets on digital sovereignty for the modern workplace
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
Stability AI loses CEO ahead of reframing business model
With AI already being more than just „the next big thing“, it is more than clear that, with great power, there comes great responsibility. Consider...
How to delete stored credentials from a YubiKey
Using YubiKeys for securing accounts is a premium step to a nearly ultimative security approach besides Passkeys or „simple“ 2FA. Alas, over time, ...
How to fix seemingly disabled Apple Pay on macOS
There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized that, see...
The long hard way to the perfect home office setup
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
The need for a clean break
Sometimes things and facts are different from what was promised some time ago. Sometimes you get upset about changes that shouldn’t be changes - an...
The best way to predict your future is to create it
While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of influencing even...
Return to offices is announced, but the model of hybrid work is here to stay!
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
The long hard way to the perfect home office setup
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
EU tech sector files antitrust complaint against Microsoft
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
Nextcloud introduces authentication with passport supported by German government
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
The need for a clean break
Sometimes things and facts are different from what was promised some time ago. Sometimes you get upset about changes that shouldn’t be changes - an...
Stopping for a moment
A bit of sentimentality from one of the most beautiful countries in the world - Norway! In everyday life, we often forget who we are and what makes...
Not all those who wander are lost
50 km on a single weekend, two stages. 935 metres in height in total. Enough time to re-focus once again for a short amount of time, pulling the pl...
Season Greetings and goodbye forever, 2023!
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
Stop worrying about people that aren’t worried about you
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
The best way to predict your future is to create it
While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of influencing even...
What if... ?
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
Great minds discuss ideas - average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
Life is vivid - try to live it that way!
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
New Work: The Rise of the Triple Peak Day
Recently I wrote about the fact that the model of hybrid work is here to stay. A new Microsoft-study also underlines that a 9 to 5 day is obsolete ...
The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders
We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans wit...
Thank you - Not all superheroes have capes!
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
I finally escaped Facebook - and I am happy with that
Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years. Within 17 years, ...
I am stuck - Writer’s Block or just Silly Season?
After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed? This week in September was a journey of three guys m...
You are not your resume, you are your work
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
There are no passengers on spaceship earth - we are all crew
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
Death smiles at us all - all a man can do is smile back
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
Is our Post-Covid-working life here to stay?
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
Goodbye, 2020 — it just wasn’t a pleasure!
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
Is running the ideal kind of sporting activity for me?
I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as a child. ...
How to upgrade a PostgreSQL 16 instance to PostgreSQL 17
Sometimes, updating your system comes with unwanted occurrences- in my case I finally updated my Mastodon-instance from Debian 11 to 12 and found o...
German state of Schleswig-Holstein bets on digital sovereignty for the modern workplace
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
Spring Cleaning - Tidying up your Mastodon-instance
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to re...
How to upgrade Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm
Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to ...
How to install PHP 8.2 on Debian 11
Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration. Debian 11,...
Vaultwarden: Your guide to your self-hosted Bitwarden password vault
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Installing the latest version of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Linux
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
Using Nextstats to monitor your Nextcloud-instance on iOS
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
Little Snitch 6 released, taking Mac-privacy to the next level
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Microsoft 365-apps for Mac gain native M1-support
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
Microsoft 365 & Synology: A good match for SOHO-based backups!
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Getting rid of OneDrive synchronization-issues on macOS
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
Microsoft announces Apple Silicon-optimized Teams-client
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Microsoft silently releases M1-optimized Teams-Client for Mac
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OpenCore Legacy Patcher - A self-experiment on the Mac Pro 2013
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The Mac Pro 2013 - when nostalgia finally catches up with you
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Apple acquires Pixelmator
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Arq Backup - a versatile solution to back up your files on Mac and Windows
Backups are essential for any use case and while there are many solutions on the market, some apps stand out for their level of flexibility. Time M...
The condemned live longer — welcome back, Network Utility
Once upon a time, MacOS (or Mac OS X) installations came with a nice GUI for basic networking tasks like traceroute, ping or nslookup. This tool w...
Little Snitch 6 released, taking Mac-privacy to the next level
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How to skip the ChatGPT for Mac waiting list and get access now
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How to fix seemingly disabled Apple Pay on macOS
There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized that, see...
Dark Noise: Simple. Fast. White noise, refined!
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
UTM - a great alternative for Apple Silicon-based desktop virtualization
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, whose Face are you showing?
Entering the well-known video-conferences that are our daily business since the pandemic without checking your look could bring you in unwanted sit...
Parallels Desktop: Your Mac’s gate to proper desktop virtualization
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
Apple: iCloud’s custom domain feature is — secretly — available now!
Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s Septembe...
Sleeve: Stick the music you play right to your macOS-desktop
As many tools, Sleeve (looking like the thing you put the old Vinyls into) is something you might have not missed until you discovered the cosmetic...
Yet some additional and useful apps for your Mac-related life
While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine a while ago”, I discovered that — humbled by the reader’s outstanding appr...
DisplayBuddy — Control external displays from your Mac menu bar
While there are tons of additional useful Mac-tools out there, some shine out One of those apps I recently discovered is DisplayBuddy by developer...
Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine
While macOS always comes along with a bunch of productivity tools (and always was a synonym for being productive and creative!) there is always spa...
App-dated: TextSniper is aiming to put your images into words
There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them. One of those apps is TextSniper b...
Bartender 4: The best thing for a sense of order is a clean menu bar on macOS!
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios. With Big Sur, we h...
LuLu by Objective-See: Yet another powerful firewall for your Macr
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Little Snitch 5 makes the successful switch to macOS 11 Big Sur
A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet ...
Microsoft 365 & Synology: A good match for SOHO-based backups!
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Camo is closing the quality-issue of Mac-embedded webcams
Although we love our Macs, there is still one thing lacking after all those years: The integrated webcam. The webcam-issue The picture might be o...
Apple: iCloud’s custom domain feature is — secretly — available now!
Nearly two months after the feature of using custom E-Mail-domains in iCloud has been revealed, it can already be configured while Apple’s Septembe...
WWDC 2021: Custom E-Mail-domains are coming to iCloud… finally!
I don’t know how long I expected this feature to reach iCloud, but in the backwash of all those great iOS 15-features, custom E-Mail domains silent...
How to fix errors with missing subfolders on iOS and Android after doing a PST-import
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
How to migrate your Nextcloud database-backend from MySQL/MariaDB to PostgreSQL
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
Exporting your Apple Notes to Markdown-style at ease
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
The Fediverse - A vivid and modern approach to today’s Social Network-landscape
When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape. But, based...
Tusks - Make posting to Mastodon feel like posting to a blog
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Spring Cleaning - Tidying up your Mastodon-instance
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to re...
Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders
We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans wit...
I finally escaped Facebook - and I am happy with that
Some days ago, I had my thoughts on why Facebook won’t be „The Metaverse“. Now I made the break with the service after 17 years. Within 17 years, ...
My music albums of the year 2024
At least one guitar is good, a little nostalgia is always nice, two guitars are better and the extreme is not always the best choice: My (metallic)...
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it - Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen
Music is known to be a healing factor for the soul and an empowerment of one’s own senses but sometimes specific pieces of art stand out that under...
Wrong Direction
It didn’t need the great song entitled “Wrong Direction” from Amorphis’ 2018 “Queen of Time”-album to sum many different situations up in one wordi...
Even with a new name, Facebook won‘t be 'The Metaverse'
According to a report from The Verge, Facebook is reportedly planning to rename the company to better underline its focus on „The Metaverse“. We a...
Microsoft adds recommended apps to the start menu in Windows 11
Microsoft is currently battling a lot of bad press but as if that wasn’t enough, there’s still something else to add: According to a recent blog po...
Microsoft Edge bug could have enabled attackers to install malicious extensions without detection
Years ago, I took my first steps on the internet with Netscape Navigator. Today, browsers serve more than just as a gateway to the World Wide Web. ...
New Outlook seemingly sends sensitive data to Microsoft
Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Micros...
How to backup Microsoft 365 with Veeam and Wasabi
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
Microsoft announces Apple Silicon-optimized Teams-client
Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to ca...
Microsoft silently releases M1-optimized Teams-Client for Mac
Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after ...
EU tech sector files antitrust complaint against Microsoft
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
How to fix errors with missing subfolders on iOS and Android after doing a PST-import
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
Microsoft 365-apps for Mac gain native M1-support
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
Getting rid of OneDrive synchronization-issues on macOS
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
Microsoft 365-apps for Mac gain native M1-support
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For eve...
Microsoft 365 & Synology: A good match for SOHO-based backups!
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Getting rid of OneDrive synchronization-issues on macOS
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
Using Nextstats to monitor your Nextcloud-instance on iOS
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
GoPro launches Mac-app which finally lets you use the HERO8 as a simple webcam
COVID-19 has changed a lot, especially the worldwide demand for webcams and audio-/video conferencing hardware. While the pandemic seemed to calm ...
My music albums of the year 2024
At least one guitar is good, a little nostalgia is always nice, two guitars are better and the extreme is not always the best choice: My (metallic)...
The End of an Era: The iPod is dead, long live Music!
Incredible to imagine that smartphone and music-player were separated once. Years before the first iPhone and even more years before the streaming ...
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it - Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen
Music is known to be a healing factor for the soul and an empowerment of one’s own senses but sometimes specific pieces of art stand out that under...
Wrong Direction
It didn’t need the great song entitled “Wrong Direction” from Amorphis’ 2018 “Queen of Time”-album to sum many different situations up in one wordi...
There are no passengers on spaceship earth - we are all crew
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
Death smiles at us all - all a man can do is smile back
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
Is our Post-Covid-working life here to stay?
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
You are not your resume, you are your work
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
How to migrate your Nextcloud database-backend from MySQL/MariaDB to PostgreSQL
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
Not all those who wander are lost
50 km on a single weekend, two stages. 935 metres in height in total. Enough time to re-focus once again for a short amount of time, pulling the pl...
Bluesky: Blockchain investor joins, where is the journey heading?
There’s news from Bluesky. After I shed some light on the service last year, the new financing round and the term “crypto” don’t bode well. Admitt...
Is Bluesky worth a visit?
While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X - formerly known as “Twitter” - the question is which service is able to provide she...
Season Greetings and goodbye forever, 2023!
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
Nextcloud and European Governments aiming at building a Digital Sovereign Office
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
Nextcloud Hub 24 aiming at Big Tech-competition
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
How to implement Collabora Online in Nextcloud Hub 22 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
How to implement Wasabi S3-storage in Nextcloud or Synology Hyper Backup
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
How to use Geoblocking with Nextcloud Hub II
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
Deploying your own Docker-ized Nextcloud Hub II-instance in no time
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Nextcloud Hub II comes with major overhaul and Nextcloud Office
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
EU tech sector files antitrust complaint against Microsoft
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
German „traffic light“-coalition promises to strengthen the Open Source-idea
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
How to migrate your Nextcloud database-backend from MySQL/MariaDB to PostgreSQL
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
Nextcloud introduces authentication with passport supported by German government
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
How to implement Nextcloud’s High Performance Backend
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
Nextcloud releases the digital office optimized for the post-pandemic workplace
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
How to implement ONLYOFFICE in Nextcloud Hub 20 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Nextcloud Conference 2020
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
How to easily implement Nextcloud’s End-to-End-Encryption
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
Nextcloud Hub reaches version 19 and brings even more productivity to the home office
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
Using Nextstats to monitor your Nextcloud-instance on iOS
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
Nextcloud: Talk 9 makes a big step forward by open sourcing the high-performance backend
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
How to enable server-side encryption in Nextcloud
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
Stopping for a moment
A bit of sentimentality from one of the most beautiful countries in the world - Norway! In everyday life, we often forget who we are and what makes...
OpenCore Legacy Patcher - A self-experiment on the Mac Pro 2013
The OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a separate tool that enables devices long since discontinued by Apple to be operated with newer versions of macOS. ...
The Mac Pro 2013 - when nostalgia finally catches up with you
It’s a self-experiment paired with a hefty dose of nostalgia. My first Mac was the iMac G3 in Bondi Blue, I always wanted the iMac G4 (the “lamp”) ...
Exporting your Apple Notes to Markdown-style at ease
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
The long hard way to the perfect home office setup
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
Getting rid of OneDrive synchronization-issues on macOS
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
How to implement ONLYOFFICE in Nextcloud Hub 20 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Nextcloud Hub reaches version 19 and brings even more productivity to the home office
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
The European Union must keep funding free software
Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade...
German state of Schleswig-Holstein bets on digital sovereignty for the modern workplace
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
How to upgrade Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm
Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to ...
How to install PHP 8.2 on Debian 11
Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration. Debian 11,...
How to freshen up your worn-out Sophos XG Firewall with pfSense or OPNsense
After accompanying Sophos for quite a long time, the security vendor seems to be stuck between two worlds lately when it comes to its two firewall-...
New Outlook seemingly sends sensitive data to Microsoft
Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Micros...
How to fix errors with missing subfolders on iOS and Android after doing a PST-import
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
Vaultwarden: Your guide to your self-hosted Bitwarden password vault
Even a day after the SaferInternetDay, managing the challenging riddle to choose a specific password manager is still a tricky task, especially if ...
How to fix seemingly disabled Apple Pay on macOS
There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized that, see...
Stop worrying about people that aren’t worried about you
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
How to freshen up your worn-out Sophos XG Firewall with pfSense or OPNsense
After accompanying Sophos for quite a long time, the security vendor seems to be stuck between two worlds lately when it comes to its two firewall-...
The Fediverse - A vivid and modern approach to today’s Social Network-landscape
When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape. But, based...
Apple acquires Pixelmator
There is software that does not come from the respective manufacturer of the operating system and can definitely be described as “essential”. On th...
My music albums of the year 2024
At least one guitar is good, a little nostalgia is always nice, two guitars are better and the extreme is not always the best choice: My (metallic)...
Internet Services - Vowing for an European change in times of a world going down the drain
With all these changes taking place in America, the former ambassador of the free world, it’s time to think about the personal consequences in term...
Rise of the Triad
The world is in turmoil these days. America is being dismantled in no time at all by the Orange Goblin and his freaky Mars mate (along with human r...
Be careful what you wish for...
… it might come true! If cocking promises turn out to be only 10% real and the real status quo is more of a desaster than the next leap in your pro...
Three fights in nine seconds
The hate has reached sports. Even the idea behind the competition on the court, track or ice cannot hold back the recently ignited flame of hatred ...
Data retention - the next round begins
If it were funny, it would be a “running gag”: the fetish of our so-called representatives of the people to finally enshrine the unprovoked logging...
Everything back to zero - LINKIN PARK - “From Zero”
Wounds heal. Time passes. But the nostalgia of having discovered this band in 2000, in the most turbulent Nu Metal times, remains. Admittedly, I w...
The European Union must keep funding free software
Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade...
Deploying Portainer on a Synology-NAS
Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flex...
How to upgrade a PostgreSQL 16 instance to PostgreSQL 17
Sometimes, updating your system comes with unwanted occurrences- in my case I finally updated my Mastodon-instance from Debian 11 to 12 and found o...
How to migrate your Nextcloud database-backend from MySQL/MariaDB to PostgreSQL
From the early beginnings, I used MySQL and - later - MariaDB as my database of choice. Backing my Nextcloud-installation as a standard database, ...
Installing the latest version of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Linux
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
Data retention - the next round begins
If it were funny, it would be a “running gag”: the fetish of our so-called representatives of the people to finally enshrine the unprovoked logging...
How to implement Snowflake with Docker on a Synology-NAS
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
Tor Browser now automatically bypasses Internet censorship
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
Apple is approaching the problem with nagging-CAPTCHAs in iOS 16
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
Is Apple’s construction of privacy crumbling?
Last Thursday, Apple announced details of upcoming features designed to detect CSAM - and the world reacted. While the idea of protecting infants ...
Nitrokey releases new firmware for FIDO2 security key — and you can easily update yours!
Some time ago I blogged about the option to increase the security of your online accounts by adding a hardware-based token as second factor. The N...
How to strengthen your online accounts with a hardware-based security key
As of today, people are more concerned about privacy than years before. The times of classic passwords are gone and users begin to understand that...
Nextcloud and European Governments aiming at building a Digital Sovereign Office
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
Nextcloud Hub 24 aiming at Big Tech-competition
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
How to implement Collabora Online in Nextcloud Hub 22 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
How to use Geoblocking with Nextcloud Hub II
Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon. I had this idea i...
Deploying your own Docker-ized Nextcloud Hub II-instance in no time
There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Nextcloud Hub II comes with major overhaul and Nextcloud Office
Since Nextcloud appeared first on the stage in 2016, a lot has changed - and the pace the company keeps since then is still unbelievable. Now, Nex...
EU tech sector files antitrust complaint against Microsoft
History is repeating and people who remember „The Browser Wars“ in the 90s may find many things in common: Today, „Goliath“ is still Microsoft whil...
German „traffic light“-coalition promises to strengthen the Open Source-idea
The world of IT is in a constant changing process and with a new government in Germany, Open Source may finally be part of a modern digitalization ...
Nextcloud introduces authentication with passport supported by German government
Speaking of digital sovereignty, Nextcloud is often mentioned as the possible tool of choice helping to achieve that. Now, the shadow casted by Gai...
How to implement Nextcloud’s High Performance Backend
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
Nextcloud releases the digital office optimized for the post-pandemic workplace
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
How to implement ONLYOFFICE in Nextcloud Hub 20 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Nextcloud Conference 2020
It has been a tremendous ride with Nextcloud for the last four years after the company appeared on the stage for the first time. Anyone who though...
How to easily implement Nextcloud’s End-to-End-Encryption
With the release of the latest Nextcloud-clients in the 3.x-branch, the (formerly) experimental End-to-End-Encryption was finally welcomed. This is...
Nextcloud Hub reaches version 19 and brings even more productivity to the home office
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
Nextcloud: Talk 9 makes a big step forward by open sourcing the high-performance backend
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
How to enable server-side encryption in Nextcloud
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
The best way to predict your future is to create it
While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of influencing even...
New Work: The Rise of the Triple Peak Day
Recently I wrote about the fact that the model of hybrid work is here to stay. A new Microsoft-study also underlines that a 9 to 5 day is obsolete ...
Return to offices is announced, but the model of hybrid work is here to stay!
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
You are not your resume, you are your work
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
Goodbye, 2020 — it just wasn’t a pleasure!
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
Stop worrying about people that aren’t worried about you
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
What if... ?
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
Is running the ideal kind of sporting activity for me?
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How to implement Wasabi S3-storage in Nextcloud or Synology Hyper Backup
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Bitwarden launches new MFA authenticator-app
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Vaultwarden: Your guide to your self-hosted Bitwarden password vault
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Nitrokey releases new firmware for FIDO2 security key — and you can easily update yours!
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Goodbye, Komoot? German app sold to Bending Spoons
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How to implement Snowflake with Docker on a Synology-NAS
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Bluesky: Blockchain investor joins, where is the journey heading?
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Apple acquires Pixelmator
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How to deploy your own Joplin Server-instance
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Arq Backup - a versatile solution to back up your files on Mac and Windows
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The European Union must keep funding free software
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The condemned live longer — welcome back, Network Utility
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Little Snitch 6 released, taking Mac-privacy to the next level
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How to skip the ChatGPT for Mac waiting list and get access now
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VMware kills Players, makes Pro free for personal use
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Bitwarden launches new MFA authenticator-app
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Microsoft adds recommended apps to the start menu in Windows 11
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Microsoft Edge bug could have enabled attackers to install malicious extensions without detection
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How to delete stored credentials from a YubiKey
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New Outlook seemingly sends sensitive data to Microsoft
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The unhealthful peak of Internet service pricing
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How to fix seemingly disabled Apple Pay on macOS
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How to install PHP 8.2 on Debian 11
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How to implement Snowflake with Docker on a Synology-NAS
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How to backup Microsoft 365 with Veeam and Wasabi
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
Nextcloud and European Governments aiming at building a Digital Sovereign Office
There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and ONLYOFFICE ...
Nextcloud Hub 24 aiming at Big Tech-competition
As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet manner ...
How to implement Collabora Online in Nextcloud Hub 22 using Docker
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microso...
Deploying Portainer on a Synology-NAS
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UTM - a great alternative for Apple Silicon-based desktop virtualization
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Tor Browser now automatically bypasses Internet censorship
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
Protecting your Linux-server with CrowdSec
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How to use Geoblocking with Nextcloud Hub II
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There are many ways of successfully deploying Nextcloud depending on your knowledge. One new has now just entered the stage, making your way to you...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, whose Face are you showing?
Entering the well-known video-conferences that are our daily business since the pandemic without checking your look could bring you in unwanted sit...
Parallels Desktop: Your Mac’s gate to proper desktop virtualization
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
Nextcloud Hub II comes with major overhaul and Nextcloud Office
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EU tech sector files antitrust complaint against Microsoft
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German „traffic light“-coalition promises to strengthen the Open Source-idea
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Nextcloud introduces authentication with passport supported by German government
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Installing the latest version of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Linux
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
How to implement Nextcloud’s High Performance Backend
Nextcloud 21 introduced the „High Performance Backend“ earlier this February. If you’re interested in optimizing the file handling performance in y...
Sleeve: Stick the music you play right to your macOS-desktop
As many tools, Sleeve (looking like the thing you put the old Vinyls into) is something you might have not missed until you discovered the cosmetic...
How to fix errors with missing subfolders on iOS and Android after doing a PST-import
Sometimes, only the PST-Import-/Export-trick helps you to move E-Mail-data safely from one service to another. But what if you encounter empty fold...
DisplayBuddy — Control external displays from your Mac menu bar
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Nextcloud releases the digital office optimized for the post-pandemic workplace
Barely five months after the release of version 21, the latest Nextcloud Hub 22 enters the stage. People who followed me over the years will know ...
App-dated: TextSniper is aiming to put your images into words
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Bartender 4: The best thing for a sense of order is a clean menu bar on macOS!
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How to bypass Apple’s limitations and address more than two external displays with M1-based Macs
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt...
LuLu by Objective-See: Yet another powerful firewall for your Macr
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Microsoft 365-apps for Mac gain native M1-support
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How to implement ONLYOFFICE in Nextcloud Hub 20 using Docker
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Little Snitch 5 makes the successful switch to macOS 11 Big Sur
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Nextcloud Conference 2020
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How to easily implement Nextcloud’s End-to-End-Encryption
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Camo is closing the quality-issue of Mac-embedded webcams
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GoPro launches Mac-app which finally lets you use the HERO8 as a simple webcam
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Nextcloud Hub reaches version 19 and brings even more productivity to the home office
A good wine needs some time to age but what Nextcloud has already achieved over the last four years after appearing on the stage for the first time...
MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup for macOS: A good way to elaborate your backup strategy
„Backup early, backup often“ is probably the most-commonly used term when it comes to the question of data security. This counts for corporate dat...
Using Nextstats to monitor your Nextcloud-instance on iOS
„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of coding th...
Why Apple needs to strengthen and upgrade iCloud
I got infected with the Apple-virus twenty years ago when I fell in love with the look of Mac OS 9. After trying to use a certain theme at my Windo...
Nextcloud: Talk 9 makes a big step forward by open sourcing the high-performance backend
Nextcloud’s Talk is one of the elementary apps that comes along with the private cloud solution. Now the company based in Stuttgart, Germany, annou...
Exporting your Apple Notes to Markdown-style at ease
There are plenty of useful tools around, helping to suit anyone’s needs. Over the time I discovered that — very often — the rather small apps have ...
Services — It’s all about them… now?
Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services in the fo...
How to enable server-side encryption in Nextcloud
When it comes to your private-hosted cloud, Nextcloud is surely one of the solutions to get this task accomplished. Hosting your data in a local d...
Getting rid of OneDrive synchronization-issues on macOS
Microsoft’s OneDrive-client for macOS has matured over time and although it’s quite stable at the moment (even if still missing native Apple Silico...
Internet Services - Vowing for an European change in times of a world going down the drain
With all these changes taking place in America, the former ambassador of the free world, it’s time to think about the personal consequences in term...
There are no passengers on spaceship earth - we are all crew
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
Earth-Day-Challenge 2025
There are always things that motivate us - or visibly help us to motivate ourselves. Apple has solved this perfectly with the rings and challenges ...
Goodbye, Komoot? German app sold to Bending Spoons
There are apps that make a difference: For people who like to spend time outdoors, Komoot from Potsdam, Germany has always been a good option. Now ...
Is running the ideal kind of sporting activity for me?
I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as a child. ...
Playlisty for Spotify - Migrate Apple Music playlists to Spotify
Switching from one service to another is often less of an ideological issue than a technical one: when you switch from one music provider to anothe...
How to implement Wasabi S3-storage in Nextcloud or Synology Hyper Backup
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
The unhealthful peak of Internet service pricing
While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak of user ...
Services — It’s all about them… now?
Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services in the fo...
Earth-Day-Challenge 2025
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How to implement Snowflake with Docker on a Synology-NAS
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
Deploying Portainer on a Synology-NAS
Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box, more flex...
How to implement Wasabi S3-storage in Nextcloud or Synology Hyper Backup
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
Microsoft 365 & Synology: A good match for SOHO-based backups!
While the adoption of cloud-services has evolved over the years and already set new standards, the question of the shared responsibility can’t be i...
Microsoft announces Apple Silicon-optimized Teams-client
Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for Teams to ca...
Microsoft silently releases M1-optimized Teams-Client for Mac
Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were added after ...
You are not your resume, you are your work
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
There are no passengers on spaceship earth - we are all crew
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
Death smiles at us all - all a man can do is smile back
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
Is our Post-Covid-working life here to stay?
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
Goodbye, 2020 — it just wasn’t a pleasure!
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
The Price of a Mile
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
The Return to Flanders Fields
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Vladslo German Military Cemetery
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
Tyne Cot Cemetery
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
The Third Battle Of Ypres / The Battle of Passchendaele
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
Hooge Crater Cemetery
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
Perth Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
In Flanders Fields
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
The need for a clean break
Sometimes things and facts are different from what was promised some time ago. Sometimes you get upset about changes that shouldn’t be changes - an...
Rise of the Triad
The world is in turmoil these days. America is being dismantled in no time at all by the Orange Goblin and his freaky Mars mate (along with human r...
Be careful what you wish for...
… it might come true! If cocking promises turn out to be only 10% real and the real status quo is more of a desaster than the next leap in your pro...
Three fights in nine seconds
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Everything back to zero - LINKIN PARK - “From Zero”
Wounds heal. Time passes. But the nostalgia of having discovered this band in 2000, in the most turbulent Nu Metal times, remains. Admittedly, I w...
Stopping for a moment
A bit of sentimentality from one of the most beautiful countries in the world - Norway! In everyday life, we often forget who we are and what makes...
Not all those who wander are lost
50 km on a single weekend, two stages. 935 metres in height in total. Enough time to re-focus once again for a short amount of time, pulling the pl...
Season Greetings and goodbye forever, 2023!
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
Stop worrying about people that aren’t worried about you
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
The best way to predict your future is to create it
While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of influencing even...
Mastodon - More than an alternative to Twitter and definitely here to stay
Whether Twitter is doomed since Elon Musk’s takeover or not (changes for federated services have never been that good!), it’s always an option to t...
What if... ?
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
Great minds discuss ideas - average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
Life is vivid - try to live it that way!
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
New Work: The Rise of the Triple Peak Day
Recently I wrote about the fact that the model of hybrid work is here to stay. A new Microsoft-study also underlines that a 9 to 5 day is obsolete ...
Return to offices is announced, but the model of hybrid work is here to stay!
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders
We always strive for more. Higher, faster, further - there seems to be no limit in everyday life. But, sometimes, we are just vulnerable humans wit...
Thank you - Not all superheroes have capes!
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
Wrong Direction
It didn’t need the great song entitled “Wrong Direction” from Amorphis’ 2018 “Queen of Time”-album to sum many different situations up in one wordi...
I am stuck - Writer’s Block or just Silly Season?
After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed? This week in September was a journey of three guys m...
You are not your resume, you are your work
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
There are no passengers on spaceship earth - we are all crew
„Space“ is a term that stands for many things but today, Marshall McLuhan’s statement is the best headline for reappointing our world of the 21st c...
Death smiles at us all - all a man can do is smile back
He is omnipresent and while it is part of our life in many ways, losing someone (or something) is always a struggle which isn’t on our bucket list....
Is our Post-Covid-working life here to stay?
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
Goodbye, 2020 — it just wasn’t a pleasure!
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but def...
Is running the ideal kind of sporting activity for me?
I have always been this soccer guy. Medium-talented, but with the ability to take the ball and deal with it until I needed to get home as a child. ...
How to delete stored credentials from a YubiKey
Using YubiKeys for securing accounts is a premium step to a nearly ultimative security approach besides Passkeys or „simple“ 2FA. Alas, over time, ...
Dark Noise: Simple. Fast. White noise, refined!
When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark...
Yet some additional and useful apps for your Mac-related life
While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine a while ago”, I discovered that — humbled by the reader’s outstanding appr...
Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine
While macOS always comes along with a bunch of productivity tools (and always was a synonym for being productive and creative!) there is always spa...
Bartender 4: The best thing for a sense of order is a clean menu bar on macOS!
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios. With Big Sur, we h...
The long hard way to the perfect home office setup
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN b...
How to implement Snowflake with Docker on a Synology-NAS
In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web freely. Sno...
Tor Browser now automatically bypasses Internet censorship
While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking out with ...
Stopping for a moment
A bit of sentimentality from one of the most beautiful countries in the world - Norway! In everyday life, we often forget who we are and what makes...
Not all those who wander are lost
50 km on a single weekend, two stages. 935 metres in height in total. Enough time to re-focus once again for a short amount of time, pulling the pl...
Great minds discuss ideas - average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
Life is vivid - try to live it that way!
Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on Norse ground ...
The Price of a Mile
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
The Return to Flanders Fields
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Vladslo German Military Cemetery
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
Tyne Cot Cemetery
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
The Third Battle Of Ypres / The Battle of Passchendaele
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
Hooge Crater Cemetery
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
Perth Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
In Flanders Fields
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
Tusks - Make posting to Mastodon feel like posting to a blog
Sometimes I come across apps that I would never have missed. Apps that come out of nowhere and still find their niche - Tusks by developer Bardi Go...
How to deploy your own Joplin Server-instance
Using your data on any device is standard these days. Controlling where this data is stored is another story - in terms of Joplin, you can use many...
Bluesky: Blockchain investor joins, where is the journey heading?
There’s news from Bluesky. After I shed some light on the service last year, the new financing round and the term “crypto” don’t bode well. Admitt...
Is Bluesky worth a visit?
While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X - formerly known as “Twitter” - the question is which service is able to provide she...
Installing the latest version of PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Linux
While Ubuntu Linux is — besides Debian — the Linux-distribution of my choice, some packages could be more up-to-date. In this scenario given, my U...
Rise of the Triad
The world is in turmoil these days. America is being dismantled in no time at all by the Orange Goblin and his freaky Mars mate (along with human r...
Be careful what you wish for...
… it might come true! If cocking promises turn out to be only 10% real and the real status quo is more of a desaster than the next leap in your pro...
Three fights in nine seconds
The hate has reached sports. Even the idea behind the competition on the court, track or ice cannot hold back the recently ignited flame of hatred ...
Everything back to zero - LINKIN PARK - “From Zero”
Wounds heal. Time passes. But the nostalgia of having discovered this band in 2000, in the most turbulent Nu Metal times, remains. Admittedly, I w...
UTM - a great alternative for Apple Silicon-based desktop virtualization
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
How to backup Microsoft 365 with Veeam and Wasabi
Your data remains your data - no matter where it is stored. When, for example, a customer decides to outsource E-Mail-services into the cloud, the ...
UTM - a great alternative for Apple Silicon-based desktop virtualization
In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform - not all have ac...
Parallels Desktop: Your Mac’s gate to proper desktop virtualization
Even if you may feel comfortable with your macOS-environment, there may be a need for running different operating systems nevertheless. Especially...
VMware kills Players, makes Pro free for personal use
While Broadcom still does Broadcom-things after acquiring VMware and turning pricing and portals upside down, at least the question what happens wi...
Great minds discuss ideas - average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man
How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now, 2022. ...
How to implement Wasabi S3-storage in Nextcloud or Synology Hyper Backup
Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I always s...
Even with a new name, Facebook won‘t be 'The Metaverse'
According to a report from The Verge, Facebook is reportedly planning to rename the company to better underline its focus on „The Metaverse“. We a...
Arq Backup - a versatile solution to back up your files on Mac and Windows
Backups are essential for any use case and while there are many solutions on the market, some apps stand out for their level of flexibility. Time M...
Microsoft adds recommended apps to the start menu in Windows 11
Microsoft is currently battling a lot of bad press but as if that wasn’t enough, there’s still something else to add: According to a recent blog po...
Not all those who wander are lost
50 km on a single weekend, two stages. 935 metres in height in total. Enough time to re-focus once again for a short amount of time, pulling the pl...
Season Greetings and goodbye forever, 2023!
It was a special and somehow strange year - paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature. ...
Stop worrying about people that aren’t worried about you
2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as...
What if... ?
During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle in terms...
Great minds discuss ideas - average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people
The pandemic has shown that, sometimes, extraordinary efforts are needed to keep things running. While people separated in many ways, other consoli...
New Work: The Rise of the Triple Peak Day
Recently I wrote about the fact that the model of hybrid work is here to stay. A new Microsoft-study also underlines that a 9 to 5 day is obsolete ...
Return to offices is announced, but the model of hybrid work is here to stay!
COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way we work ...
Thank you - Not all superheroes have capes!
Yet another year with the „pandemic“-flag has nearly passed. A year with frustration, deprivations, disenchantment but also traces of hope in an un...
You are not your resume, you are your work
„Work“ is something that always took care of earning an honest penny but it’s also a story with up and downs. I am in the happy situation to state...
Is our Post-Covid-working life here to stay?
With the pandemic, life has changed and so did the way we work and even the way we love. I was always a friend of being at the office, exchanging ...
German state of Schleswig-Holstein bets on digital sovereignty for the modern workplace
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that ...
Rise of the Triad
The world is in turmoil these days. America is being dismantled in no time at all by the Orange Goblin and his freaky Mars mate (along with human r...
Be careful what you wish for...
… it might come true! If cocking promises turn out to be only 10% real and the real status quo is more of a desaster than the next leap in your pro...
Three fights in nine seconds
The hate has reached sports. Even the idea behind the competition on the court, track or ice cannot hold back the recently ignited flame of hatred ...
Everything back to zero - LINKIN PARK - “From Zero”
Wounds heal. Time passes. But the nostalgia of having discovered this band in 2000, in the most turbulent Nu Metal times, remains. Admittedly, I w...
What makes a good backup strategy? The World Backup Day 2025
Today, March 31, is World Backup Day once again. As is now a modern tradition, we need a special day to draw attention to an important topic: World...
Every year again - The blog reboot
New game, new luck - or: Another start for a new blog with thoughts that have matured over the years! So here it is again, a new attempt to get a ...
I am stuck - Writer’s Block or just Silly Season?
After a week off in Norway, I still haven’t found my writing routine again. What has changed? This week in September was a journey of three guys m...
The Price of a Mile
There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile“ and...
The Return to Flanders Fields
Keeping up with history is brutal and you never have a world-wide pandemic on your list when planning your tours. It was 2019 in our summer holida...
Vladslo German Military Cemetery
Two years after my first two trips throughout Flanders Fields, I was able to return and continue my journey on the WW1-gravesites in Flanders. Thi...
Tyne Cot Cemetery
It was still hot and the cloudless 32° Celsius usually were the proper reason not to exit the car without the need of doing so. Anyway, Tyne Cot Ce...
The Third Battle Of Ypres / The Battle of Passchendaele
On July 31st, 1917 - nearly 103 years ago - the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele - took place on the Western Front....
Hooge Crater Cemetery
There are better ideas than making a tour to some sites located outside with four children in the car. Fortunately, our Mercedes had good air condi...
Perth Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
The first part of my trip in pursue of WW1-heritage sites lead me to Ypres (French version) or Ieper in local tongue in West-Flanders. Besides its...
In Flanders Fields
As I ventured to West-Flanders in Belgium this year - just as we did in the last years - I hadn’t anything specific in mind regarding any historica...
Apple is approaching the problem with nagging-CAPTCHAs in iOS 16
They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you‘re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often interrupt ...
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My default apps starting 2025
It’s a simply idea and despite reminding me on some kind of classic chain letter, I stumbled upon this campaign by swiping through my Mastodon-feed...