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LoRa and Meshtastic – a powerful combination for a decentralized communication network. But how well does it work in practice? I gave it a try and report on my first experiences.

About a year and a half ago, I bought a new notebook. This time I chose a Dell, because some of their models are even Linux-certified. Since I also use a Dell notebook at work and had Linux running on it for a long time, I knew I couldn’t really go wrong with a Dell.

How can AI become more sustainable in times of climate change? In an extensive course at the Hasso Plattner Institute, I learned the latest techniques for making large language models more efficient and resource-friendly. From knowledge distillation to network pruning and low-bit quantization.

I invite you to join me on a walk through the idyllic countryside of East Frisia.

For a long time, I was looking for a solution to keep track of my ideas, tasks, projects, and long-term goals. Of course, I already wrote down important things before to not forget them and have them ready when I wanted to work on them. However, I scattered these notes across various places: sometimes as handwritten notes, sometimes in an app on my smartphone, sometimes a simple text editor on my desktop PC was sufficient, or they ended up in the cloud of some free web service. Ideally, even in my self-hosted Nextcloud instance. Thus, I successfully transformed the chaos in my head into digital clutter. Congratulations, Tim.

Data traders know where you regularly reside, are familiar with your daily routines and interests. How can we protect our data from this abuse and maintain our privacy?

The tool KDocker offers a universal solution to place any application in the notification area (system tray), regardless of whether the application itself supports this functionality, and enables a space-saving and organized arrangement of frequently used applications.

I’m a big fan of podcasts and listen to them regularly. But when I’m working on my computer, I have problems synchronising my feeds. Now I’ve found a solution that meets my needs and respects my privacy.

The tiresome topic of data backup… I take the protection of my valuable data seriously and therefore take various measures to back up my data. Local and external backups play an important role in this.

For some time now, I have been using a self-hosted instance of ChangeDetection.io, which actively notifies me as soon as websites on my watchlist change.