This short Article is in addition to my Pockethernet V2 Review I posted last year December. At the time of writing the original Article there was a announced BER Loop Adapter and ID Plugs but not available at that time. Now some time later this changed and I clicked them in the official Pockethernet store. Brief preface; I am neither sponsored by Pockethernet nor have I received...

What is Karakeep? Well, I’ll write an extra blog article about it soon, so in short: It’s a self-hosted open-source bookmark manager with a cloud-hosted option available. I work on multiple devices and browsers, and the integrated browser bookmark management is not ideal for my workflow. Karakeep (formerly named Hoarder) solves this problem and adds lots of useful fe...

Not an lenghy Article, just posting my findings for whoever may need it. The Hardware: i-tec USB-C 4K Metall Nano Docking Station Named by the bulky name i-tec USB-C 4K Metall Nano Docking Station 1x HDMI 1x GLAN 3x USB 3.0 1x SD/MicroSD 1x Audio Power Delivery 100W I found mine on Amazon. Port-wise, it has what I need. Mostly I use this kind of light dock if I work remotely or ...

signal on Linux offer the way to store your encryption key in your system walled (encrypted) or local as plain-text unencrypted. Actually if you use a full disk encryption a clean text key isn’t a huge issue. But nevertheless to give it a bit more secure feeling I wanted to use KWalletD to store the signal key encrypted. Signal now even prompt you with a question if you wa...

Currently I use as my productivity working device a Tuxedo Laptop, the Infinity book pro 14". It is about 1.5yrs old and started acting up in december when it comes to battery. The Battery sometimes was overnight discharging to 0% even the laptop was powered off. Also it showed a reduced maximal capacity. In Linux you can check your battery stats quickly with upower -b the ...