Updates

  • Energy Efficient Ethernet via FritzBox is not good

    TIL: Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) in the newest firmware (8.2x) of my FritzBox is probably garbage. When set to “automatic” (which is the only setting aside of “off”), the network is super unstable between devices on the LAN/WAN and any other device. In both the LAN and the internet. Clear suggestion: if you have connectivity…


  • Dovecot update is not fun

    TIL (at 3 am): Upgrading Dovecot is not fun when the behavior changes a lot. Took several hours to get it running identical to before. But at least I could remove some old configuration parts.


  • Default value in register_post_meta

    TIL: Defining a default value within register_post_meta drives you crazy if you no more aware of that you did it. It still persists, even if it is not in the database or the object cache. Found out around an hour later … 🥲


  • Why something new?

    Every so often, I read and hear that Apple is no more innovative because the devices look always the same (not the only reason, but let’s focus on this). I just don’t get why. Why it needs to change? I’m not against new, I’m just happy with my devices. iPhone: it works fine, would even…


  • Replaced Numbers with something completely different

    I used to use Numbers usually only to track my spendings for my side business to get a quick overview when doing my taxes. All the back and forth with Apple Creator Studio now let me change that. Now, I’m using InvoiceShelf to track the expenses there. It’s self-hosted and thus I’m in full control…


  • Migrated away from Audible

    I used to use Audible, because it was convenient and cheap for single audiobooks. Now, I migrated away from it by using Libation – a great project to download Audible content – Jellyfin for managing the audiobooks, and BookPlayer on iOS, the latter came through a suggestion from @simon. Absolutely recommended. Especially the app is…


  • New self-hosting projects

    I’ve updated my self-hosting slash page with some newcomers: Check it out at https://kittsteiner.blog/self-hosting/.


  • Updated Baïkal and self-host contacts

    I used the Sunday morning to upgrade my Baïkal instance to version 0.11.0 (if you experience issues with the MySQL connection afterwards, make sure to add the new required configuration entry mysql_ca_cert to your config). And I also used it to enable CardDAV (previously I solely used it as calendar via CalDAV) and moved all…


  • New self-hosting apps

    Since I bought new RAM with double the capacity (32 GB now) for my TrueNAS, I had more room to try out new self-hosting apps. So, new on the blo(ck/g) (checkout https://kittsteiner.blog/self-hosting/) are:


  • Playing with VitePress

    Yesterday, I stumbled upon VitePress via the Dovecot documentation and I like the design. Will it be worth to migrate my existing documentations from WordPress? We’ll see … 🫣