My deployment of the Tandoor recipe app made me increasingly uneasy but I could not point out exactly why. When I found Cooklang it clicked: Just because something is self-hosted and open source does not make it a sustainable solution.
While browsing the music from my ancient iPod backup in Nextcloud, it hit me: Can I stream this from Nextcloud to my phone? This question set off my exodus from Spotify (and YouTube Music).
The Digital Independence Day presented at the 39C3 has motivated me to start some of my long-postponed projects. I decided to start with the most painful but also most important one: Getting rid of my dependence on Gmail.
In recent weeks, I’ve been captured by a thought: What if I had a computer in my kitchen? Usually I would set up my old trusted tablet for watching a show or reading something, but that is just not convenient enough.
My brother loves playing FIFA Manager 2010 (FM10). He is willing to get up at 5:00 in the morning just to play a couple of minutes in peace before he has to take care of his children and head out to his job.
