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Autor: Commander Xay

  • Exciting kestrel in the hood

    I’m very excited seeing a real kestrel (Turmfalke) in my neighborhood. It’s sitting about 100 m far away on a rooftop and for first – with my screen glasses on – I though it was a collared pigeon (Türkentaube), but the red was a lot to lively. So, I took a shot with my camera,…

  • Ciao Facebook!

    Preludium This is content for my Facebook friends, who are mostly German and so, this rant is German too. If you want to feel it, you can use google translator. It was starting with this here. Facebook – und tschüss! Ein paar Monate hadere ich schon mit Facebook. Mir ist aufgefallen, dass neben der bezahlten…

  • Adding 2000 Euro every month for my retirement?

    As I stated in the posting about my power savings (which has of course a financial aspect), I was suprised about the amount of money for my retirement. Not positively surprised. I had to rethink my actual income situation and ended with some kind of plan. The core tought: After all expenses, I have to…

  • Time for some hardware changes — part 2

    Let’s see, what happend since part 1: Decision 4 … is fullfilled. The 8-port switches are in place, so this one 16-port switch is switched off outside my office times. Decision 5 … is fullfilled. I have only one phone in charge and it is connected via PoE now (part of Decision 4 too). Decision…

  • Time for some hardware changes — part 1

    As I mentioned in part 0, the story will now continue with updates here on tumblr. Decision 4: Today I ordered two 8 port 1000-base T switches with PoE. One of them will replace the big 50-port switch in my 19″ rack to save energy. I suppose, it will cut the energy to 1/5. The…

  • Time for some hardware changes — part 0

    … continuing a story, that began on Facebook. But I mentioned in my last post, I dump Facebook. So we need a transistion of the information to tumblr… What happens before? {TL;DR} I’m angry about my energy costs. I have 5200 kWh / year, which is here in Germany the amount of a 5 person…

  • My opinion about some social networks – so… why tumblr?

    So, I’m posting in social networks and in my own blog. I feel to share my opinion about my choice, what I will post on which medium. From worse to good (subjective view). Tik-Tok I don’t even have an account. But what I see from the outside (through reposting in other social media), Tik-Tok is…

  • #2PlaysAMonth Hackathon

    From 2023-02-01 to 2023-02-28 is the #2PlaysAMonth running. I will participate. Good opportunity to lern react. Finally (some kind of)… I would rather learn angular, but I have to delay this for now. At the moment, I do all in plain vanilla (and fast…) JavaScript, but in the recent job descriptions the companies all want…

  • Mr. Cash robot from 1987

    Nice. Tomy seems being in robots at this time. I have a Mr. Cash from 1987. Put a coin on the hand (slighly push the hand down with a finger to start), he open his mouth, raise his eyes and swallow the coin, then nom, nom, tongue out, licking. https://blog.xay.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MrCash.mp4

  • Stadia update

    In case you have a Stadia controller and you are worried about the End-Of-Life of the Stadia gaming system… there is an update to convert the controller to an usual bluetooth gamepad. Once done, no way back, no WLAN controller anymore. Better than to throw this gamepad into the dumpster. Sustainability rulez. Falls Du einen…