Xay: 1 blog
My tumblr blog: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/commanderxay (mostly identical)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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#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…
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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
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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…
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Greetin hooman!
Hay! (Prolog: I’m German and I don’t know atm, whether I should write in my worst English or German, soo…. I try to prioritize English, but if I fall into ranting mode, it will be German maybe… or if something is only undestandable for Germans in German, but… so let’s start) It was embarassing as…