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Perfect Design: Security Camera I love thinking about perfect designs for everyday objects. Here is my idea for a perfect security camera. The core principle which all security cameras I know violate is a local-first approach. The camera should still work, even if you have no internet connection. That is possible if you're in … Read More »

Perfect Design: Frischhaltedosen Ich habe gerade das Gefühl, dass es keine guten Frischhaltedosen gibt. Mein Frischhaltedosen-Chaos Ich will ein Set von Frischhaltedosen, welche folgende Eigenschaften haben: Sie haben Deckel, welche einrasten. Ich will die Dosen auch mal in der Tasche transportieren, ohne dass sie auslaufen. Die Frischhaltedosen sollen also einen Rand haben, in … Read More »

Perfect Design: Handstaubsauger Es stört mich, dass es so viele Geräte mit schlechtem Design gibt. Wer will soll sich das hier für Handstaubsauger nehmen. Wenn das wirklich jemand baut will ich aber ein Exemplar davon haben 😉 ChatGPT rendering eines Akku-Handstaubsaugers Use Case Ein Handsaubsauger ist für das schnelle Saugen zwischendrin gedacht. Man sieht … Read More »

Fitness Trackers Fitness trackers are devices which measure things like walked distance and heartbeats. They are usually writstbands. I recently got excited by them and gave them a try. I tried the Mi Band 4. It is one of the cheapest fitness bands which still had very good reviews. I was not … Read More »

Computer Temperature I just realized that my Thinkpad T460p gets really loud. I suspect that there is just quite some dust in the machine so that the fan gets louder. But I'm not sure how to check that and I hesitate to open the machine. So let's see which information I can … Read More »

Monitors I'm thinking about getting a new monitor, because my Acer AL1916W has a maximum resolution of 1440 × 900 whereas my notebook has 2560 × 1440 (check yours). This means when I connect the two, windows I drag to my external monitor are always super big. Attributes Screen size: How far away … Read More »

Video Display Interfaces This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. I frequently forget the video display interface names and I wonder why we have that many … Read More »

Highend Notebooks My Acer Travelmate 5744Z seems to get broken in soon, so I'm currently looking for a new notebook. As I use my notebook quite often and as this is the third notebook within three years that is not usable any longer (the screen of the first is defect and the … Read More »

Check Computer / Hardware for Linux-compatibility Linux users who are not very skilled have a big problem: If they want to buy a new computer or new hardware, it is very difficult for them to find out if something works or not. I'll give you some hints how you could find it out: Debian device driver … Read More »

Getting Hardware Information in Ubuntu I'm using Ubuntu now for many years, but I always have to look the commands for retrieving hardware information up. Now I will not Google any longer but search in my own little cheat sheet. I guess most commands will work in every Linux distribution, but I tried it only … Read More »