Since the makers of Firefox unfortunately turned on private attribution by default (why? Mozilla, why?), the internet answers with an easy and automated way to turn it off again (at least on Unix style systems). https://make-firefox-private-again.com And here in short
Fibre’s coming (to my) home
Part 0 No, it’s not football this time but a fibre line into my house. A German telco operator offered to install an FTTH line directly into my house at no cost, the only thing is that I have to
Lageschieber’s sailing trip
Arrival / Day 0 After a little pause from sailing last year, I participated in this years trip around the islands in the Aegean Sea. Just as in years before, we arrived Thursday night in Lavrion (Λαύριο) via Athens. This
Incanto: from heart attack to incontinence
While recovering from the ‘heart attack‘ about a month ago, Incanto now suffered from incontinence. After descaling the machine I wanted to pull a new coffee and was wondering, why the brew cycle finished and my coffee pot was still
Incanto’s heart attack and a little ‘stroke’ to the rescue
Since the last serious health problem of Incanto, a lot has happened. I don’t want to go into details about them (ya’ll know, the virus and stuff) but want to mention that after Incanto’s last surgery five and a half
Linguistic adventures
It all started back in December of last year: I met the president of our local city partnership committee and we chatted about this year’s trip to our partner city in France in the Loire valley. I told her, that
Wildlife in the backyard
I had posted a video about wildlife on my patio before, which showes a single wild bee building her home in my awning. Today things were different: a whole bee swarm conquered our backyard. Finally, they rested in a European
Sailing the islands of Kornati
After a 3 year pause due to the Corona pandemic, I joined the Lageschieber people for a sailboat trip again. The last ones I participated in all took place in the Aegean sea but this time we sailed the coast
Steinbach repariert – Training session
In late 2019 some friends and I (all with an engineering background) started a local repair initiative. The idea was born soon after I fixed that sailboard electric system and two of my friends where with me on that trip
More (Linux) audio fun
In an earlier post I wrote about the fun I had while automatically switching between the built-in mic and the headset mic once the headset is plugged into the jack and thought it could not get worse. I should be