It's been a long time since I'd wanted to visit Barcelona. It finally happened — we decided to spend a few days seeing the highlights. We got a Barcelona Card and it was a great choice! We were staying almost next to the famous La Rambla, so everything was within walking dista...
Something unfortunate happened — my hub (VersaQ) stopped working. No Power Delivery, no USB, no HDMI... just nothing. The problem is in the electronics. I started thinking about how to get out of this. I'd been considering a monitor anyway, because FullHD is fine but it's...
What were the key moments this year?
OS: Face ID is something else... I want Touch ID back!
TV: Samsung The Frame — thin bezel and a great picture.
Floor: Oiled parquet — the difference is indescribable.
IoT: Netatmo. Smoke detection, CO₂, heating control, weather st...
Because our door has two keys, I ran out of space on my Orbitkey. Naturally there's a solution for that — the Orbitkey Extension Post is available. You do need to fill the extension so it doesn't flex... which won't be a problem, but good to know.
I unscrewed th...
When sorting out connectivity in the flat I didn't want VDSL — 30 Mbit through a modem is embarrassing. Wireless internet didn't work out in the end so I landed on a 5G modem. The box that O2 had custom-made doesn't offer much. More like nothing than a lot. Need multiple Wi-Fi net...
I needed a workspace that could fit two or three laptops, a monitor, two phones, and still leave room for writing and documents. At the same time you don't want to drown in a tangle of cables (USB-A, USB-C, power cables, HDMI...). And you can't just lay a monitor flat — if...
Since I have the option to work from home, I wanted to set up a workspace that meets today's standards. I wanted a gas monitor arm, a connection hub, a height-adjustable desk and a chair. Let's start with the desk.
Two ads were popping up at me — one from Liftor and an...
Because the apartment is quite large — over 100 m² — I decided to get a robot. Before the floors were ripped up, I used to vacuum and mop the whole place myself. That took me about an hour... now I can spend that hour on something else while the robot does its thing.
There were plent...
During the flat viewing we discovered there was parquet hiding under the current floors! Great news. The existing floors are dark — even though it's wood, it makes the space feel heavy. We decided to renovate the parquet. That meant removing the current flooring — quite a...
While looking into the hotel where I was staying in Prague, I discovered it also supports Mobile Key! Which is a dream — no need to carry a card around and risk degaussing it with your phone. Try it sometime: leave your phone and card right next to each other and you'll fin...