Well, look who’s here! My first UPS! Having lived on laptops for over a decade, I never felt the need for one — if the power goes out in the building, the ISP’s equipment will most likely go down too, and if it’s just a blown fuse, the …

Several little gadgets arrived today — groceries and toilet paper get logistics priority over hardware, so the wait was long. But this thing with 12 outlets + 5 USB ports should significantly reduce the entropy of my little cabinet. Life in the 21st …

Got out of the habit of tower computers with big fans… Only half a year has passed since that memorable Black Friday when a Synology moved in with me — and this is what its (her?) insides look like today.

• It’s a dryer!

Even when you only need a single SIM card, somehow there are too many phones in the house…

Quarantine, stress, bad weather — you’ve got to fight it with some shopping. It had been sitting on my wish list for a long time, waiting in vain for a discount through two Black Fridays. Then, out of nowhere, the price dropped a little, and I …

Some time ago my “dear friends” talked me into buying a console, a.k.a. PlayStation 4. The main argument in favor was the release of Borderlands 3, which my existing hardware couldn’t handle at all. Weighing the pros and cons — namely, …

April 2019.

My wife gets a Pixel 2 — at that point a two-year-old model, and as Wikipedia tells us, discontinued April 1, 2019.

Re-reading my own blog and going through the sparse comments, I noticed that one of my friends’ domains — tsybulko.org — has gone dark. A shame.

About 4-5 years ago I bought this wonderful little apron on AliExpress for gentlemen who prefer to take care of their beard themselves: