Metager no longer free to use

Begin October Metager made an announcement that the “normal” search was no longer possible. Metager is a free and open source meta search engine based in Germany that takes data protection and privacy for their users very seriously. In normal search users could use Metager for free but with the addition of ads in their […]

Community firmware for Squeezebox Touch/Radio/Controller

Besides keeping the Lyrion Music Server (previously Logitech Media Server) up-to-date it’s important to keep your players (or clients) up-to-date too. For the Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Radio and Squeezebox Controller firmware is available that is maintained by the Squeezebox community. This firmware is the work of Squeezebox community members lead by a Squeezebox user named […]

Logitech Media Server becomes Lyrion Music Server

After mysqueezebox.com has shut down, Squeezebox audio player and its server software are still very much alive. Instead of relying on mysqueezebox one has to setup their own media server (which can be done on cheap low end hardware and isn’t as hard a it may seem). Previously the software was called Logitech Media Server […]

My favorite free and open source software

A list of my favorite FLOSS programs for the PC (mostly) divided into several categories.

Twisted Vase in OpenSCAD

In this blog post I’ll continue a previous post about polyhedron in OpenSCAD. Now we create something more exiting, a twisted vase.

When to use Friendica over Mastodon

When my Mastodon instance was down I took another shot at Friendica. Here are my thoughts about it.

To improve Funkwhale

Funkwhale is a social platform to enjoy and share music. As part of the Fediverse Funkwhale is not only an audio server and player, it aspires to be a place for socializing around music and discovering new content. Below are some tips for the developers to improve Funkwhale.

Peddle wheel boat (3D printed)

I found an example on Thingiverse, a rubber band powered boat with two peddle wheels, but it has two problems. First of all the author only provides .stl files and second the design is a bit flawed. I therefore decided to design the boat from scratch with the 3d CAD program OpenSCAD. With OpenSCAD I’m […]

Peeling the onion

Moving to Free and Open Source on the PC can be a very daunting task for someone that is used to a proprietary system. This is how I did it.

Your music library and MusicBrainz Picard

Why create your own music library and why use the free and open source MusicBrainz Picard for this.