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OpenWebUI vs LibreChat: I ran both so you don't have to

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

OpenWebUI vs LibreChat: I ran both so you don’t have to

Development of everything related to AI is blazing fast nowadays and some things might not be true depending when the post is being read.

I spent the last month running both on my home server. Not switching back and forth. Just running them side by side, spending time in each one, trying to understand what each does well and where each falls short. If you are picking between these two, here is what I actually learned.

Time management in Bible

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:05:22 +0100

The Bible is old and provides life advice, but much has changed since it was written. Can we find time management wisdom in it, considering ancient people had fewer worries? This article explores relevant Bible verses for today, based on the “Time Management Principles From God’s Word” reading plan: https://www.bible.com/reading-plans/11397-time-management-principles-from-gods-word

The Bible Teaches Us to Be Present

Being “here and now” is trendy today. Despite time management tech, worries have increased. Did ancient people face this? Passages suggest yes.

How to enable Traefik DOT termination in kubernetes

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Traefik store certificates in acme.json file unlike Caddy for instance that stores certificates that could be directly imported into Adguard.

By default - Traefik won’t terminate DOT TLS traffic, so it could only forward it to another host. Here we will have to customize Traefik in order to make the TLS termination work. So, let’s assume You have already running Adguardhome in Your kubernetes cluster and Traefik itself is functioning fine:

Books can teach everything

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Reading a non fiction book gives an opportunity to dive deeper into one persons thoughts. While it might be truth that many books are overly long and practically could have been summarized into single blog post without loosing the point (who knows, maybe authors are getting payed by amount of pages, not the quality) - there are still books worth reading. On the examples are “Thinking, fast and slow”. This is the book that is very other quoted by other authors and never gets old (not yet at least).

How to enable auto dark mode on KDE

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

KDE is very feature-rich desktop environment for Linux. However it lacks some of the very essential features for some users like automatic dark mode switch (it’s not present on GNOME either but easily installable with gnome extension) or automatic brightness control for notebooks that have ambient light sensor. So - there are couple of way to enable automatic dark mode on KDE, but non of them is straight forward:

GUI versions

Yin-Yang

Can be installed via Flatpak, but it needs to be pulled manually from git and compiled manually.

Truenas Scale - how to use same device as cache VDEV in two pools at the same time

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Truenas 25.04 CE used for this guide

TrueNas philosophy is “1 device - 1 assignment”. So by doing this we are going off-piste and who knows what could happen. Please proceed only if You have backup of Your data and You know what You are doing.

Identify the SSD with the command lsblk For instance:

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0  10.9T  0 disk 
└─sda1        8:1    0  10.9T  0 part 
sdb           8:16   0   3.6T  0 disk 
└─sdb1        8:17   0   3.6T  0 part 
sdc           8:32   0   3.6T  0 disk 
└─sdc1        8:33   0   3.6T  0 part 
sdd           8:48   0   3.6T  0 disk 
└─sdd1        8:49   0   3.6T  0 part 
nvme1n1     259:0    0 119.2G  0 disk 
├─nvme1n1p1 259:1    0     1M  0 part 
├─nvme1n1p2 259:2    0   512M  0 part 
└─nvme1n1p3 259:3    0 118.7G  0 part 
nvme0n1     259:4    0 953.9G  0 disk 
└─nvme0n1p1 259:5    0 951.9G  0 part 
nvme2n1     259:6    0 238.5G  0 disk

we’ll take the example with nvme2n1 and we’ll use the parted command for it:

How to optimize Mikrotik router for WiFi

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Mikrotik devices might not perform efficiently in terms of wireless connectivity by default. Some advices how to improve wifi experience with Mikrotik WiFi routers.

How install new kernel on Debian

Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In order to start loving Debian - we need to try out other Linux distributions and see how easily things may break after system upgrade. While Debian is super stable - it could have a problem with newer hardware - older kernel versions might not simply support it.

There is relatively stable way of installing newer kernel while still maintaining Debian golden stability. This approach is called backports. Here can be found official Debian article: Installing a Package from Backports

Book review - Courage to be disliked 📖

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Courage to be disliked - what doe sit mean and would it lead to happiness?

What is zero inbox? 📥

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The concept or zero inbox we might have heard from book Getting Things Done by David Allen which is starting point in productivity books for those who want to improve their way of handling tasks.

The philosophy

The main idea is not only deleting every single mail in our inbox. The idea is to having “inbox” concept as bucket with items, that has to be dealt with, processed and acted on. One of the most popular task managers have it - Todoist . let’s think of an inbox concept as information buffer, that fills up somewhere on the background. When buffer is overfilled - it’s time to process it.

Why so many projects fail? 👎

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We tend to think only about the success and read success stories, thinking that we could succeed as well, if we just do the same. We try to find a pattern for success, could we find pattern to failure?

How do You measure success?

Well - one of the important aspects in this discussion - how to You define success/failure? What if the project was successfully built/made - but does not fulfill intended goal? Could it still be counted as success? What if customer got happy, but money was lost eventually?

Practice vs theory

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What is the best approach, doing things and making mistakes or applying theory?

Get to know the world around by creating something ourselves

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Lately, whenever we have a free moment, we instinctively reach for our smartphones—mostly to consume content created by others. The operating system we use, the website design we interact with, and, of course, the content itself—all of it is pre-packaged and presented to us. In essence, we have little choice over our digital environment; it is handed to us on a platter.

Free Content

Perhaps, when we don’t have to pay for content, we become less selective about what we consume. When choosing the design and functionality of a kitchen for a new home, we tend to be much more meticulous—because, ultimately, we are spending what we trade our time for (money).

Docker: how to run Adguard Home with Unbound 🛜

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Homelabbing can be addicting. Once your managed to self host one thing - it might really hard to stop finding more and more things to self host.

Self hosting often starts with hosting out own DNS server, which would help us blocking ads.

Prerequisites

We know what is Adguard Home
We know what is Unbound
We have public IP address (if we’ll use our DNS server with devices outside home)
We know how to use docker

In short - what are we using those tools?

Adguard home

Adguard home is better than pihole in one single thing - native support for DOT, DOH. With DNS over HTTPS (DOH) - You can configure your laptop browser to always use you own DNS server. With DNS over TLS (DOT) - You can configure your Android smartphone to use your own DNS server. Why Android does not let You use DOH - mystery.

Good things about Bullet Journal ✒️

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

No matter how far our wonderful progress has gone - some things remain the same. No matter how smart and digital the world around us becomes, we still have sensory senses and brains.

The brain writes tactilely

There has been a lot of research on how the brain memorizes information better, specifically - what method of writing works better for memorization. Of course - the handwriting method has proven to be more effective. A tactile connection to the fruit of creation - helps us feel that we are real.

Perhaps - the best approach to personal finances 💸

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

People love to talk online about how to make good money—enough to buy a yacht and sail across foreign seas. But very little attention is given to how to actually spend that money (or how not to do it). How do you plan your expenses so that the hard-earned cash you strive to make is enough?

The society we live in is highly consumer-driven. The entire economy is built not on selling better quality products and services but on selling more stuff. If you start earning more, your expenses will increase too. There are American families making $20,000 a month yet drowning in debt. If you don’t know how to manage money when you’re poor, you’ll stay poor even if you become rich.

Never send email today 📨

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We all want too wrap up our day with as least unanswered emails as possible right? Sometimes we even do “zero inbox” method and then we can sleep well. But what would happen if we get an answer from the same person, who wants to wrap up the day with empty inbox? Then we play the game - “who gives up first”. It’s even worse if we have email notifications on, because then at some point we’d need to deliberately postpone email for tomorrow. Solution might be - schedule email send for tomorrow at 8:00. Let’s drill down in more details.

Don't write everything down ✒️

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We often hear advices write everything down like it would guarantee, that information we write down - would make sense and stay in our minds forever. Another common recommendation - if You need to take a decision write down pros and cons, like if we were robots. Would it actually help us to take a decision?

What about our hearts?

They further we go with technology progress the more we try to treat everything as mechanical system, even ourselves. If we don’t want to do anything even though we think it’s super useful for us - we search for a million ways how to push ourselves to something that we don’t actually want to do. What if, after so many years of innovation - we are still humans? What if we still have our “hearts” that whisper to ourselves what we really want, but we want to listen to much more “rational” way of thinking? Perhaps - to really understand what do we want we’d need to sit in silence for couple of minutes and listen to ourselves and then we’d understand.

What is black swan? 🦢

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A Brief History

Black swans exist in real life. Long ago, it was believed that they didn’t. The term “black swan” was used to describe something that was fundamentally impossible because swans were thought to be only white.

What Happened Next?

When it was discovered that black swans actually do exist, the meaning of the phrase changed. A “black swan” came to signify an event that no one expected could happen, but which ultimately did.

How to rest? 🛌

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Resting - is such a simple thing to do. We do work - then we rest, until it’s time to do work again. Well today - we have so many tech tools that aim to make our lives better, simpler and free up a lot of time. However - perhaps Purpose of Technology is not to do that. Perhaps it’s meant, so that we could do even more “useful” stuff and forget about rest even further. Otherwise - why do we have such term “burnout” today?

Best way to get anxiety - think about society problems 😟

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We may have different views, whether world is functioning properly, whether climate change problem is real or not, whether Facebook is a good thing or not. However, we’d all agree that there are certain thing, that are not perfect in the world we live in.

It might too complicated to comprehend

Eventually - we might watch a documentary and start thinking about how many problems we have in the society. This is so complex and broad set of issues, that can easily make a person uncomfortable about world we live in. It can even make us obsessed about the things that happen in the world.

Purpose of Technology 💾

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

What is the Meaning and Purpose of Technology? Why are we racing forward at breakneck speed, conquering new heights and space, while leaving our “earthly problems” unresolved? Why was a four-legged horse the fastest mode of transport for most of human history, yet now the number of transistors in processors doubles every 24 months? Humanity has made a massive leap forward and continues to accelerate. But what have we truly achieved? Are we becoming twice as happy every 24 months?

ToDo List as checklist, not Task Manager ✔️

Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We use our task managers incorrectly, perhaps. Perhaps their purpose is simply wrong. I’ve already written about why task managers are essentially graveyards for tasks in ToDo Apps - Graveyard for Tasks . And yet, we still pay the creators of these so-called “miracle programs” for them.

In his book The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande brilliantly describes the advantages of checklists, particularly in the medical field. After experienced doctors began using checklists, the number of incidents significantly decreased.

Buy or rent? 🏠

Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes we want to own things and simultaneously take responsibility for them. Other times, we prefer to rent, like with a car or an apartment, and shift the responsibility to the renter. Loans have helped developed nations reach great heights. This is discussed by the authors Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson in their book Why Nations Fail.

Sometimes - it could be better to take a loan with the certain percentage instead of buying the whole apartment in cash (if You have enough cash). However, perhaps for this same reason, many countries sank during the 2008 financial crisis, while Germany wasn’t as heavily affected because it didn’t have as much leverage in the market.

Time Management Phylosophy ⌚

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We try so hard to accomplish as much as possible. To be efficient. Get more done. Plan your downtime. We hear all this in countless books, videos, podcasts, and who knows where else. We squeeze ourselves dry to get more done and extract more from our time.

Have you ever been truly bored? So bored that you have absolutely nothing to do? If you have, we often quickly find something to occupy ourselves with. Most likely, we grab our smartphones, or a housewife always finds some extra chores to do around the house. Nowadays, we’ve completely forgotten how to be bored.

Stop setting goals 🎯

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

It’s Fashionable

Everyone around is saying that you need to set goals and achieve them. Then set new goals and achieve them again. If you don’t achieve them, you should feel guilty, experience a drop in self-esteem, and urgently find ways to learn how to achieve goals. There’s an even sadder scenario—falling into the other extreme and stopping doing anything altogether. The idea of achieving goals, like the idea of low-fat products in its time, is just an idea. Let’s look at a less popular approach to this theory.

Wise vs Revolut

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Preface

~~This should be the introduction where the author talks about how great our world is right now and how we can have a bank account (almost) without even leaving our phone, and all that.~~

This review covers the free versions of both services.

What Both Services Have in Common

Ability to create an account from your phone.
The option to make deposits and earn better interest rates than at your own bank.
The ability to exchange currencies more favorably than at your bank.
A higher risk of losing money compared to your bank. Let’s be honest, it all looks a bit scarier, right?

Cards

Both services offer physical cards. These days, everyone who can offers this option. With both services, ordering a card is a one-time payment (as long as you order it), around five euros.

How to remember all my passwords 🗝️

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

As companies increasingly shift some of their work onto consumers, we find ourselves having to create accounts on various company websites. And now, we have to register on more and more websites. It’s not easy to remember all these passwords because each site has its own security requirements: some require you to use your email address as a login, others prohibit it; sometimes you need to add special characters like $&!#, while on other sites, this isn’t allowed. Some sites prohibit the repetition of characters in a password (e.g., no “111”) or force you to change your password every six months.

BTC will save the world or perhaps not 🪙

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Many people consider cryptocurrency just another Ponzi scheme, while others believe that Bitcoin (BTC) will save the world. There are always a lot of different opinions about what is happening in the world, and often, people express these opinions just to draw attention to themselves.

The Idea

The idea is simply beautiful — giving control over funds directly to the holder, without the need for a middleman who needs to be trusted. At the same time, everyone is on their own, and if someone loses access to their assets, no one can help them recover them. As always, there are both positive and negative sides. I won’t tell the story of BTC here.

ToDo Apps - Graveyard for Tasks 🪦

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Many people have likely gone through a period in their lives when life started demanding more than before. To meet these new demands, you need different tools for managing time and tasks. People start buying various task management, project management, and note-taking apps, and so on. What’s the result? Burnout. Sound familiar?

Collecting Everything We Can. Why Does It Feel Like a Burden?

Have you read David Allen’s book GTD (Getting Things Done)? It’s possibly one of the first books recommended by bloggers for becoming a productivity guru. There’s a piece of advice in it about the Inbox—recording everything that comes to mind in the “Inbox” folder to deal with later. Then, during the weekly review, we distribute tasks into folders, dates, and labels. The tasks pile up so much that it becomes overwhelming, and a slight sense of anxiety creeps in as soon as we open our task vault. Adding a task to the system is very (too) easy, but deleting it? Not so much, because there’s always a reason to come back to it later.

Do we really need VPN? 🌍

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Please keep in mind that I am not an IT specialist (maybe just a little experienced) and I write philosophical stuff on this topic.

Something Like an Introduction

Lately, VPNs have become increasingly popular. It’s becoming more “trendy” and youthful to think about your privacy online. Especially after it was revealed that the NSA could secretly turn on users’ webcams. But is VPN really as great as it seems?

VPN is Not a Panacea

Yes, a VPN can provide partial privacy. But where’s the guarantee that the service providing it isn’t collecting your data, even if it claims not to? It might even turn out that your privacy is compromised and your browsing data leaks online or gets sold somewhere. If you’ve read that our ISPs and others are monitoring us—forget it, it won’t get any better. You might as well switch to pagers and stop using Google and its maps.

Perfectionism is the public enemy 🔫

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Did you use correction fluid during your school years? Were we allowed to make mistakes? Were you praised for your mistakes or scolded?

Perfectionism for the Sake of Perfectionism

There are people with a rich inner world (though I don’t think that’s the cause) for whom it is very important that everything is perfectly arranged—even objects. Here, perfectionism is more of an art form than a medical diagnosis. Seeing how such a person organizes material space or processes can be mesmerizing! But is it easy for such a person to live in our world?

Minimalism won't help 😶‍🌫️

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A Bit of an Introduction

Minimalism has become incredibly popular, though perhaps its peak has already passed. As we dive deeper into the world of virtual pleasures, tangible treasures become more valuable.

The easier it becomes to purchase things, the more popular the idea that things aren’t necessary.

Why Simply Getting Rid of Things Won’t Help

There’s a wonderful book by Erich Fromm titled Иметь или быть. It’s not as simple as the title might suggest. It’s not just about not owning things. We strive to possess emotions, guarantees, options, status…
I won’t even get into how much a person might want to possess another person—in every sense.

Digital VS Paper 📎

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Yes - today, without offloading information from our central processor (the brain) to an external medium, it’s impossible to manage. There’s just too much information, and we can’t keep everything in our heads.

With a phone at hand, we can easily record a smart thought at any moment so it doesn’t slip away—or we can easily open Instagram and check out what’s new there.

Advantages of Technology

An amazing tool for finding and organizing information. The only problem is that everyone online is trying to grab our attention, anyone who can. Unfortunately, those who create content that isn’t genuinely useful to us are often better at this. Nevertheless, some have managed to achieve the opposite. Here’s an example: How to Make Learning as Addictive as Social Media | Luis Von Ahn | TED .