My new laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s AMD Gen 1 and I opted for Ubuntu 20.04 as the laptops operating system. Ubuntu 20.04 is a LTS release and therefore has the advantage of longstanding security updates + security Livepatches. In the following, I briefly outline some (obvious) configuration I needed for my setup. I […]
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In October 2020 I upgraded the hardware of my home server. In particular I decided to upgrade my existing setup by replacing the mainboard with a ASrock J5040-ITX. I opted for this board for three reasons (loosely sorted by priority): Support for Intel Quick Sync for media trans-coding, lower TDP, and support for 4K via […]
A personal 3 year retrospective Since more than three years I left academia and joined adidas Runtastic as an information security engineer. In this blog posts I discuss what made me move to industry and what I learned so far. After finishing my masters in Stockholm, I worked in academia for almost 10 years. This […]