Hi, I'm Brunzel (built in '83) – and this is my digital dumping ground for everything that's too good to simply forget.
When I'm not busy trying to melt my 8 GB of VRAM generating AI videos locally, I spend my time in all sorts of digital and musical worlds. My life is basically run by an ever-growing family of computers which, for reasons I no longer fully remember myself, all answer to the name Horst.
Here's a little glimpse into my daily chaos:
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The Horst dynasty & penguin love: My daily driver ("HauptHorst") runs CachyOS, because Windows only gets booted for the walk of shame when I want a round of PUBG or something from Xbox Game Pass. It's joined by my Unraid data graveyard ("HorstTower") and a Proxmox node ("LittleHorst").
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Self-hosting & webmaster duties: Why use simple cloud services when you can spend whole nights setting up Nextcloud, Jellyfin and your own RustDesk relays? When I'm not tormenting my own servers, I look after the website of the Kerbborsch Erzhausen.
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Gaming, no0bz & digital pioneering: As the founder of the no0bz community, I tinker with logos, cut intros or tear around in Assetto Corsa. Usually with my regular crew: Kosta (DerGeileRusse), Joe (Ascot) and Andy (Kampfkoch) – at least when Andy manages to drag himself down to the gaming basement. My urge to outsmart software goes back a long way, by the way: my old WoW private server was the first in all of Germany to run on Linux – even though the thing was actually coded as Windows-only software. And if you remember the Half-Life 2 release (and the much-hated Steam requirement): back then I worked out a way fairly quickly to get the game running entirely without Steam. (Is that past the statute of limitations after more than 20 years? Asking for a friend… ^^)
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Musical identity crisis: On the one hand, I make handmade, completely AI-free heavy metal and hard rock. On the other hand, I like to blast SSIO, Haftbefehl or Snoop Dogg, and on the side I build automated AI monster prompts for music videos.
On this blog I collect server tutorials, Linux workarounds (especially for Arch/CachyOS), AI experiments and anything else that needs to get out of my head. Have fun browsing – and if you have questions, drop them in the comments!