Category: #trucklife

  • Celebrating Final Red Cabbage Day

    While I don’t exactly live in a food truck, I live in a truck and I cook food. Here’s a random selection of the dishes that I happen to have photos of. And to finish it all off, below is the last picture of red cabbage that I’ll ever take in my life. It’s something […]

  • How to earn from excess electricity or computing power

    Because I live in a truck, in summer I have the interesting problem of excess (practically free) photovoltaics electricity. The same can happen in an off-grid home or a grid-connected home in a location with zero-export regulations. This is a small overview of the current options to earn from utilizing your unused or underused computing resources […]

  • Vanlife Updates (May / June 2017)

    Some pictures of living in the truck over the last month (2017-05-03 to 2017-06-08). #vanlife 🙂 (Click picture to see a larger version.)

  • Living in the forest and paying with trash

    Good news for my truck, it got MOT again (“TÜV”) so I can move around a bit. Used the opportunity for a nice little tour. Including: buying some parts for my “living space” in a hardware store; overnighting under 380 kV; a visit to a hydraulics workshop (leaving 230 EUR for three new hoses for […]

  • Freedom as in free trash

    So I just finished another little project: my new entrance ladder. Ok, let's say it's finished except for a layer of paint, as always. All paint jobs pile up for when I have no urgent needs and will start to care how things actually look 😛 This shows the truck's right side, with the door […]

  • Not so normal living conditions

    So this is my home now, a 4×4 ex-firefighter truck from 1976. Bit older photo, but from the outside it still looks like this. Except it has a licence plate, means it’s street legal now. It’s misssing some creative lettering though. I plan to write “UM” on it’s side in big black letters one day, […]

  • What powerline adapter to use that can be fully managed under Linux?

    Powerline is a technology for transmitting data over the AC grid. All devices provide an RJ45 Ethernet plug (and some also wifi and USB), so they support client devices of all operating systems. Basic configuration of encryption is likewise OS independent, as nearly all of them use a "pairing" button for that. However, to set […]