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Thomas Berker
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STS researcher at Trondheim's Centre for Technology and Society. Co-founder of NTNU's The Good Infrastructures Lab. Fascinated by infrastructures, user agency […]

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#academic housekeeping: This is the pile of drafts, exams and applications that an average prof in Norway reads and comments on in one year. Every text is an expression of hopes and aspirations, which I am quite aware of while reading. Not much AI-mediocrity in […]

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An untidily stacked pile of computer print outs.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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My Frankenstein data centre has a new addition bought from a gamer who I guess was upgrading. Here no games but 4K #jellyfin transcoding and quicker #selfhosted LLM answers. Turns out a consumer GPU does not fit at all in a server and I needed a riser cable and […]

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An open old Huawei server and a Geforce gpu and a lot of cables and stuff.
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Unreasonably excited about my new Linux desktop environment: The wonderfully functional and performant #niri (1) made beautiful and complete with #dms (2). Redefining the sweet spot between bling and function, the holy grail of desktop environments […]

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A monitor showing the niri desktop with the settings for dms open. A wallpaper from Scavengers reign shows a pot of leaves.
October 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM