Ante Karamatić – getting out there

11th February 2025

EV upgrades :)

It’s been a while since I wrote comparison of ID.4 and Q4. A lot has happened since then. Both Audi and Volkswagen went through series of software updates, and I’ve learned a thing or two. Audi Connect is now a much better service than it was. It works 99%+ of the time, and functionality wise it’s on pair if not...

Technology

27th May 2022

ID.4 or/vs Q4

Background Back in September 2021, I got to test VW ID.3. It took 2-3km of driving to realize that I’ll be getting EVs going forward. We already had solar power plant and we were already thinking of an EV, but never really got to test drive it. My wife was in a need of a new car; VW Polo was...

Technology

20th May 2021

…but saving money too!

Recently I had a post about saving trees. To save those trees I obviously had to reach out for renewable sources of energy. This post is about the fact that saving trees can also save you some money. But before I dig into the numbers and facts, there are few things you should know about my setup. The flat I’ve...

Ekonomija/Technology

15th May 2021

Saving trees!

It’s not often that one can be proud of lack of their own action. I know it sounds weird, but solar power plants make this possible. They collect the power, a crucial value in the universe, without requiring the owner to do anything physically. It’s remarkable 🙂 Jokes aside, I am indeed proud of the setup I have. Back in...

Technology

28th September 2018

eGPU – what a thing!

I’m a proud owner of a ThinkPad X1 with Ubuntu 18.04. It’s a beautiful system with a very nice operating system. However, when I got it, I didn’t opt for 16GB of RAM. I was aware of this potentially being a problem, since I have to manage three different Google Chrome sessions at the same time, but I thought I...

Technology

1st July 2018

Malo o sportu, medijima i BDP-u

Ovo je više-manje formula za izračun BDPa. C je potrošnja građana i trgovačkih društava, I su investicije građana i trgovačkih društava, G je potrošnja centralne i lokalne vlasti, X je izvoz, a M uvoz. Zanimljivo je kako ista formula funkcionira neovisno o ekonomskom ili političkom modelu društva. Razlika je samo u omjerima između vlasti i građana. Pa je tako u...

Ekonomija

12th April 2018

Spaces – uncomplicating your network

For past 5-6 years I’ve been in business of deploying cloud solutions for our customers. Vast majority of that was some form of OpenStack, either a simple cloud or a complicated one. But when you think about it – what is a simple cloud? It’s easy to say that small amount of machines makes an easy, and large amount of...

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