Category: observation
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Migrating from Google Photos to Immich Via Google Takeout
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn an ideal world Google Photos, iCloud Photos, MyCloud (Swisscom) and other photo backup solutions would back up your photos into a directory structure that you can access and download from with ease and convenience. Unfortunately non of them want to offer that. That is why finding a workflow to get data…
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On Payed Online Audiobook Library Subscriptions
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a long time you could choose between one credit or two credits per month with Audible, and you were limited to that one or two books. With time they increased the price, but they also added plenty of books that were included with the membership. At this point, if you’re not…
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How I Switched from iCloud Photos to Ksuite+ and Immich
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I turned off iCloud Photo synching, and then I wiped my photos from iCloud Photos but before that I took several precautions. Triple Backup to Apple Devices with Enough Storage The first precaution I took was to ensure that the Photos app on a mac was downloading all the original photos…
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The Mature Phone Photo Backup Landscape
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany years ago, if I took photos with a nokia phone I had to sync them via a memory card. With the arrival of the Android Nexus on and the Apple iPhone our digital photography habits changed. With time we would leave our cameras at home, and carry our mobile phones, and…
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On Self Hosting and Having Multiple Devices
Reading Time: 4 minutesI grew up in the eighties, and 90s, and so computing, open source software and the world wide web grew up with me. In that time we went from going to magazine shops to buy mags, and cd shops to buy CDs, and book shops to buy books. We also took photos…
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Driving to the Sun
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re like me, you might read "driving to the sun" and think I’m speaking of driving to Spain or to Southern France. This wasn’t the case today. Today, as I saw we were in the fog, or in a layer of cloud I decided that I would drive up to an…
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Gemini and Mobile Telephony – A Quick discussion
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I had a chat with Google Gemini about mobile telephony. Specifically I was discussing Galaxus, Wingo and Coop Mobile. I told it that I was interested in a mobile plan in the same price range as Galaxus but using Swisscom as the mobile network rather than Sunrise. In the process of…
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A Run to Blue Sky
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday we were under the clouds for the entire day. Low lever clouds or fog kept us away from the sun. I noticed that someone on Strava had managed to get above the clouds by going for a bike ride. I decided to try to do the same thing, eventually, by running.…
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On AudioBookShelf, podcasts, Books, and Car Play
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I drove for 26 hours over two days between Switzerland and France and I used Audible rather than Audiobookshelf to listen. The reason for this is that when I am driving I do not want to fiddle with an app on a phone. I don’t even want to fiddle with apps…
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Books Read and the Tip of The Iceberg
Reading Time: 3 minutesSome people aim to read twenty books per year. Others aim for a book a week. I read 15 or so books last year which doesn’t feel like much, compared to others. Having said that, I don’t read like others. When I read I flit between books. I might start three or…