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  • Morning Mist From a Former Suntan Lotion Bottle

    Morning Mist From a Former Suntan Lotion Bottle

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWaking early is great, to run when it is cooler but it does have a serious drawback. That drawback is that whilst the run might be more pleasant, due to the fresher air, especially evening and morning rain but it has the drawback that if you live in a minergie apartment you…

  • Twenty Eight Point Eight Degrees

    Twenty Eight Point Eight Degrees

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning I woke at 4 to have a shower, have breakfast, and then drive to Morges for a 6am run. As a result I had no opportunity to open windows, aerate or anything else. I kept every room closed so each room is a compartment. The result, is that the temperature…

  • Another Electric Car Range Experiment

    Another Electric Car Range Experiment

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTomorrow I have the opportunity to do another range test with the Fiat 500. I know that if I drive at 120 kilometres per hour the range is about 100 km but if I slow down to 100 kilometres per hour then the range is theoretically doubled. The drive I want to…

  • A Fairphone 4 With A Terabyte of Storage

    A Fairphone 4 With A Terabyte of Storage

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you wanted an iPhone with a terabyte of storage it would cost you 1549 CHF for the iPhone 16 Pro. With the Fairphone 4 128 GB model you would pay 329 CHF for the phone and 101 to 109 CHF for a 1TB card. That’s about 440 CHF and you’d have…

  • The End of my Exposed Host Experiment

    The End of my Exposed Host Experiment

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor months I have been hosting Immich, Photoprism and AudioBookShelf and the experiment has been a success. It has been stable and reliable so far and I did not detect anyone accessing my server without permission. I had these services as Exposed Host via the Swisscom router DMZ setting. it was easy…

  • Pi5 4GB experiment

    Pi5 4GB experiment

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor those that are wondering whether you can use a Raspberry Pi 5 with four gigabytes of RAM as a desktop replacement the answer is “not really”. I know I should have said this at the end but I prefer to tell people immediately. ## The OS For this experiment I am running…

  • Children and an Electric Scooter

    Children and an Electric Scooter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I got the electric scooter I was curious about whether it could be used when looking after children while they ride their bikes and the answer is “yes”. You can stop reading now. Yesterday I was near the Lac de Divonne and since the children wanted to race it was a good…

  • CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music – Nigel Stanford

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteA visual and auditory experiment to demonstrate what effects sounds have.