Author: richard

  • Playing with Nextcloud Ambitiously and Crashing Immich

    Playing with Nextcloud Ambitiously and Crashing Immich

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Last night I decided to play with Nextcloud more ambitiously. I set up four synchronisations, one for documents, one for photos, one for downloads and one for desktop. I did it this way because if I went to my root user account and backed everything up I would backup files that…

  • Not Wishing Happy Birthday on Facebook

    Not Wishing Happy Birthday on Facebook

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Years ago I wished everyone “Happy Birthday”. Almost every day I would wish two or three people a happy birthday. Eventually I noticed that all the wishes were ignored and I stopped. I stopped because facebook went from being a place where we could connect, or reconnect, with friends that…

  • No Desire For My Daily Walk

    No Desire For My Daily Walk

    Reading Time: 2 minutes For years, or even decades, I have gone for daily walks. For years I have enjoyed them and for years it felt like freedom. Since a dog charged at me, and nearly bit me in Autumn last year, and since cars are in the habit of driving too fast and too…

  • Replacing a  WD Thunderbolt Duo Drive with an ICY BOX

    Replacing a WD Thunderbolt Duo Drive with an ICY BOX

    Reading Time: 3 minutes While consolidating all of my files and deleting triplicates of files I came across my thunderbolt Duo Drive. The issue is that the drive uses thunderbolt two ports and these are nowhere to be found. To be more specific it’s seen as a DVI display port by everyone but Apple for…

  • Flying a Toy Plane 22 Miles

    Flying a Toy Plane 22 Miles

    Reading Time: 2 minutes James May is interesting. People like me know him from Top Gear and Grand Tour with Clarkson and Hammond but his side projects are interesting. Instead of farming like Clarkson, or driving cars with his daughter Clarkson plays with grown up toys. When I say toys I don’t mean adult cars,…

  • Of Punch Cards and AI

    Of Punch Cards and AI

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Many decades ago, when computing was still in its infancy punch cards were used for looms, to design patterns in English mills. They were then modified to store census data and to help measure the US population. In the process they saved the US government weeks of work and five million…

  • Zen and the art of Fishing Leaves Out of a Pool

    Zen and the art of Fishing Leaves Out of a Pool

    Reading Time: 3 minutes While I was in Spain I spent hours by the pool. Due to it being winter, rather than Spring or Summer I wasn’t going into the pool or sunbathing. I was fishing out leaves that had accumulated over a period of months. The bottom of the pool had been filled with…

  • Lost Streaks

    Lost Streaks

    Reading Time: 2 minutes On Saturday I drove for twelve and a half hours and felt exhausted by the time I got home. I didn’t write a blog post so I lost my 480 day blogging streak, and I didn’t read using the Kindle app so I lost my Kindle reading streak. In the end…

  • A Long Drive in the Rain

    A Long Drive in the Rain

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday I went for a long drive in the rain. I drove from an hour from Valencia back to Switzerland with rain along most of the journey, and rain. The rain was sometimes falling so heavily that I had to slow down to see. At other moments the rain was…

  • Fleeting Nine Hundred and Sixty Kilometre Range

    Fleeting Nine Hundred and Sixty Kilometre Range

    Reading Time: < 1 minute 960km range For a brief instance I saw that I had a 960km range with the car. It was brief because as soon as I accelerated above a certain speed the reading went down to a normal reading. It would have been nice to have such a long range for…