I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.
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Photoprism and Fast Loading
Reading Time: 2 minutesast night I spent hours going through videos and changing them from “public” to private, so that they would be removed from the index. I went through them by loading 2024 without filters and worked my way through 60 or so files at a time, before scrolling, and waiting for content to…
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PhotoPrism On a Pi Continued
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter more than a week of working twenty four hours a day my Raspberry Pi 4 finally indexed over 120,000 videos and photos. The first thing that I notice is that Photoprism feels slower now. It takes several seconds and it feels as if it is suffering. ## Overloaded with 120,000 Files…
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Xcursion Fusion in Snow
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday it snowed enough for the snow to get some depth. I went for a walk with snowboard trousers, a proper winter coat and the [Xero Xcursion Fusion](https://xeroshoes.com/shop/boots/xcursion-men/) in snow that reached above their rim without getting snow or water onto my socks until I removed the shoes at the end of…
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PhotoPrism, Walks in Cold Weather and Migrating to Linux
Reading Time: 2 minutes## A Cold Walk Yesterday I went out for my daily walk but within minutes I noticed that my legs felt cold and that I really did need the scarf that I wore. It’s exceptional for me to wear a scarf. My fleece and my inner coat both have neck protection built…
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Five Point Two Millions Steps In A Single Year
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast year I walked five point two million steps, which is both a lot, and yet normal, for me. What makes last year so curious is that I didn’t feel to walk that much. I walked for one and a half hours, rather than two to three hours. My loops became shorter,…
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Playing with the Xiaomi Band 7
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have had the Xiaomi Band 7 for a while but I didn’t wear it properly until the start of the new year. As a silly concept I thought that I would try to wear it for the entire year and so far I have kept to that resolution. Sometimes it’s worth…
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Migrating Media Assets from Google Photos to PhotoPrism
Reading Time: 5 minutesYesterday I started the proper migration of my Google Photo assets from Google Takeout to [PhotoPrism](https://www.photoprism.app/). The first step was to mount the drives to the linux system, the second was to transfer the photos from the external hard drive to the internal SD card, unzip them, and then start imposing assets.…
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Of Tablets and Phones and Raspberry Pis
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis morning when driving back from the shops I heard someone in a podcast say that his fourteen year old niece was disgusted at the thought of using a laptop rather than a mobile phone and it made me think of something. In the age of iOS and Android devices replacing computers…