Category: observation
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The Fallacy of Please Like and Subscribe
Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the years I have subscribed to hundreds of podcasts, YouTube channels, people on Instagram TikTok and more. I then stopped subscribing, and sometimes like, but never when I’m asked to by the content creators. The short reason for not liking and subscribing now is that if I subscribe I usually grow…
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A Move from Self-Hosting on a Pi5 8gb to a Pi5 4gb Continued
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I shifted my data and setup from the Pi5 8gb to the Pi5 4gb with relative ease. I rsynched the data from one Pi to the other, brought up the docker containers, checked that they were working before shutting down the other Pi. I then swapped the 8gb Pi with the…
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Apple Intel Macs and FireWire
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you bought a Mac Book Pro in 2007 or so you could get it with firewire 800, Thunderbolt 1 and a number of other connectors. A few years later they did away with every connector except USB-C, for charging and devices. The result was a thin laptop that needed dongles, and…
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Pi5 4GB experiment
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…
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Algorithms and Social Media
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been thinking more about trolling. I have been thinking about why, I, and others, appear so negative or toxic on social media. I believe that one reason for this is that algorithms drive conversations and popularity, rather than time devoted to social media, and conversationalism. ## Return on Investment…
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On Rest Days
Reading Time: 2 minutesDoing the Via Ferrata(VF) on Sunday, and then hiking down was physical. For a start, I was doing a Via Ferrata, something that I have done once, before, within the last six or seven years. The hike down was also quite physical. Combined the VF and the hike tired me. ## 62 Hours of…
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Stress Testing the Ocean Drive Street E-Scooter
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I had to drive from Nyon to Founex to do a favour for someone. Normally I would have used the car but it was in for a tire change. I was switching from winter to summer tires at last. On the way to Founex I took farm roads as much as…
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Apple Intelligence and the Digital Divide
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I attempted to watch the WWDC conference and failed. This wasn’t a technical issue. The issue was a cultural one. I find the show to be too kitschy for me. From the pretending to leap out of a plane to the tone of their conversation, it’s just unwatchable for me, with…
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On The Caribana and Bad Sound Design
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis morning I noticedd that a wine Cave is having an event where they will make noise but it will stop at 22:00 because the law requires them to stop at that time. In the 21st century anyone can buy a loud sound system that could fill a village with noise pollution,…
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Of Films, Music Festivals and Mad Max
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the greatest problems with music festivals is that they can be noisy until three or four am for days in a row. This means that sleep is affected. It is because sleep patterns are altered that it is the perfect excuse to watch several hours of television a night for…