Category: observation
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The Nyon to Gland Loop
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is possible to walk from Nyon to Gland and back in a single day, and to play Ingress in Gland, before meeting a meetup group to walk back to Nyon from Gland, via the Toblerone. The distance I walked was twenty eight kilometres but this is partially due to spending an…
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The Long Walk
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I walked for six hours and covered 28 kilometres. I will write more tomorrow. Now I will recover.
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Migrating Audiobookshelf From Instance to Instance
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I switched from Ubuntu on the Pi5 to Raspberry Pi’s version of Debian. I experimented this because I had just moved the data from one file system to another so it seemed like the right time to switch from one OS to another. ## ExFat to Ext4 The first step was…
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ExFat Stability Issues
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday a drive failed to mount so Photoprism and Audiobookshelf failed to work. The server was up and running but the files were not accessible. For this reason two of my services have been unusable for several hours. I believe that the issue came from using an ExFAT drive rather than EXT4…
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A Short Run After Two Walks with Hiking Sticks
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the last three days I have been for two walks with hiking sticks and a short run. On Sunday the walk was a ten kilometre loop that took me across several villages. During the walk I noticed that a barn’s roof was generating about 8000 watts of energy despite the day…
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YouTube suggesting Six Videos at a Time
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday when looking at YouTube over lunch I noticed that they now show six videos at a time, compared to the 20-30 videos they used to show, back in the good old days. This means that you have six videos to choose from. The algorithm is cutting down our choice constantly from…
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Downgrading Icloud from 200 GB to 50 GB
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf there was the option to downgrade from 200GB to 100 GB I would have taken it as I needed 51.6 gigabytes to backup my phone and other data. Since I couldn’t I went through and removed my photo backup as well as back ups of folders that don’t need to be…
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Playing with OpenAudible and Audiobookshelf
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I finished converting all my audiobooks to a DRM free format. In the process I learned that the m4b format renders much faster than mp3. I spent weeks trying to convert AAX files to mp3 and then by accident I agreed to convert files to m4b and it took the…
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The Cow and Pheasant
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I went for my daily walk and I came across a couple of pheasants. One was female and the other was male. I was actually standing right next to the female and didn’t realise until she flew away from me. I was startled but no more. I was more focused…
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On Cancelling On-Running Cyclon membership
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn-Running, is ideal, in theory, but sub-optimal in reality. The biggest issue I found with On-Running CloudNeo shoes is that they are seasonal running shoes. If it’s icy or wet you’re going to slip and slide all over the place. If you’re a former snowboarder and cyclist you will recover, but if…