Category: Rock climbing
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Four Thousand Meters of Cycle Climbing in the Franco-Swiss Jura
Reading Time: 3 minutesMt Tendre via Rolle For a year or more I had been tempted to cycle up to the Mont Tendre and on Saturday I got the opportunity to try that ride with Tête de Course, a Nyon cycling community and café/restaurant. The route went from Nyon to Rolle, and then from Rolle…
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Of Cycling and Via Ferrata
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast night a bike ride was cancelled for this morning due to the risk of rain. As a result I got to sleep in rather than get up to ride at dawn. In the process I got to rest. It also confirms that the seasons are changing. It’s because seasons change in…
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Expired Tailscale Device Keys
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I found myself accessing Audiobookshelf on one of my Pi devices in the morning and it timed out in the morning. As I am travelling this situation is not ideal as I had to find a way to recover access. I checked the tailscale device list and could see that…
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Nextcloud Via Infomaniak Hosting
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few days I was playing with Day One, the note taking app, after years without touching it and I was playing with the idea of paying for the app. The cost is 38 CHF per year. It used to be cheaper. I think it was around 23-28 CHF rather than…
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The Long Drive
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s funny. It is a drive that I have done plenty of times. Tomorrow I will do the usual twelve hour drive from Switzerland to around Alicante, and I will do so with minimal stops. In essence the drive is easy. I take the motorway from Nyon all the way to Ondara,…
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EV Charging around Signy and Nyon
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Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday morning I plugged the car in to charge at Signy Centre while shopping and for the price of a coffee I charged the car by ten percent. I then went to the lakeside of Nyon to test the Service Industriel de Nyon (SIN) chargers and failed. They were out of service…
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Goodreads Et Al
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently people wanted to move from Goodreads to open alternatives to move away from the grasp of Amazon. I wanted to do the same so I moved to two or three apps and used them for a while. I stopped using them for one simple reason. They don’t have an extensive library…
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The Evolution of In Car Navigation
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I was a child we had paper maps. These maps had to be studied and read to make navigating simpler. You had to know that you would drive from A to B to C to D and so forth. In the age of Google Maps, before phone navigation we had to…
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The Growing Desire to Self-Host
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs WordPress grows and as my comfort with Hugo increases I question whether to move my blog from Infomaniak to being self-hosted on a Pi. I know that the Pi is not powerful but my site doesn’t get much traffic so I don’t think that it will be overwhelmed with traffic.…
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Immich and an M.2 NVMe Drive on a Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesImmich is an easy to install and use app that works well with the Pi5. By default you will have it run on the SD card but yesterday I finally found an NVMe drive at a reasonable price so I swapped the AI kit for a 521 NVMe drive.It was detected with…