Category: tech related

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Walk The Distance – PCT 94 Percent Done

    Walk The Distance – PCT 94 Percent Done

    Reading Time: < 1 minute On the 10th of May 2023 I started walking the PCT virtually and now I am 94 percent done. I have about 300 kilometres left to walk and I will have completed the entire distance. Some of it was covered walking and some of it was covered while walking. Of…

  • Quick Dying Phone Batteries

    Quick Dying Phone Batteries

    Reading Time: 2 minutes A few weeks ago I chose to replace my apple watch series 4 with an apple watch SE because the battery was dying two to three times a day. Recently I had the same with the mobile phone. I would charge it in the morning, charge it the first time by…

  • Playing with Bookmory and StoryGraph

    Playing with Bookmory and StoryGraph

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Goodreads was independent, once upon a time, and then Amazon bought it and it became part of the Amazon universe. At that point Goodreads stopped being an interesting option because we were helping a billion dollar company rather than an indipendent project. Bookmory and storygraph are two alternative projects. Bookmory…

  • Playing with Pi-Hole While Travelling

    Playing with Pi-Hole While Travelling

    Reading Time: < 1 minute With Tailscale you can easily use a Pi-Hole from wherever you are., as long as Tailscale is connected. It’s easier than travelling with a Pi-Hole and setting it up wherever you are. I’m using it now, on my laptop. The pi-hole is in Switzerland but my laptop is in Switzerland.…