Category: tech related
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A Rainy Day
Reading Time: 2 minutes This morning it rained and this afternoon I fled from noise pollution. I had planned to write a blog post this morning but inspiration failed to come. I was distracted because I don’t know whether it is the USB ports on a PI 5 that have failed or if it is…
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A Short Run After Two Walks with Hiking Sticks
Reading Time: 2 minutes In 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…
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YouTube suggesting Six Videos at a Time
Reading Time: 3 minutes Yesterday 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…
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Downgrading Icloud from 200 GB to 50 GB
Reading Time: 2 minutes If 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…
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Playing with OpenAudible and Audiobookshelf
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last 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…
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Using Nextcloud as a Timemachine Backup
Reading Time: 2 minutes Around a week ago I setup the Nextcloud desktop client to keep an eye on four folders. It synched three out of four folders with ease and struggled with the fourth so I removed it from the sync. Now I have three folders that sync permanently, and when I mean permanently…
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On Cancelling On-Running Cyclon membership
Reading Time: 2 minutes On-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…
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Looking through a Seagate Drive at Lightroom
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently I got a new drive and as I registered it I saw that I could play with lightroom for free for a month. For free, after spending more than ten francs on a hard drive. I have no intention of using Lightroom after the one month Adobe trial period for…
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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…
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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…