Category: tech related
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Using Nextcloud as a Timemachine Backup
Reading Time: 2 minutesAround 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 I…
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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…
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Looking through a Seagate Drive at Lightroom
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently 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 a…
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Playing with Nextcloud Ambitiously and Crashing Immich
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast 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 are…
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Not Wishing Happy Birthday on Facebook
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYears 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 we…
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Flying a Toy Plane 22 Miles
Reading Time: 2 minutesJames 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, planes…
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Of Punch Cards and AI
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany 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 dollars…
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Lost Streaks
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn 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 losing…
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Fleeting Nine Hundred and Sixty Kilometre Range
Reading Time: < 1 minute[{.alignnone}](/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3360-300×225.jpg) 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…
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Walk The Distance – PCT 94 Percent Done
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn 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 course…