Category: tech related
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Replaceable Batteries and Wearable Tech
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith a user like me it takes a year or two for a mobile phone to become depleted. After this period of time I am stuck with the weight of an external battery that I have to plug in half way through the day to recharge the device. This is, in part,…
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The case for the Xiaomi Smart Band 8
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe more you read about gadgets and the more you read about devices that cost from 300 to 1200 CHF or more. I encourage you to look in the opposite direction, at the devices that cost 38 CHF. Within the last day the Xiaomi Smart Band 8 came out in the Swiss…
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Playing with Cleaning Robots
Reading Time: 3 minutesRoomba have been around for a long time. Every time I have the opportunity to experiment and learn from a roomba robot I do. I tell it to start vacuuming and then I watch as it explores room after room, gets jammed on a chair leg, a drying thing or even under…
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Post On Your Own Site and Syndicate Everywhere Applied
Reading Time: 3 minutesUntil the pandemic I used Facebook (FB), Twitter(TW) and Instagram(IG) daily. As pandemic solitude took its toll on me I dumped Facebook, and then I dumped Instagram. I started blogging again, and I continued to use Twitter for another two years, before finally dumping Twitter too. For years I was a daily…
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Forgotten Phones and eSIMs
Reading Time: 2 minutesA growing number of mobile phones are eSIM compatible. As a result by simply turning on a phone, and selecting the eSIM option you could make a spare phone your primary phone. When I activated my current phone I chose to use an eSIM, rather than a physical sim. Whilst this is…
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Decline of an Apple Watch Series Four
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have had my Apple Watch Series Four for four or five years now and it has been warn almost every day of those for years. In that time I have exceeded my move goal by 400% six times, by 300 percent 21 times, and by 200% 194 times. I have my…
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Arguing Against Ads on Twitter and YouTube
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitter and YouTube want to make it impossible to block report, or ignore ads. The reason I dumped Facebook and Instagram is that I saw more ads than content by friends. In fact I saw posts by five to ten friends, out of four hundred, but unlimited amounts of ads. This reminded…
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One Hundred and One Posts with Hugo
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was using Day One to blog but I found the process slow and clunky. I then switched to writing blog posts with VIM and that sped me up by a lot. I then switched to Hugo and VIM. Now I use VS Code with Front Matter to generate the pages, and…
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OpenAudible and Your Book Library
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a while I had been thinking of getting a device to play audible books that was not an iphone. The reason for this is simple. A portable MP3 player costs the same, or less than an iphone battery, and can play audio books, or music for 17-19hrs in a row, if…
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WordPress.com and the Fediverse
Reading Time: 2 minutesI keep seeing articles and posts about how WordPress is on the Fediverse now via the plugin. This is half true. You can write blog posts and they will appear on the Fediverse. What they fail to mention is that those blog posts can have comments, on the Fediverse, but not on…