Category: tech related
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When Galaxus Sends You the Wrong Things
Reading Time: 2 minutesMany weeks ago I ordered something from Galaxus and it didn’t arrive when it was scheduled to. A few weeks ago I ordered one thing but instead got half a dozen things. I thought “Why do I have so many extras, before realising that the order was wrong. They sent me the…
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Playing with NextCloud
Reading Time: 2 minutesGoogle, Apple and Microsoft have cloud storage solutions. So does Evernote, Kdrive and other products. The issue with all of these solutions is that they are owned by corporations. They are simple and convenient to use but at the cost of being locked in to an OS in some cases, and to…
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Life With an Electric Car
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe more I play with the electric car and the more I feel that it affects how I spend my time. Today I would have written a blog post before going out, but I didn’t. I didn’t write before going out because I knew that the battery would be down to 30…
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The Dystopia of Child Influencers
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday I saw the headline “Content creator camps help kids become online influencers” and to me, this represents a nightmare, rather than a dream. It represents a nightmare rather than a dream because the notion of creating content to sell, to influence, and to market, rather than to amuse, inform, educate and…
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The Facebook Three Billion
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the last two or three days I have played with the idea of returning to Facebook. There are several reasons for this. The first reason is that Facebook has three billion people and you can find people local to you, which is a huge plus. The second reason is that with…
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The Absurdity of Social Media and the Fediverse
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s Ten Fourty Eight on a Monday and i have barely touched social media. I have barely touched social media for two reasons. People don’t see it as socialising anymore. They take a utilitarian approach to social media, which makes it absurd. The second reason is that we see how ignorant the…
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Blogging to the Fediverse via WordPress without Tags
Reading Time: 2 minutesI noticed a drop in traffic to the blog which I would attribute to three things. The main reason is that I went from main-vision.com/richard/blog to blog.main-vision.com. This screwed up all the search engine results, despite adding the redirection order in the htaccess file. As if that wasn’t silly enough I then…
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Riding a Foot Scooter Along My Ordinary Walk
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Old Scooter and Winter Winter is coming, and with the arrival of winter comes the need to swap the tyres from summer to winter. In the process of getting the snow tyres out of the cave I pulled out my old scooter. The one that I used when I had a…
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Thoughts on Masto.host
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor up to three months I was running my own instance via Masto.host and the experience was good. Setting up an instance is easy. Within a few minutes you can set up your own instance, post and perform administrative tasks such as accept trending hashtags and more. No DevOps and No Code…
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Being European and Paying for Facebook and Instagram
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor those of us living in Europe we now have the option of paying for Facebook and Instagram, not to see ads. In theory this is fantastic and we should be jumping on the opportunity. I don’t feel that way. I had plenty of conversations, with uni friends, colleagues and more, until…