Category: tech related
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Migrating to ExFAT
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile on one of my numerous walks I heard about ExFAT being compatible between windows, macOS and Linux so I was tempted to experiment with the file system. I heard this while listening to a podcast as I often do. When I was on an iBook, or a Mac Book Pro, or…
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Time Machine Backups
Reading Time: 5 minutesYesterday while freeing space on a number of drives I found that one failed to mount so I had to use the recovery tools in disk utility to get it to mount. The process took a few minutes. Once this was done I decided to move all data from that drive to…
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Playing with Hard Drives
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the easiest things to do is to buy a hard drive, and over a period of time fill it, and then get another drive, and a third, and a fourth, and a fifth. People will go from a small drive, to a larger drive, and a larger drive after that…
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PhotoPrism self-boot
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning I made PhotoPrism self-booting. I am not certain that this is the write term so I will specify what I mean. PhotoPrism, when run via docker boots, when we tell it to boot, like any other app on our laptop. This morning, after a little time spent with AI I…
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The NixOS learning Curve
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile walking and listening to podcasts I kept hearing about [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) and how good it is for instantiating environments over and over again. What I didn’t hear about, so much, is that there is a steep learning curve, to get started with. Installing the OS is easy. Download NixOS, flash it to…
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Castamatic and Boosts
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been Lunix Unplugged and Self-Hosted. It’s by listening to self-hosted that I decided to experiment and learn about Linux by experimenting with Pis and projects created for Pi such as PhotoPrismPi, Pi-Hole and Nextcloud, to mention just a few. These podcasts kept mentioning [boosts](https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/boost/), sats, value for value and…
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Cough Radar
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning, for the first time in months I used Sleepcycle manually to mark the start and end of my sleep and I noticed that they added the Cough Radar. This is a quick and easy way of seeing whether there is a lot of coughin in the region where you live,…
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Experimenting with Pi Hosted and Portainer
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I watched a video about setting up a [Mini Nextcloud Server on a Pi 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnZoTEZ2Z0U) so I experimented with using the [Pi-Hosted](https://pi-hosted.com/) script to install docker and then portainer. Pi Hoster uses two scripts. One installs Docker and the second one installs Portainer. Portainer is a web interface to install docker…
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The Case for Using Albums in iPhoto, or WebDav
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen you take photos on an iphone or other such device it’s easy to take photos and never organise them, unless you share specific photos with specific people. Images are automatically organised by time, date, month, location and people by photo apps but this is just an illusion of organisation. By playing…
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Immich and iPhone Storage
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen experimenting with the Immich iPhone app I found it impossible to upload beyond 15,000 images and I supposed that it was because the phone timed out before it had checked all the previous files before moving on to the last four thousand images. In reality the problem is that Immich downloads…