Category: tech related
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A Move from Self-Hosting on a Pi5 8gb to a Pi5 4gb Continued
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I shifted my data and setup from the Pi5 8gb to the Pi5 4gb with relative ease. I rsynched the data from one Pi to the other, brought up the docker containers, checked that they were working before shutting down the other Pi. I then swapped the 8gb Pi with the…
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Apple Intel Macs and FireWire
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you bought a Mac Book Pro in 2007 or so you could get it with firewire 800, Thunderbolt 1 and a number of other connectors. A few years later they did away with every connector except USB-C, for charging and devices. The result was a thin laptop that needed dongles, and…
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Pi5 4GB experiment
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor those that are wondering whether you can use a Raspberry Pi 5 with four gigabytes of RAM as a desktop replacement the answer is “not really”. I know I should have said this at the end but I prefer to tell people immediately. ## The OS For this experiment I am running…
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Algorithms and Social Media
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been thinking more about trolling. I have been thinking about why, I, and others, appear so negative or toxic on social media. I believe that one reason for this is that algorithms drive conversations and popularity, rather than time devoted to social media, and conversationalism. ## Return on Investment…
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The Reason We Stopped Watching TV and Listening to Radio
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere was a time decades ago, when we had a choice of five channels. TSR, TF1, Antenne 2, SRF and RSI. Over time we got more channels offered to us, and with satellite TV and cable our choice mushroomed to the point where we could watch documentary channels for a morning, and move on…
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Stress Testing the Ocean Drive Street E-Scooter
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I had to drive from Nyon to Founex to do a favour for someone. Normally I would have used the car but it was in for a tire change. I was switching from winter to summer tires at last. On the way to Founex I took farm roads as much as…
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Apple Intelligence and the Digital Divide
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I attempted to watch the WWDC conference and failed. This wasn’t a technical issue. The issue was a cultural one. I find the show to be too kitschy for me. From the pretending to leap out of a plane to the tone of their conversation, it’s just unwatchable for me, with…
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Boy Sober and Algorithms
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I spotted another clear sign that modern social media are toxic and unhealthy. I see this through the [boy sober movement](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/10/no-dating-apps-no-dates-no-exes-no-hookups-whats-driving-the-boy-sober-trend). > A new trend is sweeping TikTok: #boysober. Its rules? No dating apps, no dates, no exes, no hookups. Thousands of women are uploading videos describing why they have gone boy…
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On The Caribana and Bad Sound Design
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis morning I noticedd that a wine Cave is having an event where they will make noise but it will stop at 22:00 because the law requires them to stop at that time. In the 21st century anyone can buy a loud sound system that could fill a village with noise pollution,…
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Of Films, Music Festivals and Mad Max
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the greatest problems with music festivals is that they can be noisy until three or four am for days in a row. This means that sleep is affected. It is because sleep patterns are altered that it is the perfect excuse to watch several hours of television a night for…