Category: travel

  • The Nicest Pi Setup Yet

    The Nicest Pi Setup Yet

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are several types of people. One of them is youtubers that try and fail until they succeed, and then there are people like me, who also try and fail until they succeed. In one case the individual probably gets millions of views, and earns enough to waste hundreds of dollars per…

  • Almost Linear Walks

    Almost Linear Walks

    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwice in the last two weekends I have done linear rather than circular walks. By linear I don’t mean that I walked from A to B. I mean that I started walking along a loop but when I saw that the routes I wanted to walk were either crowded by couples or people…

  • Exploration on Foot

    Exploration on Foot

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWalking is an easy activity. You put your shoes on, and you go for a walk. Sometimes you walk from home. Other times you walk from a car park. Sometimes you walk along rivers that are full, and others you walk along streams that are almost dry. A few years ago I…

  • Pi-Holes and Cloud Syncing

    Pi-Holes and Cloud Syncing

    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo evenings ago I was trying to sync files from Kdrive to the local drive and it kept getting blocked. I wasn’t clear as to why this was happening until I saw that Pi-Hole had throttled the IP address of the computer that was attempting to sync from Kdrive. It did this…

  • Nextcloud and the Open Web

    Nextcloud and the Open Web

    Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo evenings ago I played with setting a No-ip host, setup the Swisscom router to make a Pi available in the DMZ so that I could access the apache server and Nextcloud from the open web and it worked. I had it all done within 15-20 minutes. Now for those with the…

  • Kdrive and PhotoPrism

    Kdrive and PhotoPrism

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I configured PhotoPrism to work with my iPhone photo album that was being synced to Infomaniak’s Kdrive, before then being synced to a drive that I could access via the Photoprism docker-compose config file. I then used No-ip to make that PhotoPrism instance available to the world wide web. For several…

  • Experimenting With the Pi5

    Experimenting With the Pi5

    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Raspberry Pi 5 is twice as powerful as previous Pis according to various sources. For the last 24 hours I have been using a Pi 5 running Ubuntu and the experience has been good. Despite being a small computer it feels as comfortable as some of the computers I have been…

  • Photoprism and Fast Loading

    Photoprism and Fast Loading

    Reading Time: 2 minutesast night I spent hours going through videos and changing them from “public” to private, so that they would be removed from the index. I went through them by loading 2024 without filters and worked my way through 60 or so files at a time, before scrolling, and waiting for content to…

  • PhotoPrism On a Pi Continued

    PhotoPrism On a Pi Continued

    Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter more than a week of working twenty four hours a day my Raspberry Pi 4 finally indexed over 120,000 videos and photos. The first thing that I notice is that Photoprism feels slower now. It takes several seconds and it feels as if it is suffering. ## Overloaded with 120,000 Files…

  • Xcursion Fusion in Snow

    Xcursion Fusion in Snow

    Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday it snowed enough for the snow to get some depth. I went for a walk with snowboard trousers, a proper winter coat and the [Xero Xcursion Fusion](https://xeroshoes.com/shop/boots/xcursion-men/) in snow that reached above their rim without getting snow or water onto my socks until I removed the shoes at the end of…