Category: travel
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Migrating Media Assets from Google Photos to PhotoPrism
Reading Time: 5 minutesYesterday I started the proper migration of my Google Photo assets from Google Takeout to [PhotoPrism](https://www.photoprism.app/). The first step was to mount the drives to the linux system, the second was to transfer the photos from the external hard drive to the internal SD card, unzip them, and then start imposing assets.…
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Of Tablets and Phones and Raspberry Pis
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis morning when driving back from the shops I heard someone in a podcast say that his fourteen year old niece was disgusted at the thought of using a laptop rather than a mobile phone and it made me think of something. In the age of iOS and Android devices replacing computers…
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What’s Old Is New Again – Live Google Location Sharing
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlmost two decades ago we had Google Latitude. Google Latitude allowed us to share real time location with friends and family 24 hours a day. We didn’t need to ask “Where are you” because there was already an app for that. Today I saw “[Google’s real-time location is here: this is how…
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Raspi Config and Nextcloud Portability
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday when I tried to migrate nextcloud between two locations I used one that I installed from scratch and when I got to another network I was unable to use it. In the evening when I got home I re-installed Nextcloud but this time I used the NextcloudPi package, rather than installing…
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Wifi and Hope with Raspberry Hopping
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had a theory that if I wanted to I could transport a raspberry pi running ubuntu server from one place to another and connect by wifi, with a little tweak, or by ethernet if that didn’t work and today that thought was proved wrong. I spend at least an hour experimenting,…
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Walking in Rain – Not Singing
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen some people see that it’s grey or rainy they don’t want to go for a walk. They don’t want to get rained on and they don’t want to experience the discomfort of being in a wet environment. I don’t mind the rain. I don’t mind wearing a rain coat and rain…
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Installing Immich Alongside Photoprism
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast night I installed Immich on an HP laptop with ease. The issue I came up against is that laptops sleep and hibernate after a few minutes unless you are actively using them. This means that you need to use them whilst files are being transferred if you do not want tasks…
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The Long Walk and More Playing with Nextcloud
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo days ago I went for a longer walk than usual. I walked along roads rather than along the narrow agricultural roads I normally use. I wanted to avoid crowds and dog walkers. The thing about solitude is that it’s enjoyable when you are not reminded that you are alone. Today I…
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TimeTagger and Christmas
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s the twenty fourth today, and people who have been good will soon get things, and those who haven’t will get a lump of coal. Given enough pressure that coal could become a diamond. At such a time it’s interesting to take stock of how productive, or unproductive the year has been.…
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Playing with Nextcloud Continued
Reading Time: 4 minutesSetting up a drive to be available via Samba is a relatively simple thing to do. The drawback is that you have files that are as organised as the media asset manager. It can be quite chaotic unless you have someone trained as a media asset manager, archivist, or other, to help…