Category: travel

  • Playing with the Xiaomi Band 7

    Playing with the Xiaomi Band 7

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I have had the Xiaomi Band 7 for a while but I didn’t wear it properly until the start of the new year. As a silly concept I thought that I would try to wear it for the entire year and so far I have kept to that resolution. Sometimes it’s…

  • Sliding Between MacOS, Windows and Linux Daily

    Sliding Between MacOS, Windows and Linux Daily

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently I have been sliding between Windows, Linux distributions and MacOS throughout the day. I use a mac for blogging, and Linux to experiment and learn new skills, and windows to watch Netflix and YouTube. I might be over-simplifying but that’s the simplified version. Pi and Linux I find that I…

  • Migrating Media Assets from Google Photos to PhotoPrism

    Migrating Media Assets from Google Photos to PhotoPrism

    Reading Time: 5 minutes Yesterday I started the proper migration of my Google Photo assets from Google Takeout to PhotoPrism. 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…

  • Of Tablets and Phones and Raspberry Pis

    Of Tablets and Phones and Raspberry Pis

    Reading Time: 4 minutes This 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…

  • What’s Old Is New Again – Live Google Location Sharing

    What’s Old Is New Again – Live Google Location Sharing

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Almost 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…

  • Raspi Config and Nextcloud Portability

    Raspi Config and Nextcloud Portability

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday 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…

  • Wifi and Hope with Raspberry Hopping

    Wifi and Hope with Raspberry Hopping

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I 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…

  • Walking in Rain – Not Singing

    Walking in Rain – Not Singing

    Reading Time: 3 minutes When 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…

  • Installing Immich Alongside Photoprism

    Installing Immich Alongside Photoprism

    Reading Time: 5 minutes Last 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…

  • The Long Walk and More Playing with Nextcloud

    The Long Walk and More Playing with Nextcloud

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Two 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…