Category: Swiss walks
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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PhotoPrism, Walks in Cold Weather and Migrating to Linux
Reading Time: 2 minutes## A Cold Walk Yesterday I went out for my daily walk but within minutes I noticed that my legs felt cold and that I really did need the scarf that I wore. It’s exceptional for me to wear a scarf. My fleece and my inner coat both have neck protection built…
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Playing with the Xiaomi Band 7
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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 worth…
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Sliding Between MacOS, Windows and Linux Daily
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently 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…
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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.…