Category: Swiss walks

  • Exploration on Foot

    Exploration on Foot

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Walking 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…

  • Pi-Holes and Cloud Syncing

    Pi-Holes and Cloud Syncing

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Two 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…

  • Nextcloud and the Open Web

    Nextcloud and the Open Web

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Two 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…

  • Kdrive and PhotoPrism

    Kdrive and PhotoPrism

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday 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…

  • Experimenting With the Pi5

    Experimenting With the Pi5

    Reading Time: 4 minutes The 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…

  • Photoprism and Fast Loading

    Photoprism and Fast Loading

    Reading Time: 2 minutes ast 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…

  • PhotoPrism On a Pi Continued

    PhotoPrism On a Pi Continued

    Reading Time: 2 minutes After 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 minutes Yesterday 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 in snow that reached above their rim without getting snow or water onto my socks until I removed the shoes at the end…

  • PhotoPrism, Walks in Cold Weather and Migrating to Linux

    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…

  • 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…