Category: Swiss walks
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Using Photoprism and Immich in Tandem Across Three Machines
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have an HP laptop running Photoprism, and two Raspberry Pi 5 running Immich. One of the Pi devices is running Immich, solo, and is made accessible via Tailscale when I am on the move. Photoprism runs on the HP laptop and is not available at all times. When the laptop sleeps,…
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On Blogging, AI, and Antisocial Media
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere are two types of people in the world. Those that live alone and those that don’t. People that don’t live alone go out for a day of sports, adventure and work, and then come home and can have hours of conversations, or being ignored by their children, spouses or others on…
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A Quiet Whatsapp Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a year or more I was part of GoSocial, because I’m curious. The experimental community is based on Whatsapp group chats. There is “one” chat per city, whether Nyon, Bale, Lausanne and others. I was part of Lausanne and Geneva. The first thing that struck me is that the community uses…
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The Woodpecker Walk
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt would be tremendously easy for me to go to Pampigny and do the usual three or four walks. Today i didn’t. I decided to explore a new route. Rather than walk up to the walks, and then turn, and walk along fields, I went into the woods. The reward was the…
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Saving Energy with Convivial Cycling
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have seen either the same headline, or a similar headline three times. It speaks about the revival of nuclear energy as a solution for Europe’s energy problem. Given how Europe gave up on COVID zero as soon as vaccines arrived, I’d strongly recommend against nuclear. If governments don’t follow through with…
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On a Slow Puncture and the Cyclplus AS2 Pro
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is an experience review, rather than a product review. During yesterday’s group ride I noticed that my rear tyre was feeling flat. I stopped to re-inflate it because the problem seemed minor but I made the mistake of not closing the valve properly before setting off again so the inner tube…
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The Zero Second Not a Number Strava Mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I noticed that I had an unusual workout that was getting likes. It had zero minutes of exercise, zero distance travelled, and NaN speed in km/h. In other words I had a track that should not have been counted by Strava as a workout. Everyone is familiar. If you go for…
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On the Blank Page and Time Spent Thinking
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe more I read about AI generating blog posts and other content, the more I feel that we should write for ourselves, rather than our readers. I noticed, recently, that no one is reading my posts. There could be three reasons for that. The first is that what I’m writing interests no…
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The White Noise Roomba
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome people like to listen to music but those people don’t like to use headphones or earphones. The result is that you hear it, whether you want to. That’s why, sometimes, instead of using a fan for white noise, I use a roomba. Roomba White Noise The Roomba as white noise serves…
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An Eleventy Strava Experiment in Three Parts
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the last two days I have been experimenting with reproducing my Strava timeline in Eleventy using a CSV file, for a change, as well as a JavaScript file to import new GPX files and map them correctly for the CSV file. That CSV file is then read by Eleventy to populate…