Category: Video
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The Abandoned Engineering TV Documentary Series
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently whist playing with Galaxus TV which is just free to air television, made available via Galaxus rather than a satellite dish I have been able to revert to the habit of watching niche documentaries, as I used to years ago, when I lived in a house with a satellite dish. The…
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Public Service Broadcasters in the Video On Demand Age
Reading Time: 3 minutesYears ago we could choose between watching SRF, TSR, France Télévision, RSI and other channels. We had just five channels to choose from but we had them available for free. Today those channels are still available but because we live in modern buildings with no external TV aerials we are stuck relying…
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Expired Tailscale Device Keys
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I found myself accessing Audiobookshelf on one of my Pi devices in the morning and it timed out in the morning. As I am travelling this situation is not ideal as I had to find a way to recover access. I checked the tailscale device list and could see that…
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The Hidden Wash Basin
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen roads are built they often require a lot of soil to flatten the land so that the road may be built. In the process objects are hidden. In one case old clothes washing basins were hidden beneath a road. It’s funny to see a road, a hole, and within the…
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Nextcloud Via Infomaniak Hosting
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few days I was playing with Day One, the note taking app, after years without touching it and I was playing with the idea of paying for the app. The cost is 38 CHF per year. It used to be cheaper. I think it was around 23-28 CHF rather than…
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Random
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWriting a blog post every day is a challenge that I have tried to be consistent with for several seasons if not a year and a half or more. It requires inspiration, and doing interesting things. If life becomes routine, or if events became normal, then writing inspiration fades away. After…
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The Long Drive
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s funny. It is a drive that I have done plenty of times. Tomorrow I will do the usual twelve hour drive from Switzerland to around Alicante, and I will do so with minimal stops. In essence the drive is easy. I take the motorway from Nyon all the way to Ondara,…
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EV Charging around Signy and Nyon
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Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday morning I plugged the car in to charge at Signy Centre while shopping and for the price of a coffee I charged the car by ten percent. I then went to the lakeside of Nyon to test the Service Industriel de Nyon (SIN) chargers and failed. They were out of service…
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Goodreads Et Al
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently people wanted to move from Goodreads to open alternatives to move away from the grasp of Amazon. I wanted to do the same so I moved to two or three apps and used them for a while. I stopped using them for one simple reason. They don’t have an extensive library…
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Immich and an M.2 NVMe Drive on a Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesImmich is an easy to install and use app that works well with the Pi5. By default you will have it run on the SD card but yesterday I finally found an NVMe drive at a reasonable price so I swapped the AI kit for a 521 NVMe drive.It was detected with…