danieldurrans

danieldurrans, 10 months ago to random

I’ve been looking at Obsidian as an alternative for Evernote. Looks like I will be able to migrate my various notes reasonably easily, but it’s the document management use-case I am struggling with.

I need a way to take pdf scans, ocr them to make them searchable, search them, and have a good UI to flick between the search results.

Evernote was great at this.

danieldurrans, 10 months ago to random

Not wanting to kink shame, but ASDA have a very different idea of sexual wellbeing products to my idea of sexual wellbeing products.

danieldurrans, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

I allowed Apple Reminders to categorise my shopping list automatically.

It thinks Ribena should be in the Meat section.

Edit: It thinks “Jacket potatoes (little ones)" belongs in the Baby Care section 🤣

danieldurrans, 10 months ago to random

Installing Debian. Haven't done this for years.

Look at this new flashy GUI install process!

#Debian #ReluctantLinux

danieldurrans, 10 months ago to random

I think I would have had a much better night sleep had I chosen unencrypted filing system while installing Debian.

I did stumble across one of @neil ‘s blog posts at about 1am while on my side quest to have it decrypt on boot without me typing in a pass phrase.

danieldurrans, 4 months ago to random

Went to Ikea last night and decided to have an email receipt for a change, mainly to see how their “scan your receipt to open the barrier” process would work.

Except their on screen keyboard only has the symbols a-z, 0-9, -, _, ., and @

Paper it is then.

danieldurrans, 1 year ago to random

Inspired by this toot by @barsteward :

https://infosec.exchange/@barsteward/110266827184302453

I have been thinking a lot about how my digital estate should be wrapped-up if the proverbial Number 73 bus comes along (which would be a miracle given the state of Bristol's bus services).

I have started writing an emergency information pack describing:

• Financial affairs
• Insurance
• Household utilities
• Legal contacts (Will)
• Cat related things

cont...

#DigitalLegacy #Death

danieldurrans, 4 months ago to random

I really miss Maplin.

I miss being able to go into a shop and buy 3 meters of cable just by looking at the cable and going “that's the right size for me”.

danieldurrans, 5 months ago to random

There are some frustrations with driving an EV.

When I visit London, I usually park at Westfield White City. £12 to park for the day, relatively secure parking, easy to get to, toilets, coffee, etc. Unfortunately their destination chargers were completely dead.

Returning to the car I only had 25% to get all the way back to Bristol. The car suggested the Park Royal Superchargers, so off I went.

Halfway through charging they tripped out, something I have never had happen before.

danieldurrans, 10 months ago to random

Sunday trading laws are an archaic practice that is preventing me from getting shit done.

danieldurrans, 6 months ago to random

Today is the cat's annual vaccination day. My next task is to get the cat boxes in from the garage (without letting the cats escape through the back door) and also grab the gardening gauntlets.

danieldurrans, 11 months ago to reddit

The biggest issue I have with Reddit's new direction, and a user base considering jumping ship, is that Reddit has become an absolute treasure trove of actually useful information. I regularly start searches with “reddit” for tech, DIY, and general life skills.

It cuts out all the dross of AI generated websites, the 20 minute long youtube explanation videos for something that should be a bullet list, and connects you with people who are (probably) experts or have real life experience.

#reddit

danieldurrans, 4 months ago to random

What are you supposed to do with the little bag of salad leftovers that the Indian restaurant give you with your takeaway?

danieldurrans, 9 months ago to Travel

I can never get through the UK e-passport gates without it saying to seek assistance. I told the Border Patrol person this and he said, “ah” and then, “you’ll never be able to do anything about this, but the eGates will never work for you, and I can’t tell you why”.

So I guess my name is on some sort of watch list.

#007 #Travel #Passport

danieldurrans, 10 months ago to Cat

He is determined to snuggle while I lie here and read. #cat #CatsOfMastodon

danieldurrans, 10 months ago to random

If there is one place I would like to see an LLM deployed, it would be Trip Advisor. They need a way to show me reviews written by people who have the same standards and expectations as I do.

I am currently reading reviews of a hotel we are going to for an extended-family holiday. Proper package job with all that that entails. The reviews are very mixed and my expectations are set accordingly. But what I really want is a flag on each review that tells me the expectations of the reviewer.

danieldurrans, 7 months ago to random

Post Incident Review

Issue: No biscuits arrived in the weekly shop.

Root cause: Dan forgot to add biscuits to the basket.

Impact: No biscuits available at 3.30pm when Dan wanted a biscuit.

danieldurrans, 13 days ago to random

What domain registrar is the "go to" these days?

People who run their own registrar need not answer this question ;)

danieldurrans, 8 months ago to homeassistant

One week with #HomeAssistant and I am enjoying playing around with some of the integrations.

I am particularly enjoying the integration with Octopus Energy to real-time track my energy use (I have the Octopus Mini which live streams data from my smart meter).

danieldurrans, 2 months ago to random

As an amateur photographer, and only from my own opinion:

1. All photos that you see in print or on screen are processed in some way. There is no such thing as 'no filter’.

2. iPhone and Android cameras make all sorts of decisions about the final result. What you see on screen is likely a composite of several frames and several lenses/sensors. The phone is literally manipulating the image you see.

3. I take many photos where arms, hands, and fingers look unnatural.

danieldurrans, 7 months ago to random

Brrrr the house is chilly this morning.

Emma is going to ask for the heating to be turned on.

danieldurrans, 26 days ago to octopus

Is anyone from Octopus Energy on Mastodon?

I have questions as to why the octopus I received recently has dilated pupils and can't sit straight…

On the left is the octopus that arrived a few years ago. On the right is the one from last week.

#Octopus #OctopusEnergy

danieldurrans, 5 months ago to random

Emma asked me, through the door to my covid isolation suite*, what my plans were for the day.

1. Sit at desk
2. Sit on futon
3. Sit at desk
4. Sit on futon
5. Unfold futon
6. Lie on futon

*home office.

danieldurrans, 5 months ago to animals

Happy Caturday!

This is Starbuck. He just vomited on the mains plug that powers our router, conveniently located behind the Christmas tree.

#Caturday #CatsofMastodon

danieldurrans, 8 months ago to random

More often than not I come away from a hotel thinking that I could design a hotel room far better than whoever they employed to design the one I just stayed in.

It's often the simple things like:

• Why do I have to ferret around to find a plug socket near the bed?
• Why can't I hang my towels up near the shower and in such a way that they will dry properly?
• Why is the door to the toilet frosted and/or has see-through areas (!)
• What is this useless phone doing on the bedside table?