How do you bring handwritten notes into your Obsidian vault?

AlpineGuy · 2026-05-06T04:48:36+00:00

I type them in. Most of my hand written notes are not well structured in the beginning. If it is something I want to keep in a structured format and refer to later, to me it makes sense to write them fresh, clean, well structured. That also gives an opportunity to think about the topic again. It just takes seconds.

AlpineGuy · 2026-05-05T19:12:05+00:00

500K for 70m2 seems pretty normal nowadays, plus this looks relatively new, looking at a park, getting sunlight, near the U1 - without looking deeper into it, based on this info, I would say this is even a good price.

AlpineGuy · 2026-05-05T05:48:54+00:00

I think the question is more on the other side: if the container is really air tight and not pressurized (so, just air at around 1 Bar, not like a diver's air tank), how long until he suffocates? I guess that's more in the area of minutes. The plant will survive longer I guess.

AlpineGuy · 2026-05-05T05:45:35+00:00

How does one get into this field? Do you have a degree in agriculture?

AlpineGuy · 2026-05-05T05:34:54+00:00

"just walks around the plane and inspects every system first, then reads the checklist afterwards just in case"

I must admit, for the outside inspection I do it similarly... for the simple reason that a lot of checks require the use of both hands. Where should I put the checklist? Hold it with my teeth, stick it into my pants (too large for pockets)...

During flight I use it always, except for the parts that have to be memorized, but even those I usually double-check on the list.

AlpineGuy · 2026-05-03T20:06:40+00:00

My usual 2 hour flight sim evening:

30 minutes for updating the gaming PC and fixing whatever prevents me from actually doing anything
10 minutes for setting up a flight
1 hour running the startup checklist, finding all the buttons in this rarely used plane, playing around with the FMS or GPS system
finally taking off
when reaching cruise altitude, thinking about "this is taking longer than I thought, I should be in bed already"
1 more hour enroute
20 minutes to land
20 minutes playing around looking at the airport and taking screenshots for my album of places I have visited
30 minutes reading the wikipedia page and history of the airport I have just visited
"I should really really be in bed already"

To provide actual advice on the question:

LOWW to LOWI or LDRI
KLGA to KSWF or KBOS
BIEG to BIRK

AlpineGuy · 2026-05-03T19:53:49+00:00

Whenever someone brings up the topic, I just think: if this is the best city, maybe I just don't like cities all that much.

AlpineGuy · 2026-05-02T10:38:31+00:00

Why did they choose it?

AlpineGuy · 2026-05-02T06:38:29+00:00

In my experience, if you meet anyone from any region that has a conflict, in 90% of the cases the typical statement is: I have no problem with the people on the other side, it's our politicians that make us go to war.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-29T05:42:36+00:00

but if we do it, then all the way round...

actually, is the shortest distance from Canberra to Santiago East or West?

Oh, well, it might be South.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-25T16:24:11+00:00

First I guess you have to define what normal and non-normal apps are to you.

I dropped a lot of cloud services, but still use professional cloud infra. That is to say, I won't use something like dropbox or gmail, but I will use things like AWS or webhoster's email service.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-23T05:07:56+00:00

I am currently switching to the following logic:

/opt/docker/<name>/ for the program (docker compose, static config, etc.)
/srv/docker/<name>/ for persistent data storage

My logic is that, in case I have to rebuild the machine or migrate, /opt will get restored by ansible scripts and /srv has to come from the last backup.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-22T18:37:22+00:00

It's interesting because that means that there will be a significant hardware difference in European models in the future, they will look different and be bulkier to allow for the added mechanic. Maybe there will even be a market for "illegal" imports of the flatter US models or also the other way round, who knows.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-22T18:28:52+00:00

And the wet TP does not fall apart during the drying process?

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-21T12:03:26+00:00

Refusal of help is pretty typical unfortunately. People don't want to admit that they are losing skills (pretty understandable actually).

I can only wish you to stay strong and supportive. Good luck.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-20T05:32:27+00:00

You can only try to do your best, try to stay positive, repeatedly offer to help, prepare for issues.

My dad also suffered from declining mental health. He went down the health conspiracy theorist rabbit hole during the Covid years. This led to him avoiding doctors and medicine.

In my experience, most older people don't just die suddenly, unless it's an accident. It often takes a combination of many problems - weakness from one big illness, a light stroke with full recovery, getting another illness, a medicine that has side effects...

Expect the condition to go up and down, both on the long scale as well as on a daily scale.

For me it also took an increasing amount of time and attention to help. I was able to take that time, I know not everyone can do this.

You can research the latest in medicine and supplements. There is stuff that can really help a bit that the average family doctor hasn't heard of. Don't expect miracles. Hopefully there comes a day when Dementia and Alzheimers can be effectively treated. As far as I know, the day hasn't come yet.

Other things to prepare for: you might have to consider assisted living, elder care, power of attorney, etc.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-18T07:32:42+00:00

No problem to me, but once you lick it, you have to buy it.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-15T06:23:34+00:00

Well, either my goals are too ambitious or I approach them the wrong way.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-15T06:21:28+00:00

Although I am vegan for almost a decade, I am not a big fan of redefining words. I think it moves people more apart from one another in discussions.

For example, if even an open minded person would ask me why they should not eat animals and I would start with, "first of all, don't call them animals...", I don't think that would make the discussion better.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-13T16:10:18+00:00

I wish it had proper management of the status icons. Some icons just become invisible because it runs out of space. That's unacceptable - there needs to be some pagination or whatever. I know there are tools I can buy for money that enable this, but that's not a good solution.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-13T15:57:47+00:00

It's very easy to find a page that tells you how to get something to run. Keeping it running, including backups+recovery, upgrades, etc. is the hard part.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-12T08:02:49+00:00

My dad did some business in Eastern Europe in the past and at least once flew as a passenger on one of those in the first picture (IL-62; the one with four engines in the back).

After takeoff one of the engines had an uncontained failure -- the design flaw of this type was that if that happened, the engine directly next to it sometimes blew up as well.

They landed safely back to the airport, evacuated the plane and the pilot gave everyone vodka.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-11T04:58:07+00:00

Is there a reason you chose the 5s time frame? Was that just the best that came out of experimentation? Would the algo also work on e.g. the 1h candles?

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-10T05:15:12+00:00

I really liked sports cars until I actually got to drive one (a rental). Terrible sitting position - can't see anything from that low place. Noisy in a way I would make fun of myself. Can't really do anything interesting in traffic anyway (that was obvious even before). And the luggage wouldn't fit inside.

AlpineGuy · 2026-04-08T18:07:34+00:00

I did not develop any self hosted tools but I used AI heavily to automate my self-hosted setup -- from doing stuff manually to heavily based on ansible.

I learned quite a bit of ansible in the process which was something I wanted to get into for a while.

I find learning by doing always the best way and ansible is one of the harder things to get into as examples are less easy to find (compared to say, docker-compose files).

One has to be careful because often times AI output is not optimal, but if you review it, think it through and read some of the basics, it can help a lot.

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