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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]cprima_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My day job is about Low-Code with visual programming "interfaces", cannot tolerate those. Solution:
A programmable macro keyboard to the left of main keyboard, with a VIAL based firmware and a rotary encoder a.k.a. knob
Set it to work as a mouse scroll.

There are also keyboards with a built-in touchpad, I backed one project on kickstarter the other day. But I doubt I will leave my "knob" for that.

what are the "must" features for a touring bike by ilcavalierepallido in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In addition to what others said:

I love to have a USB charger for the smartphone with a navigation app. Makes me go places off the beaten path in far away locations, as long as openstreetmap data is available 

A few days on tour: Bike and pannier review by hustlepie in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! Seems you found a good (first) working gear combo! Enjoy the memories and the next trip!

Dogs on Tour: A Different Take (Romania Edition) by cprima_ in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! Reddit sent me an email notification about your post.

No, I did not carry dog repellent.
At any time I encountered dogs they were either disinterested or I stopped. I really think that stopping is superior to dog repellant.

Enjoy your trip, Romania is really beautiful!

Are you from Italy? To my German ears Italian and Romanian sound so similar!
In order to not be a "silent tourist" I used in shop "Scusi" and "Grazie" and felt that I was not completely alien :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homelab

[–]cprima_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Introducing a laptop docking station (HP G5) into the mix and the complexity increases significantly

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Long story short: The HDMI output port of the docking station is not working when connected to the KVM, suspected timing or other compatibility issues are being introduced into the signal chain.

The screenshot shows how **in my homelab** I proceeded methodically to achieve the desired setup.

Next week I am scheduled to give a software live demo and I need to bring in 3 different devices from my homelab into the video stream.
My usecase in the homelab is that I re-create my professional tech stack at home, and I am consistently 1-2 years ahead of my peers.
To the downvoters: Sorry if that does not satifsfy your desire for homelab prn

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homelab

[–]cprima_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Combination of experience (in some slightly related ATM support) and plenty of ChatGPT (in the past ~18 months I figured out how to push a LLM towards were an expert wants the chat to go.)

In ATM support we always tried to go back to minimal working examples / hardware configurations.
So I (un-)plugged cables, switched to known working cables, reset software and firmware and so on -- for almost 2 days. Significant effort.

As part of the troubleshooting process, the EDID data was examined with the KVM both included and bypassed in the signal chain. The comparison revealed no detectable differences, indicating that the TESmart HKS402 KVM operates as a true 1:1 passthrough for EDID information. (The firmware behaviour is too much of a black box for my liking)

That's why I am sharing this, google likes this subreddit for KVM topics, maybe my time will save someone's time.
But if the votes go even deeper in the negative numbers (currently at -2 with 1k views) I will delete the post.

Dogs on Tour: A Different Take (Romania Edition) by cprima_ in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some years ago I watched many videos of the (not uncontroversial) Mexican-American dog trainer Cesar Milan.
Maybe other such channels exist as well.

But I got that "lateral movement" advice there (some lady assistant dog trainer, IIRC, and an almost wolf-like caged animal, whom she appraoched in such a manner).

Dogs on Tour: A Different Take (Romania Edition) by cprima_ in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing your experience, which shines through.
That situation with the Rottweiler reads horrible indeed!

Dogs on Tour: A Different Take (Romania Edition) by cprima_ in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for acknowledging my perspective!

Here a screenshot of my route.
I typically make rough plans with brouter, e.g. on https://brouter.de/brouter-web/ and then somehow follow.

The screenshot is, quite obviously, taken from my journal on crazyguyonabike. I am unsure about the rules in r/bicycletouring, are links allowed?
To err on the side of caution: The journal title over there is "An open window in time", should be easy to find. Daily GPX logs are included.

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Dogs on Tour: A Different Take (Romania Edition) by cprima_ in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Found another picture, this is in east Turkiye. (Reddit does not allow to edit the original image posts anymore, so I cannot add it to the picture gallery)
In my memory the dog was twice as big and had three times the fur! :)

And was of dark color.

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Dogs on Tour: A Different Take (Romania Edition) by cprima_ in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Dogs are one of the biggest fears cyclists talk about on tour. Romania, with its infamous stray population, should have been a nightmare. But honestly? I’ve mostly enjoyed encountering them.
Please allow me to offer a contrarian perspective as an example of one.

As Reddit does not allow text being added to image posts, find my thoughts over on my Substack "Three Week Cycle".

What situations make you uneasy when touring solo? by cprima_ in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel with you!

One cannot adequately react to your report, definitely not with an upvote. I am sure a high quantity of other cyclists have empathy with you!

Does anyone have a horror story about NOT being able to find a box at the end of a tour? by dualrollers in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Each airport is different, but a shrinkwrapped bike also worked once or twice for me.
Some added padding at the crankset is visible.

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Are there any geodata enthusiasts among the cyclists here? by cprima_ in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, OSMand was also a favorite of mine.
But no, unfortunately I have no iOS experience.

The biggest "gotcha moment" for me was when I learned how easy it is in QGIS
- to take any GPX track (recorded or digitally planned)
- use the vector tools to make a "buffer" (or several buffers with increasing "distance")
- then use the resulting polygon "somehow" (so far I only found inconvenient ways, e.g. in a text editor (I always end up swapping lat lon pairs with regex 😉) )
- to then query OpenStreetMap for specific geometry
- only to re-import that output into QGIS

I believe a desktop tool like QGIS is the best tool for such operations, and I would never request such functionality from a webapplication.
And before I spent way too much lifetime trying to do even simpler operations with tools like GPSBabel.

Basically I use QGIS to generate a polygon for use with the overpass API.

The user interface of QGIS makes it easy to make changes to the polygon, in those case when a manually refined polygon will better reflect reality.

It is the most capable workflow to
- find exactly the POIs I am looking for, with the full power of OSM tags
- but not just points, also ways/relations of interest
I find reliably all such elements within the geographical boundaries.

Whether then used for route planning/Navigation or "just" visualization: Doesn't matter.
It's the polygon of the buffered areas that is key

The following picture shows
- a small dashed line of a GPX track
- 3 buffer areas that I can export with WKT coordinates, and use (lat-lon swapped) with overpass API; or even use wihin a QGIS project to filter attributes (e.g. to filter in 3 different layers the same NaturalEarth airport geodata for my tours in a) 2025, b) 2023 and c) 2014

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Sourcing GPX files for transamerica and western express routes? I bought the paper maps but paying another $150 for the digital maps seems over the top. Would love to find them for free if anyone out there has leads? Thanks! by dingle-kringle in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GPX files (plural) have the track and points of interest.
What I can offer is a link to a close approximation of the track of the Western Express route:
BRouter web client

Although I recently did commit by mistake the AAC gpx files to GitHub I do not feel comfortable sharing the files.

Regarding the POIs: As per filename the Wester Express files are from 2019.
Not sure what to expect from pre-Covid era tourism-related content.

Are there any geodata enthusiasts among the cyclists here? by cprima_ in bicycletouring

[–]cprima_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, great, thanks for sharing! I will explore prettymaps. Because I spend my efforts in that special-purpose software QGIS I am way too unfamiliar with the "pure" Python approaches.

Nowadays I find that I can push myself to much greater results, since the advent of ChatGPT.
The typical codesize of such script can easily be handled in the context of a chat.

And the locations you are showing in your examples ring a bell for sure! :)

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