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Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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I bought a ZTE U10S Pro 4G mobile hotspot, because 1) I don't like to use my Fairphone 5 as a hotspot, 2) there are times when I need to use several devices when traveling, 3) it was really cheap.
Sometimes flight schedules are as predictable as the copy dialog in Windows, which adds a modicum of excitement to the aircraft photography pursuit. My attempts to catch a rather special aircraft the other day is a case in point....
Another weekend, another trip to Frankfurt am Main. I spent a few hours in (surprise, surprise!) Zeppelinheim, capturing takeoffs. There were only few highlights, but one of them was an Air India Airbus A250-900 featuring new livery...
Friday evening, my home server became unreachable through its domain name. That also meant that all my self-hosted applications weren't reachable either. Exactly what you need on a Friday evening, the day before you're going away for the...
> Depending on how you count, there are just two to four builders of large commercial aircraft (Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, and now COMAC). [...] The number of participants is small partly because of the inherent technical difficulty and...
Lieber Mensch! It was so windy today. I didn't expect that, and I didn't expect anything interesting landing or departing either. So it has been a rather short flying visit to NUE.
With a couple of right cables and adapters, you can stream the video output of a camera to an iPad.
I was entertaining the idea of taking a day trip to either MUC or FRA, but my plan had been foiled by a strike in all major German airports. Thankfully, NUE was not among them, so I headed there. Turned out, the strike was a blessing in...
When, if ever, do I get tired of jalapeno bagels from Der Beck? I don't know, but I'm willing to find out. So on my way to NUE, I bought a freshly backed jalapeno bagel to compliment my equally freshly brewed coffee I had with me. I was...
There are three main reasons why I prefer buying used DSLRs rather than spending money on modern wonders of photographic technology.
Two days before we went to Frankfurt am Main, I bought a Tamron 100-400m F/4.5-6.3 Di VC USD lens. It has been on my wish list for a long time, but the price was too high for me to justify the expense. But as soon as the price dropped, I...
That damn flu! After more than two weeks, we were finally feeling well enough for a much-needed escape to Frankfurt am Main. Fortunately the weather forecast looked promising, and I had a new lens to test in FRA (more about it later), so...
I'm always fashionably late to the party. So forgive me for being the last to get all excited about Restic. Encryption by default, snapshots, deduplication, support for various storage types—Restic checks all the boxes. Not only that, it...
Google Translate is great, until it's not. The quality of translation is undeniably impressive, and the apps have some genuinely useful features. But even if you choose to ignore the fact that Google lives off our data, there is a matter...
Nothing lasts forever, including laptop batteries. But how do you know when your laptop's battery is ripe for a replacement? Easy: install the acpi package (sudo apt install acpi on Ubuntu and Linux Mint), run the acpi -V command, and...