Digital Wanderer

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Valencia — 0, the flight

 2022-12-14

Running on empty

When I got back from Switzerland, the local weather and clouds bummed me out a bit. People who live in Latvia often joke about the weather, even though it's not really that nightmarish here. But after the mountain beauties of the land of 🧀and ⌚, putting up with the slush and cold gets harder and harder. I immediately wanted to go somewhere warm, preferably with my 🚲. Luckily, as the saying goes, don't have a hundred rubles, have a hundred friends. I have a buddy in 🇪🇸 who has a spare room and the desire to host a guest. Why not take him up on it? Especially if I can work remotely (and I can).

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Scotland — 20, day eight

 2019-12-15

Yes, quite a few hours have passed. But I finally made it to the blog. Once again. I'm always running experiments. Apparently, experiments are more important to me than the result. This time I'm writing from a phone. I even managed to set up photo insertion and an external keyboard, though it was a fair bit of a hassle. Still haven't sorted everything out: for instance, if you type fast, there's a problem in the Russian layout. The thing is, the comma is typed with Shift, and after it you have to put a space. You don't always manage to let go of Shift, and in Android Shift + Space doesn't put a space. Android still has a long way to grow to become a fully-fledged workstation, frankly speaking.

On the other hand, it could be that spelling will change under the pressure of devices. While I was messing around, I discovered a bunch of unpleasant things about my new Google Pixel 4. It turned out it doesn't support the open standard for casting the screen to other devices — Miracast. This feature was axed in Android quite a while ago, in version 7 or thereabouts. In phones from other companies screen casting is usually present — they add it themselves.

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Scotland — 19, First Interlude

 2019-10-07

As I usually do, I ditched the blog for a couple of months, getting carried away with other things. Sometimes it was just that, but more often I simply didn't have the energy or mood, period.

A lot has happened over these months. I managed to finish the kitchen renovation. Buy curtains and mountains of tea. Read the book (web-serial) Unsong by the well-known blogger Alexander Scott. Ride a few hundred kilometers on my bike. Get another dose of serious problems and trouble. Such is life.

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Scotland — 18, Day Seven

 2019-08-15

Rybakov kept wondering how I write from memory. Looks like the free ride is over, and now it won't work out like that. A whole day, but I only have evening photos of us walking near Arthur's Seat.

On this day I wandered around lost. I went into Primark, an inexpensive clothing store that cleverly and promptly copies fashion trends and makes them accessible to the masses. I also dropped into outdoor gear shops, but decision paralysis got in the way. Am I even going to hike in the mountains? Do I need some fancy gear for this, or will I manage without? Is there any point in buying something if I'm losing weight anyway, and successfully at that moment?

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