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Adam Nowotny
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Code Removal Specialist. Adventurer. Motorcyclist. Citizen of No Man's Land. Decentralization. Privacy. Open Source. Linux. Building https://orangelab.space/ - private infrastructure on consumer hardware based on K3s, Tailscale, Pulumi and Longhorn.
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adamnowotny 10 months ago
Vibe-documenting is even better then vibe-coding. AI gets me 90% there on boring tasks like this. To all the reports-loving managers...machines are coming!
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adamnowotny 1 year ago
Just published Simplify setting up your private distributed infrastructure using @Tailscale, Pulumi, K3s and Longhorn. The cluster works even on a single laptop node but it's a great way to use spare CPU cycles and storage on other Linux machines you have available. Once initial setup is done, you can run Ollama, Open-WebUI and stable diffusion image generation with: pulumi config set orangelab:nvidia-gpu-operator true pulumi config set orangelab:ollama true pulumi config set orangelab:open-webui true pulumi config set orangelab:automatic1111 true pulumi up This will create endpoints that anyone on your Tailnet can access, all wired up and ready to go.
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adamnowotny 1 year ago
Photos from El Salvador, the first Bitcoin country. Things changed a lot here in the last few years. It felt safe and the paved roads were better then I expected, except a few that had the wrong classification on maps. Off road can get rough here, especially when it rains. Bitcoin Lightning wallets work pretty good. You need to be online but after scanning the QR code the confirmation usually comes in 1-3 seconds. Transaction costs in the order of 1 cent. Small businesses are generally fine accepting BTC but you still need petrodollar or card to get gas for example. Paid with sats for accommodation (@el_xalli), motorcycle rental (30.000 sats, ~$20 per day), food etc. It felt weird spending and not HODLing 😉 and it will get even weirder when I have to report all of this on tax return in another country. Things would be so much easier if the rest of the world would treat it as currency as well... #bitcoinbeach #elsalvador #elsalvador🇸🇻 #bitcoinlightning #motoadventure #motorcyclelife #bitcoinelsalvador
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adamnowotny 1 year ago
Photos from recent stay in Colombia. Medellin has so many cool restaurants and rooftop bars. Riding around the country and all the off road routes was spectacular, I'll definitely be back at some point. Riding through Medellin was...interesting, particularly through the neighborhoods I should apparently not be riding at all 😉 Well hey, at least I made a lot people smile haha (wtf is this gringo doing in our hood? 😅). Some of the streets were crazy steep, I had to lie down on the bike as the front wheel was going up. Thanks to @enrique.rgx, @adrenalineaddictsmoto, @nakedphillyman, @alanhara and @sebastianckw for riding with me. It was so much fun 🤘 See you next time! #colombia🇨🇴 #colombia #medellin #motoadventure #motorcyclelife #guatape
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adamnowotny 1 year ago
More footage from Baja trip. Such good memories! Thanks to @brandonstuntz for creating the video and @chrishainestours for organising! #motoadventure #motorcyclelife #méxico #ensenada #loscabos #motosport #baja #baja1000 #bajacaliforniasur🌵 #travel
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adamnowotny 1 year ago
Don't forget to live before you die. Stay wild brothers 🤘 Video by @brandonstuntz #motorcyclelife #baja1000 #motoadventure #baja #méxico #ensenada #loscabos #motosport #motoadventure
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adamnowotny 1 year ago
Made it all the way from Ensenada to Los Cabos! 1500 km of roads I'd usually avoid, following Baja 1000 rally route. I really had no idea what I'm getting into 😂 Having only some off road adventure bike experience but no dirt bikes, this was way out of my comfort zone for the first few days. It's like booking 7 day workout session with the Rock when all you do is 50 pushups in the morning 😆 I'm so beat up it will take a while to recover before I can ride again. Third day the conditions were so bad I thought I'm just going to give up and overnight in the desert. After multiple bike drops we had to cut the day short. From what I hear it's not uncommon for just 50% of riders making it till the end so I had to learn really fast...and recover from previous day even faster. For people that DO have some dirt bike experience, I can't recommend this enough - amazing views and new type of track every day. @chrishainestours did a great job organizing this.
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adamnowotny 1 year ago
That was a nice little gem in the desert, Rhyolite ghost town in Nevada, just north of Death Valley. There is an open air gallery and some abandoned buildings. Used to be some sort of mining operation. The glass house was interesting, the walls made of glass bottles which are said to be good isolation from hot and cold but also much cheaper then wood...there is not a lot of it in the area. The crashed plane was a few miles north, no idea what's that even about 😂 #rhyolite #rhyoliteghosttown #glasshouse #outdoorgallery #nevada
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adamnowotny 1 year ago
Photos from recent ride to Death Valley National Park. I have no idea how I avoided the crazy rain all around me on first day. It's like I was riding inside a dry tunnel. What a magical place... It was pretty hot during the day even though it's the cold season here. Must be pretty unbearable during the summer. #deathvalley #deathvalleynationalpark #california #motorcyclelife #travelphotography
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adamnowotny 1 year ago
Photos from Puerto Rico. It's a US territory so technically it's just a domestic flight. That was a great way to escape Texas winter storm...right into San Juan festival of Latino music. That was enough Salsa for a year 😁 Unfortunately the Arecibo observatory, or rather what remains of it, is permanently closed. Still a good excuse to ride all the way up there and back. #puertorico #sanjuan #arecibo #gozolandia #caves #ktm #ktmadventure890r
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adamnowotny 2 years ago
Last set of photos from Madeira. It's from around Pico do Arieiro. Challenging walk if you want to do the whole thing, about 6km one way. You go down a mountain and then up another one through dark tunnels, cliffs, ladders and all. Even seen some people running...twice. Respect 💪 I could barely feel my legs at the end. Definitely stay for sunset, above the clouds it's quite a view!
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adamnowotny 2 years ago
Madeira is a good getaway from European winter. It's warm during the day but there is a lot of fog and rain at higher altitudes. Makes for great rainbows when driving up and down 🙂 Watch out for lost cows, shit gets spooky in the foggy highlands... Got a few sunny days but there is much more to see. One could pretty much hike a different trail every weekend of the year! In summer weather is more predictable but there are more people visiting. Should not be a problem with a bike, especially when the car parking rules seem to be to park wherever as long as the car doesn't block the road, inside old tunnels is fine too... The photos are from north side of the island. Some sharp turns on the way there, maybe it's better I couldn't see farther than 30m with all the cliffs 😅 Definitely have to come back in summer. Note on driving on highways, there is no space to add extra lanes so don't be surprised with the short exits and entry lanes. Luckily the drivers here are generally good at reading the road. #madeiraisland #madeira #travel #travelphotography #roadtrip #winter #rainbow
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adamnowotny 2 years ago
Madeira just made it to my favorite places in the world 👌I could totally retire here, if that's ever a thing. Very few straight roads, it's mostly twisties everywhere! The infrastructure is amazing, great roads, plenty of tunnels and bridges with amazing views. Lot of places to stop and enjoy the view, all free off course. The best thing is you can just focus on the road instead of keeping the speed under artificially lowered limits meant for revenue generation. The speed signs are actually useful here. Yep, no speed traps, no police hiding around a corner, there are only some general cameras in cities but always clearly marked. Makes me think the maturity of society these days is inversely proportional to amount of cameras spying on you... If you want breakfast at 9am...well tough luck because the kitchens don't open until 11am or so. The locals are hanging out at the gas station coffee shop that's open earlier and just chatting and smoking cigarettes before going to work. Love their attitude, they got the priorities right 👍 #madeira #notonvacation #travel #islandlife #madeiraisland #portugal🇵🇹
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adamnowotny 2 years ago
Photos from today's ride, plus a few others from Nicaragua. Rode close to the border with Costa Rica...you could tell by the occasional military trucks. The guy with a semiautomatic at the checkpoint took some convincing that I won't try to cross the border and seemed surprised that I want to ride there at all. The road was increasingly muddy with some river crossings. The one on the photo was not the biggest one I crossed! The more north I rode, the more I started questioning my life choices 😆 The good thing is jaguars and pumas don't live in this part of Nicaragua but the sounds of howler monkeys freaked me out a few times. Getting back on sealed road was such a relief...
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adamnowotny 2 years ago
It was too dark to take good quality photos with a phone, but watching the Masaya volcano at night was one of the most impressive things I've seen. You could feel the warmth coming out of it. Too bad the high point lookout was closed. #nicaragua #masayavolcano #masaya #travelphotography #volcano
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adamnowotny 2 years ago
Went to Ometepe Island on the weekend. It's a lake with two volcanoes. You can hike to the top but it's pretty steep and takes about 8 hours...so we opted for coconut drinks in a pool instead 😋 Riding in the back of a truck is so fun! The first two photos are from Mombacho Volcano next day, some great hiking there.