I was looking at SOTLAS to try and plan for a potential future activation attempt. The place I wanted to visit is one I would probably forget about by the time it comes to wanting to do the trip and struggle to find again.
Just wondering if there is an option anywhere to be able to ‘favourite’ or ‘bookmark’ a summit so you could compile a little list of favourite summits as a makeshift ‘todo’ list? I couldn’t find the option anywhere on the page of the summit I was looking at and figured it might be hidden away somewhere.
A little heart icon to toggle off/on would be fantastic, for example. Thanks for the great work on SOTLAS, it is a great resource and I appreciate it.
Currently there’s no such feature, but that reminds me of a draft pull request by @HB9HGQ submitted years ago that does exactly this and more, but that neither of us got around to finishing to production grade:
At the moment I’m a bit reluctant to add new features to SOTLAS, as a major task (conversion to Vue 3) is pending, and writing new features for the current Vue 2 codebase would mean having to touch them again during the conversion. I haven’t been able to do the conversion earlier as some important dependencies (most notably Buefy, the UI framework that SOTLAS uses) didn’t support Vue 3 yet. By now most dependencies should support Vue 3, but it’s still a lot of boring work, so I’ve been putting it off to rainy autumn days
I have a spreadsheet (Google Sheets) of summits which includes trip scheduling. If I’m making a trip somewhere, I write the summits down, make/download routes, then make a schedule in Sheets. Plus there’s lots of space to write other stuff, etc.
Bookmarking them in your browser is a good start, but some other document, email draft, sheet, dynalist, Apple Notes, a million other websites/applications for writing, lets you add some context or other information.
Slightly OT but for notes I use Joplin and Obsidian. For research I use Zotero and link it back to Obsidian. Very handy. I used Zotero for a Ham Radio presentation earlier this year oddly enough.
I’d prefer not to bookmark though. Nice idea on the spreadsheet though. I use Libre Office which works well between it and various O365 tools.
For now I’ve saved the summit I’m interested in to my AllTrails account. Would love a little heart icon though in SOTLAS one day!
I tried to like obsidian but I can’t. Instead I use a very simple system of Apple Notes, Dokuwiki, Tiddlywiki, Tinderbox, GitHub actions, cloudflare pages, Oracle VPS, and Google Sheets. And Logseq when I’m at work.
I think I dislike Obsidian as it meant they abandoned Dynalist. Although I think obsidian has been much more successful for them.
My problem with that feature is 95% of summits would be hearted! They’re all good.
Good point. I’d bookmark them all, then want a sorting feature of lists like “Planned” for local/national stuff and “Grail/Never Happening” for stuff like Mount Fuji, K2, Everest etc (though I’ve done Mount Fuji, just as a hike, not a SOTA alas).
As for Obsidian, I prefer Joplin, but sometimes Obsidian plays nicer with it’s plug ins and that I use Linux as a daily driver outside work.
If you want to bookmark a summit, open that summit in sotlas and the use the add bookmark function of your browser.
Also, you can bookmark an area by going to sottl.as, drag the map to the area you’re interested in, and then use your browser’s bookmark function to add the area.
Edit: I’ve realised that could probably be misread… it was the little “I like chips” BASIC program that made me laugh… not the horror of code migration… I’ve been there with that. Hours and hours of work to essentially get from point A right back to where yiu started, outwardly with nothing new to show for it.
I wish something would make me smile about the migration I’m doing at home…I’m “defenestrating” myself as much as possible from “The Plague from Redmond”
New (to me) PC… new Debian 13… I have just a few things which to date I cannot find Linux replacements for and all are SOTA related (mapping/navigating software and some MS tools). I did have to sell my soul to Satan (Broadcom) to get a free to use copy of VmWare Workstation 17 under which a tiny Win10 install exists and those programs will live sandboxed in there. When Win10 support ends, the network connection in the VM can be disabled and I have a Win10 isolated from the nasties in the world. Don’t ask about the pain getting this Win10 install activated (I have a real product key). Grr!
Anyway I fully understand the pains of converting / updating for new frameworks Manuel, I feel your pain. Of course, if you hadn’t produced such a great tool as SOTL.as you wouldn’t have this to do.
Problems due to my fat fingers and lack of experience installing Windows and any OS into VMware. I practised installing VMware and Win10 into a scrap laptop which first was upgraded to Deb13. Worked like a dream.
Tried on the big machine, VMware locked up on install. Killed it, sudo dmesg showed lots of kernel module issues for VMware components. Saw an error message about no ENDBR instruction. Googled that (I don’t follow x86 developments any more) found out about IBT/ENDBR and how it’s a pain on modern CPUs (like this) and 3rd party modules. Fix is to add IBT=off to boot command line. Reboot, reinstall VMware, result! Install Win10. Works. Type in product key extracted from BIOS. Activates! All shipshape and legal. Notice I have installed on 2 core VM with 60GB disk when I come to copy 48GB of maps. Bottoms. I should have just added another disk to the VM but I thought “do it right, make it the right size.” Reinstalled Win10 into big disk VM and upped the number of cores. All works FB. Come to activate it and find I installed Win10 Education not Win10 Pro. Silent scream. Do it again. Right version, right number of cores, right size disk. Activate and “computer says no”. Piddled about and tried another activation key (didn’t expect that to work). It should activate it’s the same VM each time. Gave up and thought I’ll use it unactivated as it will do what I want with annoying ads and no personalisation. Got on with trying to install mapping programs. More woe.
This morning I thought… “it’s not the same VM is it, it has more cores.” Went to the VM editor and dropped cores down to original number, restarted VM and entered activation code and… drum roll… worked
I can’t reinstall Anquet OMN Classic any more so all the (expensive) maps can’t be used. Choice is new app which works but is £36/yr subscription but works on Windows/Android but not Linux. Or new MemoryMap For All which works on Linux and is £28/yr but is much less feature rich.
Decisions, decisions.
For those who don’t know, most modern computers have a Windows product key in their BIOS. This is used to automatically activate your Windows when it’s installed, doesn’t work automatically on a VM, you need to type it in.
Run up PowerShell in Administrator mode and type
wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey
and the key, if there is one is printed.
If you are defenestrating yourself you can still read it but running the following from a shell will do the same.
Microsoft have been fixing security holes in Windows 10 for years. It ought to be the most secure system on the planet by now . The end of support means that they will at last stop adding new insecurities…
Seriously, I wouldn’t worry about leaving a Win10 VM connected after end of support. I’m sure you’ll set it up to be pretty effectively firewalled, so the attack surface will be small. You imply that you’ll be using it for a fixed set of reasonably trusted applications. I can’t see that there is any significant risk, and if anything bad does happen to it you can always roll back to a snapshot.
Yes we can hope the bugs/features and holes become constant some time in November
And you’re right the attack vector is small and I’d like to think things are reasonably secure here but it will be nice not to have all the crud yammering away all the time over the network back to MS Central
Precisely - no “connection” is necessary. As I recall from having had to use it once, the activation tool shows a number which you enter on the telephone keypad after phoning the activation service. It then reads back a string over the phone which you key in.
Obviously there is 1-off transfer of a small amount of information from the machine to Microsoft, but you presumably do it before the machine has seen anything sensitive.
In practice they would probably use one of the corporate volume licencing mechanisms with a local licence server.
. The end of support means that they will at last stop adding new insecurities…
