bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago

I don't understand why legitmate companies are not in arms over this. When that many ads are scams your customers will learn that facebook ads are scams and not buy from you either. Fool me once...

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 0 points 2 days ago

That always worked - on a minority of women. There are only a few men willing to descend to those disgusting levels so it worked out for them. (if it was any more society as we know it would break down).

The men who did it crossed the political spectrum trying to blame people you don't like for everything does your side no favors.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -3 points 3 days ago

Every time I look all options are crazy. Some might be slightly less crazy, but all are crazy in some way.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Districts with the freaks that drive cars in NYC voted more against Mamdani and everyone else for Mamdani.

This is uncalled for. People who are different are not freaks and need to be thought of as humans who are different.

District is a poor measure - others have pointed out already there was a close split, but you can abuse statistics to make them show any division you want.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

Not really - they are paying a lot for their car and want transit riders to take more of the share of the transit costs. If they gain more from free transit than they cost is a complex subject.

They may also understand that transit is expensive and for most the cost of transit isn't why they wouldn't ride in the first place and so free transit won't make much a difference. Meanwhile charging for transit and also giving transit the money that free transit would cost would give enough money that better service could be provided and poor service (for the individual trip) is why most people don't ride transit. (though NYC transit spends far more on better service than it should so who knows)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

After verifying that OP's intent was met I gave a more fun answer that abused the letter of what was asked.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes. However as others have already said odds are you don't have the right devices. Still if you really work at it everything exists. Start by selecting one of the few TVs that support it, then get a good HDMI cable, make sure you have a video card that supports it, with drivers for the OS (you might have to write them yourself), then just setup networking. This would be an interesting hack, I'd love to see someone get it working and show their setup, but it is otherwise useless and will be a lot of work.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you don't want to give the sever away (including the ability to use it) then don't shut it down or otherwise make the game unplayable.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We are reasonably confident that mathematical limitations apply to both the inner and outer universe. However they don't understand the mathematical limitations enough to understand how little they matter. Pi is pi everywhere - that doesn't change anything.

There are truths we can't prove true - again it doesn't say anything about all the other trues we can prove.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -1 points 5 days ago

Cage is not what I want from a kiosk. I want window management, I just want a few fixed windows in fixed positions. Sometimes I want to rotate between a few windows. I'm running Magicmirror now which gives what I want, but it is too slow and too locked into the everything is a web app model.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

What does anything matter. If you deal with someone else at least one of you needs to learn the others systems. You and your neighbor probably speak the same language so it is easy, but the more differences the more there is to learn. You can choose to not deal with people in the US who only know US systems, or you can work with them by learning. I have no idea what your motivations are, but whatever they are they becomes your reasons to do or not do something.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

I have a pi3 with a 20" touchscreen that I'm using. Raspbian booting to magic mirror. It works, but Magic Mirror is slow bloated/slow that I'm not happy with it. I'm about ready to make my own QT based signage - I suspect it will be much more performant as well as more flexible. Still it is a lot of work and so I hesitate to bother (even if version one could be done in a day - I have enough other projects).

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

 

I was working on my new server and decided my network connection what setup wrong so I adjusted the settings file. In a moment of unusual clarity I realized this was the connection I was using to access the machine via ssh and if something went wrong I was in trouble - so I verified that this machine was also reachable via ssh from the other ethernet interface that was directly connected to my NAS. I was right, my first config changes did break the network, but I still had the backup connection option and so I was able to recover.

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