bluGill

joined 1 year ago
[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 17 hours ago

I have to tell my kids that telling their friends santa isn't real is cruel, and thus a truth that should be told to their friends. we have never cared about christmas.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 22 points 18 hours ago

Lawyers should have been charged with perjury and disbarred over this.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Upvote-downvote is a great reaction to all the trolls. combined withan algorithm they can surface the good stuff and alert moderators to garbage. Algorithms are wrong in many places, but that is the implementation that is bad not the idea itself

Lemmys culture of downvoting well written things you disagree with is a problem though. So long as nothing is done about that you can't make a good algorithm. idealy you would have the guts to upvote things you disagree with, but at least we need people to stop using downvote to disagree - respond with reason if you disagree.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

I miss UUCP style forums. They had threading that worked and the concept of 'i've alread read this so don't show it to me again'. Together those made it easy to see well thought out responses weeks latter.

All other forums are worse. They encourage writing something quick - long well thought writing won't be found because by the time someone gets it down the topic is dead.

though the original trolls were from such forums. It should be no surprise that everyone else has them - they change nothing.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Because it is opposed to clasical liberalism. that is the idea that humans can choose their own direction and control their own persuit of life. 'life, liberty and property'.

socalists like to talk about capitalisn because that is an easy strawman to beat up. the fundamentals of liberty are very differnt from their conception of capitalism though and they don't want you to know just how messed up their theory realy is.

don't confuse clasical liberalism from what modern language calls liberal.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

“Even in years where the strain in the vaccine may not be as similar to the strains that we’re seeing circulating, we know that the vaccine can help prevent severity of illness,” Budd said.

That is what you need to know today.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anti love potions exist and have been regularly used since before recorded history. We call the poison.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You are missing floride which is important to teeth health. There are other ways to get floride but this is a big one you need to replace somehow.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

Because like most people I make the occasional trip that is more than 50 miles. It doesn't happen often, but it happens often enough that rental cars become extremely expensive.

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

Gas was cheap when they were sold new. I recall paying less than $1/gallon when they were on the market, and a quick cheap shows prices were around $1/gallon for most of their life. Prices did go towards the end, but gas was pretty cheap when they were sold. Well at least in the US, Europe always had high gas taxes.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Where is the 50hp ecconomy model? I miss my a old GEO metro. All the power I needed - and cheap in all ways.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

Used it as a pattern to cast it in metal

 

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?

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