bluGill

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

Problem is an OS is not a useful part of this. My kids are perfectly able to install linux on a pi - and this is something I want to encourage in general (I don't think they have, but they could), thus giving them root access - including access to things in the package repo that I may not approve of. It is a hard problem and I can't always be there.

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

We have had them since the 1970s (at least). It doesn't seem to have made much a difference.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

How am I supposed to take care of my kids? My kid has got up at 3am and used his school device to do things I don't want. The thing wasn't supposed to be allow by the school but the bypass (web site not blocked) wasn't one the school will find out and block. Bypasses like that spread fast in schools.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

Devices have them, but they are not very good. I'ma parent and there are thing i want to block that I can't and others I want to allow but a on different rules than their system has.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 14 hours ago

Contact your state representative. Any us state can opt out of daylight savings. They can't do year round daylight time but year round standard time is allowed. Ayone arguing for year round daylight time is in reality ensuring nothing happens.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 14 hours ago

I can do thateas school changes the start time. My daughter already wasn't getting up on time if allowed.

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

In the us your state can choose to do standard time anytimeiit wants. Daylight savings time is allowed in summer only so it is a federal issues and thus much harder to get passed.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A shelf is a bad idea in a bench - you need easy access to the bottom to adjust clamps all the time. Now an assembly table can benefit from shelves and such - but they don't need the strength this has.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

Money is easy to ship anywhere. Things are much harder. Thus everything worth doing is going to be local. Various options have been mentioned. Your local food shelf may have a place for this as well.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They work. However they are a lot slower - by enough that no shipping company can compete using them. I'm not clear on if they scale to the size of modern ships either.

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

Your odds of finding the winning ticket on the sidewalk about about the same as buying it. So I walk around once in a while looking for winning tickets. I haven't found one yet, but who knows. Bonus - I get some much needed exercise in the process.

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

one will close - but everyone will go to the other 3 on the intersection thus saving them for a few years. Then another.... and soon the one across town closing helps those left.

the average car is 12 years old so there is a lot of life left in gas stations even after all new cars are ev. once you have a station a lot of the costs are sunk costs so you won't close just because demand drops a little. Chains will build less as the numbers stop working but they will build in places for a while while closing other locations.

 

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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