IGNORE ME!
rmuk
joined 2 years ago
And the Xtacles. I still say "Bon Jovi Friday".
Don't listen to him. Sure it may take a few hours a day over the course of a month or so to get right, but with the time you'll save from all that automation you'll break even in a few hundred years - and then it's all gravy!
Knew what to expect. Clicked anyway. Wasn't disappointed.
I switched to Qobuz about six months ago after also trialling Deezer, Tidal, Apple Music and YT Music. Highly recommended. Their curated playlists are excellent and I can't believe what a different the higher quality and lossles bitrates makes. They pay artists way more than the other platforms though, remarkably, they're the only (major) platform to actually publish per-stream figures, even if they're only averages. Based in France if that matters to you. They only offer paid plans but do have free trials and provide users with a code for a third-party migration service to bring your playlists over.
+1 for Home Assistant, and then with Add Ons it can also do other useful home network stuff (network ad blocker, VPN, *arr, etc).
Salad? Tossed. Eggs? Scrambled. Mind? Boggled.
These people are actively willing George Orwell's nightmare into being.
The Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at one-hundred-and-forty-five million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than one-hundred-and-forty-five millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population went barefoot.
You'll pay through the nose, but look at digital signage panels. They are bristling with I/O, configurable to the nth degree, wonderfully over-engineered and utterly free from bloat.
A phone would be a bit much, but an ereader with a solar charger loaded up with Wikipedia and a chunk of Project Gutenberg would probably last with a bit of care.
That's a joke-turned-plot element from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books. The protagonist, a human everyman stranded with a primitive culture on a distant world realises he has no idea how electricity, steam engines, medicine, etc works but he becomes a respected member of their community by making sandwiches.
Sealab 2021 crawled so Frisky Dingo could walk so Archer could run.