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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Just tell him respectfully, sometime.

    As a parent, myself:

    • I totally don’t mind if my kids tell me they can hear me. I appreciate knowing our communication lines are open.
    • I am still going to continue having (probably still loud) sex in the house. Unless my kids fully paying a roommate’s share of the costs to run the home, they’re still kids, not roommates.
    • I’ll probably buy the kid some nice noise suppressing audio headset as a shopping surprise, sometime soon.








  • Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?

    • BAEN sells eBooks directly.
    • Libby has various options to check out eBooks from local libraries.
    • Project Gutenberg has free and DRM free eBooks for most books in the public domain. A huge number of classics are available this way.

    When I look for a specific book, I usually find that simply searching for "BOOK NAME purchase DRM free” results in plenty of results.

    Sadly, I find it dramatically easier to find a free DRM free copy of most eBooks than to find somewhere to legally purchase a paid licensed DRM-free copy.

    As a flawless upstanding citizen, I never partake of such amazing convenience, myself, of course.









  • I’m partial to RetroPi or Batocera, so I end up with a retro game console and media player in one. This build works with anything compatible with Kodi. Excellent for home media, but paid and free streaming services are hit and miss.

    There’s also builds of Android Open Source Protect for Raspberry Pi, which have much better support for streaming apps, since anything that works on an Android Phone works, as long as the streaming service developer hasn’t done anything stupid.

    Edit: A warning though - Android on Raspberry Pi is still very new. Think Alpha/Beta test. I think that Android on ARM chips, in general, is new. It’ll get good, but your mileage may vary, for now.