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- Comment on STOP 1 week ago:
I am okay if billionaires want to keep exploring the ocean in homemade submarines. That doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Tell me more about your use case.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I do something like this for work. I’ll share what I use. Take what works for you, leave what doesn’t. My feelings aren’t hurt.
Hardware: I have two TVs that are driven by Amazon Fire sticks. The software is an Android app, and we picked up the sticks on sale for $20 each. I’ve not tested the software on other hardware, but it should work on any Android based device. I have plans to switch to Android on a Raspberry Pi or similar. It’s only matter of time before Amazon breaks my setup, but for the time being (and for the last two years) this works without issue and was extremely cost effective.
Software: I want to recommend “Slideshow” by Milan Fabian. It’s an incredibly full featured slideshow app that will display anything that you throw at it (image files, videos, PDFs, spreadsheets, and more). It can also display web based things like a webpage or YouTube video. You can set timers so that certain content is displayed certain times of day. You can set times and dates so that content that is no longer relevant is no longer displayed. My description here really doesn’t do it justice. You should check it out.
My use case: I work for a school that is in a shared space. Beginning at 7am, the TVs show a slideshow of announcements from the school. It also cycles a music playlist of MP3s that are uploaded to the device. At 4pm, the TVs switch over to a web-based dashboard of where individual classes are in the building and which supervisor is closing the building (I built the dashboard in Home Assistant and it is unrelated to the Slideshow app). At 6pm, the screen goes black and the music shuts off until 7am the next morning. Because we share the space, there is a different slideshow that shows on the weekends based on what that group wants to display. When Monday comes back around, it’s back to my content. My team builds our slideshow in Canva and then pushes it to the device, but you could easily use Google Slides.
- Comment on If you have an exceptional intelligence... You live in IDIOCRACY right now 4 weeks ago:
That would explain why I keep seeing Crocs everywhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is why I refer to those posts as “Toots” instead of “Truths.”
- Comment on I know its hard to digest. 4 weeks ago:
This is a lava/magma situation. It’s not vomit until the volcano erupts. It’s called chyme while it’s still beneath the earth’s surface.
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 1 month ago:
Audiobooks. Am I right?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m going to make sure I keep a stock of brill cheese just in case things get out of hand.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 2 months ago:
My folks still have 9. I have a set that’s just blank.
- Comment on Manic Stew 3 months ago:
Easily Distracted Beer
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 3 months ago:
ASPD, is that Advertising/Sales Personality Disorder?
- Comment on Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 5 months ago:
What’s the deal with the parrot?
- Comment on Creative and Inspiring building design 5 months ago:
Have you ever seen the movie Teeth (2007)?
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 5 months ago:
Check out Valetudo.
- Comment on Jump on in. 5 months ago:
The nettles make me think happy times.
- Comment on I'm at a loss when it comes to etiquette 5 months ago:
It’s not often you find such a novel approach.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 5 months ago:
Are we counting Gemini interactions as search?
- Comment on Establishing an ideal home drive using raspberry pi 4 model B(xfce)with help of nextcloud 5 months ago:
I have had a very easy time running a variety services on single board computers using DietPi. Give it a look. It will save you time and headaches.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 5 months ago:
How much longer until the AI bubbles pops? I’m tired of this.
- Comment on If you put a "s" in front of the "sh" in chivalry, they turn into a "k" like in schism 5 months ago:
English is like three languages stacked on top of one another while wearing a trenchcoat, pretending to be a single language.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 months ago:
Are we not going to talk about the fact that the logo uses something that is almost identical to the Papyrus font?
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 7 months ago:
Never thought about it this way, but I really like this. I’ve tried to explain the difference between Goofy and Pluto to my kids on multiple occasions. This seems like a really easy way to put it.
- Comment on Uber’s algorithmic pricing leaves drivers and passengers worse off 7 months ago:
But what about the shareholders?
- Comment on Month-long awareness celebrations 8 months ago:
And May was the month of Mary!
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 8 months ago:
Come visit Disney with my family this fall. You’ll see me and my kid both sneeze every time we step into the Florida sun after leaving a slightly darkened show build.
- Comment on Outstanding work 8 months ago:
Wait… Is this detrimentum?
- Comment on Anyone? 8 months ago:
I’m not going to tell you how long I looked at this, expecting to find loss or Saddam Hussein.
- Comment on BLOSS 8 months ago:
This is brilliant!
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 9 months ago:
This is exactly what I thought, and in the same order.