I am okay if billionaires want to keep exploring the ocean in homemade submarines. That doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

Came here to day this… Because I’m old.

The exaggerated features almost remind me of stage makeup. Stage makeup isn’t meant to look good close up or under normal lighting, but is meant to be viewed from the back of the theater and under bright lights from above.

There may be a core of this group that was originally styling, using cosmetics, and undergoing treatment with the goal to look a certain way from a distance in photos and on video (but not necessarily up close and in person). From there, the acolytes followed the styles not realizing why they were chosen.

Tell me more about your use case.

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.

I haven’t thought about Blowhole in ages.

I’m going to make sure I keep a stock of brill cheese just in case things get out of hand.

My folks still have 9. I have a set that’s just blank.

I use the one that’s funded by Google.

Easily Distracted Beer

ASPD, is that Advertising/Sales Personality Disorder?

Isn’t this the reason for the switch? I thought MIT was the whole reason they were making the switch.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/kidney

What’s the deal with the parrot?

Have you ever seen the movie Teeth (2007)?

Check out Valetudo.

It’s not often you find such a novel approach.

But how would you run sl, the steam locomotive?

Are we counting Gemini interactions as search?

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.