14 days later… you ok?

I hope you’re still around!

I often play Apple Music on my car, where the phone (17 pro, 26.5.1) is connected through Bluetooth. However, every time one song is playing and another one gets added to the playlist, the Bluetooth playback is interrupted for a tiny bit (around half a second?), and continues afterwards. The same happens when the songs are already added in a playlist, and the automix feature starts mixing the next song, or starts analyzing the next song (?) (around halfway through each song). It’s pretty annoying because it interrupts the playing song, while an extra second in between songs would be much less of an issue.

Have a look at DietPi. That is a single-board-computer optimized Linux distribution that, in contradiction to what the name might suggest, runs on (almost) all of the SBC’s out there. It has stripped away all the things you don’t need and only installs and loads what is needed to run the software you choose, resulting in a very lightweight but powerful operating system for these kinds of devices. It has its own software catalog with a broad selection of optimized software, but you can of course install anything you want. Ive been running this on a Raxda Rock4 without any problems, and would definitely suggest this even on a Raspberry over the regular Pi image.

As much as I appreciate your honesty in this, I only think you’ll be shooting yourself in the foot. Your website is a tool that serves a purpose: to let people find your business and turn them into customers. And in order to know how useful this tool is, you want to have some insights in how much people visit the website, how long they are browsing each page, what pages are read more than others, and so on. Also, you want to know where people come from in your website: do they come from search engines (with what keywords?), or are they clicking through from your social channels? Once you know, you can optimize your marketing materials (including social posts, website content) for your actual target audience.

In stead of not using tracking at all, I would suggest to use anonymized tracking. This gives you enough information to measure effectiveness, without compromising the individual’s privacy. European GDPR requires this, so all tracking tools should have GDPR-compliant options. Also, if you inform your users that you use anonymized tracking, you can show that you’re doing the best you can to protect their privacy as well. Last but not least, (almost) every single site on the World Wide Web tracks their users anyway, so they will likely have been tracked multiple times anyway on their path to your website.

In fact, in the EU that is regulated by article 6A (see https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A52021XC1229%2806%29 ) . That states amongst other things that:

Any announcement of a price reduction shall indicate the prior price applied by the trader for a determined period of time prior to the application of the price reduction. … The prior price means the lowest price applied by the trader during a period of time not shorter than 30 days prior to the application of the price reduction.

So maybe it wouldn’t apply for a 3 month period, but it does prevent stores from increasing the price by say 20% overnight and then give a “10% discount” the next day.

I’d say I understand most, except maybe some specific terminology that is less common. And things like sayings might sometimes throw me off-guard because while I can translate them, I can not always figure out what they mean. Accents and dialects can be tricky sometimes, just like when the speech is a bit faster than I’m used to. But overall I’d say I’m fine. I’m also lazy though, so I just read the subtitles whenever I can 🙂

Small note though: my high school offered bilingual education, so about half of the subjects was given in English by native speakers and I did IB English exams, that helped a lot and I’m certain my English level is well above average because of that

I would say this is a model issue. How about separating the model in 2 parts: the flat bottom part with the legs, and the ‘envelope’ part that stands upright. Both parts can then be printed flat fairly easy. You’ll only need to think of a way to join the two again after printing, perhaps by modeling two holes in the stand part, and adding two pins on the upright part

Dutch books (for children) use the ‘AVI’ system to indicate the reading level. The system is structured: the higher the level, the more difficult the vocabulary in the book. The levels are:

• avi s/start (learning to read)
• avi m3 (reading level required in the middle of 3rd grade)
• avi e3 (reading level required in the end of 3rd grade)
• avi m4
• avi e4
• …
• avi m7
• avi e7
• avi p/plus (reading level required in 8th grade, end of primary school)

For comparison, this is what Avi start looks like, the left page is written on average e5 level.

I don’t know if you are located in the Netherlands, if so, the libraries have dedicated sections for each of the Avi-levels, the librarians can show you where to find them. Also online you can find many lists of recommended books for each Avi level. Once you are comfortable with one level, move up to the next level until you have reached the end. By the time you are comfortable with e7 or plus, you can safely grab any other book you can find!

While it won’t offer all the bells and whistles that a vendor-specific integration has, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) integration is a nice generic integration that reports status and ink/toner levels of network enabled printers that support IPP. Its a very generic protocol, so I believe most network printers will work fine with that. That might help broaden your search a bit (our 2014 Canon laser printer works fine with it).

Yagshemash!

I always use union-groups when working with holes. Sometimes I even have to go through multiple nested union groups to get the desired result. But it always works when exporting, and you directly see the resulting shape in the editor (and the export).

How about Obsydian? Seems like a great and flexible app, plugins to add as much as you like, and free for personal use.

Not sure about the zero, but seems to be ran successfully on other raspberries, see https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=344018