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Is there DRM added to bluetooth audio connections?

Good point -- I just put in a feature request, so now someone has asked for it.

I don't see that this is any worse for the experience than the bluetooth situation. It'd certainly make the device more valuable for me. But that doesn't mean Amazon will see it as worth their time.

True enough. Somehow bluetooth audio manages these issues.

I for one would accept latency and the audio going silent (or better, an audio indicator) if the connection isn't up-to-snuff but I don't know if other people would.

Ooh, SoundSync sounds awesome (no pun intended).

> Bluetooth isn't the same as your WiFi network. Most of the comments here are talking about IP-based protocols that aren't relevant for Bluetooth anyway.

I'm aware of that. I want audio over WiFi and audio over LAN, as Bluetooth has left me scarred.

Yes, that's what I meant.

Why isn't there a widely interoperable audio-over-the-network transmission protocol I can use, so that when I am playing sound (from a song, a video, or a game), I can hear it on an external speaker? [The scope is just a 'virtual hardware audio device endpoint' like bluetooth audio]

I'm using Amazon Alexa Echo Dots. I really wish they had a line-in connection, as it, too, would make life much easier when I want to play audio from a device.

Goodness, I live in a rural area, and the house prices are only insane, instead of egregiously insane. I don't know how I'd afford a home for a young family if I was just starting out today.

Perhaps someone knows more, but from what I can see, my conclusion is no.

The search box says "First and/or Last Name"

The tips at https://1950census.archives.gov/search/ say:

> Tip #1: Search for the first and last name of the head of household (plus state and county of residence if known) because the surname was written on the census form only on the line for the head of household and other persons in the household with a different surname.

> Tip #3: You don't have to know the exact spelling of a person's name in order to perform a name search. Enter as much as you know. The search engine will return any close variations or matches.

The FAQ also adds:

> Is there a name index to the 1950 Census? > Yes, researchers will be able to search the 1950 census by name. Please note that the name index will not be 100% accurate because it is based on optical character recognition (OCR) and artificial intelligence/machine learning. The website will feature a transcription tool to enable users to submit name updates, which will improve the accuracy of the name index and make the records more accessible for everyone.

Interesting. I've been looking up at setting up Internet-in-a-box for a what-if scenario (ex. what if people can charge their phones but have no internet access), and am amazed that you can download wikipedia in well over a hundred languages.

I wondered, after getting the key languages spoken here (English being #1 by far) about Blackfoot, but see that there is no version of Wikipedia in that language. I wonder if they have any first nations languages (and yes, I understand that it depends on volunteers writing the articles in those languages, and that they almost certainly speak English better).

Huh. I didn't know this existed.

That's horrible! It is not like regular Russian citizens are responsible for the war or deserve to be punished for what their country is doing.

Whoa. That's so devious.

So frustrating. Why would they pick this one?

I live in Alberta, Canada, and enough people want to get rid of the time zone switching that it came to a vote last fall. I couldn't believe the question on the ballot was do you want to go to permanent DST, instead of asking if we wanted to go to permanent standard time. It was snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

The people voted against the change, but I really think they would've voted for permanent standard time if it had been an option.

:-D

Let me strengthen what I just said.

I've been passively looking for a job. Job hunting is a slog for me, and I'm not interested.

But seeing this list, I've suddenly perked up. This is exciting.

This sounds amazing. I had no idea such a site existed. Thank you.

Working fewer hours for pay that meets my needs is the number one thing a company could do to attract me, with #2 being more vacation days, and #3 being more pay.

I agree with you, and I don't have a full answer to this. The best short answer I have is: why have almost everything (money, land, power) when, with a push, you could have all of everything?

I'm a Canadian. I've been amazed and appalled at how the trucker convoy was handled. The Prime Minister here basically resorted to name calling, disappearing, and then resorting to the nuclear option, abusing the Emergencies Act and freezing bank accounts. The actions don't make sense if we assume the prime minister is a rational actor acting in the best interests of his country. He could've easily de-escalated the situation and met with the truckers when the problem was small. The actions do make more sense if the plan is to pit the people against each other, which, with media support, has been highly successful. There's a lot of hate people who do not wish to be vaccinated, and even against people who just want to have their government-guaranteed freedoms back. Now that hatred has been turned on Russia; I've seen some people ironically say that Putin should get an award for single-handedly ending Covid (not that it is over, just that the news isn't talking about it all the time).

Oh, and I should add that the Canadian government wants to censor the internet. Wish I had a better link, but here's a reputable one: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/02/lobby-harder-canadian-he... . It is also worth noting that, despite undermining our democracy, invoking the emergencies act in this way may have damaged our banking system. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/23/boom-tr... . I'm reminded of an airline that went under, oh, fifteen or twenty years ago. They landed, and had people disembark the aircraft, and said we're out of business. There was no warning beforehand. If Canadian banks are in trouble, they won't be telling news reporters.

The head of the World Economic Forum (who most of the people who think something is afoot are pointing to) is Klaus Schwab, who wrote a book called "Covid-19: The Great Reset". It sounds like the plan is to take everything away from everybody; Mr. Schwab said that in 2030, "you'll own nothing and be happy."

The best link I've got here is probably this video, "Is Klaus Schwab the Most Dangerous Man in the World?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3nWyoQ5CQ

With all that said, I'd be happy for alternative explanations.

Here is a conspiratorial answer. Feel free to disregard it; I can't vouch for it.

Posted 4.5 months ago, here is a timeline to tyranny, purportedly from an ex-Pfizer scientist. https://stateofthenation.co/?p=91761 . It claims that in Phase 6, taking place between now and September, the elites have a plan in place to "Trigger the economic, financial and stock market collapse, the bankruptcy of the banks."

I'd love to hear something that contradicts this. It seems like an excellent explanation for provoking for war, and putting in sanctions. With fuel prices going crazy, and house prices already untenable for many, and governments spending many millions or billions of dollars they don't have for Covid relief, it really does seem reasonable that an underhanded organization could bring down the world economy.

Fun times indeed.

Here is a very interesting preprint article on the topic: https://web.archive.org/web/20210725033512/https://osf.io/x4...

and the HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27936016

I, for one, am intrigued by the idea of a set point diet. The basic idea is that your body maintains homeostasis, and wants to maintain a certain weight. This is why, for example, if you lose the pounds, they come back. The idea is further that there is something in our environment -- in the food, or the air, or the water, perhaps -- that has ratcheted up the set point for many people (presumably depending on which genes they've expressed).

I know there's a book on the topic, and info on the internet. I don't know whether it works.

You did that in Blender? Wow. How on earth did you do that?

Does changing jobs help with burnout, or are the people who plan on leaving their current work going to find themselves burned out again/still in a few months?

Interesting. I usually read the articles first, glancing at the ones that look interesting based on the headline and often reading them. Often I clone the tab first so that I can find the post in HN again, but, when I forget, and if I can't go back and find it, I'll copy the URL and search for it -- which brings it up.

Especially when I'm reading `new`, where there usually aren't many comments, reading the article is great and getting back to the post helps so I can vote it up if I like it.

No, I hadn't seen things that way. It is worrisome that we've lost most of our manufacturing capabilities in the West. Would make any sort of rebuilding difficult.

I've just had it underscored to me recently that the world can change dramatically and permanently in minutes, and was wondering what I could do to be prepared for the worst (while hoping for the best).

That actually makes a whole lot of sense -- might be the killer app; a bulletin board that works on your phone. Assuming people had enough power to charge their phones, and assuming the internet at large was unavailable, this would be brilliant.

In many post-apocalyptic stories, people are using whatever vehicles they can find for as long as they can last. The point of the question is similar -- how can you use whatever computers you can power for as long as they last? I'm not talking about rebuilding fab plants and stuff first; I'm talking about using the millions/billions of devices that are still around and working, and making them do something useful.

That's impressive that you actually did something.

Generating power with a lawn mower? Would never have thought of that.

I stumbled upon Collapse OS while googling, and it lists some related projects. http://collapseos.org