Tom Rini @trini@tenforward.social

I believe #introductions are in order. My name is Tom, my pronouns are he/him/his. I've been a Linux person since the late 90s. I've been a Sci-Fi reader since I could choose my own books. I've been a Sci-Fi watcher for even longer. I'm married and we have two kids. I'm in the US (North Carolina), I'm a liberal and I talk politics under a CW. Given the instance, I should mention my family watched TNG growing up and I really liked catching TAS when it was on.

Youtube Music is so bad / annoying for "just play this playlist of songs you downloaded already", I'm now saying to hell with it and putting mp3s on a flash drive and dealing with the crap UI in the car instead.

So, 4th grader is still doing synchronous learning. New rule from the district is that cameras need to be on during these classes. Popped over to check on things in this class and... camera is on, but forward facing, ie not camera and showing the cover. Told them good job on figuring out the first workaround, but no, that's not gonna be allowed. Now it's back to showing the ceiling. That I'll leave to the teacher. Few more weeks before they move to asynchronous classes.

This happens here on city water at least once a year when the water gets turned off/on. Quick fix.

Does your toilet have any sort of problem (too loud, not filling right/quickly, random water leakage) that isn't it being clogged? It's quite possibly the fill hose got disconnected in the tank. Take off the lid to the tank (the back part), and look around the top of the left hand side. Do you see a little hose dangling around? That got disconnected from the input it goes to on the rest of the stuff in that area. Re-attach, put on the lid, flush. 1/2

In one of those cases of "Did someone delete a post?", I swear I saw https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.ashutoshgngwr.noice/ go by my feed and it seems like what we've been looking for here for a bit. My only complaint is that the Google store is behind the F-Droid store, so we can't play Library + Wolf noises. So, thank you whoever posted about that app.

As we get annoyed at Hulu over all the ads we cannot skip, I went back to looking at the price for Spectrum TV and I see now there's an app for Roku. If you have Spectrum and the Roku app, can you pause live TV and then fastword past ads? Or does it force you to watch those and you need a cable box + DVR to be able to skip those still?

During the louder part after Trump got here the cops went in to the crowd and dragged off someone who was dressed for trouble later (covered, goggles, etc). The local white "peace monitor" activist got there fairly quick and stayed as close as the cops would let him. I have some cell video to look over later if something happened, lots of other people recorded too.

Back home now from one of the two protests. Not quite as much social distancing as there should have been, but fairly reasonable. Related to the official event, a number of signs pointing out WW2 was about fighting fash and nazis. I'm assuming on his side of the river they had music to drown out our music, but it would have been loud enough to hear I think. Only 2 pro-Trump cars drove by the event.