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An NFC movie library for my kids
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#172Looks great.
I am working on side to learn product design by working on a similar system for music. The idea is to have the tactile feel of a vinyl like system but with the features of a digital library and ecosystem.
The base implementation was really straightforward and hardly a few hours but to make it bridge the gap we see with our digital tools emulating analog ones is quite fun to work on. From the latency involved between placing the card to the output from a remote service, the sound dial's latency when paired with bluetooth speakers all take one away from the experience.
It's also fun to learn little leathercrafting and concrete moulding for the prototype design.
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#173This is really cool and demonstrates the power of stuff like home assistant really well.
I’ve recently rediscovered my old music collection from the pre-streaming days on an old NAS, thousands of mp3s with carefully curated id3 tags etc. I’m almost tempted to create a similar system but for albums!
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have this general feeling based my 21 years bouncing around Europe that subtitle countries have better English than dub countries, although I'm not proposing that the link is causative
My perception from traveling to 40+ countries is that countries where dubbing is common do so for the reason that the population is more illiterate and lower-educated in general, and that trend just extends to having less fluency in other languages.
There are many reasons for the distinction, culture and money being chief among them.
Dubbing is far more expensive than subs. So countries like Germany or France would be more likely to afford it. They're also countries which try to promote the use of their language for historical and national pride reasons (as opposed to Anglicization of everything) so it makes them even more likely to have dubs. They also had dubbing for so long that it became cultural and maybe even expected.
Contrast that with countries like the former Eastern block which had no foreign material to speak of until the '90s, and when they finally did they couldn't afford dubbing, so they went with the quick and easy route of subs. They also probably have fewer aspirations for the promotion of their own language and priorities practicality over pride, embracing foreign languages faster.
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#175Really awesome project. This bit made me think though: > First: you have a limited choice of movies to watch. When I was a kid, we didn't have an infinite catalog of movies to watch. Something always rubs me the wrong way with this way of thinking. "X is good because I had X when I was young." I don't necessarily disagree that X is good, but it's definitely not because you had it as a kid.
OP here You make a good point. The "it was better in my day" argument isn't always valid. I didn't mean to imply that something is inherently good just because it existed in the past. But I do believe that having a smaller collection is nicer. It leads to a deeper appreciation for what you have. Each item in your library feels more special and valuable. And getting something new becomes exciting (I still remember get…
That was very well said! We have our own experience with too much toys and I don't like it.
I really appreciate the effort you took for your kids here. Thanks for showing us!
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#180I have an extremely similar setup for my 3yr old. He has his NFC cards and select from stuff we find suitable. The TV comes on, one episode runs, TV goes off. He's not fighting over the remote and he has agency. And he's certainly not stumbling his way through YouTube on a tablet. No ads. Very nice for him. It's not yet necessary to track his usage. But I'm well prepared for it. Home Assistant works very well for the…
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