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An NFC movie library for my kids

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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by lxgr »

rhinoceraptor wrote: post #246

I've been buying CDs as well as burning FLAC albums I have on blanks for basically this same reason, the limited choices and slightly higher switching costs is more enjoyable to me. And CDs still cost about as much as they ever did, which means they're much cheaper now with inflation. I found vinyl CD labels [1] that I can print on my color laser printer that look pretty decent, it only takes a few minutes to burn th…

If you want a really impressive portable optical disc format, consider looking into MiniDisc!

The players are even more impressive (I have one that plays something like 20 hours on a single AA battery), you can re-record the disks via USB using a WebUSB based webapp [1] these days for NetMD recorders, and the disks actually are almost infinitely re-recordable and much more stable than CD-Rs (which are write-once and only last a couple of years).

[1] https://stefano.brilli.me/webminidisc/

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by JAlexoid »

maweki wrote: post #92

I 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…

> I'm sad that Netflix&Co. do not publicize their urls/intents/etc. for smart TVs. I'd be happy to call an episode directly.

That is an intentional marketing move. If you bypass the loading screen, you're also bypassing advertising for their content.

It's in Netflix's interest for you to be aware of their new releases or suggestions. They want you to see the loading screen.

The last thing they want is for you to start thinking that paying them is no longer worth the value.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Freak_NL wrote: post #136
cortesoft wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every parent is required to say they only allow very limited screen time even if secretly they all allow quite a bit more.

Plenty of parents do use screens responsibly. My five year old can watch one episode of whichever series he is watching at the moment after school (currently Hilda , which Netflix really should push harder than some of the crap that gets suggested). In the weekends sometimes we allow for one film instead. It's not a challenge to keep a limit on screen time at this age.

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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by josephernest »

dmd wrote: post #201

I made a similar system but for music, using QR codes on plastic cards and a webcam, when my daughter was 1. After a year or so we switched to just having a standalone numkey pad where she could just punch in numbers from a jukebox-style catalog. https://github.com/dmd/nkplay/ She's now 10, and knows ~100 playlists by number . "I want to listen to 37!"

Your numpad solution looks great! Would you have a photo of the whole setup? I thought about doing the same, but I fear to end with cables and PCB everywhere in my children's room if I take this path :)

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by peterleiser »

oezi wrote: post #122
xafke wrote: post #94

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Author here (surreal to see my post at the top of HN!) My kids are 3 and 2, and they don't watch TV like adults. They watch a bit of movie, get up, walk around, do something else, come back, and watch a bit of another movie or even switch to a TV show. It's weird! I like your idea about flexibility, but they're too young right now. Maybe we'll introduce your "bank" concept when they get older or increase the "TV budg…

I have learned that doing just weekends for TV is much better for small kids so they don't get used to TV watching.

Yes, we also switched to TV only on weekends.

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Post by hombre_fatal »

Aeolun wrote: post #214
sgt wrote: post #192

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It is truly bizarre, I agree! Everything to chase a bit of dopamine. And if you peer over and look at what they're browsing, it's mostly junk, social media videos or just mindless scrolling. It's actually healthier for the brain to be bored in such moments.

Junk like hackernews?

HN is more than entertainment, though.

It's apparently also a hangout spot for (self-awarded) gold star internet parents who love the smell of their own farts and think anyone else wants to smell them.

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Post by timthorn »

Symbiote wrote: post #235
timthorn wrote: post #188

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> German numbers are one-hundred-five-and-fifty instead of one-hundred-fifty-five and too many of my thoughts are in english Both are fine in the UK, though the "five-and-fifty" form is somewhat old fashioned. My Grandmother used to say numbers like that, especially for time. I refer you also to "Sing a Song of Sixpence" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence

Perhaps in some regions, but in general asking "is this the stop for the eight-and-sixty bus?" would confuse most British people. I've only even seen the Germanic number ordering in poetry.

I agree, and it is an unusual turn of phrase these days, but I think it's the scenario here that would be confusing. The number 68 bus is a label rather than a quantity, which makes a difference.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by dmd »

josephernest wrote: post #254
dmd wrote: post #201

I made a similar system but for music, using QR codes on plastic cards and a webcam, when my daughter was 1. After a year or so we switched to just having a standalone numkey pad where she could just punch in numbers from a jukebox-style catalog. https://github.com/dmd/nkplay/ She's now 10, and knows ~100 playlists by number . "I want to listen to 37!"

Your numpad solution looks great! Would you have a photo of the whole setup? I thought about doing the same, but I fear to end with cables and PCB everywhere in my children's room if I take this path :)

There's honestly nothing really to see. It's a raspberry pi in a standard plastic case[0] with 3 cables coming out of it - power, usb to the numkey, and audio (male to male headphone jack) to the speakers.

The pi and power are hidden behind a bookshelf, so all that is actually visible is the numkey and the speaker.

[0] https://www.microcenter.com/product/608178/4_Official_Case_-...

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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eadmund wrote: post #224

This is an awesome example of the kind of innovation which overlong copyright prevents. There’s no particularly good reason that it should be legally impermissible for someone to build and sell a system like this loaded with movies from before, say, 2010 (or 2000, or whatever), but instead what the prospective entrepreneur would be legally able to include would be … Steamboat Willie, and other films of that vintage (…

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