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Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #276
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #267

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This is a really cool project, but also way beyond the skills of an average person. I don’t know If I am becoming old fashioned, but I feel things were simpler when I was a kid, we had DVD player and we would come over to a friends house and watch a movie. We even found someone’s porn collection! I feel this issue is endemic through all of society - you have to spend more and more of your IQ points figuring out basic…

Is it not expected for people (or generations) to learn new things (and not learn obsolete things)? My kids learned how to navigate Apple TV and the Apple TV remote at age 3 to go to Infuse or PBS kids app. And I tell them to turn off the TV after x episode of y time limit, and they know how to do that.

> Is it not expected for people (or generations) to learn new things

If they are useful, and's an improvement, sure

But we just enshittified an experience that used to be good, and now have to ‘learn’ to cope with it

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Post by tasuki »

Freak_NL wrote: post #135
Freak_NL wrote: post #132

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> […] but they're too young right now. Indeed they are. I have a five year old who is now old enough to choose his own films and series from a selection curated by us. A system like this would be fine for children of his age. But 2 and 3? They are too young to choose their own media at all. Not because they can't, but because they can't judge the impact. For toddlers you really want to be the one in control about wha…

Also, given that they understand Dutch, get them on to Buurman en Buurman! (The excellent stop motion Pat & Mat from Czechia). That's something which works well even at 3.

Fun fact, the original has no dialogue. I think only the Dutch version is dubbed.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by lotsofpulp »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #311
lotsofpulp wrote: post #276

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Is it not expected for people (or generations) to learn new things (and not learn obsolete things)? My kids learned how to navigate Apple TV and the Apple TV remote at age 3 to go to Infuse or PBS kids app. And I tell them to turn off the TV after x episode of y time limit, and they know how to do that.

> Is it not expected for people (or generations) to learn new things If they are useful, and's an improvement, sure But we just enshittified an experience that used to be good, and now have to ‘learn’ to cope with it

I beg to differ. I prefer being able to search and select and instantly watch whatever I (or the kids) want (due to high reliability of broadband internet), over transporting physical media back and forth from a store or library and putting it into a dedicated machine for it.

I specifically recall how annoying it was to change the input on a TV because for some reason, manufacturers didn’t put that button on TVs or all remotes.

If my 3 year olds can learn to navigate tvOS to the right app or infuse library and pick the Bluey episode they want, I feel like it’s a pretty good sign of things not being shitty.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by dusted »

RandallBrown wrote: post #306
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #267

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This is a really cool project, but also way beyond the skills of an average person. I don’t know If I am becoming old fashioned, but I feel things were simpler when I was a kid, we had DVD player and we would come over to a friends house and watch a movie. We even found someone’s porn collection! I feel this issue is endemic through all of society - you have to spend more and more of your IQ points figuring out basic…

> you have to spend more and more of your IQ points figuring out basic shit I'm not sure that watching a movie on a streaming service requires more IQ points than watching it on a DVD.

I thought about that earlier today, I'm pretty sure it does.

Worst-case DVD experience: Step 1. Unbox TV and DVD Player Step 2. Plug scart cable from DVD player into TV. Step 3. Connect TV and DVD player to power, insert batteries in remotes. Step 4. Turn on DVD Player, TV, press "Source" a few times, the DVD player shows something. Step 5. Gander at some DVDs, decide which to watch. Step 6. Press Eject Step 7. Insert DVD Step 8. Press Eject Step 9. Press Play.

Now, assuming that electricity is provided, care to write down how to netflix? From the beginning, so we need to start by unboxing our very first computer, setting it up to the point where we can connect to the internet, also, we need an internet connection, oh, and some way to order that, so a phone.. Now, there will be a few steps before we reach to the point where we can create an email account, needed to even register for the streaming service.. Oh, something about credit cards too, and passwords for stuff?

Sure, you will think this is absurd, because all that stuff is "already in place" yeah, it is, for us, we set it up bit by bit, it's an enormous amount of infrastructure and different, disconnected concepts and services that is now REQUIRED before you can watch a movie..

I'll bet I can teach most 4 year olds to go from "empty living room with a power socket" to "watching dvd movies". You'll have a hard time convincing me you can teach them to go from empty living room with a power socket, to watching netflix before their next birthday or two :)

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Post by ThatMedicIsASpy »

jimbokun wrote: post #229
ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #157

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When I was 14-18 I watched anime (japanese dubs with eng subs). The censorship of the german dubs got me into it and I hated german subs plus the english subs were faster and the germans often were double translated (jap > eng > ger). My english grades were very good thanks to it. Now I'm exposed more to english (movies, shows, internet, os) than german I've switched to german subs and started watching anime again 20…

That's funny I thought you were going to say it helped you learn Japanese.

I have stopped after 3 years. My brother never stopped and can now. My sister also started years ago and can speak/read/understand a lot.

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Post by ThatMedicIsASpy »

ryukoposting wrote: post #210
ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #157

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When I was 14-18 I watched anime (japanese dubs with eng subs). The censorship of the german dubs got me into it and I hated german subs plus the english subs were faster and the germans often were double translated (jap > eng > ger). My english grades were very good thanks to it. Now I'm exposed more to english (movies, shows, internet, os) than german I've switched to german subs and started watching anime again 20…

Would you have recommendations for an English speaker trying to learn German? Where do I go to find anime with good German subtitles? Or, maybe even a German dub?

Netflix should have plenty? Anime seems like a weird choice.

I would suggest the German public broadcast channels on Youtube with subtitles instead of Anime.

https://www.youtube.com/@Handwerkskunst/videos https://www.youtube.com/@ARDRoomTour

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Post by k-a-ll-e »

sgt wrote: post #96

Deep links are now possible with Infuse as well: https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/215090997-API... I also evaluated Plex but ended up with Infuse as it seemed perfect for my needs. The Apple TV app is great. Plex probably has more features though. I renew it once a year.

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Post by neumann »

hczedik wrote: post #250
marc136 wrote: post #206

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If you are looking for a FOSS alternative to tonies, yoto and such I would also recommend the DIY TonUINO project. The boards are built into boxes, toys (from fire engines to plush) and whatever sparks imagination. https://discourse.voss.earth/t/tonuino-gehaeuse-galerie/786/... Most of the community speaks German, but there is also an English section https://discourse.voss.earth/c/international/11 The source code is…

There is also the similar Phoniebox community which is using Rasperry Pis: https://phoniebox.de/ Here is my build that fits into a wooden police bus. The figures put on the driver seat start the music: https://github.com/Bronkoknorb/hermibox

Phoniebox is what I went with.

Very fun to build, highly customizable and good for both beginner plug n play options. I enjoyed taking the old Fisher Price music box record player apart and turning it into an NFC based record player.

Lots of other great examples in the yearly showcase threads

https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID/discussions/211...

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Post by nsteel »

dusted wrote: post #314
RandallBrown wrote: post #306

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> you have to spend more and more of your IQ points figuring out basic shit I'm not sure that watching a movie on a streaming service requires more IQ points than watching it on a DVD.

I thought about that earlier today, I'm pretty sure it does. Worst-case DVD experience: Step 1. Unbox TV and DVD Player Step 2. Plug scart cable from DVD player into TV. Step 3. Connect TV and DVD player to power, insert batteries in remotes. Step 4. Turn on DVD Player, TV, press "Source" a few times, the DVD player shows something. Step 5. Gander at some DVDs, decide which to watch. Step 6. Press Eject Step 7. Inser…

Hang on, but we already have a library of DVDs?! The main benefit of streaming and what makes it worth the effort is you have thousands of films available. You've just ignored that part. Yes, that is absurd.

Re: An NFC movie library for my kids

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Post by zer0zzz »

aembleton wrote: post #106
zer0zzz wrote: post #24

Dang, the level of engineering to recreate what is essentially a VHS

The electro mechanical engineering inside a VHS player is so much more impressive.

I find so much of modern technology to be a huge step backwards.

Example: People used to call friends over a land line and tell them to tune into the movie on whatever channel and they’d watch at the same time together from two different places. Doing anything like that with modern tech is such a hassle these days that no one does it anymore.

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