#lazyweb. Where can I buy high(er) capacity NFC/RFID cards at reasonable prices? 16, 32 or 64 kiloByte?

#lazyweb Which powerline adapters work for you? I am thinking of upgrading my current ones (TP-Link with AV500 that does max 500 Mbit/s) with the newer version that doubles the theoretical max. Experiences, anyone?

UPDATE: I have replaced the TP-Link with Devolo Magic 2 LAN adapters. See https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114919773685774736

#WritersCoffeeClub 24 Jul ‘stream of consciousness’

I’m seeking advice today, rather than showcase stuff

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what other punctuation can be used to create a distinction between direct speech and a stream of consciousness?

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I want to show my German student the old-school joke "ad" making fun of Apple ads where an evil mastermind in his lair describes how easy linux is to use... notable lines about "recompiling your kernel" etc. I can NOT find this on the internet anymore. Came out in maybe 2000 ish. someone is gonna have a link I know it #lazyweb

#lazyWeb #comicBook #nerd question.

At the start of the new Superman #movie, they claim in the current iteration of the DC universe, meta humans have been widely known for 3 centuries.

Excluding folks like Vandal Savage, or wearers of Dr. Fate's helmet, who were the widely known meta humans from the 1720s ?

Hey Fedi!

I need to convert a 4TB RAID array. I will move the data off it and then back. Currently it's NTFS (and Windows). When I'm done, it will be LVM+EXT4 (and Linux).

Does the file system of the intermediate storage make any difference to the speed or otherwise? If yes, what would be best? (I might hit the 4GB file size limit on FAT32.)

Also, is this best done by copying files, or would it be faster (probably not safer) to manipulate the existing partition?

Computer touchers and telephony enthusiasts, a question: my brother who's in Japan needs to call a 1-800 number in the US. What's the simplest way to do this? He has a VPN that can spoof his location as the US, if that helps.

(I don't know how to hashtag this, please boost?)

#DuckDuckFedi:

Can anyone recommend me an *offline* OCR/auto-translator app for either Android, Linux, or Windows? Something like Google Lens, but not Google. Commercial/paid is fine as long as it's offline.

I feel like I've asked the #lazyweb this before, but I apparently forgot to bookmark the answer... and it's come up again in my work....

Long, long ago OCLC had a date parsing library (written in Java) that was intended to handle all the various forms of dates found in MARC records. Does anybody remember the name of this or have a pointer for me?

When I said I was working on a musical Moo, which is kind of an interactive storytelling platform, loads of you mentioned some prior art by somebody who did another text based novel with music.

I made a note of this . . . . somewhere.... (help?)

#Lazyweb: A while ago I came across a paper that said men in management positions were more likely than women to make judgements based on emotions instead of evidence. I can't find it now, does anyone have a reference?

Has anyone gotten Tv.app and Music.app working with a NAS? I get all kinds of weird errors about canʻt save the library, and downloading frequently errors out.

I have gigabit ethernet from the Mac to the NAS that gets full thoroughput.

Iʻve tried switching from samba to NFS, but that didnʻt help.

I really donʻt want to have an external drive for it again.

I want to run an(other) account which posts pictures every so often on social media.

Up until now I've always built or used separate scripts for each network. I think it would be more sensible to post to just one, and use crossposting gateways to reach the others.

Can people suggest which one I should start with?

(Networks I'd like to use: Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Tumblr)
#lazyweb

Dear #London #LazyWeb: Is there anywhere you know of that a body could walk in, pick up a couple packs of large-print playing cards, and walk out having purchased them? I'm hoping to use them for a demonstration lecture aimed at KS2 audiences, so durable beats Hoyle-approved or whatever.

#lazyWeb

Geeky friends, O'friendly geeks,

What are the best practices for optimizing performance for self-hosted videos?

Say someone* wants to ditch third-party services like Vimeo/Youtube and self-host their videos without compromising page #performance Are there any guidelines and best practices?

Aside from choosing an accessible video player, what should someone know/do?

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*me. someone is me.

Is there a #fediverse alternative to LinkedIn?

Any recommendations for #privacy focused #email providers that will work with a local email client. I currently have #protonmail but I cannot install #protonbridge to use with my local email client. Any other recommendations?

dear #lazyweb: is there a game inventory system that works for #steam and #gog? I never remember what I have on which store.

also kind of interested in a #retrogaming inventoru option beyond a #gnumeric spreadsheet. something to track my carts/discs.

I guess also maybe something like a self hosted backloggery alternative but that's way more detailed than I was thinking.

#lazyweb Stupid question time: Does analog TV use FM or AM?

To narrow the scope: Let's assume it's the USA in 1970s/80s and I've tuned my color TV to channel 4, and the signal is coming in through coax cable (i.e. cable TV- no antenna on premises). Where did the signal running through my coax come from, and what are its contents?

You'd think this be easy to look up, but when I look up "channels", I get frequency bands/bandwidth and not much else.