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Current borkedness of my bluetooth setup: The connection drops when I close the empty ssh session

Wait no, pairable off actually cuts off the connection now?

Disabling pairing while streaming via `bluetoothctl pairable off` already helps quite a bit. I might have to write a small script that does this automatically, or add a hardware button

I could also live with streaming audio directly via pulse or pipewire, but bluetooth is preferrable because it's a more universal interface, whereas direct audio streams mean I'd have to set up Airplay or other protocols additionally or exclude Android phones / iPhones / Macs as potential sources…

Does anybody have any experience with creating a *reliable* Raspberry Pi bluetooth streamer? I have a Pi 3b+ with a bluetooth module and it's always < 5m away from where I stream, but I can't for the life if mine figure out how to get a stable bluetooth connection that I can use to stream audio to it.

Nice take on "technology is political": "Computers have come to us via military, and then corporate accounting systems. It’s not surprising that are are about centralizing and empowering a single perspective, but that isn’t how people are. Everyone has their own story. It’s just a centralized power is easier to implement, but think a decentralized one will actually work better."

https://www.theinitialcommit.com/2017/04/04/dominic-tarr/

It depends on how you render it I guess :)

Hm… it describes itself as a quine, but is it really a quine though? Thinking about it I only know quines as producing actual source code output

https://feather.wiki/ is a self-contained wiki quine in about 65kb

Sir, this is a cloud computing platform

TIL you can add some modifiers to searches in the Firefox omnibar and make it search only in your browsing history or only in open tabs https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox?redirectslug=awesome-bar-find-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs&redirectlocale=en-US#w_changing-results-on-the-fly

There's a new release out, and shipping is half the cost of the vinyl, and it's eexxppeennssiivvee, and limited, of course. Makes for a fun challenge: I run the clock setting up my NixOS-on-a-Raspberry-Pi-based bluetooth audio before its sold out so I can listen to it on my speakers before, and then decide if its worth the money

https://justine.lol/pledge/ looks really, really useful

Enough with the ranting for now:

"It suddenly dawned on me that since I didn't like what I was working so hard to pay for, I really ought to come up with something else. So I made a list of all my passions, and they were things like travel and adventure, romance and bizarre encounters, computer networking, ham radio, tinkering, gizmology, bicycles – you know, neat stuff in general. So, obvious choice: I sold my house, moved to a bicycle and put a computer on it. Powered it by the sun. Lived on the computer networks and became a nomadic freelance writer." (In 1989.)

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lLWl9d2jWuI

Update: There's a new error preventing me from logging in now.

Whoops, nope, back here

There's no other button or anything, just a "nice that you logged in in your browser! You will sure be glad to hear that you should download our app instead."

Update: I was able to get past the login screen, now it just shows this.