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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Jon B. - Aug 28, 2019 10:57:38 am PDT #25300 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Gudanov - Sep 23, 2019 9:13:32 am PDT #25301 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I've been working some on learning Rust. It's a pretty cool language, but there's definitely a learning curve. I'm writing a command line version of solitaire with it as a learning project.
Consuela - Sep 29, 2019 3:23:43 pm PDT #25302 of 25496
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I would love some advice on what to do with my music collection. I have 50+ GB of music in my iTunes library, much of it ripped or ahemmed from places. I have an iPod Classic which also contains all of that music, but which no longer updates from my Macbook. My Macbook has bluetooth but for some reason won't recognize the bluetooth adaptor I bought for my little stereo.
As a result, this is how I listen to my own music: plug in the iPod to the aux cable on the stereo. If I want to listen to other music, I stream Google Play Music (the free version) from my phone to the bluetooth adaptor for the stereo.
However this mechanism will only work until my iPod stops working, and there's no way for me to add music to my library in such a way that all systems can access it.
So I think I will have to go on the Cloud? So I can stream, at least to my phone? But I was looking and it looks like Amazon and Google both have pretty expensive monthly costs just to host my music ($10/month). This place has some good recommendations but I don't know, I've never heard of it. I have so much in the Google ecosystem I'd like to stay out of it if I can...
Does anyone have any advice other than "get another laptop with properly working bluetooth"?
Gris - Sep 30, 2019 12:41:09 am PDT #25303 of 25496
Hey. New board.
You can upload up to 50,000 songs to Google Music for free. It is unclear whether that will last much longer though as they are trying to transition to YouTube Music.
Gris - Sep 30, 2019 1:34:30 am PDT #25304 of 25496
Hey. New board.
You could also try buying a USB Bluetooth adapter for your laptop. They would be far cheaper than a new laptop. Or look into a WiFi based streamer like a Chromecast Audio - I'm not sure how well they work for local files from a laptop though. Apple no longer supports such a thing for audio only unfortunately.
Zenkitty - Oct 18, 2019 12:28:00 pm PDT #25305 of 25496
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I need help. My Android phone has both my Gmail accounts on it, my personal and work. Well, the work one has been deactivated, and I can't figure out how to get it off my phone. Gmail keeps trying to sign it in, Play won't let me download anything until I sign in, and the fact that my personal account is signed in doesn't matter. What do I do here?
Gris - Oct 18, 2019 2:36:37 pm PDT #25306 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Settings->Accounts->Click account name->Remove account
If that's not right tell me the make and model. Not all Android's are identical in the details.
Zenkitty - Oct 18, 2019 2:55:29 pm PDT #25307 of 25496
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Yes! Thank you!
Gris - Oct 19, 2019 12:31:20 am PDT #25308 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Accounts being a system level setting rather than an app level setting definitely takes some getting used to.
Amy - Nov 13, 2019 11:18:44 am PST #25309 of 25496
Because books.
Never mind! I fixed it myself!