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Because it’s cheaper to run DAB than FM and running both with the same content costs too much. But for range, DAB is even worse. The neighboring country’s stations here already stop working five miles behind the border. FM covers 50 miles and since local AM transmission have stopped, in my car I can listen to stations 300 miles away. It sounds like crap but it’s still usable and I tune in often. For sports coverage it was good enough and I miss the times where it was possible to listen to full games while driving. The FM replacement doesn’t cover as much area and there’s no consistent internet coverage to listen via app (and it’s illegal to play with your phone while driving, so once the app cuts out, you can’t restart it)

It depends on how small. I’m working with really small (like less than 5mb per upload) and use a FastAPI endpoint on my API to receive the file and then have other Python code save it (or reject it)

I used it a decade ago and it was fine. Now I need a proper dezint library for Python that reads all those barcodes from images…

Back then swatch really blew it by not synching the zero with UTC. If the days had been UTC based, this might have taken off. This way, it was just a joke and that’s why it died quickly.

The author mentioned using polish translations of English books, so he already knew, at least roughly, what the book is about. This way, reading and listening in the target language makes a lot of sense.

It’s the same when watching foreign TV. Having subtitles on in the same language that is spoken is really useful, you learn more than only reading or only listening.

Watching BBC Iplayer via VPN is hard, mainly because it’s in the interest of the BBC to avoid eating the cost of serving the world for free. And VPN traffic is easy to spot, if you’re looking for it. I’m assuming the BBC invests a lot of resources to fence of non paying foreign viewers.

But this is a BBC specific problem, most of the other European geofencing is quite weak and getting access to most other public broadcasters works just fine with a proper VPN.

Assuming you’d want to watch that.

There’s already too many movies and people get bored watching more of the same. If thanks to AI there’s a flood of cheaper mediocre movies content it could kill the remaining excitement.

I have a few long time running Pis - and have been keeping them up for a decade now. No SD Card corruption ever and i got close to 1000 days uptime on one.

The biggest problem is loss of wifi, after a few months one will lose wifi, but keep working - it’s constantly recording data so a reboot is not a good idea. I’d prefer a solution where I could just reset the wifi, but all attempts to script that reliably so far failed.

With external clients I serve the file locally, password protected access and encrypted file and then call them and watch them download. Then I confirm that they got it and stop serving. This is safe than to trust it to a third party service and I can monitor access. Sharing local port via ngrok is easy enough and Python comes with a http server that can serve a folder.

Why not simply use pip? At least that works…

As a user I’d stay away from sharing IPFS because of legal reasons. Just like torrenting, by actively distributing content I take up legal responsibility (at least in Europe where I’m located) - that’s risk is tolerable for a legal torrent because the file doesn’t change over time. For a changing web site, I’d constantly have to monitor the site for changes or trust the site 100% - which is not happening as soon as the site is somewhat controversial…

This should work fine on the composite output of the pi with no need for a modulator. At least here in Europe, where teletext is still very much a thing, it works from the external satellite receiver that’s connected this way.