Gonna do it in rDOTBEATTIMEWEBAPP, aiming probably just to be very basic javascript at least at first.

Obviously, "Songs you hate but sing anyway" will be the week I start the worst Arctic Monkeys album.

The Nat Scale

Note: This scale excludes things that can be perceived as spicy but produce a different chemical reaction due to Allyl Isothiocyanate, piperine, or other compounds other than Capsaicin. Capsaicin is an easier and more predictable measure. Things like horseradish or ginger, for example, produce an entirely different reaction and are therefore not comparable to Capsaicin based spices.

I should do this sometime, but so far everything's fine for me in Google-land sans RCS since I chat over SMS with so few people.

Much like true blacks over in T311, this was a matter for config.txt, namely commenting out dtparam=audio=on, so it now in total looks like:

Well, I'll deal with this later, it's #Freezerburn time ;)

Wait, did I already run into this and find a workaround in T137: Pi 3b HDMI out doesn't do pure black, goes grey instead? Yes, I did! Phew!

Sometimes getting decent enough speeds:

$ speedtest
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from TekSavvy Solutions (104.246.230.74)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by O-NET (Olds, AB) [193.25 km]: 21.987 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 416.51 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 94.61 Mbit/s

Well it's definitely faster at least:

Success, perhaps! New modem took a few tries to find non-packetlossy frequencies but now seems fine?

Got a new modem, the CBN CD8000. Now following https://help.teksavvy.com/teksavvy-faq/post/update-your-hardware-with-mysavvy-zcEJYLC0x7hpQvB

I should really get this done ASAP because Freezerburn is coming up sooooon!

mpv seems nicest to actually control in some ways:

Okay so this is driving me insane.

Judging by https://forum.f-droid.org/t/rcs-supported-message-sms-mms-app/13423 and otherwise ironically Googlin' around it really doesn't seem like there's any options for RCS chats that aren't in fact less trustworthy than Google. So the choices are actually either to fool Google or to give up on RCS I guess?

FJÄLKINGE shelf (https://www.ikeaddict.com/ikeapedia/en/Product/50221688/ca-en/fjalkinge-shelving-unit-white/Entry/)

• shelf clips part number 131295

Or maybe

This is starting to be more of a problem the more I try and run you-know-what...

Once installed, cvlc works for the self-compiled version, though also it just works fine with, say, vlc -I dummy --fullscreen --loop --no-mouse-events --no-keyboard-events --video-on-top --no-osd --mouse-hide-timeout=1 videos/some.mp4. But . . . it still visibly pauses. Arghh!

Reckoning that maybe I was just running things wrong, I've decided to install the possible-abomination I've compiled.

Running in a terminal session unfortunately doesn't seem to really benefit either very much, but VLC's CPU usage is maaaaybe even lower, and it seems entirely viable and so could bypass the need for even something like openbox (which I'm mostly using to avoid polluting the shell init for testing, but this means it could easily be a systemd service for the production approach).

Okay, actually I wayback machine'd it, which points in turn to https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/549 which in turn points to https://code.videolan.org/tguillem/vlc/-/tree/gapless-mr which was set to maybe be merged into VLC 4.0 . . . and maybe it still will be, but 4.0 isn't out yet anyways.

Got back at this, decided to try to run just direct invocations of video players that have hardware decode on the Pi.

Current status:

• OS: Ubuntu Server 24.04 (latest LTS, so good for at least another 4 years, and I keep it up to date entirely automatically)
• Nextcloud: Updated all the apps and updated the core to version 29.0.14, the latest non-.0 release of the second-latest Nextcloud version as of last I was touching this . . . but actually since then there's been a version 31. And looking now, I see at https://github.com/nextcloud/server/wiki/Maintenance-and-Release-Schedule that 29 is nearly EOL already:

Should still upgrade a bit more but this is mostly fine now.