Tag: podcasts
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Audiobookshelf Two Hundred and Fourteen Days Later
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo or three days ago I noticed that I have spent at least sixteen thousand three hundred and fifty seven minutes listening to 320 items over 214 days via Audiobookshelf and I can honestly say that of my self hosted experiments this is my favourite. What I Like What I like about…
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Listening to every Podcast
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when it was much easier to listen to every episode of a podcast for two reasons. The first of these is that they were new so it wouldn’t take too long to burn through one hundred episodes. The second reason is that podcasts were half an hour long…
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The Swiss end of FM Broadcasting
Reading Time: 2 minutesWithin the next year FM broadcasting [will come to an end in Switzerland in 2024](https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2024/article/la-ssr-arretera-completement-la-diffusion-radio-fm-a-la-fin-de-l-annee-28552045.html) and people with old cars are sad. So are people who want to hold on to FM for nostalgic reasons. For hobbyists it’s a shame too, because then all FM radio equipment will become obsolete as we…
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The Fallacy of Please Like and Subscribe
Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the years I have subscribed to hundreds of podcasts, YouTube channels, people on Instagram TikTok and more. I then stopped subscribing, and sometimes like, but never when I’m asked to by the content creators. The short reason for not liking and subscribing now is that if I subscribe I usually grow…
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Castamatic and Boosts
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been Lunix Unplugged and Self-Hosted. It’s by listening to self-hosted that I decided to experiment and learn about Linux by experimenting with Pis and projects created for Pi such as PhotoPrismPi, Pi-Hole and Nextcloud, to mention just a few. These podcasts kept mentioning [boosts](https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/boost/), sats, value for value and…
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X-Istential – Podcasts and Where We Find People
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday Twitter decided to re-brand as X. X.com redirects to Twitter.com. Within the next few days, weeks, months twitter will change its name and brand, and the URLs will be wrong. All twitter links, all embedded tweets, everything will become dead links. When we look for something on Twitter, we will be…
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Podcasts and Social Media
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you listen to podcasts, and you read articles, and you visit websites you always see Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram, to name the giants. In every podcast episode you hear the guests say “You can find me under this name on this network, and the same name on that network.” The…
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The Unedited Podcast
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when I wanted to listen to hours of podcasts a day, and I did. I would listen on my walks, on my commutes to work, while driving and more. I would love listening to podcasts so much that I would wish I had more time to spend on…
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Day 41 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – Reverse Journey
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I ran and then walked a reverse journey of what I did yesterday. I wanted to take a picture of the corkscrew tree. It would have required for me to wait for two slow walkers and their dog to pass and because they insisted on walking two abreast it made more…