You’re welcome :)

Thanks. Step 1 seems to make sense to me, but…(excuse me if this seems a silly question) this means I need a sound loudness measuring tool in order to use my phone as a sound loudness measuring tool? At least to do the calibration?

EDIT: Doh, re-reading, I see you already addressed that, thanks.

Thanks. I’ve installed it and looking at it now.

The experiment I need would be… Acoustic Amplitude, right?

And the steps would be? (sorry, I’m not very scientific)

“Calibrate” tab > “Calibrate”: do this when there is no/little noise?
“Calibrate” tab > “Offset”: no idea what to do here.
“Amplitude” tab > when there is noise I want to measure, press the play button?
“Amplitude” tab > after a bit, press the pause button?
Then, other? 3-dot menu > “Export data” or “Share screenshot”?

Thanks. I’ve installed it and looking at it now.

The experiment I need would be… Acoustic Amplitude, right?

And the steps would be? (sorry, I’m not very scientific)

1. “Calibrate” tab > “Calibrate”: do this when there is no/little noise?
2. “Calibrate” tab > “Offset”: no idea what to do here.
3. “Amplitude” tab > when there is noise I want to measure, press the play button?
4. “Amplitude” tab > after a bit, press the pause button?
5. Then, other? 3-dot menu > “Export data” or “Share screenshot”?

Thanks for the info.

So, imperfect but perhaps one might help at least for comparing noise levels, e.g. the noise they’re making now compared to last night.

[He didn’t really say that, but he might as well have. And I do feel the EU needs stronger procedures for dealing with an anti-democratic member? Hopefully more steps before expulsion that could bring a straying member state back into the democratic fold. Orbán sure loves bashing the EU while taking its money.]

Nah, simply so pedantic as to give a Hungarian name in Hungarian name order.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_names

Or tell him that if you combine into one fleet the USS Harvey Milk, the USS Morgan Rum and the USS Runny Yolk, you get eggnog!

“Warrior culture - it’s turned out so well for the Russian military, let’s do it to ours!”

Orbán Viktor said:

“Hungary under me will drain every euro, forint and zloty and spend it on undermining European families, farmers and industry. Slava Russki!”

How long until the Trump Administration brands this “racist” and starts withholding federal funds and services from Tulsa unless they knuckle under?

You’re welcome.

Re Peertube, I believe you can start watching without setting anything up.

Re setting up an account and choosing an instance, I’m not a content creator and just went with peertube.wtf when I saw it promoted by its admin here on Lemmy.

• https://lemmy.wtf/post/15733096

Handy post on Peertube instances here:

• https://lemmy.wtf/post/17976076

Thanks so much!

There are no such slashes in the original URLs, and thus not in what I posted. They’ve been added here by Lemmy somehow after I posted them.

Thanks! I was looking in a user’s profile, right-clicking in various places etc.

Thanks for the info.

I’ve never messaged someone on Lemmy. Currently using Tess front-end and I see no way to do it.

I’ll chop them up here:

• https://devorahostrov/ . blogspot . com/2017/03/punk-magazine-birth-of-zine-and-genre.html
• https://monstermoviemusic/ . blogspot . com/2011/03/yesterday-machine-markerzimmersnicholas.html

Others have already made good suggestions for older movies (libraries, Kanopy, Hoopla, Tubi, Archive.org etc). Also try buying second-hand physical media (DVDs, BDs).

Specifically re an old Kurosawa movie, there are a couple of channels on Peertube with old movies they say are in the public domain (I am not a lawyer).

A couple of such channels

• ClassX https://peertube.wtf/c/classx@blurt.media/videos
• Achives https://peertube.wtf/c/archives@vod.newellijay.tv/videos

And ClassX has Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai

• https://peertube.wtf/w/u6DzMDxEhMa8d1HrnucEYV

There are also YouTube channels that claim to have public domain or licensed movies. I recently found an “all-in-one” site that collates movies from many such channels.

• Cinetimes https://cinetimes.org/

If you don’t want to go via a third-party site like Cinetimes, you can try some supposedly-legally-free channels directly on YouTube:

• DDF: Reel Films https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTjxrujNCF9JSQzXE3th21A
• Filmix https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0igugFRsUPMvGLrv86DIog
• The Archive (nothing to do with The Internet Archive) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCunMgh6zlbhjYLOoU5zKTAA (also you can watch on their own website https://www.thearchive.tv/ )

Warning: the movies on the channels are free, but not necessarily any good :) A lot of dross and only a few gems, unless you love trashy B-movies.

A couple of possibly decent films (in my watchlist, haven’t seen them yet)

• Sorcerer https://youtu.be/LXwfcdkhmE8
• Eight Million Ways to Die https://youtu.be/2G6hJJFzKxo

All the ones I’ve given above are for video on demand (VOD), i.e. you pick what you want, press play and it starts.

There are also linear channels, i.e. like old fashioned TV where things are shown according to a schedule and you see whatever’s on when you tune in. Nowadays sometimes called “live TV”, even when watching stuff made years ago. ( TheArchive.tv does both: VOD and one linear channel.)

A lot of free linear channels (including some with old movies and TV shows) are available through different ways:

• channels / apps on streaming devices like Roku, Firestick, Smart TVs etc
• an app on your phone (currently, I use Televizo on Android)
• an app on your computer (currently, I use Hypnotix on Linux)
• websites

For apps on your phone or computer, you might need to add a “playlist”: a big list of channels that you can pick from to watch. Currently, I use the English language playlist from iptv-org (over 2,000 channels from around the world).

• https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv
• https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/languages/eng.m3u

There is also the IOTV app for Roku, which I think uses the all languages playlist from iptv-org.

Warning: using these playlists can mean a bunch of the included channels won’t work for you, e.g. because they are geoblocked to a specific country.

Some example channels with older stuff:

• Pluto TV has some channels with older stuff
• TVS https://watchyour.tv/
• Cinevault
• FilmRise Classic

Our turn next?

I heard Trump abolished the penny. I wonder what’s going to happen to all that old pocket change.

By the by, here’s a story about what happens when someone throws coins into a jet engine.

• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50979485