Thanks, fixed it by just doing sudo apt update and trying again.

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.

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

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

I heard it through the grapevine

The devil is in the details, but the general idea could be useful.

Meanwhile, on the American side of the border, some brands are proudly advertising their US roots.

Ford last month ran a campaign with the tagline “From America. For America.”

Maybe people could “guerrilla advertise”: for those US brands kowtowing to MAGA in the US, copy & paste their US advertising over their adverts elsewhere in the world (hoardings, bus shelters, public transport etc), driving home to people where these brands are really from.

E.g. Cover up their overseas “disguise” adverts

• “We’re so local and lovely!”

with their US MAGA adverts

• “America - FUCK YEAH!” (in Ford’s case “From America. For America.”)

I mean, obviously, with permission of the owners/operators of said advertising locations, I wouldn’t be suggesting vandalism…

Plausible deniability for when it’s discovered her accounts are controlled from Moscow?

“Oh, I must have been hacked cuz weak passwords. That’s why my account sent our classified war plans to Putin.”

I finally got around to seeing Forbidden Planet (1956).

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet
• https://peertube.wtf/w/ehQReF6uWnXNmCLZwsEhV3

I thought it would be cheesy, but it actually maintained an atmosphere of suspense, thanks not only to the great cast but also to the spooky fully-electronic score.

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You’re welcome, let us know how it goes for you.

{hurries to buy rights to Elevator Action}

Seriously. At first I wondered if this was a gag like the Pac Man movie trailer a while back.

Not sure what your use case for Copilot is, but if you have sufficiently powerful hardware (preferably with a GPU), you can download and install an LLM of your choice (e.g. a European one like Mixtral) and run it on your own computer.

E.g.

• https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/18/self_hosted_github_copilot/

I mainly remember him as the guy whose lawsuit crippled hip-hop.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._Warner_Bros._Records_Inc.

You might want to edit your original post and add the link there, too.

Listening to it now, thanks.

I have a couple of non-US playlists myself:

• Rock’n’Roll for Good Times - ROTW mostly fun classic rock, mainly in English, some in Spanish etc.
• No Yankcent - various genres, sung in English with neither a real nor a fake US accent.