Tell me more about your use case.

I do something like this for work. I’ll share what I use. Take what works for you, leave what doesn’t. My feelings aren’t hurt.

Hardware: I have two TVs that are driven by Amazon Fire sticks. The software is an Android app, and we picked up the sticks on sale for $20 each. I’ve not tested the software on other hardware, but it should work on any Android based device. I have plans to switch to Android on a Raspberry Pi or similar. It’s only matter of time before Amazon breaks my setup, but for the time being (and for the last two years) this works without issue and was extremely cost effective.

Software: I want to recommend “Slideshow” by Milan Fabian. It’s an incredibly full featured slideshow app that will display anything that you throw at it (image files, videos, PDFs, spreadsheets, and more). It can also display web based things like a webpage or YouTube video. You can set timers so that certain content is displayed certain times of day. You can set times and dates so that content that is no longer relevant is no longer displayed. My description here really doesn’t do it justice. You should check it out.

My use case: I work for a school that is in a shared space. Beginning at 7am, the TVs show a slideshow of announcements from the school. It also cycles a music playlist of MP3s that are uploaded to the device. At 4pm, the TVs switch over to a web-based dashboard of where individual classes are in the building and which supervisor is closing the building (I built the dashboard in Home Assistant and it is unrelated to the Slideshow app). At 6pm, the screen goes black and the music shuts off until 7am the next morning. Because we share the space, there is a different slideshow that shows on the weekends based on what that group wants to display. When Monday comes back around, it’s back to my content. My team builds our slideshow in Canva and then pushes it to the device, but you could easily use Google Slides.

I’m going to make sure I keep a stock of brill cheese just in case things get out of hand.

What’s the deal with the parrot?

Check out Valetudo.

Are we counting Gemini interactions as search?

I have had a very easy time running a variety services on single board computers using DietPi. Give it a look. It will save you time and headaches.

How much longer until the AI bubbles pops? I’m tired of this.

Here’s the real question… What licenses are the wheel and door using?

Here… you can have a little dopamine… as a treat.

Looks like we need Luigi!

But what about the shareholders?

In church heraldry, Bishops and Archbishops use use a green hat. Up until the last decade, the Chinese Bishops and Archbishops used other colors for this very reason.

I LOVE Meshtastic!

Well, sure, but not on our gas pumps. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not on gas pumps. No, sir-ee!

Search for interview questions online. I think Glassdoor used to have a place for interview questions. If it’s a national/multinational corporation, there is a fair chance the standard interview questions are already out there.

Even if that specific set of interview questions isn’t posted online, interview questions for that kind of job have been. If it’s a small company, the hiring manager may doing the same web search to find questions to ask you.

In the worst case, you’ve found a set of questions to start the thought process.

Lastly, near they end of the interview, when they ask if you have questions, ask the interviewer why they like working there. At good places to work, they will have no problem coming up with reasons. An interviewer who struggles to answer the question is a red flag. Either way, you look prepared and look like you’ve given thought to the interview.

Yes, and JC Penny crashed and burned after switching their marketing strategy away from fake “regular prices.”

Is it not the same software they heard about in 2010?

Can the Internet Archive claim that it’s developing it’s own AI and should have rights to scan everything and serve it to “customers?”

A certain alabaster fortress near me encourages you to use an AI when ordering at the drive thru. It’s terrible. It had the hardest time decoding my order of “a number one with cheese.” I hate that this is the direction the industry is moving.