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#1

Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: 4K Video Downloader Androi...

Last post by ssfc72 - August 27, 2025, 08:41:30 AM

Thanks for the info, Buster. Good to know.

#2

Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: 4K Video Downloader Androi...

Last post by buster - August 26, 2025, 11:10:56 AM

1. Maybe download the audio book earlier and place it beside the router and leave it for awhile. Pick up your phone later. May increase the speed. I have a spot in our living room that is quite slow.

2. Get yourself down to the local library and get a card. They will help you download the needed app for your phone while you're there probably, I'm guessing either Libby or Cloud Library. They'll probably even help to set it up. Most people use the last four digits of their phone number for their pin. Not much need to break into someone's library account.

3. When you get home go to the Newmarket Library page and follow the instructions to get a library account. It's free to anyone living in Ontario with a residence. This will also include automatically all the libraries they are connected to, which is many. I think it's called the consortium. They all use Libby.

4. If you feel even greedier, use your family or friendship web to use an address in another city, such as Toronto, Hamilton, Mississauga, or Ottawa. Register as if you live at that address. If you get a membership in one, they will give you a virtual card for their city as well, though you have to apply for each new city and use your card number and password in the first city to get privileges in the new city. Always use the same pin. They all use Libby.

The rules are different now because you can't steal Internet books. They just take them back anytime they want, such as when they're due.

Go into your app and search for Agatha Christie. With Libby, the search includes ALL cities at the same time.

I think I have 5 libraries. A good percentage of the books available are audio-books.

#3

Linux Applications & Android apps / 4K Video Downloader Android Ap...

Last post by ssfc72 - August 25, 2025, 05:12:12 AM

I like to listen to audio books, downloaded to my Samsung smartphone, from YouTube. I listen to the audiobook at night when I go to sleep and I generally fall asleep within a few minutes of listening.
I like to download the audiobook to my phone rather than just stream it using a wifi connection at home. That way I don't have a 5GHz radio transmitter (the smart phone) sitting right next to my ear, all night long.

Using the 4k Video Downloader App works very well but at first I wasn't able to figure out how to get it to work.
Eventually I stumbled onto the way to get the Youtube audiobook to download to my phone.
It turns out the 4K Video Downloader process is an extremely slow process on my smart phone. My router wifi is down in my house lower level, so the signal strength is not that good, for a fast download.
I just had to give the downloader app plenty of time to start showing, that it was beginning to download the audio book.
To down a small 70 MB audio file takes quite some time, on my Samsung phone and my house wifi.

I like the Agatha Christi Hercule Poirot detective audio books and there are a number of original Agatha Christi books (from the 1930's era).
There are also a number of modern, Hercule Poirot audiobooks, that are not authored by Agatha Christi but they follow the Agatha Christi style and are very well done (YouTube uploader, Cafe Stories)

#4

Meetings / Re: Possible PLUG Mug, Monday ...

Last post by ssfc72 - August 17, 2025, 10:17:33 PM

Ok Mike. Looks like you are the only one who is available for tomorrow afternoon.

I will cancel the meetup for tomorrow and try again in a couple of weeks, to see if I can get some more people that are interested.

#5

Meetings / Re: Possible PLUG Mug, Monday ...

Last post by fox - August 16, 2025, 09:34:32 AM

I would be interested.

#6

Meetings / Possible PLUG Mug, Monday Aug ...

Last post by ssfc72 - August 15, 2025, 08:36:01 PM

Anyone want to meet up for a coffee, this coming Monday 2 pm,  at the Tim Hortons on Monaghan Rd. or the Lansdowne Mall food court?
Let  me know here, with a reply.

#7

Politics, Society and News. / Re: Simple Known Dangers with ...

Last post by buster - August 14, 2025, 01:29:18 PM

Interesting article about AI in The Examiner today by Gwynne Dyer about the unforeseen consequences. Found this copy in the Maritimes that might let you in:

https://www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/opinion-cape-breton/gwynne-dyer-investigating-the-looming-artificial-intelligence-crash

[one month]

#8

General Discussion / Re: A boring topic about visit...

Last post by buster - August 13, 2025, 04:46:38 PM

 2023 was a big year. The site had one million eight hundred thousand views. In comparison, in July alone this year, the 31 days of this one month, had well over five million views.

Bill's comments were scary. It's surprising the Internet can keep run without overloading. And if this is happening everywhere, the consequences of no human minds being involved in selection or assessment is scary. In the future, what is presented by limited machine minds will become the new truth.

So this year we will get 25 times as many views (or more) than we did in 2023.

#9

General Discussion / Re: A boring topic about visit...

Last post by buster - August 11, 2025, 04:36:43 PM

A follow up:

With 25,279,000 views this year so far, today, August 11, 2025, we've had more views than all of last year.

The most viewed article is over 200,000 views.

Some articles are hit more often than others, but it's hard to judge why. The stories have done well still in the General posts. It could just be a matter of length.

#10

Politics, Society and News. / Re: Simple Known Dangers with ...

Last post by buster - August 11, 2025, 12:03:00 PM

Reading the local edition of our newspaper yielded two more examples of unpleasantness.

a) There is a picture of a massive fire in British Columbia near a highway taken from the air appearing in social media. The authorities warned people to disregard the fire, because it does not exist. The picture was created by AI.

b) AP reported a study done using fake 13 and 14 year old teens in contact with ChatGPT getting information on drugs, best ways to commit suicide, and even how to write notes to leave for the parents. This age group seems to be the most committed to asking the program for advice.

A simple search AP and ChatGPT will produce the article.