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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • You’d expect some sort of privacy in bathrooms

    That is the whole point of this mess. The alternative is a person or camera INSIDE the bathroom at all times. The camera would be so much cheaper to deploy…but privavcy laws, rightfully, say no.

    With the sensor all it does is say “smoke/vape detected”, from there an adult can check the hall cam to see who went in or just go right in to catch the kid.

    I assume with the monitor, it makes it easy for a teacher sitting outside the bathroom and can see the popup (in some schools they already have them to check passes and listen for screeming)


  • I will second this, please buy a thermometer or two. I like the ones that tell you the min/max temp its recorded. (Random example, never bought this particular one, check reviews etc.

    I looked at multiple sources to double check the correct temperature, many agree that the freezer should be at 0°F (-18°C)). Water freezes (and by extention most everything else) at 32°F (0°C), siginficatly higher than the recommended 0. Here’s the sceinific Wikipedia article about why, TLDR: not every food freezes at 0°C, so set freezer low enough everything will freeze.

    I found this article that goes over all kinds of food storage info (fridge and how the produce drawers work, freezer temp, pantry etc.)

    https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/refrigerator-freezer-use-and-temperature-tips

    While you wait for your thermometer, ensure nothing is blocking the freezer vents (you said you did that) and turn that thing up.

    The non-scientific, not recommended check; Your icecream should roughly be something in between a rock and butter. If its a rock, its too cold, and its its butter/soup its too warm.









  • Is there a way to get hoopla on an e-reader? Assuming no… edit, forgot about the android ereaders. I would go for that + hoopla.

    If you’re reading on a tablet or android e-ink, I’d probably go with Hoopla. If I had a Kindle, I’d have to go K Unlimited*. As for content, Kindle probably has more [citation needed], but hoopla has alot.

    E-ink beats all for reading text, personally I can’t read books on a LCD screen. Tablet is great for picture books and comics.

    Hoopla can be gotten free via library card, so that immediately gives then a +1 over Amazon.

    Amazon has so many negatives, I hate to give them more money.


    This next part is not really related to the question, so here’s the TLDR: personal anecdote about reading free public domain ebooks…

    * I actually do have a kindle, but don’t do Unlimited.

    Personally, I have found some great sources of public domain e-books. Reading classics for the sake of enjoyment and not a class has been great. I’ve found Most English books in the 1850-1920 era are easy to read. Sometimes I have to look up an odd word, but that not any different than new books.

    I do buy a few modern ebooks I want, but probably 70% of my reading these days is free public domain stuff.

    The ones I know of include;

    Project Gutenberg - very large collection, formatting may vary. Some books are just walls of text with 0 line breaks or paragraph indents.

    Standardebooks.org - takes public domain books from places such as Gutenberg and turns them into well formated ebooks.

    Bookwise.io - more public domain books, but a web-reader formated specifically for mobile devices.

    Lastly, if you or anyone reading this does decide to go the free-ebook route or buys them regularly - Calibe is the iTunes of eBook management. (But FOSS) https://calibre-ebook.com/