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While Nintendo is refusing to take my money I might as well throw the question out there; is there any reason to buy New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe instead of Super Mario Maker 2?
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and tagged it with The Kid's Music Player ΠiFi Music Player My kids, Iris and Ebbe, are four and a half, and two years old respectively. Both of them loves to listen to music and dance. Compared to when I was a kid they have access to tremendous amounts of music. If I wanted to listen to a song as a child, I had to have it on a cassette or later in life a cd. Today’s kids have access to ”all the world’s music” in Spotify, Apple Music or similar.1
The problem with the modern world in this regard is that a cassette deck and a box of cassettes is much more kid friendly than a smart device like a phone or tablet with Spotify and possibly also a smart speaker connected via bluetooth, AirPlay or a Chromecast.
Spotify has a nice solution for this in there Spotify Codes. It wouldn’t be to hard to make a whole box of cards, one for each album and/or playlist that the kids want, and teach them how to scan the cards with Spotify. The problem is that it requires them to use their iPad (or my phone, or their mother’s phone).
Why is that a problem? Because if they use the iPad they will undoubtable be sidetracked by YouTube or something similar. Sometimes having them watching videos is great. I’m certain that the reason Iris know quite a few words in English, despite being a Swede with Swedish parents, is that she’s watched a lot of English videos on YouTube. But sometimes I want them to just listen to music and not having to have a discussion about why they are allowed to use the iPad but not the apps they want.
So I’ve started toying with the idea of building them a music player that works as simple or simpler than Spotify Codes but that is a dedicated hardware device, a Raspberry Pi. The plan is for it to use either QR codes or NFC tags to control what is being played, so that way the kids can have a box of cards with artwork, similar to the box of cassettes that I had as a kid.
I think it will work.
Right now I’m going to test various setups for it and document my progress here on the blog, under the tag The Kid’s Music Player.
I’m making progress on the music player for my kids. Using Pi MusicBox on the Pi, I can control playback using mpc on my Mac.
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Religiös extremism, patriarkala strukturer och hederskultur ska inte bekämpas som vore de uttryck för mångkultur eller bristande anpassning till Sverige. De ska bekämpas eftersom de är ett hot mot universella värden och ett fungerande demokratiskt och mångkulturellt samhälle.
Andreas Johansson Heinö: Mångkultur utan identitetspolitik, så ser det liberala svaret ut – DN.SE
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🎞 Watched: True Detective – The Great War and Modern Memory (S3E01)
Season 2 of True Detective was a massive drop in quality compared to season 1 however based on the first episode it seems like season three is a return to form.
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Antiliberalt censurkrav från Liberala kvinnor Dalarna – Evelyn Schreiber
Bra ledarartikel om hur feltänkt det blir när moralismen ska få styra vad vi får se på internet.
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furstenberg
21 juli, 2019 12:26@MrHenko I wouldn’t buy it instead of Mario Maker 2. But it is a fun game.
MrHenko
21 juli, 2019 13:17@furstenberg Right now its either one or the other, so I guess that means you also vote for Mario Maker?
furstenberg
21 juli, 2019 14:46@MrHenko That would be correct. :-)
MrHenko
21 juli, 2019 22:41@furstenberg Okay, thanks! Tonight the God of Nintendo was more willing to accept my sacrifice so Mario Maker 2 is currently downloading on my Switch.