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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • I have a Raspberry Pi running MPD with a HiFiBerry Digi+ Standard; the optical out goes to an amp in one room, and the coax goes to an amp in another room. (So those two always play the same thing.)

    For each additional room, I add another Raspberry Pi with access to the music on the primary Raspberry Pi via sshfs, running MPD, with either another HiFiBerry Digi+ or a USB DAC, and connect to the amplifier in that room. Each room added this way plays different music.

    If you wanted all the rooms to have the same thing playing, you could add multiple USB DACs to a single Raspberry Pi, each going somewhere else, MPD can output to all of them. It is probably better to have longer USB runs than longer analog audio runs. Or you can run the analog audio over shielded cat6.

    I have not tried adding a Bluetooth input to the Raspberry PI, but it seems like that would be possible with pipewire or jack.










    1. Consider getting a VPS to play around with to learn how this stuff works before you expose your data to the internet.
    2. Learn about how DNS works. You will create an A record (and possibly also an AAAA recordy) for your domain pointing to your home IP (or VPS).
    3. If SquareSpace does not let you set records (and will only allow you to use Squarespace-hosted services) you will need to migrate your domain to another provider. I like gandi.net.
    4. Learn how your router does port forwarding. You will forward port(s) for the calendar service from your router to your home PC. (Or learn how to do firewalls on your VPS.)
    5. Before you actually connect to it with credentials over the internet, set up SSL/TLS certificates with LetsEncrypt.




  • They chose the name because they thought it was funny, and they did not realize it was derogatory. They did nothing wrong then, they just did not know.

    Once it was brought to their attention, they had two options: they could stick with the name that they now know is derogatory and hurtful (and prevents it from being installed in some places) or they could change it.

    This is not an isolated problem in the FOSS community. I was trying to roll out Linux VMs in an organizations, and I got called into a meeting because gigolo popped up a message and the user was confused and upset. Yes, it is a funny pun (it mounts what it is told to), but it ruined Linux for that organization and they went with Windows.