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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • Taking a away the phone during school hours is another band aid.

    Practicality, there isn’t a single solution that will stop the shootings, a dozen band aids is better than doing nothing. You can get rid of the phones, could invest that 150k into to the salary of a school therapist, pay teachers more so they aren’t all depressed and overworked. Hire more teachers so classes aren’t 30+, maybe they’d be able to focus on a kid for more than 3 minutes a day. In other words actually fund education.

    But sense that none of that is likely to happen this decade,

    I don’t like the idea of taking away kids ability to call 911 in an emergency. This isn’t 1980. Classroom phones are an option, but many have switched to voip and rely on some major internet service not being randomly down that day. Supposedly they’d work with 911 no matter what, but I wouldn’t rely on that.

    Could switch to dumb phone or set up parental controls to block internet access, and various apps, during school hours, while still allowing phone calls.





  • I’m talking about a windows feature that activity changes the cursor to be the inverse of the content underneath it. If content = black, then curosr = white. If content = white, then cursor = black.

    It’s not so simple as downloading a curosr pack with different colored icons.

    I searched the web and results are all just various forms with the feature requested, but no feature. One rumor floating around is Windows might have a patent on it or something, but I didn’t go digging for that info.



  • Having fancy china/dish sets for display isn’t really a thing the youth is worried about. It used be a social thing, having guests over to eat off (or just see the display) your fancy dinner plate is probably the social equivalent to having the box of 64GB of ram on a shelf above your computer. In other words “yes, we have money and you can shut about it up Aunt Gertrude”

    A closed cabinet with glass doors to display what ever you collect is a nice thing to have. The doors help keep dust and cats out.










  • I think you’re going about this the wrong way, You won’t have wake them up if they can never fall asleep listening to every song here all night. Tell them you’ll only turn it of if they set their own alarm.

    Right now you’re training them that the obnoxious music will be their alarm.

    Also, if your kid has an android I love the alarm app called AMDroid. It is super customizable, (who knew an alarm could have so many options). It can set to do things like send a notification after a few minutes “are you awake?”, if you don’t respond the alarm goes again. You can set various math or word challenges to stop the alarm, you can make it only turn of if you’re close enough to the router, or at a certain light level, and so on.