Wednesday, 30 July 2025

post: my article

 celebrating 21 years of this enigmatic story and tech.


"Convinced? Some of Freddie's friends, like singer Peter Straker and Kenny Everett's widow Lee, apparently are. "If an unknown girl rings up friends of a pop star who's died and says she's speaking to him," Melina says, "the natural reaction would be to slam the phone down. If there was constant pestering, then they'd bring the lawyers in. That didn't happen. I have made good relationships with people who knew Freddie, and certain ones have been very open-minded and receptive."

Read the full article and experience the multimedia version of Melina's book from 2004. Enter the rabbit hole

https://answersinaninstant.blogspot.com/2022/02/peter-doggett-article-on-freddie.html

Sunday, 26 January 2025

how to get inno pi DAC hat working

 I'm using a headless raspberry pi

firstly type: alsamixer and press f6 - you will see the hat is not there.

enable the hardware..

sudo nano /boot/firmware/config.txt

enter

dtoverlay=allo-boss-dac-pcm512x-audio

(from How to set up Allo BOSS DAC hat for your Headless Raspberry Pi | How To Hi-Fi)

reboot..

check your devices..
aplay -l

you can see here that deivce is card 1, device 0

card 1: BossDAC [BossDAC], device 0: Boss DAC HiFi [Master] pcm512x-hifi-0 [Boss DAC HiFi [Master] pcm512x-hifi-0]


now we make it default


sudo nano /etc/asound.conf
then enter
pcm.!default { type hw card 1 } ctl.!default { type hw card 1 }


sudo reboot
sudo raspi-config

system, audio, 1 BossDAC

install mplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer 
( 15 minutes later )


 mplayer https://ice2.somafm.com/u80s-32-aac -cache 2000



Tuesday, 21 January 2025

What parliament thought of trump in 2017

 https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/85c7c283-d353-4863-8628-3a012a80b2f5?in=18:46:52

What will they think now.

it was debated as part of a petition..

https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/171928