Tag: listening

  • Cantook and Audiobooks

    Cantook and Audiobooks

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEbibliomedia makes it possible to borrow audiobooks. Yesterday I noticed that I can download these books via the Cantook ereader app on Android and iOS. With this freedom comes a quick and convenient way to listen to audio books without worrying about losing my place. With the website interface I could…

  • Listening to every Podcast

    Listening to every Podcast

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when it was much easier to listen to every episode of a podcast for two reasons. The first of these is that they were new so it wouldn’t take too long to burn through one hundred episodes. The second reason is that podcasts were half an hour long…

  • Listening to Podcasts While Walking

    Listening to Podcasts While Walking

    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been listening to plenty of [Late Night Linux](https://latenightlinux.com/) podcasts. I like them because they’re half an hour long, the adverts are half way through the show, and in general I don’t feel that they’re filling time to fill one and a half hours of podcast time. Plenty of other…

  • Castamatic and Boosts

    Castamatic and Boosts

    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been Lunix Unplugged and Self-Hosted. It’s by listening to self-hosted that I decided to experiment and learn about Linux by experimenting with Pis and projects created for Pi such as PhotoPrismPi, Pi-Hole and Nextcloud, to mention just a few. These podcasts kept mentioning [boosts](https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/boost/), sats, value for value and…

  • On Not Listening to Podcasts

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are times when I listen to two or three hours of podcasts a day and I learn from them. I usually listen when I am cooking and when I am walking. For several weeks now I have hardly listened to any podcasts. This is for three reasons. The first of these…

  • A Larger Readership Than The Student Newspaper

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I was with a friend discussing the student media within my university. I’m not speaking about the content created by those in the various courses but rather about the student newspaper and television channel. It’s gone downhill over the past year. In my first year at uni although…