Inside the Little Plastic Castle

I want to help sasha_feather enjoy podfics on her newish Samsung phone.

Barriers: - I know macOS and iOS but nothing about Android. - Since sasha_feather is still recovering from her concussion and my cognition is fuzzy thanks to life-saving psych meds, we need a foolproof workflow. I'm sure there are better, more open-source, less-privacy-depriving paths, but right now we're looking for something that works.

No need to reinvent the wheel -- if you can point me to a site that explains how to do this, SUPER!

Right now I have two questions -- feel free to tell me about others I should be considering.

Q1: What's a basic audio player for Android?

We don't need a music player -- no equalizers, no cross fades, no podcasts. It's just for voice. Automatically saving a bookmark when you pause and a sleep timer are the crucial features. No flashy graphics. Happy to pay once.

Q2: What's the most foolproof way to get these fics into the player?

Right now, the podfics are stored all over: various clouds (DropBox, Google Drive), on clouds linked at AO3, on her MacBook.

Does Android offer a file system?

Could I connect an Android phone via Bluetooth or WiFi and use that system to copy files from the MacBook on the network?

Could we just plug the Samsung phone into the macbook's USB port and read/write its data like an external drive? Do I need a particular cable for that?

My circles has so many technical whizzes -- I'm looking forward to your answers!

I’ve got around 400 books I no longer want to dust. (I'm saving my vision for new graphic novels.)

• 100+ science fiction or fantasy, dating back to Again Dangerous Visions from the Science Fiction Book Club
• 100 fiction, non-fiction, poetry standards found on the bookshelf of every 65-year-old feminist
• 40+ art topics including architecture, type, books, Celtic patterns, beadwork, songbooks
• 160+ disability related: theory, history, memoir — in print or graphic novel formats

I’m not interested in making money, and shipping them out would cost a lot as well. Almost all these titles are already available in my municipal and UW-Madison libraries, so donation seems unlikely.

MyGuy has volunteered to scan the titles into a database. That gives me a list, but what do I do next?

I'm willing to pay for an easy-to-use, private two-way email discussion group for 20 people.

…with support for macOS and iOS.

I’m paying for Dropbox now but they no longer support rendering images in HTML.

It’s possible to publish photos on iCloud as "public websites," but I don’t see where to get the photo’s link. I know that dealing with the macOS and iOS insistence on managing iCloud files in its own way confuses me a lot.

I’m willing to pay for a straightforward system.

I'm reluctant to use Google because Big Google scares me and they have form on dropping support for nifty services.

I had my style just the way I wanted it. Then basically by mistake, I changed my style setting to what you see now.

I thought I'd documented my desired style -- its name, its theme, and what changes I'd made.

But I can't seem to lay hands on it right now.

I'm so flustered I'm not even sure whether I've lost that info.

Before I slowly recreate all those elements, are there any traces in the DW system of what my previous style was? Of the custom CSS I'd added?

Any thoughts are most welcome -- I will use them to file a more-coherent-sounding support ticket than what you've read so far.

ETA: kabarett found the issue!

There are nav bar settings in TWO places labelled "display".

One is My Account settings
https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/settings/?cat=display

search for "Display when view" to land on the relevant check boxes.

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I triple checked that the nav bar is selected here

https://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=display

I'm using FIVE AM, with the Broad Horizons theme, and a few custom colors.

I've delayed tidying my Address Book/Contacts info way too long. I sync my Contacts between macOS High Sierra and an iPhone and iPad running iOS 11 using iCloud. Somehow I also have almost all these contacts "On My Mac" as well, but I don't want them there. Because my contacts are very private info, I don't want to use an online service like Scrubly.

Either a Mac or iPad app would fit the bill. While many inexpensive utilities appear on both App Stores, ease-of-use is much more important than low price. I seek recommendations from folks with direct experience of the task and the software.

My ideal software would prune complete duplicates, offer partial matches for my merge decisions (highlighting the more-recent data) and create a clean dataset. Then I could delete all my Contacts, import this clean dataset and be more careful in the future

I write everything in Markdown with ia Writer Pro on macOS and iOS. Its only drawback is no share sheet. Can you use existing automation tools to provide share-sheet functionality? I will be happy to pay you in dollars, or DW points, or jewelry, or donation to your charity of choice. 

Greetings, o wise ones

I've poked the standard free searches available to me and haven't found out who first used the words "sex object" to describe how patriarchal culture defines women as nothing more than a being with whom to have sex.

I'm looking for the coiner of phrases like:

He whistled at me then pawed me like a sex object because I wore a skirt

He asked my husband where he worked; he asked me how many kids we have. I hate that kind of sex objectification.

Feel free to signal boost!