Posted by Claudius Coenen on February 16th, 2025 | No Comments »
I recently taught a course that focused on Unity. Now I have dozens of repositories that I need to take a look at. I don’t particularly like the Unity Hub, but as far as I know, I still need to use it anyway.
Posted by Claudius Coenen on August 1st, 2024 | Comments Off on SONOS sans App
SONOS speakers seem to be decent hardware. So when a friend mentioned the IKEA branded, SONOS produced Symfonisk speakers, I had to take a look. At 130€ for a single speaker, they are not exactly cheap, but they are certainly a lot cheaper than anything SONOS would usually offer. The build quality is good, audio quality is supposedly good. But the important question for me is: can I use them at a decent level of privacy? Is it possible to make these speakers useful without the SONOS app and a SONOS account and without sending usage information over to SONOS every couple of minutes? Let’s find out!
Posted by Claudius Coenen on June 26th, 2023 | Comments Off on Spotify CarThing Internet Access
The Spotify CarThing was discontinued late 2022 and subsequently heavily discounted. I got a friend of mine to send one to me, because at that time it was pretty apparent that there was a good chance of this being very hackable. First order of business for me was: internet access.
Here, we’re setting up a Raspberry Pi with a Socks-Proxy, a local webserver and the relevant settings on the CarThing itself.