And I’m a 30 year veteran EE who designs a lot of high speed and RF gear. There is zero chance ferrous metal rods to repair the headphones as described would have any meaningful impact on the Bluetooth connection.
You’re technically correct that metal in the vicinity could possibly have some measurable impact on the 2.4GHz radio, but your theoretical scenario is a practical absurdity.
There are vanishingly few use cases where an anemic x86 would be a better choice than almost any ARM or RISC-V system.
So perhaps not worthless, but close to it.
100% and why I think int* should be at the least a compiler warning, perhaps an outright error with pedantic enabled.
I’m about the same vintage as you I think (50 this year), programming since my pre-teens and I still enjoy it, although I long ago strayed away from “pure” programming - I work almost exclusively in the embedded space where I design the hardware and firmware, including the HDL. If I were making applications or doing anything web based I’d have been bored a long, long time ago.
I’m an electrical engineer and embedded systems developer. I’d love a lightweight headset that gave me the equivalent of a huge high resolution virtual monitor/AR setup that I could use without needing a huge physical space.
Where is your area? That’s insane
Interested in hearing more about the fox hunt. Was this node transmitting significantly more often than normal nodes do? What did your hunting equipment look like? How far away was your starting point and did you have any clues when you started?
Thank you for clarifying. Not OP, but was also wondering why the special treatment.
This looks really cool. One minor bug: with the online demo, at least on mobile (chrome, iOS), the target text field never brings up the keyboard so it can’t be used.
I had this very expensive fridge. It was awesome but the “you left the door open, dumbass” alarm was the absolute quietest little beep you could possibly emit with modern electronics. Completely fucking useless, and the fact that this was in such an expensive appliance was the most ironic part of it all.
Depends; I’m a lot older now and deaf (but have tinnitus, yay) in one ear, but I could hear the flyback whine of old TVs. I can hear the odd switching regulator still, but most these days are switching waaaaay above even the best human hearing range.
50/60Hz buzz should be fairly rare these days except for some high power cases or some really poorly designed electronics.
As another decade-long lifetime Plex pass holder and watching the generally downward spiral of Plex development, I’m right there with you. I don’t agree with a lot of the direction they’re going in, but they have never once tried to upsell me after getting the lifetime pass.
The system works, it’s a lot easier/more available for viewers than JellyFin, and until those things change I don’t see much reason to get out the pitchforks. However if they do, mine’s ready.
Like the apartment buildings they’re already keen on targeting?
Nah I’m 50. T9 was necessary, not some kind of miracle.
I use them all the time and I’m definitely not a bot. I’m also 50 so perhaps it’s a generational thing.
There is a world of difference between what is “conceptually basic” and what the practical reality is. The tools aren’t open source because there’s a lot of secret sauce the vendors want to keep secret. The OSS development efforts are making progress, but it’s a long, slow, difficult slog.
More like “if your job sucks try to get a better job instead of committing crimes to make some extra cash” but you do you bro.
In some cases yes, but I don’t see that here. Compromises morals out of desperation (to me, anyway) manifest more along the lines of stealing food to feed your family or wage theft perhaps.
Fair point, the person I replied to didn’t explicitly say it was okay or that they said they felt it was ok. I took their comment as a kind of indirect victim blaming, similar to how you hear people say things like “I wonder if that would have happened if she was wearing something more conservative” — that’s a bad assumption on my part, and I appreciate your calling me out on it.
I wish I could upvote this more than once.
I tried bluesky. It feels too curated and for lack of a better term, politically correct. I don’t engage with the morons on Twitter, but I find that even today the interactions are far more real and less “polished”.
I’m also on mastodon but I’ve had a real tough time finding my crowd there which is odd, but I think it’s because it’s too fragmented. My lemmy instance is awesome and I really enjoy using it, but it too suffers not having the same crowd as Reddit. Reddit won’t have that problem for too much longer though, judging how intent they are at burning down their empire for a little bump in stock price.
I think it comes down to choice; on Twitter I can simply ignore/block the morons. On bluesky it feels so much more “behave or we’ll ban you” and I’m not cool with that. That’s exactly how Twitter was feeling right before Musk took it over. He screwed a lot of it up but it’s come back in some surprising ways, which is why I think most people have stayed. It’s just not that bad, and you have (mostly enough) control over what you see.