Kirby64

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by Kirby64 7mo ago
It costs extra money to properly support it, so why would they? For a listening device it shouldn't matter one bit. As an output (i.e. their headphone outputs), I could see some marginal benefit for recording... but not as an input to
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
I think OP means sleep as in, the headphones go to sleep when not on your head. Regular AirPods do this if you just put them on a table or something.
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
The original Airpods Max (and presumably these) had a 'case' that only covered the earmuffs and not the band. Some people called it a 'diaper' due to its appearance. By default, at least the earlier firmware revisions (d
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
Sure, but increasingly less so as electrification takes off. And using less gas means you can redirect that to the other derivative products such as plastic.
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
Burying power cables doesn’t help against direct lightning strikes. If lightning hits your house, underground power cables will do nothing.
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
Electrical engineers don’t know code requirements and wiring guidelines for household electrical wiring. They’re absolutely not the correct default. Electricians with specialization in generator setups, sure, but an electrician engineer on
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
But that has nothing to do with the technology per-se. You could recreate this by just having CDs that don’t use all their space for music and having more of them, if the goal is dynamism. It’s a restriction, not a benefit. You could do the
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
In what world is $150 “way too high” for a battery and a keyboard replacement on a laptop, including installation? Ever looked at pricing from OEMs on their batteries?
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
Linux isn't a real choice for 99.9% of the population. If you're advising someone else on buying a laptop in an authority sense, rather than a colleague sense... telling someone to buy a Linux laptop (or, buy a laptop and put Linu
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
As opposed to Microsoft, the good guys right now? I don’t see how incessant privacy violations, selling your data, and general shovelware behavior of Windows 11 is better. In many ways, it’s much worse in my view.
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by Kirby64 7mo ago
Not really, not exactly. The older “clicky” MacBook trackpads couldn’t quite be “clicked” anywhere. They were levered at the top of the trackpad, so if you tried to click on the very top edge then they wouldn’t really click. Anywhere else,
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by Kirby64 8mo ago
Why do they need to sound better? Also, in a lot of instances, they do sound better because they can offer powered functionality such as ANC. Can’t get that with a truly analog headphone. I’d never use analog headphones on a plane, for inst
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by Kirby64 8mo ago
Not sure about slack vs discord, but browser Gmail is almost certainly less memory hungry than Outlook. And that’s probably enough of a difference by itself.
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by Kirby64 8mo ago
Children don't have Slack and Outlook open. Gmail in a web browser and Discord, maybe. My old M1 Air works just fine for productivity workloads, and has for years.
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by Kirby64 8mo ago
> Screen protectors also degrade light output So does this function from Samsung. You can see in all the video demonstrations that the 'privacy' pixels are notably dimmer even head-on compared to normal pixels.
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by Kirby64 8mo ago
Texas property tax rates are some of the highest in the country. Should be higher than Wisconsin. The difference here is really more of an indicator of property values in the respective areas. In major metros in Texas, you're looking a
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by Kirby64 8mo ago
The sensors are very cheap: https://www.arducam.com/arducam-ov5647-standard-raspberry-pi... If you want a fancy one with a lens and an IR cut filter it'll run you a grand total of $35: https://www.arducam.co
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by Kirby64 8mo ago
> BMW Personal Pilot, Merc Drive Pilot, and Honda Sensing Elite are Level 3 automation tech you can buy right now. Tesla is still at level 2!! You need to put about 10 asterisks on those. MB Drive Pilot has been discontinued due to &quot
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by Kirby64 8mo ago
Not always. Also, drilling the corner of the chip is a bad idea, as you'll likely hit one of the corner pads. There's not enough room.
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by Kirby64 8mo ago
> * It's usually a very large meal, very high in lean protein. > * I avoid sugars and starches of all kinds and minimize other carbs (fruit, root veg, grains). With lean protein and no sugars/starches, it's just not rea
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by Kirby64 9mo ago
It doesn't take a lot of 'complexity' in income to balloon up complexity. Any brokerage activity will generate quite a few additional forms for 1099-B, 1099-DIV, etc. Still not super complicated, but I keep seeing people disc
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by Kirby64 9mo ago
There's a big difference between Samsung's 990 Pro NAND and controller chips (TLC NAND, DRAM acceleration, and a good controller), vs. bottom bin flash storage. It could be used QLC (4-bit per cell) NAND with no DRAM and a much, m
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by Kirby64 9mo ago
I picked Shreveport, LA as a starting location and went west towards El Paso until I found a city that was slightly over 600 miles of distance. The cities are mostly irrelevant unless you pick something that is exceptionally hilly such as r
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by Kirby64 9mo ago
A used Model 3 LR cannot do 300 miles of highway driving in almost any condition. Even a brand new one cannot do that. The only way you get 300mi of driving out of a Model 3 is if you drive at 35mph or something, which would be wildly impra
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by Kirby64 9mo ago
Lucid Grand Touring can do it in one charge (that lasts ~45 minutes). Expensive, but it could do it. I did Shreveport, LA to Pesos, TX as an example. If you're OK with 2 charging stops, an Ioniq 6 or a Tesla Model 3 will work just fine
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by Kirby64 10mo ago
> That’s why I don’t like it as a consumer. If they keep producing M1 and M2 I’d assume we can get better prices because the total quantity would be much larger. Why would this be true? An M5 MacBook Air today costs the same as an M1 Mac
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by Kirby64 10mo ago
Plenty of real leather seats that have done the same. I had a 10 year old real leather Volkswagen that did the same myself. Meanwhile, I have a 11 year old Vinyl “fake leather” car with no issues, and a 8 year old car with PU pleather that
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by Kirby64 10mo ago
Fake leather has a wide, wide range of quality. Polyurethane faux-leather used in many automobiles these days is considered to be superior to leather in terms of durability and longevity. Take a look at old examples of MB-Tex, which Mercede
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by Kirby64 10mo ago
This wouldn’t hold up in court, to my knowledge. If you have a tool that is solely designed this way for technical reasons, then there isnt trademark infringement. Just make sure to market it as the “B” screwdriver or whatever. The same thi
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by Kirby64 10mo ago
I agree with you, I’m just noting that this argument doesn’t hold because pirates (who listen, they don’t do mastering) basically only care about flac or mp3s. And mp3s are limited to 48k.

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