PunksATawnyFill

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by PunksATawnyFill 6y ago
And it's not even about only headphones. It's about billions of audio devices that take one thing as input: line-level audio. Home stereos, car stereos, portable amps, hotel-room docks and TVs, PA systems and mixers. Then there&#x
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by PunksATawnyFill 6y ago
Are you not aware that the original (not this new) SE had a headphone jack? He is a current user, meaning obviously the original one.
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by PunksATawnyFill 6y ago
I still have my SE, for very good reasons: 1. HEADPHONE JACK. Selling music- and media-centric devices without headphone jacks is stupid and offensive. 2. Ergonomics: FLAT SIDES. You can grip the old SE. Rounded edges are stupid, because th
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by PunksATawnyFill 6y ago
These claims seem irrelevant, inaccurate, or dumb. Google News only shows brief abstracts from each article, and drives traffic to the publications' own sites. It's free advertising! How is this at all BAD for the publications?
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
To be fair, they were already caught installing malware. How many free passes are we going to give these jagoffs?
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
The Windows color scheme editor is long gone. Don't know if it was Vista or 7 when it disappeared. Windows 10 is a shitshow.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
AMEN. You could set up any color scheme you wanted in Windows 3.1, 30 years ago. You could do so in Unix GUIs as well. The vaunted Apple UI was the exception, forcing an inverse color scheme on all users, all the time. They refused to admi
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Yes, it did. In fact, CASE tools were going to be all the rage: computer-aided software engineering. One of them was METHOD/1 from Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). If you wanted to create a variable to hold, for example, a part num
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Manuals and books are different things. Nobody should be expected to pay for a manual; that's part of the product. An advanced book? Sure. Look at Resolve: It has an EXTENSIVE (and pretty decent) manual, which costs nothing... and for
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
What's "OBS?" That would be valuable information.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
This failed to mention the fact that Zoom was caught planting malware on people's computers last year. https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-a...
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
They didn't leave the market for that reason. Aetna, for example, left to spite the government for blocking its merger with Humana, and lied about it: http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/investing/aetna-
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Health insurance should have nothing to do with your job. THAT is the problem the USA needs to solve.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Wireless charging is a stupid gimmick, but it’s the anti-consumer angle that will get Apple on board with wireless-only.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Micro-USB is shit. So is Lightning, but at least it’s slightly more robust physically. USB-C and be done with it.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
The hypocrisy of Apple once again brings down shame. And once again Europeans try to protect consumers, while U.S. “representatives” abet corporations in ripping them off.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Strawman. That’s a one-time transition. And do Apple devices even come with chargers anymore?
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Meanwhile, the Atari computers had a “volume-only” mode that let you send a voltage directly to the audio output. By setting the paddle ports to a high-speed sampling mode, you could easily build an audio sampler. Great computers.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
By?
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Thanks for that info. Unfortunately useless for anyone not using Apple's mediocre-at-best listening devices. Like the huge number of people with Bose wireless cans.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
I assume this is only for the analog output, right? Obviously if you're just using a cheap or old amp it won't have HDMI, but if you're amping with an A/V receiver you can just use the HDMI out and get perfectly good qua
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
And people pretend that Bluetooth is a replacement for the headphone jack. Not only is it a janky pain in the ass, but it can't be shared with a companion (watching a movie on a plane, for example). We ARE going backward, partly becaus
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
I find the whole "most accidents happen within X miles of home" argument so tired. That's like saying "most electrons are found within the vicinity of their nuclei." I'd be more interested in knowing where FATA
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
This is what "self-regulating" looks like. We've seen it again and again: Industries do not "self-regulate." How many people have to die before the "REGULATION BAD!" people are put in their place?
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
What is a "DApp?"
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
It would be helpful if the post explained what this is and means. What is "DApp browser?"
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
The most trusted tool since Apple shitcanned Shake, that is. It's too bad that Shake couldn't be open-sourced. Several big post facilities (ILM, Weta, and others) bought the source code and have probably done great things with it.
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
I thought that it was also strongly associated with gum disease: https://www.alzheimers.net/alzheimers-and-gingivitis-disease...
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
App developers didn't even have to set colors. You could tell the ones who didn't know what they were doing by the invisible text littering their UIs under some color schemes. This continued into the Web era. There were tons of de
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by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
YES. Under Windows I created and used a "dark" theme in 1991, nearly identical to what the canned Mac OS "dark" one is today. Used it well into the 2000s. Microsoft REMOVED that capability in what, Vista? And now that ev

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