harkinian

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by harkinian 3y ago
My Bose NC700 can only remember 3 devices it seems. My corp-supplied laptop+phone put it over the limit, meaning I have to repair whenever I want to switch to another device, and it forgets one as a result (idk how it works, FIFO?). Pairing
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by harkinian 3y ago
If you're taking a call on a phone with headphones, you need an mic on the headphones for anyone to hear you. There were several years you had the option of using BT headphones while the iPhone had both BT and the jack, but you were us
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by harkinian 3y ago
Yeah it's really hard to make something complex work with so many parties involved. 2-way SMS works well enough at least.
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by harkinian 3y ago
The others who did this are also trying to fleece their users. There are loyal Samsung users too, don't ask me why.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Yes, there have been since 2007. Almost nobody used them until the jack got removed, because they don't work well. BT standard improved over the years, but not enough.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Needing a mic on a phone is not niche. What made you stop using the dongle?
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by harkinian 3y ago
Yes, basically non-Apple headphones are pointless for iPhone owners now. Doesn't matter how much Bose or anyone improves their tech, the port they relied upon got removed. Apple has locked together iPhones and headphones.
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by harkinian 3y ago
It's not feasible to use an old iPhone forever, I tried. If the required app updates don't get you, the carrier will. The big competitors like Samsung removed the jack too once they started selling their own wireless earbuds. They
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by harkinian 3y ago
Do you actually use the dongle? It doesn't work with inline mics, making it useless even if you were to carry it around everywhere. It also doesn't work with previous iPhones, so you can't share say a car aux between an old a
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by harkinian 3y ago
I have high-end Bose headphones from 2020, a new iPhone, and a new Mac. Bluetooth sucks. You're far better off with AirPods than anything else if you're going to use BT. By the way, it's so bad that I don't use headphone
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by harkinian 3y ago
Normal BT drops to very low sound quality when the mic is in use, because it goes into "headset" mode. Apple got around that with an extension. Combined with the jank pairing and device switching, the difference is pretty big.
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by harkinian 3y ago
I'm fine with Apple implementing BT to spec (i.e. crap) and having their own extensions to improve it. I'm not fine with them eliminating the only alternative, the jack. Since the first iPhone, there's been both BT and jack,
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by harkinian 3y ago
If I had two of these at once, I'd copy/paste the messages from one to the other and vice versa – make them talk to each other.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Yeah, WhatsApp was the first place I saw these scams, and I continue to get these messages from "women" on there.
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by harkinian 3y ago
These scams have been going on since before LLMs were passable in English convo, and I'll bet they're still using whatever human labor they had.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Doesn't help how even a legitimate investing platform often won't let you withdraw money immediately.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Then don't buy an Apple Watch? They're pretty upfront about what it is.
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by harkinian 3y ago
The bubbles are green if you talk to someone with an Android, and they're blue if you talk to someone with an iPhone. People simplify this by saying "you have blue bubbles."
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by harkinian 3y ago
Not mine cause we leave those people out. It's not Apple's fault that SMS sucks, and RCS adoption was very slow even on Android. Even with all Android phones, a group chat is a disaster unless they use FB Messenger or WhatsApp, wh
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by harkinian 3y ago
One thing I hope they mention: Apple put in proprietary extensions to give Apple-made Bluetooth headphones an advantage over all others, then removed the headphone jacks.
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by harkinian 3y ago
It's not just safety. Small-yet-safe gaps exacerbate temporary jams on highways, or possibly even create them.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Depends on the type of traffic. You're describing gridlock, but temporary jams are more common on freeways. In those situations, if everyone left extra following space, it'd actually improve the overall throughput since people tak
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by harkinian 3y ago
I was thinking about people who squeeze in when you're already at min safe following distance. But also, no it doesn't always help the flow of traffic to follow as close as possible.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Who drives a Nissan and isn't blasting music anyway?
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by harkinian 3y ago
Automatic with a gear select will handle that pretty well.
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by harkinian 3y ago
That would be my guess. The small wheels make it look like the cars from Mexico, technically also North America but their car models are different.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Wait, does it also simulate the feel of the torque curve?
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by harkinian 3y ago
People abuse the gaps in some places.
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by harkinian 3y ago
I was shocked at the gearing of my friend's stickshift 5-gear Nissan Versa. The revs are so high at freeway speeds in 5th. Doesn't get very good highway MPG.
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by harkinian 3y ago
I agree with traditional slushbox automatics. You don't get that distinct gear shift feeling, so it's boring. But DCT seems closer to the manual feeling. Cannot confirm since I've never driven one, but it felt that way as a p

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