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bluetardis ,

Alas I have but one upvote to give.

bluetardis ,

Wired 3.5mm jack.

Hear me out. I don’t use Bluetooth headphones. They don’t last the commute and work day.

With a jack you can listen and charge you phone at the same time and never worry about charging your headphones/iem.

If I need to use Bluetooth for connection I still can but overall better battery life

bluetardis , (edited )

So… I was more referring to a 3.5mm jack on the phone.

Commute time is a little over 2hours each way. Office use is 6-8 hours. Listening + calls and needing a microphone.

Would rather not to have to do the dance for multiple devices and chargers vs just one and a single usb input.

Some of the bushes busses and trains have a usb but you have to get lucky and then decide what needs charging more…the phone or the buds.

Give me a wired option any day. Also used less battery power and sounds better.

edit… typo

bluetardis ,

The buds don’t need a jack. Just the lead that connects to the phone or whatever. That takes no real space.

bluetardis ,

Well… It’s not a commute that I need to do every day. Also I can (to some extent) work on that commute as the majority of it is on an inter-urban train. Timeboxing tasks to 30 mins or an hour can be quite productive. That said, having decent music and or noise blocking configured for your environment helps a lot. I highly recommend these guys - I have their full app and being able to dial just the right frequencies to deal with whatever is bugging you is amazing…

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That said, without my device and quality headphones/iem I wouldn’t be able to tolerate it.

bluetardis ,

Thirded. It just works. Even deployed to elderly relatives with wifi printers with no issues.

bluetardis ,

Milk adds a fair bit of sweetness and hides a lot of sins in the coffee process.

If it’s been slightly burned or the machine/grinder aren’t really clean then milk will cover that. Black…it’s all out there.

If you can ask them for 3 or 4 seconds of hot water from the group and then float the espresso shot on top and stir. Makes for a great cafe option.

You don’t want water from the steam wand/hot water spout as it’s from a different boiler and will be much hotter. Normally around 130degress celcius vs around 90 for the espresso.

bluetardis ,

Water? Maybe shift to a “long black” style.

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In the past I’ve chosen I’ve often kept AC3 audio tracks thinking that their substantially higher bitrates made them better than the AAC tracks I compared them to. As I’ve since learned that AAC can be comparable to AC3 at a substantially lower bitrate, to have a means of comparing the two codecs, what would the...

bluetardis ,

Definitely needs some more testing as those numbers in the table look low to me. Archiving vs listening is a key point and storage is relatively cheap.

Listening on cheap Bluetooth headphones then you can get away with a low bitrate. If you are using better gear and/or music that has a lot of dynamic range and comes from strings (piano/classical/etc) then I would recommend 320 but your mileage may vary.

Listen, compare and decide. I have a library of about 110k tracks (musicbrainz-Picard is amazing) and I wish I had:

  1. Focussed more on encoding albums rather than just songs and
  2. Had 320 or flac
bluetardis ,

Give this a go.

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bluetardis ,

Well done. It’s a Lenovo issue. Had to do the same thing recently for a friends laptop and did the same dance.

I have some IT background so kind of knew what to look for but it still was a pita.

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bluetardis ,

Used to use CoronaSDK a lot. There are still a million tutorials online and YouTube if people are interested.

Basically limited to your imagination

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    bluetardis ,

    Depends on the boot.

    The more expensive ones come with multiple air bladders and you inflate one the boot is strapped on. You can adjust where and how tight.

    bluetardis ,

    Steam or GoG

    Anything else is too much pain.

    bluetardis ,

    Any 10mm can lose itself already- we don’t technology for that.

    bluetardis ,

    I do. Every day. Decent headphones that block a lot of outside noise but don’t need a battery.

    Constantly thankful that I don’t have to find a Bluetooth setup.

    Contentious part is that I listen to high quality (generally lossless) ripped music. Bluetooth and some adapters do weird things with compression and you can really hear it.

    bluetardis ,

    Did you swap Word for Libre Office?

    bluetardis ,

    You missed the R rated muppet movie he did.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Feebles

    bluetardis ,

    A lot will come down to supply and where you are located (country).

    ECM and Profitec come from the same company and are built to a very high standard (German build from original Italian heritage).

    It’s pretty easy to get parts and information online.

    If you have the money and a decent grinder you can’t go wrong with them.

    bluetardis ,

    Consistent dosing will come once you have 3 shots in a row without adjustment grind.

    Ideally start by weighing your dose. I would aim for 17g in the double basket and then 25-30 seconds shot time (depending on your recipe).

    Once that is locked in you can tweak grind time to get repeatability

    bluetardis ,

    iOS Vinegar Tube Cleaner

    bluetardis ,

    They pissed $100M away on a project inspired at a boozy directors lunch.

    They then rushed out half assed dlc and a new game and put the price up for both.

    Poor management calls that customers aren’t happy about. If the quality was there people would have been fine

    bluetardis ,

    I thought Nokia was dead after Microsoft gutted it.

    bluetardis ,

    iOS also has Vinegar, an extension for Safari that is on the App Store. It will also work with Safari on M1/m2 Macs.

    bluetardis ,

    Comes down to use case and what you prefer. On my Mac and iPhone I use vinegar all the time and it works great. Also means you can turn iphone screen off if you are just listening (save battery). Same YouTube account/subscriptions etc.

    On my iPad when plugged into a tv I prefer invidious. I tend to watch long (6-8 hour streams) and It outputs at a native resolution to the tv and allows the screen to be off.

    bluetardis ,

    Must be because the district is called Barbers Hill

    bluetardis ,

    Which muppet thought that having a celebration party was a good idea ?

    bluetardis ,

    Queensland for the red necks or Darwin.

    I would suggest that Darwin Man is kind of more similar to Florida man.

    bluetardis ,

    I have had 3 futons. There is a big difference in comfort and longevity based on their inner materials.

    Like anything between you and the ground, paying more is generally a good investment.

    My back (which has had several surgeries) is happiest on a futon but that’s generally because we used a frame vs placing it on the floor.

    bluetardis ,

    Maybe growing his ASSets

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