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user224

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18M I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is HP 255 G7 running Manjaro and Linux Mint.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.

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user224 , to asklemmy in [POLL] Do you use/require a headphone jack on your phone?

I have once owned wireless earbuds. It was cool to have free head, but I was too lazy to keep recharging them like every week or so. They finally died. Or at least the case did. I have replaced the charging chip in it, but it only extended the lifespan by a few weeks. It’s now unable to charge both earbuds at once. Still, better than self-heating short-circuited case.

I just don’t like them overall. Battery, latency, audio cuts after a bit of silence (power saving), and at the end, more waste.

I still use Bluetooth audio, but differently. With my laptop. When working on laptop, I have my earphones connected to it. But it is more convenient to play music on my phone, so I connect my phone to laptop for audio as well. In fact, I feel like the sound card in my laptop sounds a bit better than my phone, and with laptop I can use aptX HD.

user224 , to asklemmy in [POLL] Do you use/require a headphone jack on your phone?

Also when connected, they may show battery percentage on your phone. But the ones I had didn’t really understand percentage.
100% = full
90% = half discharged
80% = consider recharging
70% = dead in a few minutes

user224 , to asklemmy in [POLL] Do you use/require a headphone jack on your phone?

I got one like that in 2018. Since then I had 2 phones, and I paid attention to make sure there is a headphone jack.

user224 , to asklemmy in What the hell...???

You beat me by 30 seconds.

user224 , to technology in Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries

I’ve had issues with Bluetooth on Windows 11, but it worked perfectly on Linux Mint. On Windows 11 the Bluetooth card would simply disappear after I put the laptop to sleep, only appearing at random after multiple restarts. It did work in Windows 10 just fine, however. Similarly, I had to change my WiFi card just for Windows 11. It kept disconnecting from network. Again, something that did not affect Windows 10 or Linux Mint.
If I didn’t have unused WiFi card laying around, I definitely wouldn’t be buying another one just for Windows.

user224 , (edited ) to technology in Why I'm not getting a Fairphone*
  1. Money - The cheapest actually usable wireless earbuds are like 50 bucks and they sound just like €5 wired Panasonic earbuds.
  2. Compatibility
  3. Nothing extra to recharge, no extra batteries to dispose of. Wireless earbuds are a lot more wasteful at the end of their life.
  4. Most likely higher audio quality than wireless if using SBC (depends on phone’s sound card)
  5. Latency - Sure, modern wireless earphones/headphones may have tiny latency, but it can get noticeable when gaming
  6. FM Radio - no antenna, no radio
  7. Less RFI
  8. Power efficiency
  9. Microphone input - It’s also an input. Wired input. Although it’s only mono. I used that to digitize a ZX Spectrum tape I found, tape with unidentified music and recording from SW radio. No need to bring out my laptop for that. You just need a combo jack splitter.
  10. No audio cuts - Most earbuds just cut off audio when there’s silence to save power, but that may also affect quiet audio. It also affects audio with cuts of silence in between. Each time they kick back, it’s ever so slightly late, losing a bit of audio.
  11. Safety when watching that stuff - you connected wired earphones, the audio goes just into them. You may take your wireless earphones, you see the Bluetooth icon showing it’s connected. Good. You play the stuff, you don’t hear anything. You increase the audio level, the living room speaker is moaning. Shit.
  12. SSTV - this could be useful for hams. There’s Robot36 and SSTV Encoder apps (F-Droid links). Using a phone with the radio may be pretty convenient, again utilizing the combo jack splitter.
user224 OP , to asklemmy in What are some (realistic) things you wanted to get for a while, just for fun?

But I’m not a developer (at least not yet…maybe later).

We can do it! Or at least you can, I am too dumb.

user224 OP , to asklemmy in What are some (realistic) things you wanted to get for a while, just for fun?

Nah, font still won’t have the real feel. Neither the sound. And if I want to print in high DPI with my printer (HP PSC1315), it takes 20 minutes per A4 page.

user224 , to linux in any cool ideas what i could do with termux?

Also. I use it with school computers like that.
But also to go around VPN device limit. For example, I use free Proton VPN which limits me to 1 connection at a time. And that 1 device can be the device running proxy server, and now I increased the limits.

user224 , to piracy in Rockstar selling you cracked copies on Steam

How about Microsoft pirating Windows for you?

user224 , to linux in any cool ideas what i could do with termux?

I mean, just run the proxy server on the phone. Then the traffic simply goes through VPN. Currently I just use this app, but I want to do it properly.

user224 , to linux in any cool ideas what i could do with termux?

I am thinking about setting up a local HTTP web server with something and HTTP proxy to share my VPN connection easily. But to be honest I am also kinda lazy. Ok, alot.
Maybe NGINX for web server and Privoxy for the proxy server. Or tinyproxy. I don’t know to be honest. When I’ll have too much extra time at school I can look into that.

Anyway, there’s also ffmpeg. Pretty useful.
And since you can run GUI in it, noaa-apt for decoding APT imagery from the last NOAA satellites still broadcasting APT at 137MHz. (NOAA-15, 18 and 19. NOAA-15 currently has broken AVHRR scan motor, but it’s not the first time.)

Lame screenshot from Termux desktop:
https://i.imgur.com/14CpVwH.jpg

user224 , to linux in any cool ideas what i could do with termux?

I tend to do the opposite.
SSH into my phone.

user224 , to linux in bluetuith - A TUI based bluetooth manager v0.1.7 is released

Handle both PANU and DUN based networking for each bluetooth device

Alright, now you got my interest.

user224 , to technology in Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years

Upcoming:
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