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Headsets (including Bluetooth ones) were already a thing back then, so they'd have to go back another couple of decades, I guess. Using the speakerphone mode in public would attrac…

I've asked my bank's support agent about an issue with an app, it also didn't stumble producing a thorough and convincing answer. Entirely wrong, though. Using an LLM to reverse en…

You might be confusing "conviction" with sociopathy

CrowdSupply isn't geoblocking visitors as far as I know.

I very much appreciate it when people use wired headphones with a decent mic for calls. Speech clarity is just so much better even with Earpods compared to tws earplugs.

I also prefer open-back over-the-ears and there just aren't many wireless options for that.

Some games are reliable enough. I found out the DRAM in my PC was going bad when Factorio started behaving weird. Did a memory test to confirm. Yep, bitflips.

/r/subredditsimulator was entertaining enough way before LLMs.

Shanling uses a custom OS although it feels very primitive compared to iPods (e.g. the iPod Nano had VoiceOver for touch navigation). So I'm not really a fan of these dedicated sin…

I've had some experience with both Meshtastic and Reticulum, and Meshtastic software was mostly unusable for me even with 3-node networks. E.g. a node sends a message and gets a su…

I'm always amused by these occasional "you still don't have any viruses" popup notifications from Defender. Well, good to know, thank you very much, I guess.

I don't generally use tiny fonts and I hopefully don't sit unreasonably close to the screen yet fringing is very apparent to me (even on window borders, i.e. it's not a font render…

There are specialized computation kernels compiled for NPUs. A high-level program (that uses ONNX or CoreML, for example) can decide whether to run the computation using CPU code, …

Forums also didn't have personalized content recommendation engines... usually, I think

I also have a splitter which lets you power an USB device from a separate power supply (i.e. D+/D- lines are connected to a host and +5V comes from a separate plug, ground is share…

I have a similar FiiO gadget and it makes less sense for me than a direct wired connection to the phone. It's a relatively bulky device that needs to be charged way too often, also…

One can't be a real infosec influencer unless one blocks every IP range of every hostile nation-state looking to steal valuable research and fill the website with malware

And people who are financially interested in letting users side-load apps (malicious or otherwise) are good at what they do. I mean, even Russian banks that are banned from the App…

I have a stereo system with a DSP which I've spent quite a bit of time adjusting with tools like REW. I do care. I'm obviously adjusting my expectations because the laptop is indee…

Laptop OLEDs aren't usually the best wrt color accuracy and uniformity. I've tried two. One had green splotches across the screen, the other just displays a certain range of gray s…

Yes, I've bought a chinese ("Acasis" brand) TB4 hub which has three TB4 downstream ports and an USB 3.x hub with three downstream 10 Gbps USB-C ports. There are also weird combos l…

Apple-Apple Bluetooth speech codec is a variation of AAC, I believe. AAC-LD if I remember correctly. But still, having microphones in one's ears is suboptimal. There's a lot of pro…

I can deal with all the warts but I'm not really having a blast.

Depends on the product. Notion, for example, has a "press Space to AI" prompt in the editor. I think it can only be disabled for enterprise accounts.

Force-feeding 100s of different AI features (90% of which are useless at best) to users is what's wrong with the approach.