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Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by oblio »

throwanem wrote: post #164
isatty wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did some searching and also asked a doctor (though not an ENT) about it and the overall response was that you should not be be overzealous about cleaning out ear wax unless it’s a medical condition.

There's nothing wrong with a little Debrox once a month or so. The point is just to keep the wax from building up enough to get impacted, or close enough to affect balance and hearing. I had impacted earwax once, years and years ago. They fix that with Debrox followed by irrigation, which was while not painful still perhaps the most weirdly unpleasant sensation I've ever experienced, and also made my head spin a litt…

> The point is just to keep the wax from building up enough to get impacted, or close enough to affect balance and hearing.

What if he isn't impacted in any way? What point is there in zealously cleaning something that's meant to be there?

Just washing your ears in a regular fashion during a shower/bath, with your fingers (but not with long nails!) and warm water and soap is enough for most people.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by oblio »

renewiltord wrote: post #187
throwanem wrote: post #158

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> The buds themselves have a design flaw wherein earwax will accumulate in its inner grille severely enough to significantly compromise bass response Not to be glib, but maybe clean your ears more often? You can also take the tips off (invert, then pull) and blow them out from the back with canned air to clear the outer grilles which are integral with the eartip. As fine as those outer grilles are, you'd really have…

AFAIK canonical ear advice today is to just not fuck with your ears. Just leaving them be will usually ensure not having to deal with impacted ear wax. It’s not unhygienic to just let it be.

Yeah, I remember something like: "don't stick anything smaller than an elbow in your years".

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by eertami »

stouset wrote: post #154
marcan_42 wrote: post #153

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Their latest laptops barely if ever turn on their fans. Your link references the prior Intel generation.

I’ve run my M1 Max all night blasting every core doing heavily vectorized math computations and when I come back in the morning the small room it was in isn’t even noticeably warmer than ambient temperature and the fans aren’t even on.

Isn't the M1 Max pulling like 30-40W tops? I don't understand why that would ever be expected to create a noticeable temperature change. I doubt any laptop CPU would create a noticeable difference.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by quickthrower2 »

elzbardico wrote: post #100

This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality. Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn't want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming. Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor,…

I chose the iPhone because of the “just works” nature but now they’ve made it impossible to get photos off using Windows (disconnects in copy, iTunes or DCIM, tried workarounds, due to heavily walled garden no other app can be used to get 500 photos off). Lots of people online with same issue.

If I can take photos and copy them off I might as well go back to androids.

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Post by Arn_Thor »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #172

I imagine it may be hard and they don't have incentives to "fix it", but I think the single most important disadvantage of airpods is the battery life... no matter how long it lasts, there's no way to replace it, so they became essentially discardable items. [1]? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

I'd argue there's a difference between planned obsolescence and products that are of such a nature that it's just about impossible to pull them apart. (Now, whether that means the latter category of products is defensible is a different question)

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

MrBuddyCasino wrote: post #37
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #7

Not an audio expert, but I really wonder why they need a microphone for their adaptive EQ. I understand home speakers/theatre systems need to compensate for a room's shape and contents, but do human ear canals vary that much to need a mic? I think it's pretty neat how sophisticated this adaptive EQ system is, but tbh, I haven't noticed much difference between this mic system and the "dumb" adaptive EQ that companies…

> do human ear canals vary that much to need a mic? Surprisingly, they do! It doesn't need a lot of change to have a different ear canal resonance, changing the frequency curve somewhere between 5000-7000Hz. Oluv is currently tuning Earfun IEMs to different earl canal lengths which you can then try out, and he has written some articles [0] on exactly this topic, but unfortunately its paywalled: https://www.patreon.co…

Found something non-paywalled, its in German though, might need to Google translate it: http://blog.prof-x.de/2018/08/26/gehoerresonanzen/

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

kiwijamo wrote: post #175
elzbardico wrote: post #100

This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality. Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn't want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming. Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor,…

Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks. I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase. I've also owned…

More anecdotes. My previous Macbook (2014 model? maybe 2016?) had a screen delamination issue; didn't get to the visible area of the screen, but I stopped using it because I got a new one from work at that point.

Current one had an issue with one speaker not working properly, that (and the whole top <_<) was replaced under extended warranty. More recently, the screen has borked, faulty ribbon connector I think, but that's another very expensive and fiddly fix, I probably won't bother since I work on an external screen all the time anyway.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by dncornholio »

elzbardico wrote: post #100

This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality. Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn't want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming. Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor,…

I remember my Macbook screen getting damaged from the keyboard. Was a 2013 model.

Their charging block also give up after a few years. The harness of the cable have failed on most of my magsafes.

I also remember my phonecalls kept disconnecting because I held my iPhone the wrong way so it blocked the reception.

Saying Apple doesn't have design flaws is quite ignorant.

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Post by rev_d »

chrisweekly wrote: post #182
kiwijamo wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks. I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase. I've also owned…

I still make good use of my 15" 2012 macbook pro retina. Bummed that macos 10.15 is the end of the road for OS upgrades, bc the hardware has held up amazingly well for almost a decade. Including weeks at a time at sea, countless motorcycle trips and flights...

You should take a look into OpenCore Legacy Patcher
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