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Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT
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#32My partner bought fake AirPods off ebay. We kind of had a feeling they'd be fake but felt it was worth the risk. We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them. The pods themselves looked exactly the same. The case was the real sign. It was clearly not the same as an original case. They actually worked, but they were essentially just generic bluetooth headphones. We ended up listing them…
Seems kinda like "kids eat free" at restaurants... fake-spotters eat free at eBay.
But in this case they ended up with no product, the same starting money and a bunch of time/energy lost.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems kinda like "kids eat free" at restaurants... fake-spotters eat free at eBay.
But in this case they ended up with no product, the same starting money and a bunch of time/energy lost.
They ended up with twice the amount of money and some time wasted.
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#34What is the moral calculus of counterfeiters? Fake power adapters can kill.
Poverty and desperation can often drive people to bend their moral compass quite a bit.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems kinda like "kids eat free" at restaurants... fake-spotters eat free at eBay.
But in this case they ended up with no product, the same starting money and a bunch of time/energy lost.
> We got a refund from the seller pretty quickly and they told us to keep them.
So they made some? Spent time/energy for science of course ...
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#36This is really cool and kinda makes me want to put various things I have under such scanner. However several statements like provide optimal power efficiently along with other assumptions made this a bit awkward to read. What does it mean to provide 'optimal' power except making it sound like a commercial? Maybe it's just me, after all I was expecting a very technical article (as have been on HN previously, also from…
These critiques come up in every thread about a Lumafield post. But these articles are really sales pitches for the CT scanner and not a rigorous analysis of the item they put in it.
There has been an influx of social media “ads” for these CT scanners - probably the worst (and obviously paid) example is Adam Savage’s YouTube channel where they just throw random things into a CT scanner under the guise of “how does this thing we’re scanning function from the inside out” - but it just ends up being an advertisement for “check out the features of the scanner and the settings you can change” with literally no investigation into the object being scanned
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Medical images are much like this - if you have any interest, it’s quite easy to get a DICOM viewer and get a few patient scans. I recommend Horos and Osirix, though I’m a Mac user. And MRI of course, not CT!
I recommend InVesalius (multi platform).
Thanks for this, I’ll explore.
Saying available for ‘Apple Mac OS X platforms’ isn’t encouraging but auto segmentation and 3D printer support, and screenshots look good.
There badly needs to be a cross section platform viewer that gets full support on each platform. I’m using InteleViewer currently and it’s borderline abandonware on its native platform (Windows) and it’s creaking badly on the Mac. Having copy and paste being the Windows default keys (when in the Mac) is like a middle finger to the user every time you use it.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems kinda like "kids eat free" at restaurants... fake-spotters eat free at eBay.
But in this case they ended up with no product, the same starting money and a bunch of time/energy lost.
The way I read it they ended up with double the starting money, because they both got a refund and sold the headphones.
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#39I'd be interested in some fake airpods if they lasted twice as long and sounded 80% as good. Literally I get perhaps a year out of a set of genuine bought at Apple Store airpods before the case gives up or one airpod goes muffled or craps out. After a year Apple don't want to know or care unless you have AppleCare. Decided I wasn't going to fish out for a fourth set, so I bought some Sony ones for £20 with a wire bet…
I'm on my second pair of Sony LinkBuds, and these are starting to go also.
The warranty covered the second pair because they lasted less than a year. I'm not sure if it'll cover the third pair, but I'll probably buy another if not, because I really like the hear-through design, and no one else makes anything like it.
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#40This AirPods scan is so unbelievably cool, there is cross section view aligned along speaker battery and circuit board (click Slice Place A on the left) https://app.lumafield.com/project/b618e6f7-9a17-42bc-a2b4-a2...