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Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by aksss » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 11:27 PM UTC

GhettoComputers wrote: post #212

aksss wrote: post #181

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For 25+ years I'm not sure I've ever thought of the Mac market as primarily technophiles, so much as a crowd interested in the "pursuit aesthetic" and notably not interested in looking behind the technical curtain. The user group that was technical was a relatively late demographic. But Macs were always (well, since my memories in 90's) targeted towards this odd trifecta of the media production crowd (high-dollar pro…

They got into shrinking hardware and made great consumer gadgets that were not expandable with hardware but much better. The first iPhone had a headphone jack, it didn’t need a weird one like the Sony Erickson, I don’t think the palm had one. I had used a Mac in grade school with a mean teacher that died of cancer (they said thats why she was so mean, I don’t buy it), it played crappy math games, and Oregon trail, it…

Remember the ipod not only didn't have expandable storage, they were still using a mechanical disk until at least second gen, I think.

Just a shout out to the Frontier Labs NexIIe. Awesome little MP3 player that took compact flash storage and ran on a AA batteries back in the day.

It was like 2001 or something. I had iPods as well, but loved that NexIIe.

- used the same media I had in some of my earliest digital cameras.

- could double as an external hard drive.

- ran on batteries you could buy anywhere, including lithiums.

- had an equalizer.

- displayed ID3 tags.

- had a blue on black backlit character LCD that wouldn't kill your night vision.

- Smaller form factor than the ipod and lighter (it was mostly air and cheap plastics).

It stood up to cold temps and wipeouts when out snowboarding. No special connectors - 3.5mm audio jack and usb.

Here's a period review. The fact that it's described as being smaller than a "pack of smokes" really dates it I guess. https://bjorn3d.com/2002/10/frontier-labs-nex-iie-mp3-player...

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by hnlmorg » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 11:44 PM UTC

gimmeThaBeet wrote: post #281

mensetmanusman wrote: post #273

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Try cleaning the speaker with distilled water and the speaker cleaning feature that pumps the water out of the watch.

is that this water lock thing for when you swim with it? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210931 May be brash of me, I would assume all water resistant watches have water lock, but the speaker thing sounds so apple-y.

I can't comment on the wider smart watch market but I do know my wife's Samsung smart watch has a similar feature to vibrate water out of the speaker.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by GhettoComputers » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 12:22 AM UTC

aksss wrote: post #321

GhettoComputers wrote: post #212

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They got into shrinking hardware and made great consumer gadgets that were not expandable with hardware but much better. The first iPhone had a headphone jack, it didn’t need a weird one like the Sony Erickson, I don’t think the palm had one. I had used a Mac in grade school with a mean teacher that died of cancer (they said thats why she was so mean, I don’t buy it), it played crappy math games, and Oregon trail, it…

Remember the ipod not only didn't have expandable storage, they were still using a mechanical disk until at least second gen, I think. Just a shout out to the Frontier Labs NexIIe. Awesome little MP3 player that took compact flash storage and ran on a AA batteries back in the day. It was like 2001 or something. I had iPods as well, but loved that NexIIe. - used the same media I had in some of my earliest digital came…

Steve Jones mentioned why he chose mechanical, it stored more songs, in 2002 you didn’t have many gigabytes. The iPod was the size of a deck of cards, it wasn’t much larger. You listed an MP3 player you needed to add storage to, when SD cards were 8mb or 16mb for the period.

You could get 2GB flash on the iPod nano. I wouldn’t have liked the nex one, the battery life was probably worst, the iPods had good monochrome at the beginning, and the good ones they were fighting were the rio karma which also used HDD, battery, and the Archos were good too, and no different aside from the iPod needing iTunes.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by ddingus » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 12:59 AM UTC

72deluxe wrote: post #232

rev_d wrote: post #230

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You should take a look into OpenCore Legacy Patcher

I have a 2012 going strong too. Battery has been charged and recharged less than my work 2016 but is in much better health. Upgraded it to 16GB RAM and put a 1TB SSD in it. It has worked flawlessly (it's the i7). Do you know if there are any issues reported running a 2012 with OpenCore Legacy Patcher? Looks an interesting project I may make use of. Are there any actual reasons the 2012 hardware cannot run Big Sur?

I have one of these I may want to bring back into service and have the same question.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by GhettoComputers » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 1:07 AM UTC

elzbardico wrote: post #306

oblio wrote: post #218

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> This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality. The thing is, Appple's hype wave is huge. I NEVER see this kind of blog post about Samsung or Huawei or Sony devices. Yet many of their devices are marvels of engineering, too. Look at the tone of this article: > The construction would make an origamist blush. Make we can get an experienced electronics comment on this kind of congra…

No. In practice the samsung cutting edge stuff that looked like a marvel of engineering was just fluff with small irritating stuff that compounds over time. Samsung is obsessed with features, not with perfecting them.

I agree, the iPhone was a handheld Unix computer, the Samsung Galaxy looked like it could do the same things but it was just worst.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by ValentineC » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 1:53 AM UTC

kalleboo wrote: post #268

hnlmorg wrote: post #255

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> And yes, I know people have plenty of complaints about apple, but I never had encountered such an obvious problem with an Apple product. Have they not stress-tested this stuff? I'm not going to argue that many of Apples products aren't well built but MBPs have had their share of problems too. Such as - The butterfly keys being extremely easy to break? (I have a few keys on mine that don't work properly any more) -…

> I'm not going to argue that many of Apples products aren't well built but MBPs have had their share of problems too Yep Apples stuff definitely has a lot of build problems as well. You can also watch one of Louis Rossman's rants for perpetual internal design issues that cause machines to be more fragile than they need to be. Although the one thing speaking in favor of buying Apple despite this is that they sell so…

> Although the one thing speaking in favor of buying Apple despite this is that they sell so many of the same machines that when one of these major design issues pop up, it's likely to build up enough steam and bad publicity that they fix it/implement an extended warranty repair program

Apple has never admitted fault for their shoddy MagSafe charger cable insulation, which always end up disintegrating and spewing blue stuff all over my furniture.

I've had multiple cables flake over the years, and every time I bring the the charger to a Genius bar (so far: Australia, Japan, and Singapore), they've always fallen back to "policy" and blamed it on me for not taking care of it properly.

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Post by ValentineC » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 2:02 AM UTC

oblio wrote: post #249

throwanem wrote: post #246

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Certainly not; the AirPod is designed to be impossible to push that far. But it does , like anything that occludes the meatus, go far enough to stop wax draining. In general, all our holes are there for a reason, and blocking them up for long periods is rarely if ever well advised. But in this age we also suffer the siren song of podcasts, and it is therefore incumbent upon us to either deal with the problems we thus…

I think some ORL specialists can "vacuum" your ears. From what I hear it's far less intrusive than other options.

From personal experience with multiple cases of impacted earwax, dripping a bit of olive oil to soften the earwax is probably the least intrusive.

One can follow up with a bit of 3% hydrogen peroxide one day after. The bubbling causes the impacted earwax to break up mechanically.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by girvo » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 2:07 AM UTC

reasonabl_human wrote: post #291

girvo wrote: post #102

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Whats the current status of jailbreaking on iPhone 12s and iOS 15? I've been out of the game for a very long time, I assume even if I wanted to have a look at it I'm out of luck. What are the major benefits you yourself get from it? My major reasoning used to be emulators, but I have a hacked New 3DS which runs everything I want it to these days with better controls. Firewalls like the grandparent comment seems quite…

The jailbreak subreddit has a solid sidebar with info on devices / iOS versions supported, and by what jailbreak method. Any current gen device is off the table at the moment, as is iOS 15. Also- recently ordered a Japanese New 3DS and am glad to hear you are enjoying it, looking forward to having a great emulation machine- maybe one day I’ll get around to installing a modchip in my switch lite too

The New 3DS has blown me away by how powerful it is. Been playing full-speed PS1 games via RetroArch on it has been super neat. N64 is sadly hit-and-miss, but that's honestly fine as most of the games I want to play have NDS or 3DS ports already. Played through Metal Gear Solid and Parasite Eve entirely on my 3DS!

The injectors for the Virtual Console are super great too; GB, GBA and Sega have worked flawlessly (including saving, for the GB/GBA). It can be a little finicky to get the right settings for injection (around the battery/nand emulation), but once you get the process down pat it's straightforward.

The coolest part was that the second hand one I bought still had the previous users Nintendo Account setup on it, but the homebrew/custom firmware system let me erase it without wiping the system.

They're brilliant little systems, I'm very impressed.

I've got the first-generation bootloader exploitable Switch that I've considered hacking, but I think I'll wait til it's a bit older or I've replaced it with the next generation Switch.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by quickthrower2 » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 4:11 AM UTC

dbspin wrote: post #313

quickthrower2 wrote: post #224

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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.

That sounds annoying, but honestly pretty much any cloud backup service will sort this for you iCloud's not great, but Google One, Dropbox etc all work fine on iPhone.

I’m using MS and while it has copied a lot I’m not convinced it copied everything. Renaming and reformatting means I’ll spend some time making sure

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by oblio » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 4:40 AM UTC

elzbardico wrote: post #306

oblio wrote: post #218

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> This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality. The thing is, Appple's hype wave is huge. I NEVER see this kind of blog post about Samsung or Huawei or Sony devices. Yet many of their devices are marvels of engineering, too. Look at the tone of this article: > The construction would make an origamist blush. Make we can get an experienced electronics comment on this kind of congra…

No. In practice the samsung cutting edge stuff that looked like a marvel of engineering was just fluff with small irritating stuff that compounds over time. Samsung is obsessed with features, not with perfecting them.

I'm strictly talking about tech and assembly here.

We have a custom website fawning over Apple internal electronics being folded a certain way.

I doubt Samsung's internal engineering is worse. Especially since they make components for everyone else. For example they have the best screens in the smartphone world.