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Re: Doomscroller.xyz

#91

Post by oooyay »

blfr wrote: post #3

Amazing. I'm glad you don't ship outside of the US 'cause I would be insanely tempted to buy this completely superfluous gadget. Love everything about it, from the idea and its negative utility to design and materials. Are there any details available? Dimensions, charging, etc? Actually, this can be used as a presentation clicker, right? There you go, business expense.

I really like imagining how people of the future (like hundreds of years in the future) looking at our current culture and technology will try to interpret things that I seem to get without thinking. Like, if they dug up my home and found this thing sitting in a drawer what kind of wild theories would they come up before they eventually realized, "This human valued something that actually did less than nothing."

Re: Doomscroller.xyz

#92

Post by DiggyJohnson »

redbell wrote: post #64
enderfusion wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I looked at my site analytics and realized this is where it was coming from :-o I should turn on international shipment, but Stripe doesn't support auto calculate rates. CNC machined from aluminum. USB C. I did test it with powerpoint just now, works!

Are you the author? I noticed you've been adding additional information in response to many comments, which led me to believe you might be the creator of this doomscroller. However, I didn't see any mention of you being the author. Typically, on Hacker News, when the original poster is not the author and the author discovers that one of their works is trending, they promptly join the discussion, usually starting with…

> I looked at my site analytics …

Is that not a way of saying “author here, …”?

Re: Doomscroller.xyz

#95

Post by SushiHippie »

marcosdumay wrote: post #76
SushiHippie wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From his twitter: (I'll copy and paste the text here, as I don't know how much you see of this text logged out) > Why couldn’t I just emulate a standard mouse and scroll smoothly? Sounds easy. Unfortunately there is a holdover from two decades ago in the way mouse drivers are written into USB. Because mice used to use low resolution encoders, a single “detent” event would be about 22.5 degrees. Hard coded into the ke…

Jump from completely out of context here... Wait, bluetooth devices are USB ones tunneled over bluetooth? If that's the case, why does audio work so badly? (I'm guessing there's a list of exceptions that BT supports natively, none of which work.)

(I'm not a SME, but I looked a bit into this while buying a bluetooth headphone)

Audio works with some bluetooth specific codecs like SBC, Qualcomm aptX (adaptive/HD), LDAC, ... or Opus and AAC

These codecs need to be supported by both sender and receiver.

And for example many bluetooth speakers only support SBC as they don't want to pay the fees for aptX and LDAC (which are both codecs that sound and work very well, LDAC even supports up to 96 kHz sample rates with 32 bit depth).

So I suppose (i don't know for sure) problems could be a) audio is more of a special case with all its codecs b) SBC is widespread, but does not sound good c) codec support on operating systems and bluetooth chips varies widely.

Re: Doomscroller.xyz

#96

Post by int_19h »

marcodiego wrote: post #10

I'd love if my cellphone had a lateral button like old portable radios had to adjust the volume but with the sole purpose of scrolling. Scrolling on the screen is annoying, my finger covers the content and I must be careful not to click something. I really can't believe I'm the only one desiring such a thing.

I'd love something like that. But I would want that to have tactice clicks, like mouse scrolling wheels, so that it can also be used for paging in book readers.

Which speaking of, there is a niche there for a product that I think is actually realistically doable at small scale. On Android, most book readers can be configured to flip pages with volume up/down, which is extremely convenient for one-handed reading. No such luck on iOS, though, where those buttons cannot be taken over by apps. It would be nice to have some kind of case for iPhones that incorporated dedicated page up/down buttons along those lines, just connecting to the actual phone via Bluetooth and presenting itself as a keyboard.

Re: Doomscroller.xyz

#98

Post by notatoad »

int_19h wrote: post #96
marcodiego wrote: post #10

I'd love if my cellphone had a lateral button like old portable radios had to adjust the volume but with the sole purpose of scrolling. Scrolling on the screen is annoying, my finger covers the content and I must be careful not to click something. I really can't believe I'm the only one desiring such a thing.

I'd love something like that. But I would want that to have tactice clicks, like mouse scrolling wheels, so that it can also be used for paging in book readers. Which speaking of, there is a niche there for a product that I think is actually realistically doable at small scale. On Android, most book readers can be configured to flip pages with volume up/down, which is extremely convenient for one-handed reading. No s…

Afaik TikTok and the Kindle app both respondto media back/next keys, which is how the TikTok Bluetooth remotes work.

Re: Doomscroller.xyz

#99

Post by toomuchtodo »

pier25 wrote: post #81
justsomehnguy wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just use a BT mouse. Edit: or BT ... scroll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099700

Thanks. Great tip for iPads but probably doesn't work with Kindle devices.

Bought for partner and their Kindle. Recommend. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T8CZYF3

(no affiliation)

Re: Doomscroller.xyz

#100

Post by loneboat »

oooyay wrote: post #91
blfr wrote: post #3

Amazing. I'm glad you don't ship outside of the US 'cause I would be insanely tempted to buy this completely superfluous gadget. Love everything about it, from the idea and its negative utility to design and materials. Are there any details available? Dimensions, charging, etc? Actually, this can be used as a presentation clicker, right? There you go, business expense.

I really like imagining how people of the future (like hundreds of years in the future) looking at our current culture and technology will try to interpret things that I seem to get without thinking. Like, if they dug up my home and found this thing sitting in a drawer what kind of wild theories would they come up before they eventually realized, "This human valued something that actually did less than nothing."

If that concept amuses you, you should check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/039...
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