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Having crappy hearing has saved me so much money
Or do, join us, this'll shake your ass, and your neighbor's ass, and quite possibly their patio..
(note: this is what I have, but it was given to me, I didn't drop 1700 for it.)
~ Buckaroo Banzai
You, a virgin, let's buy an expensive bluetooth repeater or a better dongle with a greater range
Me, an alpha chad, let's buy a fucken cheap 5m USB extension cable, run it from the PC to halfway down the stairs and have the tiny bluetooth dongle hang from the end
New problem: I need to find a new excuse for why I keep dying in Nine Sols
I was thinking to get a 15 to make sure to avoid the crud but the 16 is cheaper and comes in better colours so I ordered that. I hope I don't come to regret my actions. [ominous music sting]
How is Apple about supporting deprecated features? My fear would be they integrated it deep into the phone and when they inevitably stop supporting it in the next few months or years it would fuck up my ability to use the phone.
PSN:Furlion
its a mixed bag but it mostly skews bad on the phones
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Not really? Apple has some of the best phone software support out there. They consistently get updates well beyond what most android phones get.
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If they want to deprecate it they can just remove it in a software update, there's no reason why it should fuck up the phones if they don't want it to. I'd generally trust Apple at least that far.
The only "big" feature I can remember them removing was the Haptic Touch. The whole "press, press harder, press hardest" menu stuff. I really liked it but apparently nobody used it.
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a lot of the things they made for that are still in the phones, it's just via long press instead. i actually didn't know they removed haptic touch when i got a newer phone because all the things i did with it still worked like the spacebar cursor control and whatnot.
ok but thats an extremely low bar to clear.
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Well, I have it now. So far so iphone, only larger than the 13 mini. I'd still prefer the smaller one but hey, basically free new phone. I don't know when they're going to enable the coal-rolling lying machine but we'll see how that goes I guess.
Garmin was having a sale, so I ordered through REI on the 21st with delivery on the 26th, and it's still 'processing'. CS chat just recycled the info from the initial 'order received' email, no elaboration on the delay. No telling when this thing will show up.
Kinda wishing I'd ordered directly now and relied on the warranty, since the CS experience wasn't particularly responsive, much less enough to engender loyalty to REI. Especially since the return window started on the 21st; tick tick tick. At least it's also a year.
I ordered watchbands later that night, and they're here a day early, so good job, Barton Watch Bands!
Time to learn Linux more then. I guess.
Will teams run in a Firefox tab on not Windows? That's how I do therapy appointments.
https://www.youtube.com/@DavRepair
This one is a bit clearer, but a little less recent:
I had a look at the Octopi software manager that my Garuda Linux install uses, which gives access to the AUR (Arch User Repository) and there is a teams-for-linux app available to install too. So it's not a debian-based distro only thing, and you're not restricted to using Mint if you want to use something fancier. But as long as your hardware isn't very new, Mint will probably work fine for you.
The main disclaimer is that there's no hard and fast promise that Microsoft won't do some shitty thing to break it working on Linux.
If you want to follow this up, let's head over to the Linux thread.
Only issue do far is that if I start it without basic graphics turned on it doesn't let me use my keyboard or mouse at all. But that's just the live disk I haven't installed it locally and actually put updated Nvidia drivers in there.
Also the way I use teams has always been embedded in a chrome window not the actual desktop application. Not sure if it will just work out of the box that way or not.
The only other thing I'm concerned about is getting proton and steam up and running. Oh and support for my huion pen tablet for drawing...
Steam -> Settings -> Compatibility -> check the "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" switch.
Exit Steam. Restart Steam. Let it download new versions of Proton as required. Get used to seeing "Processing shaders..." every time you start a game whose shaders have not previously been processed into whatever shaders need to be processed into to work with lunix magixs.
NB: I am pretty sure you can't do this from a live disk, you'll have to go ahead and install. At least you couldn't in 2018.
https://support.huion.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44001769972-does-huion-have-a-tablet-driver-that-supports-linux-
Says Ubuntu only is supported, but if Ubuntu supports it, I don't see why any distro based on Ubuntu (eg: Mint) wouldn't, and it's perfectly possible, even likely, that other distros do but Huion just don't want to hear about your problems if you're not using Ubuntu.
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I'm having some trouble tho with it randomly hiccuping with little short freezes. Particularly when Firefox is trying to load a video or thumbnail or something it's weird
Also installing the Nvidia drivers was a bit of a pain.
Honestly considering doing something dumb like buying a Lightphone
the very polished sales guy i was working with actually had one and I asked him... has he had any problems.. and he said no initially and then admitted it had a crease in it....
"but its only in the protector" he said..
"can you change the protector", i ask
"you can but it voids your warranty"...
???
he showed me his... and the huge obvious line running down the middle of it... how long have you had it? 4 months.
.... ill pass dawg
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no big deal
https://gizmodo.com/hacked-robot-vacuums-across-the-us-started-yelling-slurs-2000511013
internet_of_shit
I gotta go, I owe Horace an apology. I'll drop some cheetos on the floor like he likes.
didn't this happen before
or was that just like something else like baby monitors????
https://wjmccann.github.io/blog/2017/11/11/The-Scary-World-Of-Baby-Monitor-Hacking
yeah baby monitors was a few years back
What are the odds I could fix my PS5’s loose HDMI port?
I should just pay someone shouldn’t I?
I'd pay for it, simply because buying the equipment would be similar money
Goddamn. I don't think a human has gotten this wrecked by a robot since they were still making good Terminator movies.
as someone who constantly overestimates their small electronics repair skills would not recommend trying to undo this:
and here's a video to also discourage it
I watched without audio so apologies if they're terrible.
Look for a computer repair place, they often do soldering as well.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/