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- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 4 days ago:
Usb is a carrying digital signals for the most part while headphonea are analog. So you have 2 options:
- Implement some janky non-standard analog audio in some usb alternate mode that will only work with some devices
- Add a digital to analog converter in the plug itself, which is more complex and expensive
Both options prevent you from chanrging while using headphones unless you use a splitter or wireless charging which is not ideal
3.5 mm may not be the king, but it’s extremly simple and fairly robust and has little to no disatvantages except for wireless headphones sales ofc. You don’t have to charge these heqdphones, you don’t have to worry about losing one of them.
Wireless headphonwa have their uses, I doubt they benefit the majority of people tho.
- Comment on After 7-Year Hiatus, Western Digital Unveils 6TB 2.5-Inch Hard Drives 1 month ago:
My bet is on density. You cram so much in such a tiny space, so any tiny imperfection or fault will corrupt the data or render the drive unusable.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 1 month ago:
Right… Except the average person, we can’t have that
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 1 month ago:
Hey, capitalism is only good when it makes the rich richer…
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 1 month ago:
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 month ago:
At first yeah, it would be fairly insignificant, but if you ever stood close to these things you know how huge they are… It’s not easy to move them around and I don’t think we’ve found much use for the materials they are made of to recycle them. Also we are supposed to reduce these mountains of waste no, use them as a justification to waste even more.
But regardless, I am sure one people will realise how much we already fucked the climate as more and more extreme weather events pop around, we’ll see more focus on renewables or at least carbon neutral sources. I think the most appealing source atm is nuclear which, although not renewable, it has a fairly small CO2 footprint, tiny size, huge and stable output and there are even reactors that can “burn” their waste to further increase their efficiency.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 month ago:
Windmills are a whole lot better than burning coal, but aren’t perfect. Recyling the blades after their 20 year lifespan is a nightmare.
- Comment on Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I guess not for your specific cpu, but Asus fried some ryzen 7000 cpus with XMP last year
- Comment on Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Did thoes defaults include XMP though? XMP is also overclocking.
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 2 months ago:
On tiktok too, where else,
- Comment on Edited in Signal 2 months ago:
They are all the same, all spying in you. The only difference between them is who’s doing the spying and to what degree.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 months ago:
Google TV can run the vastly superior Smarttube app, no ads, double the framerate, much better experience.
- Comment on Are we back online? 2 months ago:
Eh, it happened to bigger entities…
- Comment on Are we back online? 2 months ago:
Yes, only took a few hours, but yes, we are
- Comment on What would you like to see in a house IT setup? 2 months ago:
Zwave is nice, but a lot more expensive due to hardware certification costs
- Comment on What would you like to see in a house IT setup? 2 months ago:
2.4GHz ia good in theory, in practice tho, every technology especially the open protocols use it so there is a lot of interference. I know that because I had to lower the 2.4GHz wifi power by a lot so it doesn’t cause issues with the zigbee mesh.
As for tv I would agree if TVs came with gigabit NIC, but the majority comes with 100mbps card, so if you want to stream some high quality 100+mbps content you have no other option but to use the wifi or give up the usb port for a usb ethernet nic or use a usb hub. Not pretty solitions for sure.
And then you have the robot vacuum which can only use 2.4GHz wifi for obvious reasons. And people might have IPcams which are also on wifi.
- Comment on What would you like to see in a house IT setup? 2 months ago:
Unfortunately Zigbee is precisely 2.4GHz, which isn’t used much for phones and laptops, but still widely used in TVs, vacuum robots and other smart devices that don’t need much bandwidth.
- Comment on I am in this pic…twice 2 months ago:
Both, these voices in my head are friendly for the most part
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 4 months ago:
It’s probably because running such old hardware means your daily usage wouldn’t show much difference between the 2 setups. If you mainly browse the internet or play gpu boumd games, you simply wouldn’t notice a huge difference.
Change that use case to cpu bound games or other cpu intensive tasks and you would likely see a not insignificant difference.
Also newer hardware is more efficient(used to at least), so you should see lower power draw for the same performance or better performance for the same power draw.
So just because you don’t see a difference, it doesn’t mean it’s not there.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 4 months ago:
Since when can you not spoof any of that? Grab a used android phone from local used market. Put any rooted rom on it. Spoof the gps… Device id is irrelevant at that point. As for origin, not sure what you mean by that, you can just order the starlink equipment to a random address in a different country, it will look legit. As others said, it’s trivial to bypass/spoof all that metadata.
Once you got the connection up and running you just use a vpn to hide everyrhing.
The only thing they could do is block starlink for a whole region, that would affect everyone in there. But you still couldn’t distinguish who is using the service.
- Comment on Which option lads? 4 months ago:
I agree with the permanent work from home, all thst commute time you save and all the dead times you can use for something else useful. On the other hand my lazy ass only averages 3.5k steps daily… I also walk everywhere, stuff I need is just too close… I also do some mtb once or twice a week tho
- Comment on Smart TVs must showcase Australian free-to-air channels alongside streaming services under proposed legislation 4 months ago:
With GoogleTV almost anything can be uninstalled or at least disabled with ADB.
- Comment on special characters are dope 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution. 5 months ago:
Most of what I cited applies to li-ion tech, and not sure what you mean by overblown, lithium fires are a nightmare and lithium doesn’t grow on trees so we will run out of it. And recylcing is not a solution, we’ve seen how that works for much easier to recycle materials. The alternatives such as sodium batteries are even heavier due to lower power density. Imo there should be more research put into battery alternatives such as hydrogen cells.
As for school buses, wires may not be feasable, but the comment I replied to mentioned most buses not just school buses.
- Comment on Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution. 5 months ago:
Do you not understand that the comment I replied to mentioned most buses not just school buses?
- Comment on Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution. 5 months ago:
Which is why I said trolleybuses are the next best thing. Not as good as trams, but doesn’t take years to hang some wires on poles…
- Comment on Electric school buses are a breath of fresh air for children | Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution. 5 months ago:
Will people stop trying to put batteries in everything already? They are heavy, slow to charge, unsustainable, cause fires that can’t be extinguished and are affected by extreame weather(especially cold).
Public transit runs on predefined routes, for that you can setup trams(best option) or trolleybuses(no need for rails). I don’t care that you think the wires look ugly, they are objectively the better solution.
- Comment on Another day another dollar....I guess... 5 months ago:
-10c is really not that bad. With a few layers on it’s just fine. 35c+ on the other hand… Good luck with that, there is no amount of clothes you can remove to feel comfy in high temps
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 5 months ago:
If I were to guess, non-android smart tv. There are very few options if any for these TVs. Since I got my TCL google tv I just put smarttube on it and that was it, no more ads and cast still works. But can’t do that with parents’ old chromecast or lg TVs
- Comment on Lemmy through SDF is basically read-only now. Read interesting stuff, but open an account elsewhere if you want to reply. 5 months ago:
Sup