AndyMFK

@AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another hole can carry analogue audio? I think you’re referring to a USB port when you say “another hole can do the same job”, but obviously it can’t carry analogue audio. You need an external DAC to convert the digital audio it can output, to analogue. (The phone already has an internal DAC so this is dumb)

  And then of course you run into the issue of being unable to use it while the phone is charging because you have 1 port for 2 different jobs

  Not all of us like the idea of wireless earphones, there are still many who prefer to spend good money on nice IEMs or headphones that don’t have to be charged to work, rather than overly expensive, subpar wireless options that will inevitably turn into e-waste when the batteries can no longer hold a charge.

  Not to mention the ubiquity of the 6.5mm/3.5mm jack, this is standard across every piece of music gear you can think of from synthesizers to electronic drum kits to guitars, pedals, and interfaces.

  You certainly don’t walk into a recording studio and find USB C ports to plug into

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it was portal! Good guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  $1,100 over 15 years. I’m not a gamer, and I’m well aware I don’t own these games, so I’m glad it’s low

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s more like Elon than any of us will ever be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gran Turismo - the first one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here I am on my zenphone 10 wishing it was a little smaller

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s exactly their point. Why would Valve tell users to “upgrade” to a more recent version of Windows? Tell them to upgrade to Linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New mobile features are sh*t these days⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The phones with those features have been discontinued but they were never unpopular, they were just what phones were.

  Nobody 10 years ago was saying “I wish I couldn’t replace my phone battery” or “I hate that I have the option to plug my wired IEMs into my phone”

  People just do what people are good at. Adapting.

  Manufacturers have taken these options away because it is profitable to do so. People have largely adapted to that (although I still refuse to buy a phone without a headphone jack)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fascinating because I got a BRI of 1.9 and it’s saying I’m in the healthy zone. So I don’t really know what to believe here