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i have a headset that does all three, 3.5mm, usb-c and bluetooth and i usually go with usb-c when using them with a laptop or desktop.

im not sure using them with a phone would be good in the long run, especially when you are moving around a lot more with the phone in your pocket. the usb-c connection isnt as tight as 3.5mm so its going to put a lot of strain on the usb-c port. if that goes on a phone youre in big trouble

it will be interesting to see what the consensus is 50 years from now when people have more hindsight on this. how long will a wireless headset last until the battery no longer holds a charge, and if its only something like 10 years then that means someone is having to buy 4 or 5 headsets over the course of their whole life instead of 1 or 2 cheaper wired headsets

theres also the issue of whether the wireless protocols that are in use now will still be supported in 50 years. removing the headphone jack from phones was mostly just a money grab to force people to buy wireless headsets so i wouldnt be surprised to see other tactics in the future where support is dropped for older versions of bluetooth, or whatever gives them a slight uptick in sales

i use an android app called keymapper (by sds100) that lets you remap the volume buttons so that a long press will change the track.

my wired earbuds only have 1 button on the in-line remote but the app can detect the button being pressed whether its a single, double tap or long press, and you can just assign whatever you want to them

but it WILL cut out if you go far enough. wired headsets wont

if the phone is in your pants pocket then its fairly trivial to change the volume just by using the buttons on the phone

even some of the cheapest in-line remotes that only have a single button will let you change the track by double tapping it

if you dont have an in-line remote then theres also the option of using a key remapper app (probably not on iphone) to let you change track by long pressing the volume buttons

i use TUIs because i can make something in an hour and then use in on any platform that has a terminal. im not trying to impress anyone

great. keep me updated

they sell some preloaded xperias on their website, but i get the impression the only have a few at any given time because ive been checking every now and again and half the time they are sold out

definitely something odd going on in this thread, but lets say it is an ad, what would the ad be? i cant imagine it being for claude code since everyone here would already be well aware of it

what do you mean by "the industrial times"?

its not x, its y!

i think a server would be overkill for most of these things, even the grocery list where youre sharing between multiple people. something like syncthing would be enough. its p2p so it just syncs over the network whenever both devices are available. for the grocery list theres definitely more chance that you could run into sync conflicts but you could grt around that easily by just having each person add items to a separate list then have the app show all items merged together into one list. basically something like todo.txt but with the ability to use multiple files

we might as well just do a coffee enema at that point

CAPTCHAI

this is a filter im using that blocks a channel from showing in the search results. just add a channel name after "title"

  www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer:has(#text.ytd-channel-name:is([title*="add ai slop channel name here"], [title*="more ai slop here"]))  
  

youll have to have to repeat the same name with other filters to also hide them on the homepage or the suggestions sidebar.

freetube is another option that works on desktop and it lets you block a channel by name by adding it in the "distraction free" section of the settings. if youre on android theres also a version of freetube in the f-droid store that works ok enough, even thought the freetube UI is not really designed for mobile

obviously this only gets you so far. at some point there could be more slop than non-slop so it wont be possible to block them all, but so far im finding this useful for the few repeat offenders that keep showing up in the search results*

if you mean you just want to make music and arent too bothered about recording then Cardinal is a free modular eurorack synth you could mess around with

or you use a VST host like Kushview's Element and load up on all the free VST instruments and effects that are out there. you would just need a midi keyboard hooked to it then or use Cardinal to generate note patterns

https://cardinal.kx.studio

https://kushview.net/element

or something like Orca if you want to go off the deep end!

https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca

tailscale were based in Canada last time i checked. has this changed recently?

if theyre not that technical i would say just stick with something simple like zorinOS, which is ubuntu based so there is a bigger community behind it if they run into issues. zorin has an option to install nvidia drivers during the initial setup. popOS would be another option along the same lines

the 'light pedal' by gamechangeraudio would pair well with this. it uses a real spring inside the pedal to create an analog spring reverb. theres also some sort of laser used as well since the spring isnt long enough

https://gamechangeraudio.com/light-pedal

there is also their 'motor pedal' which uses a spinning motor similar to one that would be found in a drone, and then a laser again or something optical to pick up the movement and turn it into a digital signal.

they actually have a synth that uses 8 of these motors to generate the sounds/voices

checking out a streetview app beforehand is another option and makes it a bit easier to memorise things. instead of having to remember '2nd left, 3rd right, 1st left' you only have to remember the landmarks at each turn and then the instructions become 'left, right, left'

another thing ive done a few times for long journeys is to write down on paper a list of the road numbers and then beside each number write the distance that needs to be travelled on that road. just do the route in an app before you leave and copy the details from that. having only the list to work off definitely forces you to keep your brain more active

yea, i was suspicious by the second paragraph but was sure once i got to "that’s not engineering, it’s cosplay"

which bit are you getting an AI smell from?

my favourite part of having my own local library again is turning on shuffle and having it actually shuffle

syncthing might be worth looking into. ive been using that more and more the last few years for anything that i use daily, things like keepass, plain-text notes, calendars/contacts, rss feeds, then everything else that im "self hosting" are just things that i might only use a few times a week so its no big deal if i lose access.

its so much simpler when you have the files stored locally, then syncing between devices is just something that can happen whenever. anything that is running on a server needs user permissions, wifi, a router etc etc, its just a lot of complexity for very little gain.

although keep in mind im the only one using all of this stuff. if i needed to share things with other people then syncthing gets a bit trickier and a central server starts to make more sense

*vibe coding sounds* "3.6 roentgen. not great, not terrible"

it doesnt sound sustainable anyway, you would need somebody to go through each post to check for twitter screenshots. blocking a certain domain is automated, i would imagine

probably because you just install it, then you log in and youre done. tailscale takes care of the rest. going through any more effort just so you can write some slop code is probably not worth it

neovim is probably the only sane way you could code like this on a small screen. everything works pretty much the same way it does on a desktop terminal, the only thing you have to get used to is having so many lines wrapped, and not having quick access to some characters like $ or ^, but they can just be added to the toolbar in termux

i switched to using neovim a year ago and oddly enough its actually a lot easier to write code in termux compared to any of the other android IDE type apps. they all have drop down menus or sidebars that are quite awkward to use, especially when the keyboard is already taking up half the screen, but with neovim (or vim) youre using the keyboard to do most things anyway, so the keyboard can just stay open all of the time and you never need to move your hand up to the actual app part. selecting text is way easier than android's implementation as well

you can hide a fair bit with ublock origin, if you dont mind using old.reddit

  old.reddit.com##div[data-subreddit="politics"]
  old.reddit.com##.linkflairlabel[title="Politics"]:upward(.link)
  old.reddit.com##.link:has-text(/Trump|MAGA/i)
  old.reddit.com##.link:has(a[href*="foxnews.com"])

although i have hundreds of these filters and its still not great, but its better than nothing