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DrBouvenstein posted:Get a Pixel. I mean...still no 3.5mm jack (boo hoo, it comes with a USB-C to 3.5mm adapter, stop whining) but it's pure Android, no UI skinning/un-installable vendor/3rd party apps like a Samsung or any phone from Verizon or whatever. I jumped on this train and it was a little worse than the Samsung it replaced but overall fine. I ended up buying a USB-C to 3.5mm jack and USB-C for charging in the off chance I need to charge and use the jack and also so I could use my noise cancelling earmuff hookup while mowing the lawn. Funny how you don't realize some of the weird things that are going to be less functional until you go to hook them up. These are perfectly good earmuffs and should last 20 years but of course... the connection that should be the most reliable, hard wiring, is the one that broke. I bought them rather than a bluetooth model since I figured that was more reliable.
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I'm going to get one of those bluetooth cigarette lighter adapter things for my next road trip. They seem pretty handy. Anyone know if the sound quality through them is alright?
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Jelly posted:I'm going to get one of those bluetooth cigarette lighter adapter things for my next road trip. They seem pretty handy. Anyone know if the sound quality through them is alright? Just bought one recently, the sound quality is extremely not alright.
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Sep 13, 2023 23:02
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Now I'm thinking about those old devices we used to use for car auxiliary audio solutions. FM transmitters and those cassette tapes that had a cord that came out I liked the FM transmitter and how you could screw with people's radios next to you at red lights
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Sep 13, 2023 23:04
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Fm transmitters are garbo, get a bluetooth adapter that has a 3.5 output for an aux jack. If you don't have an aux jack look online to see if there's an adapter you can get that plugs into where a cd changer would go on the stock radio, and failing that use a casstte adapter if your car can take tapes or a wired fm modulator if not
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Tenkaris posted:Now I'm thinking about those old devices we used to use for car auxiliary audio solutions. FM transmitters and those cassette tapes that had a cord that came out I had the cassette thing and it worked for a while before the tape deck would cause it to pause every 10 seconds. I once followed someone on the freeway with an FM transmitter and they were using it for their phone on the frequency of the radio station I like. So I got to hear one side of their conversation which consisted entirely of what she had fed her son in the last 24 hours. Not even a medical problem, just "oh I fed him oatmeal and then-". I felt like I was in the NSA
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Sep 13, 2023 23:08
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wash bucket posted:I'm looking for a new car for the first time in a long time. Went to a local Ford dealership's website and lmao. It's like one of those shifty file sharing sites where you've got to guess which download button is the real download button. Animated poo poo won't stop popping up. Chat windows pop up in the corner of every page. Something somewhere is audibly beeping. Even better, Ford automatically pushes vehicles to the dealership website. So if you are looking for something a little harder to find, most of the listings are going to be for preorders that are already spoken for. But on the topic of retail sites, Walmart and Target.com are completely useless to view. There’s no guarantee what is on the website is even an item that they sell, as it’s mostly third party listings.
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Sep 13, 2023 23:10
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skooma512 posted:So I got to hear one side of their conversation which consisted entirely of what she had fed her son in the last 24 hours. Not even a medical problem, just "oh I fed him oatmeal and then-". I felt like I was in the NSA Ugh this reminds me of my family. For some reason when anyone went on a vacation, when they got back they would tell us mostly about what they ate every day. My brain doesn't even bother storing this information past a few days unless it was a special restaurant or something but no, a full week's itinerary of meals including fast food and everything. 
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Sentient Data posted:Fm transmitters are garbo, get a bluetooth adapter that has a 3.5 output for an aux jack. If you don't have an aux jack look online to see if there's an adapter you can get that plugs into where a cd changer would go on the stock radio, and failing that use a casstte adapter if your car can take tapes or a wired fm modulator if not thanks, this makes more sense
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StormDrain posted:I jumped on this train and it was a little worse than the Samsung it replaced but overall fine. I ended up buying a USB-C to 3.5mm jack and USB-C for charging in the off chance I need to charge and use the jack and also so I could use my noise cancelling earmuff hookup while mowing the lawn. Are any of these USB-C to 3.5 mm adapters not big pieces of poo poo? I've been through like 20 of them and they all either wear way too quickly or have tons of weird interference problems. A few have even randomly disconnected while using them, causing whatever embarrassing music I'm listening to to be broadcasted through my phone's speaker.
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Sep 13, 2023 23:44
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bossy lady posted:Are any of these USB-C to 3.5 mm adapters not big pieces of poo poo? I've been through like 20 of them and they all either wear way too quickly or have tons of weird interference problems. USB C connectors really loving suck unfortunately, they are just not that durable
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Sep 13, 2023 23:53
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They have been lovely forever, but YouTube ads are so Nazified it's sickening. Better reach for that remote, otherwise you're in for 5 minutes of pure transphobe bullshit. Just burn it all down imo
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bossy lady posted:Are any of these USB-C to 3.5 mm adapters not big pieces of poo poo? I've been through like 20 of them and they all either wear way too quickly or have tons of weird interference problems. It's fine. It does get weird interference and I really hoped it wouldn't. It's supposed to have an on board DAC, it's Anker brand, but it still. Just likes to make some random noises.
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Sep 13, 2023 23:59
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Tenkaris posted:USB C connectors really loving suck unfortunately, they are just not that durable Yeah the SMD part loving sucks
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MrQwerty posted:Yeah the SMD part loving sucks I hate SMD so loving much.
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 The USB-C connector is real delicate That one's broken but you can see how easy it is to stress it out
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KozmoNaut posted:Phones. samsungs are good ime, but i don't know if they get a lot more crapware in the US.
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I've gone through more usb-c cables than I expected. At first, every cable was great and lasted forever. As I added more cables to my collection (one for the car, bedside, poo poo practically every outlet I happen to spend regular time near) they started failing after a couple months. Price makes little difference anymore. Some have died within weeks. It's just one of those things I have to replace constantly. Thankfully everything everywhere uses it so there's always spares, not like the old days where every device had its own connector.
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sebmojo posted:samsungs are good ime, but i don't know if they get a lot more crapware in the US. Samsung phones have unreal amounts of crapware in the states. Everything they skinned is just worse then the android default, and it's not like the android default is a paragon of design or something. Also, even without it's crapware, I'd agree with OP - phones just suck so loving much to use. I hate them with a passion. My favorite phone was my Microsoft Duo, but it really just fixes a couple UX problems on what is actually a heaping pile of garbage.
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MrQwerty posted:
These really should have tabs on either side that solder into the ground plane to give them structural integrity. I guess that would add a fraction of a cent to the manufacturing cost though so gently caress that.
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sebmojo posted:samsungs are good ime, but i don't know if they get a lot more crapware in the US. I'm in Denmark and they're utterly crappified in the EU market, too. And I hate their custom launcher. I worked on a project that involved smart TV apps and I've looked at some code that came from Samsung. loving nope, don't want that garbage on any device.
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bossy lady posted:These really should have tabs on either side that solder into the ground plane to give them structural integrity. I guess that would add a fraction of a cent to the manufacturing cost though so gently caress that. They have 4 posts, they're all visible. They're just shallow, and that's partly a pick and place thing, because the USB-C port is a SMD part that goes on in the chip mounter, not a drop-in. The back posts are right next to the 24 microscopic pins that will eventually have solder stress fractures
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Samsung phones have unreal amounts of crapware in the states. Everything they skinned is just worse then the android default, and it's not like the android default is a paragon of design or something. I've been using Motorola this whole time and you know what? Pretty much no complaints. Good bang for the buck.
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Noobles posted:Speaking of Windows, I’ve had the displeasure of dealing with 11 a few times now. bossy lady posted:Are any of these USB-C to 3.5 mm adapters not big pieces of poo poo? I've been through like 20 of them and they all either wear way too quickly or have tons of weird interference problems. May be the ONLY equivalent apple thing that is cheaper.
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erosion posted:I've been using Motorola this whole time and you know what? Pretty much no complaints. Good bang for the buck. I was really happy with my Moto G Power. Great battery life, only one non-removable Motorola app that is easy to ignore, and it was $50 after a rebate. Then they stopped doing security updates 5 months after got it, when the phone had only been on the market for a year and a half. And of course it's one of the few Motorola phones that can't run LineageOS.
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Saw a good post on a Reddit discussion about the Unity bullshit that I think is relevant to this thread quote:As Cory Doctorow said, platforms go through four stages.
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Instacart IPO'd apparently? I noticed in the last few months it had gone insane in the amount of Sponsored recommendations. Like as many as 8 (2 screens worth on mobile) sponsored before the most relevant results. Sometimes something that matches an entire word will be dozens of screens past stuff that doesn't mention the word, too
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1: Whoops, my browser lost focus, let me click on it to bring it back, and, oh, there's literally nowhere I can click on this web page that doesn't result in either a video playing, or a new page loading. 2: Hm, let me read this interesting passage, but first, where the hell can my mouse go that doesn't result in something popping up in front of the text I'm trying to read?
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IPO = [This product/service] Is Probably Over.
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doctorfrog posted:2: Hm, let me read this interesting passage, but first, where the hell can my mouse go that doesn't result in something popping up in front of the text I'm trying to read? This one in particular drives me insane. "Let me just check the scores of todays games real quick, oh wait my mouse touched something in the menu bar and now a giant menu is now blocking the entire page. Ok I'll just move my mouse away, oh great that just opened more menus, and one of them has a video playing in it somehow."
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I would love to have a daily physical media product delivered to my house in the morning with an easy to read and edited summary of the previous days sports and political events along with curated listings of upcoming local events
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is pepsi ok posted:This one in particular drives me insane. "Let me just check the scores of todays games real quick, oh wait my mouse touched something in the menu bar and now a giant menu is now blocking the entire page. Ok I'll just move my mouse away, oh great that just opened more menus, and one of them has a video playing in it somehow." Now that Aaron is retired he should look into web development
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euphronius posted:I would love to have a daily physical media product delivered to my house in the morning with an easy to read and edited summary of the previous days sports and political events along with curated listings of upcoming local events same but just milk, fresh milk
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euphronius posted:I would love to have a daily physical media product delivered to my house in the morning with an easy to read and edited summary of the previous days sports and political events along with curated listings of upcoming local events I used to have that but the summaries started to get pretty low-effort and buried in ads, and the curated lists started to become curated by idiots.
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Sounds like it might be worth starting some kind of co-op newspaper, but just strictly written by locals and with no public comments or generated text allowed. Hell, not even AP wire stories. I feel like there's going to be a lot more demand for things that are explicitly human-written soon
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The paper for my area isn't completely awful content yet, but the more subscribers they lose the more they raise the price. At this point it's $40 a month and on days they arbitrary declare to be "premium editions" they tack on an extra $8 to your bill without asking. When I attempted to unsubscribe I was on hold for over an hour and then got connected to a customer service rep that had never heard of that newspaper and had no idea what I was talking about.
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Sentient Data posted:Sounds like it might be worth starting some kind of co-op newspaper, but just strictly written by locals and with no public comments or generated text allowed. Hell, not even AP wire stories. I feel like there's going to be a lot more demand for things that are explicitly human-written soon Bah, you’ll never maximize quarterly earnings that way.
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doctorfrog posted:
I love reading documentation where there are so many divs that it looks like they are trying to map out a Fibonacci spiral and the content area is less than a third of the screen. Bonus points if the scroll bars disappear if you are not hovering over them.
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caleb posted:I love reading documentation where there are so many divs that it looks like they are trying to map out a Fibonacci spiral and the content area is less than a third of the screen. Bonus points if the scroll bars disappear if you are not hovering over them. As an automated software tester the nested divs are the bane of my existence. I need to identify an element with reliable xpath, but every change to the page causes the framework to reflow the layout with more or less nested divs, and spacer sibling divs. I have to get really creative to specifically identify one text box. Edit: Speaking of which, the developers/framework don't give elements a default id. If they're lazy, there's no id, if the framework is configured a certain way, it generates random ids on page load or build. Rarely do I get a real, static, descriptive id value to use. anonumos fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Sep 16, 2023 |
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anonumos posted:As an automated software tester the nested divs are the bane of my existence. I need to identify an element with reliable xpath, but every change to the page causes the framework to reflow the layout with more or less nested divs, and spacer sibling divs. I have to get really creative to specifically identify one text box. Hi friend. I went from auto QA to dev and let me tell you. I whipped those other fuckers into shape about adding IDs and poo poo. You gotta force those fuckers to do anything worthwhile
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