Eiri @ Eiri @lemmy.ca

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I'd have expected ad providers to catch on pretty quickly that there's cheating involved, no?

My TV is the LG CX. It's cool in some ways, but overall I'm not too impressed. Some days I think maybe I should've splurged and gotten a Sony.

Hmm, then the issue I could see if going by EQ is if there are several voices at the same time (say, background characters taking indistinctly behind a conversation), depending on how crap the mix is, trying to enhance voices might enhance the background ones as well.

That's an edge case, but a more common one is when there's music with sounds in the same frequency range as human voices over a scene and the music competes with the voices. Then playing with the EQ might distort the music in such a way that it still kills the voices while making the music inaccurate.

That's why I really wish we had several channels whose volumes can be individually changed like in video games. That would be the ultimate tool to adjust things. Even if you don't know anything about what the hell "hertz" means and equalizers confuse you, you could do a lot without distorting anything. And if you do understand how equalizers work, you could combine both to get a really fine-tuned experience.

The music tip isn't bad, but on my TV the answer is "you can't really do that" lol. There are various ways to distort a piece with sound profiles, but none that I know of to keep it accurate.

What I usually do is always use subtitles, and switch between "OLED Surround Pro", "Standard" and "Game" to see which sounds the best. Then if a movie/show stands out as having incredibly bad sound (ahem Christopher Nolan ahem) I either bust out the French dub or "enjoy" the tinny sounds of "Clear Voice IV".

I think that's right for a website where you accidentally clicked an ad and now it's trying to convince you you have a virus and you need to download their virus to remove it. Or maybe for an ad pop-up where annoying you might increase the chances that the content makes it into your brain.

But for a news website i have trouble seeing the logic.

Well you don't say it draws 2 kWh at idle. You say it draws 2 kW at idle. While that is incredibly inefficient, it means that for every hour the device is idle, it draws 2 kWh of energy.

Oh yeah battery size isn't sufficient to fully gauge battery life. You need to know power draw to calculate that. And it's good to get battery life ratings from reviews. Great. It helps a lot.

But it doesn't mean we shouldn't get good, comparable physical specs.

Kinda like processors. Gigahertz and core counts are far from telling you everything, but it doesn't mean it should be abstracted into some weird unit.

How should I go about that exactly?

What? They draw power, not energy?

Energy is just the product of power and time. And just like amperage, the power draw of a device varies.

And this should be obvious, but what makes more sense to an electronics engineer doesn't matter one bit to the end user. And the end user doesn't know anything about milli-amperes or volts (except maybe their wall outlet voltage).

Yes. I really wish all batteries used watt-hours. All it'd take would be for someone to design a phone that runs at a different voltage and their battery numbers would stop being comparable.

I disagree. Joules are really hard to understand to laypeople. Watt-hours directly relate to the power of a device without conversion, and can even be really translated in terms of power bill.

3.6 megajoules? Eh, I guess that's maybe a lot? Or not?

1000 watt-hours? Oh, like running a microwave for a whole hour? Dang that's a LOT!

It saves an amount of money so minuscule it literally makes no difference.

As for thickness, the iPhone 15 is 7.8 mm thick. You cannot in good faith believe that a 3.5 mm headphone jack can't fit in it.

As a Canadian, I'm like:

You guys are getting food?

(School cafeterias with food service beyond selling terrible premade sandwiches for people who forgot their lunch are rare below college level and AFAIK what few exist all operate like a fast-food restaurant, where everyone pays for their meal then and there.)

Wait it was? How are we still seeing it and commenting on it?

My TV is insulting like that. It technically has an EQ, but it makes no perceivable difference no matter what I do in it.

But assuming it worked, wouldn't doing that strictly with sound frequencies cause issues? Like, okay, most voices are louder because I boosted their frequency, but now that one dude with a super low voice is quieter, plus any music in the show is distorted. Or something like that.

I wish they just provided separate tracks that you could control. One track for dialogue, one track for music, one track for sound effects, and maybe one track for less important voices. Then let us adjust the volume of each. That would help so much. And they basically HAVE to do it at some point in the process anyway if they want multilingual dubbing to work.

Speaking of dubbing: recently I've taken to watching more content dubbed in French strictly because it's almost always intelligible, contrary to the aRtIsT aCcUrAtE volumes of the original. Pretty sad that I have to do that though.

That is not what I'm suggesting. I'm not saying charging only cables shouldn't exist. I'm saying what everything does should be clearer.

I've always wondered. Is there really a benefit to a ton of redirects like that? Like, do they gain anything by making it harder to back out?

Or is it just extremely incompetent website programming?

I absolutely love wildly inaccurate old maps. They have so much charm.

Ugh, don't remind me of how the transition to LEDs was handled. Should we use yellow LEDs to make it non-obnoxious? Nah, just blast everyone's eyes with cool white LEDs.

As a pedestrian often struggling to see what the heck I'm doing when walking along a road at night, I'm not sure I agree with it being not such a big deal. I mean, true, I can't really cause an accident that big considering I'm not a multi-ton death machine, but...

As for brighter = safer, I'm not sure either. Wouldn't people see better in the inevitable area outside of their headlights if headlights weren't so bright as to set their eyes up into "daylight mode"?

I thought it would be simple: just make the mono/stereo/etc mixes easier to understand, and leave the advanced stuff to people with a million speakers.

I guess that's too simple?

I'm surprised that happens! Seems like a complicated mistake to make.

There should be a way to make it simpler.

Idk, something like "for USB 4 you NEED all of these".

Or maybe USB 4 with levels like bronze, silver, etc.

Or make displaying data rate, display and charging capabilities all mandatory on all ports...

I'm not sure what, but "it's a USB port; look in the manual and if you're lucky you might learn what it does exactly" ain't it.