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  • Hopefully they have some sort of transition plan for who will take over when Gabe retires. As long as they hand the reigns over to someone with similar ideas and not some business type they could be fine given they are privately owned.

  • Very few people are plugging their large headphones into their phones though. For a more reasonable pair of portable headphones or IEMs the size of the plug isn't a problem.

    But congratulations, you have hit on my biggest audio pet peeve! DACs matter very little these days. Anything talking about DACs and not the DAC/Amp stages is marketing BS. Even dirt cheap DAC chips will acoustically transparently convert the digital signal to analog in audio frequencies because it is so basic to do. DACs on their own are useless for audio anyway, what really matters in your audio signal is the amp circuitry after the DAC that applies gain to the signal to useful levels as the choices there do make an acoustic difference if the design is poor.

    What makes you think the DAC/Amp in your headphones is going to be better than the one that is built into the SoC of your phone? I don't think I've ever seen any measurements of headphone DAC/Amps.

  • There are plenty of products out there that use TS style audio plugs (more 2.5mm in my experience than 3.5mm) for DC power for portable devices. When you get to data transfer requirements, the higher pin counts of current connectors wouldn't be space efficient.

  • Even Wifi 6E devices are way too expensive still, especially considering how poor 6GHz range is without a mesh system. I just upgraded to a new router since my old one would bottleneck my internet connection on wired, not because I needed faster wifi speeds.

  • Yes, the 3.5mm jack is more durable than USB-C (since it is rotationally symmetric twisting doesn't apply force to the connector), it maintains compatibility with billions of audio devices and doesn't block your charging port if you use it.

  • You missed that I'm in Canada. The Canadian cellphone space is bullshit owned by 3 main companies and one other that has inconsistent coverage. I'm with Virgin Mobile at the moment which is a cheaper flanker brand of Bell. The only ones that have offered a $34/mo plan with 5G is a company called Public Mobile (owned by Telus) that doesn't support any international roaming (which is a nonstarter given how many websites insist on horrible SMS 2FA), and Freedom Mobile which has limited coverage even in major cities.

  • I've found it useful in the rare case that I've posted some project and someone wants to use it and has a question or something after the main thread is locked. I've had a few people reach out just to thank me for solving their problem which is always nice.

  • At one point the software stopped working on my computer at work. I couldn't believe how many times I used it throughout the day without realizing it. My only issue is that it can't search network shares properly.

  • I wonder how many people are suffering from terrible performance due to the AMD fTPU being a piece of shit? I've tried to turn it on for two different CPUs of different generations (3700X and 5800X) and they both had horrible stuttering. Even if I wanted to I couldn't upgrade to Windows 11 like Microsoft wants because the experience would be unacceptable.

    Do you have any references for the reduced malware infections provided by Win 11 that requires the TPU?

  • I've complained to my bank on multiple occasions about their shit password and 2FA policies and they just don't care. The excuse I got one time was "don't worry about it, if your account gets hacked you are covered"

    Support for App based 2FA codes should be supported at minimum, but really they should also be supporting security keys. Especially if they are going to use insecure SMS 2FA as a reason to deny covering you for fraud.

  • Essentially it was because it was one of a small number of instances that had open signups without having to write an application (no matter how simple). Reducing the friction of getting an account and starting to use the site is more important than you would think.

    Once it is popular then that is the one people will recommend since that is the instance they are familiar with.