Palwold dev talks too much

“Can’t live without” is an overstatement, but here are mine:

• Kvaesitso, search focused android launcher. I used to really like nova launcher’s local search and navigated my phone mostly using that. But once gensture navigation became a thing I had to stop using nova and replicate the experience in Samsung launcher with various local search apps that were lacking in comparison. Tried to go back a couple times once gestures with 3rd party launchers got better but found my old setup still too ugly and sluggish to go back to. Recently I randomly came across Kvaesitso on fdroid and it was everything I ever wanted out of a launcher.

• Amberol music player. Not the ideal music player I’d like but at least it’s not Elisa.

• Kid3, audio file tag editor. It has much better workflow/automation than mp3tag that I used in windows, and it seems if you spend some effort on it you could add more automation to make it even better.

Looks better than I expected

Only upload TV and Radio shows that are PRODUCED IN A COMMONWEALTH COUNTRY or IRELAND. The UK is not included!

Also requires you choose a binary gender on account creation, demands your home ip address, requires you have 0.8+ ratio after downloading 35GB (which sounds impossible due to the limited user pool as a home seeder that doesn’t upload new torrents) or pay. Private trackers are creepy

Edit: it seems most popular shows don’t count towards download but do count towards uploads and that’s how they expect you to maintain ratio

Are they 10 miles tall?

I think lots of games would hit a cpu bottleneck before they reach 120 fps

It’s really hard to follow your train of thought. Bluetooth isn’t a piece of metal in your phone. It uses the same antenna your phone needs for its other wireless connections and it’s also driven by the same modem. Compared to an audio jack its impact is miniscule. The demand for Bluetooth wasn’t created in 2016, it predates smartphones. There were countless wireless earphones before 2016 and they mostly weren’t even made by phone companies. Apple removing the headphone jack wasn’t ‘false advertising’, it was very well publicised.

Yes, phone companies removed the headphone jack from their phones to drive the sales of their own earphones. Yes, Google collects lots of data about you. But interpolating these to “Google wanted people to keep Bluetooth on for its spy network” is a far fetched conspiracy

For real?

Since the attack already involves someone with physical access they could hide a transmitter in the same room

Copied from another thread:

Fast transmissions are limited to a maximum range of 300 cm (10 ft), with the bit error rate being 2-4%. Medium-speed transmissions increase the distance to 450 cm (15 ft) for the same error rate. Finally, slow transmissions with nearly zero error rates can work reliably over distances of up to 7 meters (23 ft).

Fast = 1000bps, medium = 500bps, slow = 100bps.

These are more like last 2 week but anyways:

• Finished Agent A after a year of hiatus.
• Got hdr to work in Dark Souls 2 with the graphics overhaul mod and finished getting the 4 big Souls.
• Got tired of the difficulty of Dark Souls 2 and decided to start a new random shooter from my library… Devil Daggers
• Had a management sim itch and gave another shot at FTL, never got to win. Half the time I lost in a single encounter to things like never landing a shot on the enemy ship due to shields + misses or 7 people teleporting to my ship and wrecking havok. Other times I got too greedy.
• Tried to figure out which way to go next in Dark Solus 2 by checking the wiki but kept getting sidetracked by things I might’ve missed.
• Also tried to quench the management itch with shapez, but didn’t like it much. Just made me crave the factorio dlc more. Amazing music though

You know bluetooth doesn’t need to be turned on in the settings for your phone to scan for devices right? Google doesn’t need to trick you with earphones to turn it on. Why do these conspiracy theories always involve the vampire politely asking to come into your home anyways?

And as I said, they have bitrates high enough that most people won’t notice a difference. Especially since the files/steaming they’ll be listening to have lower bitrate than Bluetooth.

Regardless, what matters most is the earphone quality and while there might be better and cheaper options now, that’s not the cheap bundled headphone people are nostalgic of when they post things like this.

Fair, I never use those kinds of things

Samsung had headphone jack until note 10 and ip67/68 rating since s5. Similar story with other brands. What you described are two separate trends.

am/fm

Cheap phones still have fm radio support. Pretty sure it’s disabled in software in everything else, and you need cabled headphones to serve as an antenna either way (not sure if usb c works).

Bluetooth as an audio standard is factually lower fidelity

Is this an analog vs digital thing? Bluetooth runs at a high enough bitrate that most people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. And especially compared to the quality of the cabled headphones that used to be common any Bluetooth earphone is better

Can’t hear anything over that cable noise!

Had horrible audio quality both inherently and due to the constant cable dangling noise, didn’t stay in the ear due to the cables’ weight pulling them down, didn’t last long due to the cables getting tangled while carrying, you couldn’t wear in bed or during sports or with large coats due to the cables, you couldn’t move away from your phone due to the cable length or if you forgot they yanked your phone off the table…

Most planes allow Bluetooth

profiling telemetry network

Of course they need it for the very real scary words functionality

I see, I thought routers knew not to do dhcp on the Wan port