Now I need to buy three dongles, one for my car, one for home, and one for my go-bag, and do a silly scramble when I misplace the tiny. Plus buy USB-C replacements now that Lightning is dead. The dongle is also ugly (doesn’t match my phone or earphones) and easily broken, with an incredibly thin wire.
It’s just a worse situation all around. The DAC and amp built into the iPhone previously was of similar quality. Now life - especially working with audio gear - is more complicated and annoying, so that Tim could sell more e-waste.
Google, Samsung, and Apple all have lucrative wireless earphone businesses, or would like to. Simpler design with less components is also a win for them.
I’d pay quite a sum for such a service. The value of a lossless, universally compatible port is hard to overstate. At the very least they could give us a second USB-C port on top-end phones.
The Lotus chassis may be counter-productive from a business standpoint, but it was also a beautiful and even poetic choice, representing a storied automotive legacy. Having one in space seems far better to me than almost any other lump they could have opted for.
Very true. My impression of the US over the past two decades at least though, is that financial services are bleeding many Americans dry even while they believe it’s all to their preferences - that they’re using the levers correctly, while any outside observer would say they’re being taken advantage of, even if it is their choice.
Total credit card interest and fees paid by Americans are up 47% from the high of 2019 •
Overall economic output continues to increase, but it drains so quickly, and increasingly to depreciating assets.
Of the young adults I know, I ask if they do even have a rough budget. Only two couples said yes, none of the singles or other couples. I know many are paying large sums to interest on consumer debt, with student loans looming for later.
I don’t have any other statistics, and now will seek them. It raises the question at least, how might we assess the benefit achieved thanks in part to loans to the majority of households over the past 50-100 years?
It’s interesting you say that? It runs completely counter to my experience coming from the “BSD-style” rc.d init Arch used to use, and migrating to systemd.
Any specific issues? I didn’t see any. No offense.
One factor may be that Arch prioritizes not patching upstream - helped save them from targeting here, and it doesn’t go overboard with default configs, which I’ve long appreciated.
Not to distro-war, I’m very grateful for Debian. My background is finding Linux in the mid-00s and breaking many SuSE, Ubuntu, and one or two Debian systems before finding something I could understand, repair, and maintain in 2008 Arch.
systemd accentuated its ability to stay relevant with enterprise Linux, made it even easier to package for, and has been a useful tool in diagnosing service issues and managing bad software for me.
I’m not sure how often it’s posted here but Benno Rice formerly of FreeBSD Core Team has an excellent and amusing discussion of systemd’s technical merits.
> I’m not sure how often it’s posted here but Benno Rice formerly of FreeBSD Core Team has an excellent and amusing discussion of systemd’s technical merits.
IMO he makes a couple good points (and a couple poor ones), but it’s about everything except technical merits. It’s more about social and philosophical aspects.
He talks about a lot of design decisions like the units architecture and users being able to deploy their own services, but does keep it fairly high-level.
The NY Civil Liberties Union did find that toll passes are scanned far from actual toll roads. It appears to be used explicitly for surveillance purposes.
Stick to cash or bill-by-mail, or connect your reader’s battery with a thumb when you need to use it.
When it fails to scan, they do ALPR to figure out who to send the ticket to, but, before they send a ticket they lookup against the EZPass database to see if your car is in it, and if so, they just debit your account like the tag did scan.
If that happens often enough, they send you a new tag and ask for the broken one back.
Yes. I went on a deep dive recently looking for the sweet spot in affordable speakers and subwoofers for near field and home theatre use, and noted that almost every top performer under 1000USD per unit used entirely MDF cabinets. The exception was the Monolith THX series by Monoprice that pay up for HDF and still do well at their price point.
The dongle life is so much fun, especially when packing for a flight!