It opens a PDF version of any webpage. It may break some elements, but often gives access to text hidden behind paywall popups.

Pressing it again… and again

That’s awfully helpful

I find the idea of a phone without any ports incredibly distressing. You’re probably right, though. It won’t be that long before apple and/or samsung try that.

I realize now that I’m likely in a loud minority.

As long as there are half-decent phones with usb & 3.5mm ports and sd slots, I’m content. The large manufacturers can do what they want for all I care - I just hope my niche persists.

Thanks for this exchange.

Fair. Although I have more to say.

Maybe this connector from the 50s has survived this long because it’s perfect (or at least really good) at its job? There is a reason why all professional equipment uses analog connections.

I agree that at a price point of 6€ or 20€, it doesn’t make much of a difference for most headphones - although I’d like to mention that for 20€, you’re already in the price range of cheap IEMs (“In-Ear Monitors”), which are really good in terms of price to sound quality.

If you want reliable earbuds with good sound quality and affordable price (between 20€ and 100€), IEMs are a really good choice.

Also, their cables are pretty much always robust and replaceable, so if one does break, you won’t have to buy new headphones altogether.

The only “caveat” with IEMs is that they exclusively have analog connections (3.5mm). I think that’s a good thing, though: the manufacturer has more budget for better cables and audio drivers this way.

I hope I could shed some more light on this :)

USBC and lightning are both still digital connections, meaning you have to have a digital-to-analog converter un the headphones themselves, making them more expensive and more complicated.

Also, you can’t charge and listen at the same time (without an additional cable).

3.5 mm is the “old reliable” - I will never buy a phone without both a 3.5mm jack and a MicroSD card slot.

Do you license every comment of yours? If yes, why? Tbh i’m just curious

So I’m GLaD I got burned, think of all the things we learned

Now, these points of data make a beautiful line

Very yes.

For the people who are still aliiiiiiiive

Fair enough xD

I was with you, until the last sentence. What the fuck

You can grow your own pot for private use. I think that’s a pretty good step.

Various Building code violations, possession of dangerous chemicals, Code violations concerning nuclear reactors, unauthorized mining. Possibly poaching wildlife. Minecraft: All The Mods 9. I’m not very far into it yet, so there’s probably a lot of stuff coming on top of that soon.

Just asking, is there some sort of “Open Source DND”?

I think you are right. There are many people in their 40s who grew up with online games, my father included :). Although I am still fairly certain that online games weren’t as prevalent back then as they are today, thus many parents don’t quite grasp the concept.

EDIT: I would like to add that even people who didn’t play online games, such as my mother, still played on the atari, for example, and know the concept of “unpauseable” games. So I think that it mostly comes down to demographic. In my group of school friends (a few years ago) some parents were in the know and others weren’t.

Although that is true, they might not be as familiar with the concept of online multiplayer games, which rose in popularity much later. The odds of someone’s parents having played, for example, Quake or Unreal Tournament in their childhoods are considerably lower.

I want to embrace discussion here. Please specify these “many ways”.

Using a sheet of paper right now, am in the process of switching to a self-written password manager. It uses Vigenere encryption using a key that is not saved anywhere (that I have to remember) and saves to a .dat file. Should I use my own tool or a service?