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Cake day: June 9th, 2024

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  • They really do.

    The sound great, and the ANC is great, but the “official” battery life for a brand new one (which these are not) is “up to 4.5 hours” with ANC on, and 5 without it.

    It ends up being 2-3 charge cycles basically every day, plus a full recharge of the charging case.

    They do, however, work amazingly well if you’re in the Apple ecosystem; for example they’ll swap between my iPad and Mac Mini if audio starts on one or the other.

    But for actually sitting down with something and listening to a thing, I’d rather just plug in some headphones (via the lovely USB-C dongle) and not have to think about if the stupid things are going to die before I’m ready to stop listening.

    (Disclaimer: I’m also a weirdo who doesn’t carry a smartphone, and still uses an iPod for listening to stuff outside of the house, so feel free to roll your eyes and disregard my obviously bad opinions :P )


  • My complaint has always been that the stupid things need to endlessly be recharged.

    I’ve got some AirPod Pros and they’re great… for about 4 hours.

    Then you’re stopping what you’re doing, recharging for half an hour, and then you’re good for uh, another 3 hours because that wasn’t a full charge.

    And after the 2nd or 3rd time you’ve done that, your case is dead and you get to throw everything on a charger for a couple of hours.

    Ooooooooor I can put in my wired headphones, and not give a shit about any of that, because that’s not how those work at all.

    I suppose most people don’t spend most of their day listening to podcasts and audiobooks and thus 4 hours is fine, but good lord is it annoying as crap.



  • Are content creators we already know expected to start their own servers? Or will there be a general mega instance for everyone to post to.

    Honestly - both?

    Good examples are going to be Floatplane and Nebula for the single-content-creator platform and the group of creators platforms.

    There’s no real reason you can’t build a platform and require someone to pay you to have access, and it seems to have been successful for both groups.

    Video hosting is expensive, but it 's not prohibitive and a group of creators could certainly come up with a useful platform and self-host it and still be profitable.

    Now, the question is, of course, if peertube is the right choice for that and if it offers anything they’d need, but that’s a different discussion.




  • Honestly, I’d contact their support and ask what their processes are and what timelines they give customers for a response/remediation before they take action.

    Especially ask how they notify you, and how long they allow for a response before escalation to make sure that’s something you can actually get, read, and do something about within.

    It might not be a great policy, but if you at least know what might happen, it gives you the ability to make sure you can do whatever you need to do to keep it from becoming a larger issue.


  • This new uh, tactic? of going after a registrar instead of a hosting provider with reports is a little concerning.

    There’s an awful lot of little registrars that don’t have any real abuse department and nobody is going to do shit other than exactly this: take it down and worry about it next week when they have time.

    It really feels like your choice of registrar is becoming as much or more important than your choice of hosting provider, and the little indie guys are probably the wrong choice if you’re running a legitimate business as you’re gonna need one that has enough funding and a proper team to vet reports before clobbering your site.

    On the OTHER hand, Network Solutions is just took down DigitalOcean for no reason, so maybe they all suck?


  • I’m on year 5 with 6 of them and they’re all fine.

    RTSP stream to frigate, and then frigate does the magic AI and recording shit.

    They’re also not allowed outside the LAN and don’t seem to care about not being all internet connect-y, though YMMV on newer models.

    I can’t think of a single case of being annoyed with them other than the mounting pressure is a little wonky and a sufficiently fat corvid can land on them and change the angle on one of the ones in the backyard but I’m not sure I’d blame the camera manufacturer because of a fat crow.




  • Yeah, I’m just using some cheap NFC stickers from Ali Express.

    The thing is that I don’t use the dashboard: not every action has a dashboard entry and even if there is one, the amount of time it takes to load the app, open the correct dashboard tab, and then click a button is like, 10x the time of ‘tap your phone on the NFC tag, and thing happens’.

    On Android anyway: iOS requires you endlessly tap ‘Yes, yes I’m sure I meant to do that it’s fine just do it already’ for NFC triggered actions, and on Android, it just goes ‘boink’ and does it.

    TLDR: it’s super faster than hitting a button on the dashboard.