yes - user-controlled microphone switching is my #1 iOS feature request
i find it very frustrating i can’t use my airpods on calls at all with full fidelity audio using a wired or built-in iPhone microphone, even though lots of the time on long calls i’m pacing around holding my phone anyway
i’m speculating, but iirc apple did put a lot of thought into the design, placement, and noise cancellation for airpods that just might not have been done for your hearing aids. an 8kHz sampling rate can still reproduce frequencies up to 4kHz, which is much higher than you’re probably speaking!
if you’re on a laptop, maybe try recording the audio yourself with both to get a sense of how they might sound and what (macOS) combinations work best
i never used proxmox, but i also have a single small tower with some old AMD CPU. i’m pretty much all-in on docker compose. are there benefits to trying proxmox on mid-tier consumer hardware?
if only! i know this is not what you’re asking for, but inexpensive Sonoff outlets flashed with firmware and reporting to Home Assistant are how i monitor (and switch on and off!) the largest consumers of electricity in my home. it’s a good two-weekend project
i think, at least in the US, there's the one-two punch of a full-size truck near-hegemony (blah blah, chicken tax, CAFE, etc, whatever) and that full-size trucks have gradually taken on a symbolic identifier of status, wealth, political affiliation, and what one might or might not value
your comment, to me, is the thing i picture happening to the oakley-clad calvin-peeing-on-something-sticker-having full size truck driver forming an emotional bond with their F-150 Tremor
and i'm not saying this same dynamic is not at work with people who buy Kei trucks, but rather it feels like there is some in-group out-group dynamics of classic truck ownership and what it can signify that might be accelerating the same identity or emotional interest in small trucks
man, this made me a little sad to read and think about. and not because of your comment specifically: i know that this must be, generally, how one has to think and talk about economics any sort of academic or abstract sense, but... i guess i just haven't really done that very much
Another thing to think about that is also sad and just sorta becomes part of the background noise of existing in society is exploitation. If you ignore the emotionally charged connotations around the term and focus on its meaning
> make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
Capital is in the business of exploiting Labor. It is the only thing that makes sense in our economic system. For anyone doing labor for $X for a company that then sells it to a customer for $Y it must hold that X < Y or else the company will fail. The arrangement most people operate under, myself included, is one where you are willingly underselling yourself. The trade off that most people point to is that the people are willing to do this because the stability of getting $X all the time regardless of this weeks / months / years sales is worth foregoing $Y, essentially you are buying stability with the difference. Although the recent rash of layoffs for companies, regardless of how well they are doing, does offer a counterpoint to that theory.
It's actually a Tragedy of the Commons situation. If very few people think that way, everyone is better off and the society is a better place. But in such a place, the people that have this mindset will absolutely be more successful then if they didn't have it.
At this point we're decades into this flavor of capitalism and the profiteering has long since become the norm, sadly.
And before someone says "it's always been like that"... No, it hasn't. Even in pop culture from a few decades ago you've got the characters taking great pride in providing good products for great prices. Nowadays our culture mostly makes fun of people like that and they're portrayed as targets to be exploited...
I have always found it amusing how much of our modern economic system looks something like this.
- What if everyone shared and cooperated and got along?
- Well then someone that wanted to take advantage of people would come along and make a big mess of it!
- Well what's your proposal then, should we stop those people, outlaw their greed and avarice?
- Hmm... no I think we should reward it and build our entire system around getting greed to produce useful outcomes.
- Ok, so we've been doing that for a while and the people that would have taken advantage of the commons have privatized the commons, taken full advantage of that, purchased the government, and essentially rule over us while we all fight for crumbs...
- But you've got an iPhone, so it's basically working great
“a quick perusal” ah yes with such intellectual rigor it must be blissful to float self-satisfied above the masses in their “ideological stronghold silos.” nodding to yourself confident in the fact that it simply cannot be you who is missing the point
lol "i don't see any problems with waste aside from the problems with waste"
have you ever see those drone shots of children playing on 90ft mountains of fast fashion discards in chile and ghana or whatever? when you watch that, do you nod along sagely because the free market working perfectly and that's comforting for you
also, i disagree with the premise that we are "gatekeeping" car ownership unless we race to the bottom. you can buy used cars!
>lol "i don't see any problems with waste aside from the problems with waste"
And if you read the sentence right after, you'd see my alternate proposal rather than trying to set an arbitrary durability threshold.
>If that's what you're concerned about, those should be taxed at the source, rather than letting that slide but trying to regulate it by enforcing minimum durability standards.
the Car and Driver recommended trim level is $25k, and a random google search says 12 years (across all vehicles) is an average ownership period and ~13,700 miles/year. so napkin math and the average is over 250k km for the vehicle lifetime. i suspect toyota is meaningfully higher, but can’t prove it.
at that price, and with those economics, i think a great many people would care
Most people I know would never even consider buying a new car and pay more like $5k (maybe max $10k), nothing near $30k. But lots of them have home solar. I can see them going for a new EV if EVs are much cheaper than for an equivalent ICE car.
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