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Half as close as 20,000 blocks was. And this keeps halving more and more quickly!

Three days later ... iPhone randomly says "hey, would you like to pair these headphones?"

We'll see how long this lasts.

The audacity of an ad surveillance company and abusive monopolist teaching its users about morality...

25x zoom on a phone, crazy times...

Dom church in Utrecht from ~800 meters away.

A journalist is someone who looks for truth by means of investigation. They're more closely related to cops than to politicians.

I think he's mostly a political pundit. Even just asking hard questions doesn't necessarily make you a journalist. It can be a form of grandstanding, just like politicians do all the time during expert hearings. The point of a question should be that you're genuinely interested in the answer. A journalist would typically ask a question after they've done a bunch of research, as a way for the subject of their article to provide a response to these findings.

Most podcasters are not journalists, because typically their only source is what the subject tells them, or maybe the book the subject wrote. From your description it sounds like he was acting mostly as a podcaster. But I suspect his motive for the interview was political grandstanding.

In other words, if in the next few months Tucker falls out of a high window, finds himself in a suspicious plane crash or loses his hair, I'll go an watch the video podcast he did.

I don't consider Tucker a journalist. But of course he's free to talk to Putin.

I also agree that people should make up their own minds.

I suggest however that they start by reading work from people who were assassinated by Putin, rather than people who Putin believes are so gullible he'll accept an interview request from them.

But if someone bothers to make a video like this, it's probably a fairly common failure mode.

The bluetooth component can be replaced, though it's fairly expensive and tedious (three different screw types, because Apple...). And I don't know for sure that's the broken part, what caused it to break and if the root cause will just keep killing off components.

https://youtu.be/Eno8lfJj_1Y

https://youtu.be/ePGy3j-jfks

A few weeks ago I learned that you clean the headband contacts. Mine were dirty but not corroded like in the video here. Given that I now get full stereo with a wired connection, the headband is probably not the issue.

Meanwhile my AirPods Max have decided bluetooth is overrated and they only work with a wired connection. Noise cancelling works fine. The white pairing light blinks but no device can see it.

Some folks on Reddit have noted the device sometimes comes back to live after depleting the battery, so we'll see. Others got desperate enough to put it in the freezer, but I'd rather not risk also breaking the wired mode.

They've been showing other signs of aging over the last half a year or so. I had constantly reset them. That got a little better once I learned you can clean the headband contacts with isopropanol.

I guess it's the long term of effect of rain seeping in, but with all their talk about fancy under water watches you'd think headphones would be easy to waterproof?

Unfortunately Apple is not the kind of company that says: we care about durability because we stand for quality and we're against waste, so return a broken product to us anytime with or without warranty and we'll fix it!

2.5 years product lifetime is insultingly bad.

You can already do that with a regular laptop and a Japanese toilet.

The natural light is not going to do you any good when you put on a helmet that blacks all light. The actual light on your eyes is like having giant monitors all around you. You don't get any UV indoors either because of the glass. On a beach you'll get sand in it and the device and batteries probably get too hot. I find AirPods Max uncomfortably hot in summer, and they only cover my ears.

Standing desks with treadmills already exist and my understanding is that they make keyboard and mouse control more difficult. But even something like code review while walking sounds difficult.

So: do sitting work, go for a walk, do more sitting work, go for a walk,etc

IIRC they were mostly mere millionaires who just want to tax actual billionaires.

I prefer to have a fixed supply of batteries that I occasionally recharge over having to buy new ones and safely dispose of the old ones. It's cheaper too over the long run. But not if they last 50x shorter.

One hypothesis I'm still testing is that the devices incorrectly estimate the battery is almost empty while in fact it's fine. Especially if the charger says it's done with those after less than half an hour.

I ended up getting this boutique charger shipped from Australia (which took more than a month because Australia Post still uses camels): https://www.tindie.com/products/rezwan/ml2032-coin-cell-battery-charger/

I'm still measuring how it performs, but so far it seems to only add a few weeks of fuel to the Voltcraft batteries - perhaps they're not compatible.

And only a few DAYS to the Maxwell ones. Could be an issue with those batteries, something with the charger or something about the devices I use them with. Still experimenting.

I've never had any such issues with AA and AAA rechargeable batteries which I've used since walkmans were still hip (not the same ones of course, but I seem to lose them faster than they die on me).

Voltcraft has this charger: https://www.conrad.com/en/p/voltcraft-button-cell-charger-li-ion-rechargeable-button-cell-200520.html

And these batteries:

https://www.conrad.com/en/p/voltcraft-button-cell-rechargeable-ml-2032-lithium-65-mah-3-v-1-pc-s-2542815.html

Same brand, must work, right?

Guess what? Doesn't work! As many of the reviewers pointed out over the years.

Does anyone know rechargeable button cells that don't suck and a charger that actually works? Particularly the equivalent of CR2032.

Lol, Damus blurred this image, but not yours.

I'm so happy to see Reddit self destruct, creating an opportunity for Nostr.