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  1. Comment on Bluetooth receiver with a sane low-battery warning? in ~tech

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    I tried the much cheaper FiiO BTR11 ($20 on amazon) and it got to 10% battery with no warnings, but then it hit me with a "Please charging" every few seconds for another 18 minutes before it died.

    I tried the much cheaper FiiO BTR11 ($20 on amazon) and it got to 10% battery with no warnings, but then it hit me with a "Please charging" every few seconds for another 18 minutes before it died.

  2. Comment on Bluetooth receiver with a sane low-battery warning? in ~tech

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    Confirmed! I ordered the anker soundsync a3352, and ran the battery all the way down without hearing any low-battery warnings. Battery life felt a little short, like you said. No audio problems...

    Confirmed! I ordered the anker soundsync a3352, and ran the battery all the way down without hearing any low-battery warnings. Battery life felt a little short, like you said. No audio problems like I mentioned in another comment.

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  3. Comment on Bluetooth receiver with a sane low-battery warning? in ~tech

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    I forgot to mention another totally unadvertised feature on every bluetooth device. I don't know what they call it, but during silences, the audio will cut out, presumably to save battery. On the...

    I forgot to mention another totally unadvertised feature on every bluetooth device. I don't know what they call it, but during silences, the audio will cut out, presumably to save battery. On the bluetooth receiver I currently own, you can hear every time the audio mutes and comes back on. There's a slight hiss while audio is playing, and a slight pop when it cuts in and out. It's only noticeable during podcasts or audio books, when people stop talking for a second.

    You can find other posts online where people complain about the beginning of sentences getting clipped by this feature, which is even worse. A better implementation would only cut audio after a prolonged silence, like 30 seconds or a minute, to save battery when you accidentally leave the device on.

  4. Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (February 2025) in ~health.mental

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    Ah man, I had a long week full of calculus, didn't get a day off, and now it's the next week and there's more work to do. I'm so sad that all the math and physics classes are this boring. It's...

    Ah man, I had a long week full of calculus, didn't get a day off, and now it's the next week and there's more work to do. I'm so sad that all the math and physics classes are this boring. It's weird! There's no reason it should be like this. I love doing all kinds of tedious bullshit, but by the end of it I would usually have some thing that I made, that I can be proud of. In these math and science classes you just go through the motions for somebody else's problems, over and over. Like they designed a maze and you're just running through it. It makes me depressed for real.

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  5. Bluetooth receiver with a sane low-battery warning?

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    The behavior of a bluetooth device when it reaches low battery is never advertised, and a lot of the time no one even mentions it in the reviews. My experience is that most devices give you an...

    The behavior of a bluetooth device when it reaches low battery is never advertised, and a lot of the time no one even mentions it in the reviews. My experience is that most devices give you an audio warning on repeat until you charge it, which is obviously bad design.

    Can anyone recommend a bluetooth receiver that doesn't do this? I've heard that apple airpods only warn you once or twice, but my preference is for a battery-powered bluetooth receiver that lets me plug in wired headphones. I'm still interested in hearing about other bluetooth headphones though.

    If there's nothing on the market, it might be interesting to try and build something. There must be bluetooth modules you can buy, but I wonder if they would have the same problem. Maybe you can modify the firmware? If anyone out there is hardware-hacking bluetooth devices, let me know.

    14 votes

  6. Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health

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    I watched this hour and half long conversation about weight lifting yesterday. It's from an internet/culture/politics podcast, but it's 90% about fitness. Nothing too crazy in there....

    I watched this hour and half long conversation about weight lifting yesterday. It's from an internet/culture/politics podcast, but it's 90% about fitness. Nothing too crazy in there.

    https://youtu.be/Ld2Jr0KUCPw?si=LEGn7g6Z8cHhSCt-

    I never took weight lifting seriously enough to really change my body type, so it was interesting to hear this guy talk about diet, and bulking, and cutting, and also the risks of disordered eating, and drug use. Just kind of a whole world I never got into. But it makes me want to set some higher goals for myself. He sounds like he's doing it right.

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  7. Comment on "The Telepathy Tapes" is taking America by storm. But it has its roots in old autism controversies. in ~misc

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    This podcast made me want to go back to being a militant atheist

    This podcast made me want to go back to being a militant atheist

    6 votes

  8. Comment on Joe Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with US long-range missiles in ~society

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    Well, no. I didn't vote. But getting my vote isn't meant to be some kind of struggle. You can actually just vote for whoever you want, and it's not a difficult decision for most people. No one...

    Well, no. I didn't vote. But getting my vote isn't meant to be some kind of struggle. You can actually just vote for whoever you want, and it's not a difficult decision for most people. No one needs to feel ashamed or degraded by the process. Democrats mostly voted to protect abortion and immigrants. I would have voted for an end to this war, which I think Ukraine is going to lose anyway.

  9. Comment on Joe Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with US long-range missiles in ~society

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    I will vote for the end-of-democracy candidate for the rest of my life if it means no one has to get nuked or fight world war three.

    Trump has criticized the amount of aid given to Ukraine in its fight against Russia and claimed he could end the war in 24 hours, though he has not explained how.

    I will vote for the end-of-democracy candidate for the rest of my life if it means no one has to get nuked or fight world war three.

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  10. Comment on Unable to feel progress, lack of happiness and not finding motivation to keep investing in ~health.mental

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    When you're stuck in a shame spiral, you need to do little things to prove to yourself that you are not worthless. You also need to remember that you are already worthy of life and love, and...

    When you're stuck in a shame spiral, you need to do little things to prove to yourself that you are not worthless. You also need to remember that you are already worthy of life and love, and there's no reason to hide from the world. If you weren't carrying around all that self-hatred, you probably wouldn't be playing games all day.

    But it's fine if you want to play WoW. That's just a hobby. Don't give it more than 12 hours a week. I've spent most of my life being frequently-depressed, and getting out of it is always hard, and nothing ever works, but the answers are always obvious in hindsight. Don't think about it too much.

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  11. Comment on Looking for games that can be played with only the mouse in ~games

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    Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy

    Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy

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  12. Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (September 2022) in ~health.mental

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    Very happy to be alive. Otherwise, not so good. Terribly alone.

    Very happy to be alive. Otherwise, not so good. Terribly alone.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Why you are lonely and how to make friends in ~life

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    Friend still hasn't called me back, they must be too busy dropping their phone off the edge of the couch and crawling across the floor again https://youtu.be/I9hJ_Rux9y0?t=221

    Friend still hasn't called me back, they must be too busy dropping their phone off the edge of the couch and crawling across the floor again https://youtu.be/I9hJ_Rux9y0?t=221

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  14. Comment on How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral—and caused untold harm in ~lgbt

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    Yeah, suggesting a person might have been born with a trait is fine, we're all born with traits. It's just something that is hard to know. And it seems like the legitimacy of being transgender (or...

    Yeah, suggesting a person might have been born with a trait is fine, we're all born with traits. It's just something that is hard to know. And it seems like the legitimacy of being transgender (or gay) often hinges on the idea that you're born a certain way and you can't change it. So if you're not allowed to be who you really are, you might literally die, or be forced to live an abject miserable existence in the wrong body. I guess I want to also recognize that people can make choices to redefine who they are based on culture and society, where there's a risk of "social contagion" and bad ideas. That thought doesn't work for a lot of people politically, because no one is obligated to approve of the life you choose, or support your chosen identity.

    edit: The argument for supporting and affirming transgender people is currently understood as a human rights issue, and not a question of liberty. I'm more interested in what that says about how we value liberty vs human rights than I am about the culture war surrounding trans people.

    edit2: The human rights angle is a big deal when children are the ones transitioning gender. If it's about liberty and you refuse to let your kid take puberty blockers, then you're just being a (good or bad) parent. If it's a human rights issue, then it's child abuse and you should have your kids taken away.

  15. Comment on How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral—and caused untold harm in ~lgbt

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    If you don't use the word "contagion" then there's nothing controversial about this idea. You can argue that the modern transgender identity is harmful or empowering, but I don't see how anyone...

    If you don't use the word "contagion" then there's nothing controversial about this idea. You can argue that the modern transgender identity is harmful or empowering, but I don't see how anyone can assume that being trans is something you're born with, and I'm also not sure why being influenced by others to become trans is necessarily undermining what it is to be trans. I guess because it threatens to show transgender identity in a more frivolous light, more like a subculture, more like body modification, or plastic surgery. All of which are permitted in our culture, but they aren't taken seriously.

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  16. Comment on Reply All is officially dead. What to listen to now? in ~misc

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    Recommending podcasts is weird. For shows like Reply All that are structured and produced, you can tell someone, "this is a good show", and even if they don't like it they'll at least understand...

    Recommending podcasts is weird. For shows like Reply All that are structured and produced, you can tell someone, "this is a good show", and even if they don't like it they'll at least understand what it is, and agree that it is definitely a show of some kind. But most of the podcasts I like are just people talking to each other about stuff, for hours, with very little structure and low production value. I don't think the parasocial quality is necessarily unhealthy, but it does mean that by recommending a podcast you're sort of recommending a person, and it's hard to know whether someone's personality will click for you. So I'm actually... not going to recommend anything. Except for Reply All. You should download all the old episodes and listen to them again.

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  17. Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (June 2022) in ~health.mental

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    I dropped a class because it turned out to be more work than I could handle. It was the right choice, but it does make me feel like I belong on disability. No immediate financial problems though....

    I dropped a class because it turned out to be more work than I could handle. It was the right choice, but it does make me feel like I belong on disability. No immediate financial problems though. Just loneliness and soul-searching.

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