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- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 3 days ago:
I just put them on my head and it made “crack”. You have to slightly flex the headband every time when putting the headphones on your ears, and I guess doing this for a few hundred times weakens the plastic to the point where it just gives up.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 4 days ago:
250€ 🫠
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 4 days ago:
Absolutely. Added to that, they seem to be actively ruining their headphones with software updates as well. My XM5’s randomly turned off every few hours and thanks to a Chinese hacker I was able to downgrade the software - guess what, the problem went away.
They’re either doing this deliberately so you buy the latest model or their development team is utterly incompetent.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 4 days ago:
On their older models, they earcups were swiveling and you could fold them inwards. It was a really useful feature, they easily fit into a small bag. The newer ones can’t do that anymore and come with an extremely large carrying case. Sony has really lost the plot, but they have really excellent noise cancelling (the main reason for me buying them).
But that’s gonna be my last model now.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 4 days ago:
Not sure what OP is doing.
Nothing special, I just wear them every day and I have a regular-sized head. I also have XM2’s which still work, they have a more sturdy hinge design. Sony cost-optimized their latest models too much, the headband is much thinner than on the XM2’s as well, which puts more pressure on my head and makes them slightly more uncomfortable. I can only suspect they did that so they have to mold less plastic and save a few cents on each model…
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 4 days ago:
This is the second time these broke on my WH1000-XM5’s. At least they’re easily replacable by just removing a few screws and dropping in a new one.
Compared to that, this bad boy is over 30 years old and never broke once - thanks to a headband which is made out of metal. Despite that, it’s even more comfortable than Sony’s modern one:
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- Comment on bold words 1 week ago:
Don’t preorder Cyberpunk.
- Comment on OpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and o4-mini in ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
OpenAI is discontinuing
Should’ve ended it right here.
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t see any ads on the paid version here.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 1 month ago:
True, but it also didn’t help that Microsoft set really low system specs for “Windows Vista Ready”. So we had a lot of computers with an official Vista badge that weren’t really capable of running it well.
The specs to earn that badge were 512MB of RAM and an 800MHz processor, which was absolutely not enough for it.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 1 month ago:
That’s hilarious! :D A friend of mine bought a Sony Vaio laptop back then which had a 64bit CPU, but only 32bit drivers. Not even XP, only Vista, so you couldn’t even downgrade.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 1 month ago:
Windows Vista also needed more than 1GB and some manufacturers still sold their subpar devices with it. Some things never change.
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 2 months ago:
That sounds a bit like burnout, to be honest. I stopped reading for a few years, too, and didn’t even know why, I was just not “in the mood” or at least I thought so. I have picked it up again this year and ultimately realized that my job was stressing me out. I was constantly worried about problems at work, but for reading, you need a calm mind.
Quitting my job and going to another company this year was one of the best decisions ever. Since then I have found time for hobbies (and losing weight) again. I also read on a WiFi-less eBook reader and put my phone into another room, so I cannot get distracted.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 months ago:
The story was excellent, the combat was a slog. Still finished it and ultimately enjoyed it, but it felt like they were being limited by the DnD system a lot, ultimately worsening the experience.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 months ago:
Act 3 launched half baked and half broken
It still has bugs to this day. I played through the whole game two months ago. The printing press mission was extremely broken. It’s a mission where you are supposed to swap out the headline in a printing press so a magazine doesn’t shit-talk your party. The mission progressed as intended, the press even praised me for swapping the article out and on the next day I still got shit-talked.
I had to do the whole mission again and talk to the printing press twice (for no reason) to fix it. Yenna in my camp also never cooked for me.
Larian announcing their next game to be even bigger than before makes me a bit cautious. I hope they don’t bite off more than they can chew.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 months ago:
Cyberpunk’s launch issues were largely stability/performance related
I played the first release when it came out. There were a LOT of mission-breaking bugs, missing content, much less customization options, entirely missing features, a really messy perk system etc. It feels like a very different game now, since they patched in more content that was initially missing.
Someone did a writeup of all the patches here.
They should’ve pushed back the game at least for another year. 1.05 mostly focused on the cutscenes and Jonny Silverhand/Keanu Reeves since that’s what sold the game initially and left a lot to be desired in other areas.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 months ago:
Sellers can also pay Amazon to get a higher listing in that shitfest of a result page. It’s all intentional.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
This is so true. I worked at a callcentre for two years, doing crazy shifts for more money, overtime, short weekends…it was my first job - I liked the money and since it was my first job, I wanted to prove myself and did way more than I was paid for.
The people that worked there for many years saw it coming and told me to take it slow or else I’d burn out. I was young and stupid, so I ignored them and the signs my own body gave me. When I was tired, I went to the coffee machine and made myself a triple espresso. Here we go again!
Then came the day where I just…stopped functioning. I couldn’t do anything anymore. I never felt so tired in my life and fell asleep on the toilet in the company bathroom. I still remember my dad driving me home and falling onto my bed, but not a lot else.
It took 1.5 years to get my energy back and the first few months are just a blur, I must’ve slept for weeks. I never regained all of the energy I had before that happened. Burnout is a bitch and what I did back then will follow me for the rest of my life.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 4 months ago:
I agree, the forced auto-translation is really annoying. There’s a browser extension called “YouTube No Translation” that fetches the original titles and descriptions from the YouTube API and replaces them.
It’s ridiculous, I already need three extensions to make YouTube useable again. YouTube Row Fixer, YouTube No Translation and YouTube Enhancer. And it’s still garbage in some places.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 4 months ago:
That dialer change was evil. I have switched to Fossify Phone now and use that as a dialer. The Fossify apps are amazing, they also have a gallery and messages app, so Google’s proprietary BS isn’t neccessary.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 4 months ago:
My post literally says so :D It’s still a dickhead move to put the assistant in there as the default when setting up the device and hiding the option under “Gestures”.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 4 months ago:
If its the same as Samsung, holding power + volume down should bring up the power menu.
On my NP1, it’s Power and Volume Up. So much for consistent behaviour between different Android devices…
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 4 months ago:
It seems like they haven’t changed the setting retroactively for existing users, but I just reset my Nothing Phone 1 to factory settings and then it got set by default.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 4 months ago:
Yes, the Nothing Phone 1. I reset it, because I switched to a Unihertz Titan 2 now and only use it as a USB webcam. :)
- Comment on These are the types of Whatsapp Channels Indians get recommended 4 months ago:
I’m from Germany and I get recommendations for all kinds of German police forces (for each major city). Added to that, I often get channels for microwave recipes or random channels underage teenagers have created.
What a great system!
- On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistantdiscuss.tchncs.de ↗Submitted 4 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 107 comments
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 4 months ago:
Depends on the bank, mine doesn’t have a problem with root.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 4 months ago:
Nothing already lost me when they put a tiny, useless OLED screen on the back of their flagship and called it innovation. They had something great with the Glyph lights on the whole back, so of course they ditched it.
Not even Unihertz put Facebook garbage on their new Titan 2phone. And they also have an OLED on the back. A much bigger one. For a fraction of the price.
- Comment on just one more bro 4 months ago:
This reminds me of the sketch from Chris & Jack, where one person tries to outsmart a genie and almost succeeds, but still fails.
