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And it's not even about only headphones. It's about billions of audio devices that take one thing as input: line-level audio. Home stereos, car stereos, portable amps, hotel-room docks and TVs, PA systems and mixers.

Then there's the idiotic problem that Apple created but never even solved: blocking the phone's sole port with a "headphone dongle," which prevents you from CHARGING the phone. So now if you want to listen to music while navigating (which kills the battery quickly), you're screwed.

I ended up buying a few of the Lightning-to-30-pin-iPod adapters, which you can then plug a USB+audio cable into. Yes, the ancient 30-pin iPod connector has line audio out, and the cool thing is that it's a true line out; the volume control has no effect on it, so you only have one volume control to dick around with (the one on the amp).

Are you not aware that the original (not this new) SE had a headphone jack? He is a current user, meaning obviously the original one.

I still have my SE, for very good reasons:

1. HEADPHONE JACK. Selling music- and media-centric devices without headphone jacks is stupid and offensive.

2. Ergonomics: FLAT SIDES. You can grip the old SE. Rounded edges are stupid, because the phone wants to flip sideways out of your grip.

And the new SE still uses the Lightning port, which is technically incompetent in addition to being proprietary.

These claims seem irrelevant, inaccurate, or dumb.

Google News only shows brief abstracts from each article, and drives traffic to the publications' own sites. It's free advertising! How is this at all BAD for the publications?

To be fair, they were already caught installing malware.

How many free passes are we going to give these jagoffs?

The Windows color scheme editor is long gone. Don't know if it was Vista or 7 when it disappeared.

Windows 10 is a shitshow.

AMEN. You could set up any color scheme you wanted in Windows 3.1, 30 years ago. You could do so in Unix GUIs as well.

The vaunted Apple UI was the exception, forcing an inverse color scheme on all users, all the time. They refused to admit the failure of the "screen as a piece of paper" analogy that ascended during the "desktop publishing" rage of the late '80s/early '90s.

So now Microsoft inexplicably REMOVED user-definable color schemes from Windows (around the time of Vista, I think), and Apple has clumsily implemented a hard-coded "dark mode." If you're a developer, you know how hideously broken numerous Apple UI controls are now as a result (rendering nearly invisible text and arbitrary background colors).

You could spot Web designers and even design tools that didn't know what they were doing when you'd pull up a Web site to find it mostly blank. This meant that the page overrode your system's dark background color with white, but didn't override your white text color. The result, of course, was white text on a white background.

Google embarrassingly introduced this defect into the Google News page at some point, rendering all the story abstracts invisible.

Good times.

Yes, it did. In fact, CASE tools were going to be all the rage: computer-aided software engineering.

One of them was METHOD/1 from Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). If you wanted to create a variable to hold, for example, a part number... you'd create an entry in the CASE tool for it and from then on, everyone was supposed to use that one. It would have validation rules, like 30 characters, alphanumeric, whatever.

The CASE tool would do code generation for screens and forms and whatnot. And.... that's about as much as I remember at the moment.

Manuals and books are different things.

Nobody should be expected to pay for a manual; that's part of the product. An advanced book? Sure.

Look at Resolve: It has an EXTENSIVE (and pretty decent) manual, which costs nothing... and for most users, neither does the product.

What's "OBS?"

That would be valuable information.

This failed to mention the fact that Zoom was caught planting malware on people's computers last year.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/apple-silent-update-zoom-a...

They didn't leave the market for that reason.

Aetna, for example, left to spite the government for blocking its merger with Humana, and lied about it: http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/investing/aetna-obamacare-hu...

Health insurance should have nothing to do with your job.

THAT is the problem the USA needs to solve.

Wireless charging is a stupid gimmick, but it’s the anti-consumer angle that will get Apple on board with wireless-only.

Micro-USB is shit.

So is Lightning, but at least it’s slightly more robust physically.

USB-C and be done with it.

The hypocrisy of Apple once again brings down shame.

And once again Europeans try to protect consumers, while U.S. “representatives” abet corporations in ripping them off.

Strawman. That’s a one-time transition. And do Apple devices even come with chargers anymore?

Meanwhile, the Atari computers had a “volume-only” mode that let you send a voltage directly to the audio output.

By setting the paddle ports to a high-speed sampling mode, you could easily build an audio sampler.

Great computers.

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Thanks for that info.

Unfortunately useless for anyone not using Apple's mediocre-at-best listening devices. Like the huge number of people with Bose wireless cans.

I assume this is only for the analog output, right?

Obviously if you're just using a cheap or old amp it won't have HDMI, but if you're amping with an A/V receiver you can just use the HDMI out and get perfectly good quality.

And people pretend that Bluetooth is a replacement for the headphone jack. Not only is it a janky pain in the ass, but it can't be shared with a companion (watching a movie on a plane, for example).

We ARE going backward, partly because spineless apologists defend anti-consumer behavior instead of standing up for themselves and better.

I find the whole "most accidents happen within X miles of home" argument so tired. That's like saying "most electrons are found within the vicinity of their nuclei."

I'd be more interested in knowing where FATAL accidents occur, on the suspicion that most people do not live on highways and local streets are traveled at lower speeds.

This is what "self-regulating" looks like.

We've seen it again and again: Industries do not "self-regulate." How many people have to die before the "REGULATION BAD!" people are put in their place?

What is a "DApp?"

It would be helpful if the post explained what this is and means. What is "DApp browser?"

The most trusted tool since Apple shitcanned Shake, that is.

It's too bad that Shake couldn't be open-sourced. Several big post facilities (ILM, Weta, and others) bought the source code and have probably done great things with it.

I thought that it was also strongly associated with gum disease: https://www.alzheimers.net/alzheimers-and-gingivitis-disease...

App developers didn't even have to set colors.

You could tell the ones who didn't know what they were doing by the invisible text littering their UIs under some color schemes. This continued into the Web era. There were tons of defective sites that overrode your system background color with a hard-coded white background, but didn't bother setting the text color to black.

The result was invisible text on any system with a "dark" (non-inverse) color scheme. DUHHHH

There are probably still millions of such sites today, but now UIs are so gimped that they hide the defect.

YES.

Under Windows I created and used a "dark" theme in 1991, nearly identical to what the canned Mac OS "dark" one is today. Used it well into the 2000s.

Microsoft REMOVED that capability in what, Vista? And now that everyone has finally realized how stupid inverse color schemes are, the color-scheme editor is totally gone from Windows. It was in there for a decade and a half or more.

They also removed the "blue background, white text" option from Word, just a couple years ago.

Windows is an execrable mess now.

Apple, which forced an inverse color scheme on its users for 30+ years, has at least granted them some relief. But it's still pathetic to hobble a OS's UI with hard-coded color schemes.