spaghettiToy

Is Bluetooth good yet?

I had issues as recent as last year's new products.

But otherwise I love the concept of hardware access with HTML. The embedded guy in me thinks the future is going to be crazy. I can't quite wrap my head around the possibilities.

>Seems like the opposite has happened

Only for outsiders.

In the industry you realize it's cutting corners and the end customer has a worse product.

There was a short lived perception that Tesla was doing innovation, but as the quality issues came up, it appears as cutting corners.

Tesla has a marketing effect that companies dream of. That was likely what confused industry insiders of innovation. That has been gone since ~2018.

It was more of the opportunity I got. I've been told it's a high prestige job, and I've learned enough to start my own company. It's also the highest paid $/hr in my field.

I also think my teenage job was monumental in my career. Mostly that it helped me get my first industry job.

Then my first intern industry job sucked, which got me a fantastic first job.

>because their qualifications don't carry across.

New (US) grads have significantly less qualifications than anyone wants to admit. It's getting 2 years of experience that makes the difference.

When looking to hire people from South America, there was lots of manufacturing experience, but we needed Design experience.

When we hired CAD guys, they followed directions fine, but possibly too literally or would stop too prematurely. When getting local, non engineers to do CAD, they would read our mind more.

Not that this is a show stopper. If we met 3 times a day for a quick meeting with our SA CAD guys, we achieved just as much. It just required more meetings/phone calls.

I'll tell you the realities of Mechanical Engineering and auto.

You typically will make a single part. Maybe its the plastic to cover the car's metal. Maybe its the screen user interfaces with, maybe its airbags. Whatever the case, the plastic and screens are deemed necessary by society to sell a car. Some mechanical engineer will have this job.

At least you make cars right? Well there are over 20 major car companies, if your company disappeared tomorrow, life would move on with minimal interruptions.

The most you can claim is that you are forcing the automotive industry to be ultra competitive.

Strangely enough, startups/Tesla is the last place someone with advanced mechanical engineering knowledge would go. From a quality/feature standpoint, new companies have lower standards. Where an established company would be pushing technology and doing things that no one has done before, new companies are just trying to build a car. It would be a resume hit, because you worked on outdated/low tech.

The most you could hope for is additional responsibility and less red tape. I know a manager who was elevated to a director for taking a job at a start-up.

It's easy to think today is different, but historically- war/scorched earth tactics, famine, genocide, raiders, etc... Are all problems that humans dealt with for ten thousand years.

It's hard to know if prepping for the next disaster will matter, but I think it's silly to pretend we are in a post-disaster time period.

Imo, I'd rather have 3 months off when they are 1 to 3 years old. Those first few months are a slog.

I understand for moms, nursing is the real benefit.

1 in 4 people want to be a leader?

Being a social media influencer translates to influencer. Which seems to be either a leader, or some sub variant of leader.

Is it a surprise people want to make a difference and be the decider of that difference?

>This is how passive USB-C to 3.5mm audio dongles work

From what I've read, this isn't exactly reliable. Maybe we can blame the device IC, but it gives me Bluetooth vibes where everyone blames each other.

Anyway, happy to see there is demand for it. I'll still be optimistic.

If they do, it hasn't been used in history.

There might be some multi step exploit that requires me to download an app from an external source, but nothing like the 0 clicks.

I can't get used phones for the (hardware) security risks. I have some pretty important stuff on my phone that is worth around 7 figures.

On a similar note, Pegasus has me unable to get an iPhone even if I wanted to.

Avoid Samsung on every single product line they have.

What models are you comparing? I had both between 2016-2018 for work and I was shocked at how slow, buggy/unresponsive, annoying(sign in/update reminders upon unlock), and featureless my work iphone was to my Pixel.

I have no idea what it's like in 2022, but it was such a horrible experience.

I'm more interested in redundancy rather than more features (as a consumer). I've had to buy a new phone twice because the phones charing was finiky. Since you can't access the phones storage, this can be a death sentence to your data (and phone).

From a embedded developers perspective, I want some analog pins. As companies remove the aux port from phones, we are losing the ability to send/recieve analog signals.

Didn't expect to see good news today! Talk about making my body fill with happy chemicals!

I'm with you. Over the years Gnome pushed me away with the ambitious but undesired UX.

It reminded me of M$ forcing Windows 8 tiles.

I'm just happy that linux gives me plenty of options for distros and desktops. I've never even considered gnome a problem because I just don't use it.

Thank you. Good points to think about.

As iphones get more popular, it will lose its Veblen effect. When teenagers who have no job have iphones, it doesn't portray "wealthy" as it used to.

Among my 100k-300k/yr friends, it's about a 50/50 split. My tech friends nearly exclusively android, my wife's medical friends, iphones with a few exceptions.

I'm personally loving my new phone I got last week. It has an aux port!

I've seen it the other way. When spending $1000 dollars on a phone is no big deal, you get the best phone available regardless of brand.

When you can't afford it, you finance it. A iphone is $30/month. It's a status symbol for the lower class. It doesn't do much for status when you make 6 figures.

I've learned that the hard way. Now I download articles and videos that I find useful.

It doesn't mention how they know this.

Apple is a black box. You can't know if they are collecting specific data.

At least with FOSS Google, you can figure out generally what's being sent.

Conspiracy: a pro Apple article means macrumors gets early access to something. (Source: Nintendo does this)