sometimes I wonder if I could set up a successful competitor to RTINGs that caters to the needs of eccentric weirdos instead of well behaved consumers
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@aeva honestly idk who they're for. Normies go to Wirecutter to get bad products that don't fit their needs as well as is claimed. And serious tech people might like the data RTINGs collects but their rating scales are insane and will do stuff like prioritize having Bluetooth over headphone quality or other wild things like that
@Lunaphied I assume they're for serious tech people who are normies at heart.
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@Lunaphied I assume they're for serious tech people who are normies at heart.
@aeva ah yes. The audiophile demographic
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@Lunaphied @aeva My biggest complaint with RTINGs was for a long time the way they tested Bluetooth latency was terrible.
They had different latency measurements for PC, iOS, and Android... and PC was always way, way worse. But also sometimes the latency was _negative_ on iOS and that told me they were doing something really wrong.
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@Lunaphied @aeva My biggest complaint with RTINGs was for a long time the way they tested Bluetooth latency was terrible.
They had different latency measurements for PC, iOS, and Android... and PC was always way, way worse. But also sometimes the latency was _negative_ on iOS and that told me they were doing something really wrong.
@Lunaphied @aeva I had a suspicion I knew exactly what they were doing, so I asked them exactly how they were testing Bluetooth latency.
They were loading up a Youtube video, in the respective apps for the mobile devices or on Chrome on PC, and measuring the difference between a known visual queue and audio playing over the device.
Which is exactly what I suspected they were doing.
Because the mobile apps have latency correction systems.
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sometimes I wonder if I could set up a successful competitor to RTINGs that caters to the needs of eccentric weirdos instead of well behaved consumers
the major snag is I would immediately get bored of it as soon as I scratched all my itches, and also I don't want to be a product reviewer anyway
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the major snag is I would immediately get bored of it as soon as I scratched all my itches, and also I don't want to be a product reviewer anyway
@aeva same energy as the guy who got hired by a company, fixed the bug he reported a while ago, then handed in his notice.
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@aeva same energy as the guy who got hired by a company, fixed the bug he reported a while ago, then handed in his notice.
@GyrosGeier i've wanted to do that so many times lol
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@Lunaphied @aeva I had a suspicion I knew exactly what they were doing, so I asked them exactly how they were testing Bluetooth latency.
They were loading up a Youtube video, in the respective apps for the mobile devices or on Chrome on PC, and measuring the difference between a known visual queue and audio playing over the device.
Which is exactly what I suspected they were doing.
Because the mobile apps have latency correction systems.
@bgolus @Lunaphied oh my god D:
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the major snag is I would immediately get bored of it as soon as I scratched all my itches, and also I don't want to be a product reviewer anyway
so folks I can't pursue my gonzo consumer product testing and reviews business idea after all, someone else already owns everythingisterrible.com
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so folks I can't pursue my gonzo consumer product testing and reviews business idea after all, someone else already owns everythingisterrible.com
@aeva somethingsarenotcompletelyterrible.com is still available though
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@aeva somethingsarenotcompletelyterrible.com is still available though
@rygorous which things, besides koss headphones
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so folks I can't pursue my gonzo consumer product testing and reviews business idea after all, someone else already owns everythingisterrible.com
hm, my runner up of midwestgarbagevortex.com is still available though
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@rygorous besides koss headphones and my ergotron monitor arm
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@aeva Some products that I do not hesitate to recommend to anyone who is in the market for them:
- Get a microplane grater for your kitchen. Brand doesn't really matter. They're inexpensive and you'll neither hurt yourself using them nor need to spend more than 30 seconds cleaning them; decidedly not true for most other kinds of graters.
- MoYu RS3 M 2020 Rubik's Cube. They're like $9 and not the _best_ you can get but really good. If you're not sure if you might like cubing, try this one. -
If I were to start such a business, I'd probably need to rent an office next to an ewaste disposal facility though because my product testing for laptops and phones would conclude with finding the exact amount of abuse needed to render the device unrepairable for most users starting with ordinary mishaps and gradually escalating to increasingly absurd treatment (this process would be filmed, of course).
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@aeva Some products that I do not hesitate to recommend to anyone who is in the market for them:
- Get a microplane grater for your kitchen. Brand doesn't really matter. They're inexpensive and you'll neither hurt yourself using them nor need to spend more than 30 seconds cleaning them; decidedly not true for most other kinds of graters.
- MoYu RS3 M 2020 Rubik's Cube. They're like $9 and not the _best_ you can get but really good. If you're not sure if you might like cubing, try this one.@rygorous I usually just use a knife to cube things
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@aeva Some products that I do not hesitate to recommend to anyone who is in the market for them:
- Get a microplane grater for your kitchen. Brand doesn't really matter. They're inexpensive and you'll neither hurt yourself using them nor need to spend more than 30 seconds cleaning them; decidedly not true for most other kinds of graters.
- MoYu RS3 M 2020 Rubik's Cube. They're like $9 and not the _best_ you can get but really good. If you're not sure if you might like cubing, try this one.@aeva - Keychron keyboards, which are well-built and reasonably-priced (you can do a bit better if you go more DIY, but if you just want something off the shelf, they're good)
- Lamy 2000 fountain pen, if you're a fountain pen user. Very no-frills Bauhaus style design but it's well-made, well-designed, and a joy to write with. There are nicer-looking/fancier pens if you're more of a collector etc., but if you want a nice pen _to actually write with_, this is great. (Not cheap but it's worth it.) -
@aeva - Keychron keyboards, which are well-built and reasonably-priced (you can do a bit better if you go more DIY, but if you just want something off the shelf, they're good)
- Lamy 2000 fountain pen, if you're a fountain pen user. Very no-frills Bauhaus style design but it's well-made, well-designed, and a joy to write with. There are nicer-looking/fancier pens if you're more of a collector etc., but if you want a nice pen _to actually write with_, this is great. (Not cheap but it's worth it.)@aeva (NB, if you've never done fountain pens before, this is not the first pen to get. But if you know how to use them and like them, it's a good one.)
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@aeva (NB, if you've never done fountain pens before, this is not the first pen to get. But if you know how to use them and like them, it's a good one.)
@rygorous I know how to get india ink all over the floor of an art studio with a nib pen, that's like basically the same general concept right?
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@rygorous I know how to get india ink all over the floor of an art studio with a nib pen, that's like basically the same general concept right?
@aeva You'll want to avoid spilling it all over the floor, especially when using document ink, but periodically inking up half your finger without knowing how exactly it happened is par for the course
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@woland64.bsky.social Il debito pubblico italiano ha raggiunto un nuovo massimo storico, superando i 3.070 miliardi di euro a giugno 2025, con una crescita netta di 18 miliardi rispetto al mese precedente, secondo i dati della Banca d'Italia,ammonta a circa 50.000 euro pro capite e rappresenta circa il 135% del PIL. Il debito, che costituisce uno dei più alti a livello globale, è influenzato dall'aumento delle spese pubbliche... sgoverno meloni pagare le società di rating non serve!
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" Per me, la poesia non è ornamento:
è dimora e ferita, respiro e veglia.
Il poeta è guardiano del fragile e del gratuito,
voce autentica che interroga la storia e il presente,
offrendo alle nuove generazioni non nozioni,
ma esperienze vive di verità e bellezza. "(GGio Loreley)
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Bruce Lee da Bari con Furore #buongiornissimomartedi
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@Uilebheist “Trenitalia imagines” is very evocative as a description :D
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@valhalla @feorag @Uilebheist When we went to Italy in March, we took the long way around, with the actual border crossing being between Chur and Tirano, and got to Milan that way, before picking up a Frecciarossa there for Naples
The tunnel from France to Italy had still been closed
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Tirritate transphobes by dazzling them with polysyllabic words until they're unsure whether estragon or escargot is the hormone that they want to demonise.
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#Canada's RCMP closes #TradeOgre, seizes $40M in country’s largest crypto bust
https://securityaffairs.com/182467/cyber-crime/canadas-rcmp-closes-tradeogre-seizes-40m-in-countrys-largest-crypto-bust.html
#securityaffairs #hacking
