#askFedi my son would like a portable digital audio player.
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#askFedi my son would like a portable digital audio player. I've been looking for information online and I've seen the HiBy mentioned often as a good option. Does anybody have hands-on experience or is it just #astroturfing? Any recommendations?
EDIT: Thank you all for the comments and recommendations, found a potential candidate, let's see how it goes.
@oblomov I've used the HiBy R4 and I can say its pretty great. It is very bulky though, its like carrying around another phone that's also twice as thick. Ive recently been using a Snowski Echo Mini and I really like it. It plays FLAC, its no bigger than a matchbox, holds days worth of charge, and takes both 3.5mm and 6.35mm headphones.
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@oblomov If it's in any sort of hifi category, it will definitely do FLAC. If it's supported by rockbox, it will play FLAC too, when rockboxed.
(with the exception of the first Archoses rockbox was made for - but those are a janky historical curiosity, I'd barely label a functioning example as a comfortably usable player these days :D)
@ozzelot oh I had forgotten about Rockbox, checking out what they support could be a good idea actually, thanks!
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#askFedi my son would like a portable digital audio player. I've been looking for information online and I've seen the HiBy mentioned often as a good option. Does anybody have hands-on experience or is it just #astroturfing? Any recommendations?
EDIT: Thank you all for the comments and recommendations, found a potential candidate, let's see how it goes.
@oblomov I keep seeing Tangara come up. Open hardware and open source. And some (all?) of the team is here on Mastondon. I happen to follow @jacqueline who can probably tell us exactly where to pick one up?
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@oblomov I keep seeing Tangara come up. Open hardware and open source. And some (all?) of the team is here on Mastondon. I happen to follow @jacqueline who can probably tell us exactly where to pick one up?
@charette @jacqueline oh that's an interesting one, thanks for making me aware of it!
It's a bit on the pricey side for the budget we're considering at the moment, but I'll keep it under consideration, thanks.
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@charette @jacqueline oh that's an interesting one, thanks for making me aware of it!
It's a bit on the pricey side for the budget we're considering at the moment, but I'll keep it under consideration, thanks.
@oblomov @jacqueline I'm looking for the price and where to get one, and cannot find an answer to either of those questions. Where did you see the price?
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@ozzelot oh I had forgotten about Rockbox, checking out what they support could be a good idea actually, thanks!
@oblomov
A good amount of even modern/modernish players is supported. (Some of the aliexpress-type hifi players are all the same platform -looking at you, Aigo Eros and friends-, so that helps Rockbox a good bit :D) -
@oblomov
A good amount of even modern/modernish players is supported. (Some of the aliexpress-type hifi players are all the same platform -looking at you, Aigo Eros and friends-, so that helps Rockbox a good bit :D)@oblomov
Rocking this right now. The display clearly wants to die, but eh, it plays. (Freaked out yesterday with some SD card corruption, but all is good now.) -
@oblomov @jacqueline I'm looking for the price and where to get one, and cannot find an answer to either of those questions. Where did you see the price?
@charette @jacqueline the Crowd Supply campaign https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara (yes I am aware it's over)
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#askFedi my son would like a portable digital audio player. I've been looking for information online and I've seen the HiBy mentioned often as a good option. Does anybody have hands-on experience or is it just #astroturfing? Any recommendations?
EDIT: Thank you all for the comments and recommendations, found a potential candidate, let's see how it goes.
@oblomov
Would an old mobile phone with sdcard and vlc player do the job? -
@oblomov
Would an old mobile phone with sdcard and vlc player do the job?@davva23 if we had one, that would actually be a pretty good idea, but we're the kind of people that keep onto things until they are unrecoverably b0rked 8-D
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@kevie well, they started off on the right foot by encouraging attendees to use a hashtag on X, so let's see how this goes :-)
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@elettrona se c'è un gruppo dirigente credibile, tutto si può risolvere. Il problema dell'Europa di oggi è che manca una classe dirigente adeguata sia a livello di istituzioni comunitarie sia a quello dei singoli stati. Ma l'inversione di tendenza costa uno sforzo notevole
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@ricmac @_elena that is what I am asking myself all the time: are people not annoyed by that, or are we already at the point where AI interacts with AI and AI thinks that this is "real" interaction?
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@jamesravey @neil indeed!
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@neil @andypiper the regulating will continue until morale improves
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It is a pretty common position, really: we have regulated, and if that does not work, we will regulate more until it does.
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Hmm... UK minister says they "will not hestitate to go further" on online safety if needed. I'm not certain that the current #OnlineSafetyAct is working (and there's a debate on that in Parliament on Monday) so that may be a statement to be challenged and rethought. #ukigf25
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@andypiper Good morning Andy, I hope that you have an enjoyable and productive time 👍🏻
