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AirPod Pro 4, coming in 2025, will like have a feature to let you choose custom alert sounds, tied to ios 19. And it will be heralded with enormous classy custom Helvetiral fonts in a multi parallax scrolling site announcing "we've heard the future, and it's quiet". Or... "If you listen carefully, you can hear the future".

Or they'll provide haptic in-ear custom vibrations in AirPod Pros 5, and their slogan will be "Your ears never felt better".
Banana Pi BPI-R3 Router Board: Wi-Fi 6 and Dual Fiber SFP Ports
re: annoyance 1, there is a setting to disable this behaviour
> So rich people are superior to poor people?

Some people have higher earning potential than others. Does that make them superior?
I've moved a bunch of times in my life. Each time, I move a box full of junk that's been sitting there since the last move. I never open it or go through it, and I always forget about it until the next move. Certainly there must be some attachment to the junk, but I never think about it until I move. I'm not sure that my digital junk is any different.
This is almost exactly Shopify's architecture. It's out of reach for 99.9% of devs.

But really the answer is that AWS doesn't solve this for people. And AWS is the default hosting choice for most tech companies.
My airpods broke so I bought some €25 Bluetooth earbuds and honestly they work just as well for my needs. The best thing is not worrying about losing or breaking them.
I actually prefer it. It's easier on my eyes.
Heh, I got my spouse a pair of AirPods, and long ago she went back to a pair of wired earbuds due to various issues with them. IIRC, noiuse cancelling didn't work well and causes a lot of sudio issues, there were connection issues all the time. The cheap wired heaphones work much better for her.

Out of curiousity, does anyone have a good recommendation for a good pair of 3.5mm wired headphones with a microphone? I still have an old pair of Bose Sport headphones, but they are only wireless now.
Still loving my cords and headphone jack…
I stayed with Apple, went through three of the super-fragile 3.5mm adaptors, and now am on a third-party ”heavy duty” adaptor. Let’s see if this lasts.
I decided on the same pair of headphones vs AirPods: do not think it was a mistake.
I'm never quite sure about the state of zlib. There are commits going in [0] but at the same time pull requests with fixes aren't seeing much traction (e.g. [1]).

Optimization work happens in forks like Intel's [2], Cloudflare's [3], and Chromium's [4], the latter of which also has a lot of added tests and fuzzers [5]. And there's zlib-ng [6] which tries to create a home for many of the improvements, but is at the same time yet another fork.

[0] https://github.com/madler/zlib/commits/develop

[1] https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/525

[2] https://github.com/jtkukunas/zlib

[3] https://github.com/cloudflare/zlib

[4] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...

[5] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:thi...

[6] https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng

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There should be an option to have this information shown as an alert on the device. iPhones already show the battery charge level of the headphones so why not make it an alert banner?
yw, I was using firefox if that helps. or is chrome only supported?
Wow, this was a perfect description of my experience. An additional factor is the release date of the used devices. My experience improved by a large margin when I replaced my late 2018 Macbook and my 2019 iPad. Another example are calls which ring on multiple devices. I'm using my iPad and somebody calls me on my iPhone, but the iPhone sends the call also to the iPad. The same when I have MS Teams on my Macbook and my iPhone. Once I put the Airpods in my ears anything can and does happen. Sometimes one Airpod is lost in these situations.
And if you remove the date, people will still ask the same question. Inevitably.
Agree completely. My ears actually hurt when this happens, cannot be healthy.

The 'device connected' sound is pretty loud as well.
Yeesh. As a new parent, that video is horrifying to me. Thanks for the link but wow, now I need to go hug my son.
You can use the android app to disable the device connected/disconnected dialogue.
And sometimes it "just works", but only if everybody is within the Apple ecosystem. Otherwise, it's just a net exporter of problems. See, for example, SMS message of "Liked an image.", email attachments converted into icloud download links, .DS_STORE files scattered everywhere, and so on. Any time Apple comes up with a new feature that would require improving capabilities at a lower level, Apple instead makes a new layer of abstraction on top. And oh how conveniently, that new layer of abstraction is transparent only to Apple users.
Yes, there is a listen with only one headphone feature.
That’s eerily similar to what I’ve been doing for years now.

After the first year of very difficult morning workouts, I moved gym time to after work, and it became significantly easier.

I do as much preparation as possible the evening before. After a while, all those minor things became deeply embedded into my routine. As long as you keep it up at the start (and other responsibilities don’t intrude), it gets easier and easier.

One of the good things about growing older is knowing yourself better, and learning how to use that knowledge to your advantage.
It’s not a feature it’s a bug that will affect nearly all Bluetooth in-ears that don’t share a receiver.

The design of Bluetooth buds is such that one of the buds is elected to be the receiver of data from the phone, it then propagates its signal to the second bud.

What you’re experiencing is a disconnection of one earbud to the other.

FWIW: apples AirPods Pro’s rehandshake (from the “slave” side towards the “master” side) every 10s- so you can have a lot of luck just waiting for it to reconnect; that is assuming that the slave device _wants_ to reconnect; it might believe it’s not in your ear.
The fda is responsible for keeping hearing aids at insane prices my entire life. They serve as the gatekeepers for a cartel of once manufacturers, now IP holders (pure rent seekers,) who have successfully used the US government to exploit one of the most overlooked and vulnerable classes of people. Almost everyone loses hearing when they're older.

When you live with hearing loss, it leads to social isolation and embarrassing situations, depression, and all the usual attendant disasters in people's lives.

The hearing cartel has used their wealth to create a pseudomedicine so as to brand their salespeople as doctors, and infested almost every state with bureacrats who determine policy and direct licensing and enforcement.

Hearing aids that are priced at $5000 or more are produced at scale for less than $5 per unit. It'd be trivial to turn most modern headphones into hearing aid equivalent technology, but there is a regulatory moat surrounding real time audio enhancement that will cause the fda to shut down any attempt to augment regular hearing, let alone allow the hearing impaired the ability to operate what amounts to a stereo equalizer.

The fda does engage in legitimate business, but that's insufficient to justify the costs paid by people who get screwed when the FDA is exploited for profit.

I currently pay for "hearing aids as a service" and lose $200 a month for the privilege of hearing. I pay what amounts to extortion money for my disability. Because my loss is classified profound, none of the Obama era loosening of hearing aid restrictions help. It's lip service that acknowledges the problem but leaves 95% of it unsolved.

Libertarian shmibertarian, I think I'm entitled to not get specially fucked because my ears don't work. I think it's sick that I feel grateful that I can afford hearing as a service when it should be something covered by insurance, or something I can buy for the same cost as premium earbuds.

Government shouldn't be involved in hearing aids, except in the consumer protection arena. The fda has no business enabling the exploitation of disabled and vulnerable people, but hearing aids are just one area they happily strong-arm the public on behalf of cartels and industry lobbies.
Science Fiction Is Never Evenly Distributed
I have many of these problems plus: the advertised tap-to-control behavior never seems to work when I want it to. It only activates when my AirPods are misinterpreting my adjusting them as trying to pause what I’m listening to. And, of course, tapping again doesn’t restart playback.
Works well with static generators.
As someone who lives in Bali: you are very wrong.
Mr. Carlson has one of those, and had a video demonstrating it: https://youtu.be/ZzpVhCL5aPg
I don't think that's specific to AirPods .. I have Sony's bluetooth earbuds and that occasionally happens. Sometimes just waiting a bit and one of the ears will reconnect on its own. I chalked it up to the bluetooth standard.
Well this is a fun game though isn't it. If a firm of lawyers sues you "on behalf of Bank of America", at what point do you feel like they didn't check properly who their client was and so they are responsible for the bogus lawsuit and the resulting costs not this enormous corporation?

If only the manager of a local BoA branch told them they were hired?

How about if it's an assistant manager?

How about if rather than meeting them in the branch, the supposed assistant manager was in the area and so dropped in to the law office in person?

The attorneys weren't available, so, they did a Zoom call?

Just a phone call?

Actually it was an email.

At some point, you realise, wait, they didn't actually validate anything of value here did they, anybody could be this supposed "Bank of America". And the reality is that PKIX certificates began that slide essentially immediately, before even the PKIX working group was set up.

And this is only half of the problem. It's easy for Bank of America because we're both thinking of the same entity, but "Big Bob's" might be a burger restaurant in your city, a private security firm in mine, and an LA law firm, so a certificate for "Big Bob's" doesn't even "validate" a name we're agreed on. That's why DNS ends up mattering, the DNS offers a single global namespace.
This is called "dark mode" nowadays, and it's a feature.
I wonder if there have been any serious studies to determine whether there is truth behind Marx’s claims of an automation arms race leading to a declining rate of profit.
Annoyance 1 actually has a setting. You can setup the AirPods to actively switch to a preferred source (your phone), or stay connected to your computer. This one bugged the hell out of me for months before I found the option.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/switch-airpods-betwee...

> To prevent AirPods from automatically switching between devices, go to Settings > Bluetooth. Tap the Actions Available button next to the name of your AirPods, tap Connect to This iPhone, then tap When Last Connected to This iPhone.
Most of my frustrations with AirPods could be eliminated if they connected to multiple devices at once. The back-and-forth does not work well.
This is why we don't say "edge". Most apps work best with 3-6 regions. Apps that benefit from ~20ms websocket round trips might use more.
You can look up any and all regulations online. Then you can read the transcripts of public comments regarding the regulations. You can find relevant court cases online. What else do you need?

Nobody does that now, for the most part, why would they do it if there were a hyperlink attached to the regulations themselves? Who actually reads the text of regulations in the general population? I have zero data, but I'm willing to bet it's virtually no one. Specialists with a vested interest sure do, and they will probably already know relevant cases or thought processes.

Edit: This was written in a very US-centric way, because it is in response to something originally about the FDA.
What stops you signing up for a boring webhosting package and uploading HTML today?
I would posit that the AirPods used to be the most magical "Just Works" Apple product I've ever owned, but over-time as Apple has added more features and complications to them, they've lost the magic.

Those first generation AirPods were a thing of beauty. Newer ones now are technically better--better sounding, longer lasting, ANC, etc. But I've experienced a lot of the same annoyances that OP is complaining about.

I still love them, but the experience is definitely a little fiddly these days.
There might have been some truth to the importance of breakfast, but it's completely outdated advice for most people. People are sitting down for 90% of their lives, with the occasional slow walk to the coffee machine or car, but eating like they're working in the fields for 10 hours every day.
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Unscientific mask and vaccine mandates should be dropped regardless of the opinion of someone on Pfizer's board.
Increasingly I feel like this is one of those pieces of metadata that we should be moving out of the page.

I would suggest moving it into the browser (i.e. read a meta tag or header) but the obvious problem is that they’ll just be forged and it would almost immediately become pointless.

Search engines could help here. If Google were to provide a last cached date (or a date of the last significant change) in the search result that would be far more useful. They certainly have this information from crawling, and it would be difficult to forge as constant substantial changes to game the system would be both expensive for the author, and harmful to the page’s ranking.
I was wondering why my phone battery kept running down some days faster than others. Seems it randomly turns on Apple Music even when the volume is down to 0% and I don’t really notice that until I see it is actually playing on the notifications centre. I never, ever want it to play without me touching the play button on my phone, but that is not an option I guess.
I generally enjoy my AirPods. They are occasionally quirky, but most of the time they really do “just work” for me. The annoyances are annoying when they happen, though.

The strangest part is that the annoyances aren’t getting any better over time. At first I assumed that they were growing pains of an early product launch. Yet now we’re years into the AirPods experience and they continue to be just as quirky as when I first got them.

Apple seems so hot or cold on fixing their own bugs. Certain bugs get rapidly patched in the next iOS or Mac software release. Other bugs languish for what feels like forever. Do Apple execs just not use AirPods? Are they using a different configuration or hardware combination that doesn’t have these bugs? Have they just trained themselves to overlook the bugs because the workarounds have become a reflex? I can’t imagine working at any tech company where one of the flagship products had such a high rate of annoyances without having a lot of engineers diverted to replicating, diagnosing, and fixing it ASAP.
sudo/suo/doas do not allow for flexible policy evaluation. They're also useless for GUI applications.

For instance, GNOME Settings uses PolKit to ensure that remote control can only be turned on by an admin who makes the request from an active session on a local console.

Or here's a more interesting example. gvfs uses PolKit to allow processes that are part of an active session on a local console to be able to elevate permissions for editing files (e.g., 'gedit admin:///etc/motd').
The vaccine narrative is collapsing, and people are desperate for answers and to find someone responsible. They were promised high immunity from infection and close to 100% immunity from hospitalization/death. Real-world stats paint a completely different picture and people are desperate.
you would like Geowizard's crossing a country in a straight line series on youtube
I have a solution for that: with bare hands close your ears tightly with Airpods in them. Depending on the duration of such covering Airpods either just mute for a moment, or disconnect and reconnect right away. This helps to re-sync if one is ahead/behind another, or if one is not connected. I do that occasionally with my Airpods Pro connected to iPhone, Android or Macbook Pro - same outcome in all these cases. Such connection "reboot" helps in most described cases, though occasionally explicit Bluetooth toggle Off/On is needed, especially with the Macbook.

I imagine that hands and head create an improvised Faraday cage. Though 2.4GHz Bluetooth signal should nevertheless pass thought the body tissue, likely there is just a signa-to-noise ratio rapid drop which forces Airpods to re-establish the connection.
I'm not using Apple ear phones, but wireless head phones are seriously practical. Anytime I have to use my corded ones when walking the dog I get reminded of how they are actually pretty handy.

Still use cord ones in other circumstances. When lying down, for example. I like to have the choice at least.
I overheard someone the other day ranting about Android phones and their broken SMS support. They apparently didn't realize it's actually Apple that has the buggy code/design and will try to send proprietary data to a non-Apple device.
> Apple stuff "just works" until it doesn't.

"Just works" is absolutely a statement that should be considered on a time curve! Some products work incredibly in the most trivial use case you test during unboxing, but fall apart when deeply integrated. Others are a PITA to set up, but stop requiring any unproductive attention afterwards.

This was incredibly clear for anyone WITHOUT AirPods during 2019-2020. Everyone picked them up with their iPhone 11 upgrade and immediately started talking about how they "just work". Three months later, you'd see people fiddling with extra devices to keep them charged, or complaining about sending them through the laundry or into subway grates. Then the pandemic hit and they became an entire category of Zoom fatigue due to multiple bluetooth connections.
It drives me batty. Another instance of solving the problem by adding "Reddit" to the end of the search string. Of course this means Reddit will shortly be swamped with AI spam bots driving crap to the top of forums. Presumably that's a current issue.
I would add to the list that it is environmentally negligent to allow for such a complex device to be near irreparable (specifically on battery replacement).

Unless you are selling medical devices your electronics should never be thrown away because after-sales cannot swap a battery. Then again Google just dropped the Pixel 3 after just 3 years so this is clearly an issue with the consumer electronics business model.

Consumer electronics will remain a vastly wasteful business unless governments force tighter environmental regulations.
Yes, that’s the danger of relying on anecdotes. You see that price go up and it’s easy to react emotionally and think it’ll be like that forever, but you probably won’t have anywhere near as strong a reaction when prices recover as they have in many cases over the last year. When professionals study this and release their analysis of the causes, it doesn’t have the same impact as that sticker shock did, either, because it's generally dry material.

Here’s a non-anecdotal source: https://theovershoot.co/p/understanding-covid-flation
I sometimes print things to pdf (often after using developer tools to clean up the page) and save them in Calibre, which lets me save dates, tags, and other metadata with them.
On debian :

debian 10 backports repository has openssh 8.4 with FIDO2 support builtin so no recompile needed there.

debian 11 has 8.4 in its regular repository.
> Wait, isn't that what daytime is for?

Who would want to sit at a desk when the sun is out? I'd rather be outside.

- Night: Wake up, work until the morning, others are asleep, no distractions. Work gets done a lot faster and you have time for:

- Morning: Sync on anything that requires other people.

- Midday: Go out and enjoy life, so you're physically exhausted and ready to:

- Late afternoon: Sleep.
I think that HN has a long term value that I've yet to tap. I've been tuned in to the conversational aspect of it, but if you need to know about subject X, the search feature will pull up a ton of informative discussion about it with pretty much all of the important aspects and gotcha's covered.
Personally, annoyances like this is enough for me not to want wireless headphones. My wired headphones work 100% of the time. It's obvious what they are connected to.

(PS, I also prefer transport belts over robots in factorio, and explicitly constructed objects over dependency injection in programming)
You can’t get rid of Bitcoin, but if you make it illegal for retailers to accept Bitcoin and for currency exchanges like Coinbase to operate its pretty much taken care of.
Lower the interest rate on your technical debt
It's an accessibility problem, especially for people (like me) who have astigmatism. But y'all don't look away from white text on black background to a bright light source (like a page of black text on a white background) and get a "burned in" impression of the previous page in your vision? Lucky you.

Dark mode is fine, please let the user choose to have dark mode when she wants to.
I have a $200-250 pair of AirPod Pros, and a $40 pair of Tozo NC7's that I bought for a backup. The Tozo's get way more use, to the point where I regret buying the AirPods.

Your ears may vary, but "dot" style earbuds are WAY more comfortable (and likely to stay put in my ears) than the "stem" style buds. The spatial audio thing turned out to be a pointless novelty that wore off quickly, and isn't even supported on half of my Apple devices.

I also get tired of the weird glitches, where my AirPods will spontaneously decide to drop my connection, and connect to a different device. With other earbuds, it's a mild annoyance having to manually tell one device to drop its connection so another device can connect. But the truth is that I don't have to do this THAT often, and the unwanted switchovers are far more frequent and annoying. Plus, there are a ton of bluetooth earbuds and headphones that accept two or more simultaneous connections, which eliminates the issue and is better than what AirPods try to do, honestly.
I also had the same observation. It's pretty annoying and an example of how the web in some cases is become less useful. For Google in particular, more often I myself skipping the first wave of results because they aren't very helpful, they're just crafted to show up in search results. I guess now that so many of us are already in the Google ecosystem, there's less incentive to cater to users.
Same for me. It produces some glare for me and I use dark mode almost everywhere.

I also don't like the huge font. Looks almost what I'd expect an h2 to look like.
It’s notable because the board member will lose financially with this statement.

It’s in their interest to keep quiet or push more vaccine mandates; especially as they have the “best” one as of now.
a lot of these annoyances can be solved if the author slightly changed their behavior. I still think AirPods Pro are some of the best new tech of the last 5 years
Very nice article. Thanks for sharing this.
The former NSA chief was criticised by Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald for setting the objective of "collect it all" (i.e. capturing all global communications)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-n...

Seven years later he is appointed to the board of directors at Amazon... and Amazon customers who ask to download their data get access to the full audio files from every recording done by their Alexa device
https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata/status/1485194962027388929
Which was all about the BIOS. Having an MS-DOS "portable" wasn't a bad thing either.
Overlooked No More: Lee Godie, Eccentric Chicago Street Artist
Originally posted: <date>

Most recent update: <date>

Edit: it’s only a matter of time till an article stops getting updated. Of course I doubt people in the “content industry” (tell me that’s not a real thing) care what happens to anyone else after they stop updating their ‘evergreen’ page.