Seefra 1

I want to agree, I used to hate wireless headphones, until I realised that wired don’t last long if I wear them anywhere outside my desk.

The cable keeps getting caught in door handles, accidentally stepped when I need to crouch and then snapped when I get up or the plug simply gives up from being constantly bent inside the pocket.

I’m a person who can use a soldering but that doesn’t make repair much easier, phones don’t usually like the 3.5mm jacks available in the market, opening and closing whatever plastic thing covers the contacts or the back of the drivers often break after a third time opening it.

The cables themselves start to breakdown and that time I ordered a whole replacement cable off eBay the phone lost all bass (probably high impedance).

Another issue is that modern phones output a very quiet signal that doesn’t get loud enough even when plugged the HD25.

In end wireless headphones solve this problem, I still use wired headphones on my desk. But for mobile use wireless it is.

Arch BTW

I will never get a ham license, one day I will get a 100W out of band CB rig, but as a matter of principle I will never become a ham.

There are several reasons for it, reason number one is privacy, I would never say my legal name to strangers on the internet, for obvious safety reasons, why should I have to identify with a callsign when chatting over radio?

Reason number two is that you can lose your license just for “swearing”? Like what the fuckl? What censorship is this?

Reason number three, it’s illegal to use encryption on ham bands, so I can’t even have a private conversation over ham radio.

Reason number four, I understand that licensed hams don’t want unlicensed noobs jamming their frequencies, I understand the need to reserve some of the spectrum to people who actually understand that just because you can’t hear anything, doesn’t mean you’re not jamming, but there should be parts of the radio spectrum reserved for free personal use. Reduce ham bands by half for all that I care, but I should be able to just buy a radio and transmit how many watts I need on those free bands without needing authorization from the government.

Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it’s useless in most parts of the world due to it’s extreme low power.

If all your neighbours have one or there aren’t many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.

Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.

The fuss is that every time you transcode to a new format you accumulatively lose quality.

So for example if you have an 320kbps mp3, but then that takes too much space so you transcode it to 192 mp3, but then you discover the opus codec is more efficient so you transcode it again, but then you want to make a fan video of the same song, so your video player transcoded it again into video friendly aac.

The quality on your final video is going contain the faults of all the files upstream.

Meanwhile if you edit the video from a lossless source, it will only get encoded once.

So it doesn’t matter for streaming, but it matters if you want to download and convert to other formats.