I’m pretty sure both Nebula and Floatplane look for their talents themselves, you can’t just decide to be there. And they look for something more sophisticated than a guy yelling n-word at children in a currently popular videogame.

At this point, why even have a phone? Even cheap stationary player will give much better sound quality

My wife’s wired headphones are also last forever. She never listens to them while moving, only when she sits at the table and her phone lays firmly on it. If she needs to move, even in a different room she takes her headphones off, and only put them back when she is sitting firmly and the phone is stationary.

Ah, here’s your problem, you’re listening to j-pop.
Sorry, that was a bit of a mean joke, but I couldn’t resist.

I can’t wait for fucking 3.5 mm connector to finally leave our collective consciousness. It has it’s uses in analogue world, and it should stay there, or maybe go away even there and be replaced with 5mm entirely like god intended.
I hate this never working dirt accumulator and all the cable hustle associated with it.

In this case you can invest 7 bucks in a good splitter.

Not in my experience. I still use BT headphones I bought in 2019, but all the wired headphones I had before that were dying every year with the same cable problems. The only long-lived wired headphones I had were expensive Sennheisers with thick coiled cable, but those were always destroying jack port on my phone with their fat lever of a connector.
Cables just shit for mobile application, they’re always in the way, and always getting yanked around.

The audiophile community is too busy masturbating to their golden powercables

To the phone? Really, really doubt it.

Yet, buildings that are being built today don’t have it, and you need to spend a small fortune if you want to have a split system.

I had a conversation with an older dude this May. It was +30°C in Germany and Germany doesn’t really do air conditioning. The older dude, while sweating bullets, was telling me that we don’t need to do air conditioning because we rarely have high temperatures.
It was +30°C in May. It was +30°C in May for the last 10 years. I think that dude will die of heatsroke, and till his very end he will believe that nothing ever happens and things are exactly the same as they were when he was a child.

I don’t feel like I’m getting through you, but I recommend you watch this video, https://youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU. It’s about very related problems, and the host explains the problem I’m describing in an entertaining way with visual examples.

because of the enormous privilege I have, one so big I can’t even recognise the problems they’re facing.

Well, I don’t recognise a problem, it probably doesn’t exist then.

For a lot of people in America, a lot a lot, all those people whom I am talking about, there is no such choice.
They’re in food deserts, they’re overworked to death, they don’t have skills, they don’t have equipped kitchens, they don’t have time to cook, they don’t have energy to do it.
It’s a bootstraps problem. How can I work good job and can happily spend an evening cooking a nice meal, but half of Americans can’t? Well, obviously because they’re lazy and probably stupid. Not because of the enormous privilege I have, one so big I can’t even recognise the problems they’re facing.

I am familiar with performance testing of complex product, I agree that it’s hard to overestimate the insane complexity of this process. But if anyone has both means and obligation to do it, it’s a megacorporation that weaseled it’s way into being a monopoly with an iron grip on the world’s infrastructure. If it wasn’t for that, I would agree that it should be a collaborative effort, but when you’re monopoly you don’t get to blame third party on your unilateral decisions. “I just changed everything about the infrastructure that I forced you to operate under, now your shit doesn’t work and it’s your fault actually”.

but without it, Windows 7 would have suffered the same fate as Vista.

Alternatively they could test their shit in advance. It’s not like Microsoft is too poor to afford an array of average computers and a dozen of testers.

Helium is very finite and very leaky. If you want flying ships you need something else.

I feel bad for people who are duped by the scam artists. But on the other hand, scam is such an integral part of the US life, recognising it is an essential skill by now. So if you have enough money to be scammed, but didn’t learn how not to get scammed, it’s at least a little bit on you at this point.
That being said, nobody is safe, unfortunately, you can be as smart and as informed as possible, they still can invent a scam that will work on you specifically.

I mean, pigeons have more than one hole even before the theorem gets applied

It has very little to do with unix philosophy