tehfishman

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[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I encountered this same VLC issue on Manjaro this week, so YMMV.

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Fair enough, the lightning port is definitely easier to clean

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have an iPhone for work purposes, the lightning connector does it too. I think the only way it would have been avoided is with something considerably less shallow, and then they'd have mechanical cable retention problems to solve

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd argue that they're partially right (or at least not entirely wrong) to blame the specification. If the specification makes it easy for crappy manufactures to be crappy, then the specification probably should have planned for that in a better way. And crappy manufactures being crappy is a tale as old as manufacture. Yeah I know there are cable marking requirements, but clearly nobody gives a flying fuck. The USB IF has basically all of the power in this situation, and their members collectively control a significant percentage of the planets wealth, so it's actually their problem to solve.

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

His website still says he works for Microsoft, though it's possible he hasn't updated it yet.

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Directional antennas exist and are very inexpensive

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I would really appreciate this twisted timeline we're in featuring the Clintons openly acknowledging that they know how corruption works from experience as a way to derail the current corruption train that we're all tied down in front of. The writers need to demonstrate that they haven't completely lost the plot or I'm cancelling my subscription

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I hadn't considered survivorship bias or that my original assertion was wrong. Solid point.

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

There's some interesting information in here for sure. Some speculation about intentional allowances for some warping to occur, and information about how some tops are basically 3-ply plywood which is a bit more stable.

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm familiar with guitar humidors and things like that which are used to protect valuable guitars. And they make perfect sense.

But I'm thinking about just regular parlor guitars, instruments that sit out in relatively uncontrolled environments and are played regularly, and instruments that are used on tours. Those instruments are subject to all kinds of chaos, and it seems like they should all be self destructing. And yeah, some do. But most don't. And I think that's really weird

 

I'm hoping someone here can explain something that I haven't been able to find a satisfying answer to - why don't traditional acoustic guitars crack? I mean obviously sometimes they do, but it seems to me like that should happen all the time. For anyone unfamiliar, the front (top) and backs of wood acoustic guitars have their grain direction running parallel to the neck. And inside, there is bracing. That bracing runs perpendicular to the grain of the top, and the bracing is typically glued to the top. Gluing perpendicular grain is generally considered a huge problem when it's an item of furniture and it would be reasonable to expect an object constructed like that to tear itself apart in a few years as humidity fluctuations do their thing. But guitars usually don't do that and I don't understand why.

[–] tehfishman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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