Lyander

@Thad E Ginathom I somehow feel that the sorta folk who'd be buying those JBLs aren't going to be... proper audiophiles. More like people who think bigger box = better sound, but not for any specific reason.

Party speakers! Is fair enough. If it goes loud, and lager can be consumed to it, then pretty flashing lights is good.

Yeah I imagine these are more college dorm or young adult living room showpieces than anything else. Having said that, I AM a sucker for pretty lights haha

TIL Nightwish

@gixxerwimp They were in Taiwan just yesterday, did you catch their show? :P But yeah I reference their music in a lot of my impressions, genuinely a band whose music I enjoy a lot. I am still seething that there was no readily visible promotion locally. No offence to K Pop but every mediocre Korean group that deigns to visit gets exposure out the wazoo

(Nothing against K Pop, I'm just not a massive fan-- saturation of K Pop hereabouts is just maddeningly high and hype even for relatively niche folk within the genre is loud)

PM me.

Lol, Ozzy Mandias.

They will find it in the ruins of my closet 1000 years from now engraved into granite.

"the ruins of my closet"

Makes me think of The Windmills of Your Mind.

Interesting. I swear his channel was called "XY Science Videos" or something when I posted this: https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?profile-posts/32213/

@gixxerwimp I only learned of his channel relatively recently so it's always been "Steve Mould" for me, but yeah he has a lot of really intriguing videos about teapots.

Maybe I'm misremembering ...

Noble or crazy. What caused the dog to attack in the first place?

Hmmm, yes.

@Philimon Likely both, hah. No idea specifically but we were playing and I ended up near his food bowl. Was walking away with my back turned when he bit, so maybe he thought I was trying to steal his food? Can never tell, but he's been vacillating between zoomy playful with tail wagging and slinking away whenever he sees me now. He knows he fucked up.

Quick update but after verifying via DMDE that my files were still present I opted to do a full system shutdown to ameliorate risk of blocks being overwritten. When I booted my PC back up... the drive looks and works as normal? Home videos, music, and likely games too but haven't checked those yet. I am confused.

Quickly copy important stuff elsewhere, don't write to the disk until you're sure what's going on?

Good luck!

Too right. Never neglect it when a HDD gives a second chance.

I had a dead one, Put machine on table, on its side to open it up. Tried starting up. Yes, my hdd spun up and read, so I got the contents off it. And I was right: it was the last chance.

Happy belated birthday Lysander! From a fellow in his early 30s to a newly minted 30-year-old, I can say it does get better haha :)

Thanks all. I really do appreciate it. It's been a fairly strange couple of weeks, but hopefully things chill out sooner than later. Hope you're all doing well!

happy belated birthday

Sadly, the universe does not always repay kindness with kindness :/

Ouch!! Take care, dude. TIL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avulsion_injury

Yeah, I actually have a really strong mental image of the injury, and that's shaking me a bit right now, that. I have some time to relax. Eh, still just wish the best for the doggo and hope that he adjusts soon. Thanks for the well wishes guys. And yes, the odd punctuation is because this is speech to text. I'm not able to type.

I currently use my hd800 for gaming, but that makes it a pain to use another mic if I want to play with friends, ive been contemplating getting a headset instead for a while

It gets as low as $119 at times (maybe lower, I can’t remember but definitely gets down to 119)

I bought mine for the $139 price last year. I use it daily for work calls off a Fulla E and also use it for gaming plugged into my PS5 controller. I don't typically play games that need hyper localization though.

I always look forward to the shenanigans whenever I get summoned by @YMO

WTF have you been doing with your dogs @ChaChaRealSmooth LMAOOOO

in room and whole house filters, but with 7 pets there’s no hope

A person will believe anything—no matter how absurd—so long as he thought of it himself. Intelligence seems to make no difference. If anything, it makes this problem worse, because the absurd belief is part of an implicit "system" of absurdities.

I fully admit to being disinterested in taking my brain off Eco mode to really parse the bulk of this thread now, but for the most part I do agree that there is toxicity in being DRIVEN to act generatively as measurable by modern materialistic standards (look at how a lot of middle and eastern Asia is nowadays). That did feel like a bit of a non-sequitur.

@Claritas the more one's intelligence is lauded, the more at risk they are of growing arrogant and cocksure. The thing is I'm not entirely on-board with the notion that people actually think of things themselves nowadays; it's more often the case that stimuli may be presented in a way as to lead a person to think that they're drawing upon their own life experiences to distill a Truth, of a fashion.

With how often the English language seems to backslide, calling it evolution would have been a far more egregious flouting of propriety than my use of "generic" here.

Let's not get into how "genetic" confounds things further.

I used to visit Gearslutz, but only for the articles.

No... OK, I used to have deluded dreams of professional gear, flat frequency response, natural uncoloured sound. And stuff.

Went from being slutty to being spacey.

I’m planning to go speaker and IEMs as headphones are neither here nor there for me these days.

I'm getting out a lot more lately but still manage to spend a lot of time at my desk at home, which is where headphones come into play. Cramped neighborhood so speakers are a bother, unfortunately, but someday I'll get that hi-fi set up.

I find Kelly sounds best with the sound off.

I dont love all of their stuff. mostly just a fever you can't sweat out and death of a bachelor, but this is still a bummer. he's an incredibly talented singer

@SoupRKnowva Other than Death of a Bachelor I mostly prefer their first few albums, really don't care much for Viva. That said, IIRC he's just taking time to focus on his new child which makes sense.

@Thad E Ginathom long story but I just learned some things that would have made that theoretical arrangement very uncomfortable for the guy. Doggo probably staying with us longer term.

Right before he vanished did he throw up a blanket above his head and then it dropped and he was gone? If so I know how that works.

That’s good of you to look after the dog

Yeah, none of this "interesting times" bullshit! Peaceful New Year to all :D

@Lyander Only in the rarest of men can they are united: "study and ease/ Together mixed" (Pope, "Ode to Solitude").

@gixxerwimp Screw interesting, that's what silly hobbies are for!

@Claritas both is ideal, but given the capacities of most it's as likely as ASR walking back a borked suite of measurements :P

"Maybe cat hair"

Oh god...

@Thad E Ginathom I was being flippant, hah. I think the spaces inside the switch aren't so large as to be able to accommodate cat fur, but I could well be wrong.

Anything can accommodate cat hair.

Seriously, there is a layer of cat fur that is very very fine.