Fair enough on the multi users front, didn’t consider that.

That said, this does look like a great QoL for surgery, theres people with personal portable ultrasound probes in the same price bracket (a much more questionable choice tbh, bringing in personal diagnostic equipment is asking for trouble), can totally see a surgeon buying this for personal use.

And even purchasing for each surgeon is really not a big problem, you have disposable items that cost more sometimes.

You could simply have an OR account, could preload all scheduled notes and bobs your uncle, its also viable as a personal purchase.

Theres no real reason to manually install arch anymore though, archinstall script is easy, and works well. Yea you don’t get a fancy GUI, but there are plenty of options to choose at install time.

I don’t know if this counts, but I have the Waking Up podcast subscriber RSS feed, just googled for it. That said, Im pretty sure if you write an email to Harris stating you can’t afford it right now but would like to listen anyway, you will get it free anyway. At least the app is like that, but IIRC that has been his method for the podcast too.

Personally, if i have too much and/or too late, i have a hard time falling asleep in the evening.

They are probably mean including mastodon, which is larger and generally federates with threads

Thanks, the apology means a lot, truly.

Fair enough, I still find it hard to see how it fits this comm, but it is a bit better in that context.

Someone not posting on X is surely not enough to qualify as tech news. Come on…

Ih, thats the same author as glaze? If so, I have heavy doubt about this one. Glaze made everything look like shit, and even then it did not really work, not to mention anyone who would actually use an artwork for training could remove glaze easily using A1111.

I don’t sail the high seas much these says, I did when I was a broke college student unable to afford full priced titles. Now my time is limited, my funds less so, so I rather just give the little spare time and money to projects I actually can get behind. Also I don’t think I want to fuck around with running pirated versions in linux, might be a PITA.

Observing Starfields failures have rekindled my interest in Elite:Dangerous and No Mans Sky.

Judging by the coverage of Starfield, Bethesda should not be allowed to do ‘hands-off’ development. They release a broken buggy and incomplete mess, then let the modding community finish it for free. I mean maybe from a business perspective that was a good move, can afford to drop some devs and reduce dev time I guess.

But even though Starfield roughly combines the genres I am most interested in, there is no way I am buying it until (if) it goes on a sale for around 10 bucks.

Meze planars cost a couple grand and IIRC they can run without an amp.

USB headphones is yet another product manufactured with a narrow usecase, the audio world by and large outputs to either 2.5, 3.5 or 4.4 every step of the way. USB is completely phone centric.

• Lack of a unified USB standard, meaning you will still have to deal with adapters to have compatibility across all devices. My PC for example only has USB A, my phone has lightning, my wifes has usbc, many peoples office PCs will also not have USB C just yet, although it does become less common to have a device without USB C.

• USB output is digital, that means that you need to convert it to analogue, so your headphones need to put a DAC into them or the wire.

• In many cases of headphone use you will actually not want the USB such as working with them in professional environments where you will be plugging them into an audio stack, where the autput is analogue already.

• Some headphones need an AMP so power straight off the USB is not an option.

• Balanced output.

A standard jack covers most usecases, headphones will never move to USB standard, they are analogue devices and should not have to have USB support on their end.

You don’t need a DAC if the phone has a jack, you only need one if it doesn’t, you might need a DAC/AMP for some headphones but most cans people will carry on the move will run just fine off an inbuilt jack.

lI makes it pretty simple to see - uppercase i is just a tad shorter.