Did you grasp the conversation above?

They implied Fairphone is ending software support for the device because of corporate greed borne planned obsolescence. I reminded them that upkeep has costs: Fairphone wasn't charging for their software updates, so (since upkeep has costs) they'd eventually run out of money to blow on it, even if they were a saint and a non-profit.

This is even ignoring how the costs of said upkeep is not a constant or even a linearly increasing curve, but an exponentially surmounting one, since you keep losing the levels of support from earlier and earlier on in your software supply chain (see the article).

Neither the production of outdated and specialized hardware, nor the indefinite maintenance of specialized software is economically sound. This is why standardization and reuse driven design is key, otherwise you get people screaming muh capitalism and related circlejerk. And even then there are limits, which humanity tends to ignore using the famous "double down" and "looking away" strategies.

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How much did it cost to build and how long did it take

louis rossman is often not knowledgeable about anything not hardware. he knows a lot about hardware and is usually right in that.

apple is genuinely very good in their software support. just as they are very good in regards to privacy compared to windows or android.

and even if your android phone receives long enough updates, the apps are just not going to work on it properly after sometime. you won't have that as much with apple products.

>So what "luxury" headphones are we talking about? I use XM4s, they are wireless and have good sound quality in relation to the source

that doesn't even come close to be high end, audiophile, studio/monitor quality and not even a shadow of what luxury means on headphones.

>spotify. Which is what most people use.

yes, but Spotify its not a great source for music anymore, between tidal and apple music, you can hear a big difference in quality that only becomes more evident the better gear you use.

>And if you want to use your 10k studio headphones with a cord dangling from your pocket then how does a USB C adapter change anything

totally annoying to have another thing to worry about, and can be loose easily, also, when you use a case most USB adapters become incompatible due to the fit. also, yet another thing you have to spend money on. I can go on all day on why I don't like adapters, I'll better ask YOU, why do you like them to being with?

Back to one floor, but now we're in the Metro tunnels?

It might FEEL more impressive but it is actually more technologically impressive to go from 30mph to 60mph

Hot, power hungry, expensive, and poor value.

You said 6 and 18 at peak. 18*60w=1080w.

At peak it draws 250w or just a tad over 4 standard incandescent bulbs. Probably actually slightly less then 4 bulbs depending on the efficiency of the ballast used if you took that into account. Also they get a lot higher then then 100w, in horticulture 400w&600w bulbs where common before leds replaced them. (Although a high quality incandescent can put out more light per watt then some of the really crappy horticulture lights)

Now I was probably exaggerating a bit when I said tiny tiny. At 250w/18 we would need a draw of about 13.888w this is the closest I can find it’s 11w so a little smaller then a 13.8w and tbh I would call it small not tiny.

these I would call tiny at ~0.4w per bulb but much smaller then this cob led, assuming we consider all the diodes on a cob to make up one light wich I totally would. In the same way we consider all the molecules in the wire of a bulbs filament part of the light, in fact if we take that to the extreme and argue all the diodes on a single lighting unit constitute a light (wich is a bit of a stretch) we get big boys like this and of course much larger.

Now if we want a tiny tiny incandescent light I would say we look more at something like this

And just because I like extremes while obviously not commercially available look at this 1.4 micron long 13nm wide incandescent light made at UCLA! And then there’s this fucking giant incandescent bulb

That is to say, no when I said tiny bulb I did not mean led. I meant smaller then the incandescent lights used in households in normal fixtures.

Also 11*60w is stil 660w and last I checked 660 is greater then 250.

it was harder to do with the antenna's for 4g, the repairability, and water resistance.

So a 7900 at stock settings then ?

My gf was using hers until 2 weeks ago!

Moneybags with a P3. I had to make do with my pentium 380 MHz.

Ah yes, the ol' audiophile argument.

So what "luxury" headphones are we talking about? I use XM4s, they are wireless and have good sound quality in relation to the source. As in a phone, using spotify. Which is what most people use.

And if you want to use your 10k studio headphones with a cord dangling from your pocket then how does a USB C adapter change anything?

Preheating? Not familiar with that in this context. I see articles on using heat for the office but, what needs to be pre heated?

You can finish it any way you’d like if you’re no fan of the raw look.

Then this might sound just as revolutionary, you can still use wired headphones through USB C or lightning.

Using larger aggregates like this will give it incredible concrete performance. Many builds up to this point have been done with a mortar mix.

Hardly, the materials and labour savings will drive this grow this type of construction in the future.

Upon reading the headline I thought to myself, Holy Hell, imagine how deflated you would be if just that headline were sent back in time to 2001.

Exactly, literally zero of the features Android has that iOS hasn’t are relevant for me.

Because every high-end headphone is wired. A wired connection is 100% better than a wireless one, irrelevant of what's connected.

Also, their staircase is taking steps up.

How about, and i know this might sound revolutionary, but how about choice? You can still use wireless headphones when a device has a headphone jack.