Everyone does… it’s funny how it eventually works.

Underrated comment.

On a long enough time scale, yes, it will get tidy.

Yeah, those kinda puzzled me as well. They didn’t look like they’re varnished, but I suspect I could be wrong about that. After all, they do work, lol 😂.

The link doesn’t open, says connection refused 🤷.

Regardless, if it doesn’t require the bias pin, the mic is self-biased or biased through another source (use the same wire for the signal to get bias, this is easy, you just use a cap to decouple the signal from the bias).

It’s for bias to the mic. Condenser mics need it to apply bias to one of the leads of the mic so it can amplify the sound before sending it to the input of the card. Some mics don’t require that (self-biased) so in that case, the R pin (middle ring) goes to GND.

What do you mean by stereo wire? It’s got 3 contacts on the 3.5mm jack, that’s enough to transfer analog stereo (GND, L, R).

Yeah, I have it turned off by default.

If the board refused to do either, the Microsoft executives would move to Plan B: using their company’s considerable leverage—including the billions of dollars it had pledged to OpenAI but had not yet handed over—to help get Altman reappointed as C.E.O., and to reconfigure OpenAI’s governance by replacing board members. Someone close to this conversation told me, “From our perspective, things had been working great, and OpenAI’s board had done something erratic, so we thought, ‘Let’s put some adults in charge and get back to what we had.’ ”

And you’re about to trust copilot with your info after them openly saying “we can do whatever the fuck we want” 😂?

IDK where things stand regarding VR and FPS games… maybe it’ll gap the bridge, make them popular again.

I doubt it, but we’ll see.

People are into stories now, some FPS games have good stories, but not all. It’s mostly RPG nowadays that takes a huge slice of the cake. Plus a lot of play on their phones, and you can’t really play FPS games on a phone, a mouse and a keyboard is absolutely necessary for that.

People are not that much into FPS nowadays… or so I’ve gathered. Plus it’s a really fast reaction game, people aren’t used to that. You have to be really really fast.

Maybe I’m wrong, IDK, I haven’t played it in a while, or the original QIII Arena, but back in the day, finding players online for it was a problem as well. It was just too fast for most people.

If you were defrauding people, it wouldn’t matter what tool you used.

Stays silent while coding the JezuzLovezU worm…

Yeah, it’s a well known fork of Quake III Arena. It’s good.

I was a forums guy back then. We did pick on each other, make stupid jokes on each other’s expenses, but it wasn’t taken to heart… like contruction workers roasting each other all day, that was mostly it 😂.

Wow… didn’t actually know that… sad 😔.

The video is kind of interesting… yes, I remember those days, and yes, there was a lot less bickering and fighting online.

What good is an OS if no one uses it 🤨. TempleOS is cool, but I bet you won’t find 100 people on earth that use it as a daily driver.

OK, I admit, I was looking into this a few years ago, so I don’t have the lastest info on this. Back then, drivers were the biggest problem. I had an Asus ZenFone 3 Max back then and I really wanted to try and run LineageOS on it. Turns out, everything works 🥳, except for RIL 😒. I could live without bluetooth or IR, that’s fine, but… this is a phone, it’s primary purpose is to make phone calls, not be a tablet. Hell, I could buy a $50 one if I really wanted a tablet.

My point is, there will always be obsticles and ways to overcome them. The only question is, is it worth my time and effort. A thing like ReVanced that takes 2 minutes to install, yeah, sure. But me doing backflips once every 2 or 3 months to overcome paying for things, nah, that’s just not worth it.

I stand behind this, there is no point in forking Android, you gain nothing. Simple apps that don’t need anything to run, yeah, those will run just fine, but as you mentioned, anything that involves data transfer to google services will be a hard to swallow pill. It’s just not worth it IMO. Better invest your time in a new platform. Sure it’s gonna be hard for it to take off, but hey, at least you’re not investing your time in a lost battle.

That may be true, but I’m sure the userbase is next to none.