It’s true rsi is far more likely to kick in before hinge failure.

Foldable hinge. Good for 10k folds, or 30 minutes of foldy bird.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1evp7weyv2o

Any better?

Yeah but if a normal cable stops the music entirely you clean the contacts or buy a new one and then suddenly it’s back to a perfect reproduction.

Well. I wasn’t really thinking of a rolex specifically. Just comparing the use of precious metals or gemstones on a watch that doesn’t increase the functionality in any way, in the same way the gold plating doesn’t increase the functionality of the optical cable. But it sure looks good.

So I guess, yes. Lol.

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Well. If it negotiates a lower bit rate I’m pretty sure the audiophile level kit will tell you it’s no longer 24 bit 96khz or whatever the cool kids use now.

But I’m pretty sure most High bitrate systems will have some level forward error correction, when the cable cannot deliver the snr needed to repair errors the signal will usually completely drop out. It will be perfect then gone.

Without error correction, random bit errors in digital audio are seriously jarring.

Having high quality (in terms of screening and contacts) won’t have the kind of subtle change it can have with analogue signals. With analogue you’re fighting things that can be minor like induced noise.

I did qualify that I was talking about electrical cables distinctly and precisely because the image is of an optical cable.

Isn’t that pretty much what I said?

With a digital cable (the electrical kind) you don’t hear the difference. Either the connection is good enough to get the data stream error free, or it will be dropping in and out and you’d need to clean the contacts or get a new cable.

Now go read my other comment in this thread and realise this was about as obvious as you can make sarcasm…

I do kinda see some point in gold plating electrical cables. Gold doesn’t tarnish so much and is also often used on computer edge connectors.

The issue has always been “audiophiles” telling you they can tell the difference with a gold or gold plated digital connector. Of course you cannot, you either are getting bit errors or not with digital audio. But they do generally provide a more reliable connection overall.

Now don’t ask me about my opinion, you’re talking to the guy that makes radio antennas with speaker wire. I am truly uncultured in terms of electrical connectivity.

See depends how you look at it. Will it make the cable perform better? No. But then neither do the diamonds around the edge of an expensive watch.

The gold is just there so you know it’s a quality cable. It’s like a rolex fibre cable.

Are you sure it was dot pitch and not dot clock?

Dot pitch on a crt might make the image look bad (trying to draw onto the shadow mask) but I doubt it would damage it.

Setting an invalid dot clock could damage some crts. But most of the modern (read from mid 90s on) would just go to the power save mode when they got a clock they couldn’t use. The warning did still remain on the xfree86 configuration guides though.

Showing my age perhaps.

I upgrade every 4 years or so, and that’s really only because it’s also when battery life usually declines.

These days the only improvement seems to be memory, storage and camera. Somehow I feel some of those will stagnate.

But the new Samsung s28, it’s totally a bigger number than what you have now.

I was typing on a phone. So might well have been that. But thanks, I might well have actually typed the wrong one anyway.

I’ve read about people getting black market powders for certain GLP-1 agonists for some years now. They problems with the unregulated versions begin with unreliable concentrations causing serious complications, to outright being the wrong drugs. They were generally delivered as concentrated powders you needed to prepare yourself.

So I’d be pretty weary about trying any non licensed versions of any drugs let alone those you need to self inject.

Hey po poes. I have a nice stratum 1 server you can use.

That’s a tough one. But if they’re going to operate in a way where they don’t want Venezuelan authorities to know they’re there (I got the impression they were making a show of force so…) they do need to inform the atc of friendly countries operating nearby so they can ensure flight plans keep them apart.

But, I don’t know what (if any) procedures they have for this kind of thing. But to me it makes sense, you either close the nearby airspace (kinda makes it obvious something is going on), inform friendly atc so they can keep squawking and non squawking traffic apart. Neither just makes aviation extremely dangerous.

To the best of my knowledge the ads-b transponders operate with the same interface as previous transponders. That is they can be active, stand by or off. Commercial airliners should never turn them off in the air, but they do have the ability to.

For military aircraft this requirement is almost certainly only going to apply when in “friendly airspace” and at altitudes with commercial traffic. Especially when not on an operational mission.

For truly secretive missions they will likely get blanket clearances in friendly airspace to travel at specific altitudes so they can travel transponder off while avoiding the commercial traffic.

But I’m not an expert by any means.