Android user here wondering about 15 watts being considered fast charging??

I had one of the old black plastic Walkman cassette players and what a P.O.S. that was. Amazing how far we’ve come 😊

Great points and I agree. I use the original Samsung Buds Pro and those sound fantastic using LDAC with my S21.

We live in a great time for portable audio to be able to get this kind of sound and performance out of something we can carry with us everywhere we go. I really only listen to my full size non-bluetooth headphones at home, and usually I am using my SMSL desktop headphone amp for that.

Yes, the SW on the HiBy devices can require careful handling to get around issues. I mainly use USB Audio Player Pro and it seems to work fairly reliably on my R5. I also often use Plexamp for playing my Plex stored FLACs and that also works well most of the time.

My worry with these devices is how long HiBy will continue to support it with OS updates and security patches, not that I use the device for anything sensitive, but it does use my Google account for the app store.

For Bluetooth, I have the original Samsung Buds Pro and the SONY WH900N’s, which I love and using LDAC for the connection, the sound quality is very good. I also just got the Soundcore Liberty 4 NC as my daily use buds for music and Teams calls and I am very impressed with them for the price. They multi-point connect to my phone and my iPad.

It’s probably worthwhile to differentiate between “MP3 Players” and DAPs (Digital Audio Players) that are designed to play high resolution music (mainly FLAC files) through high-end wired headphones. Companies like FiiO and HiBy make these and they sell for $500 and up. I have a HiBy R5 Sabre that has a balanced output for driving my decent Dan Clark Aeon headphones. This all sounds spectacularly good playing high res files or a service like Tidal. It runs on a special version of Android, so you can install apps, etc.

Having said all of that, I do 90% of my portable music listening through bluetooth earbuds driven from my Samsung phone, so not sure the money I invested in my DAP setup has been worth it, and I probably wouldn’t do it again.

It’s probably temporary until they come back with the bit and the anchors.

Great, as always - thank you for all you do!

I’m now spending 90% of my shit scrolling time here instead of Reddit (using Sync mainly) and I love it!

Yes, late 50’s US and I drive a 6 speed Jeep daily. Taught my 23 year old son to drive a stick and he just bought a Tacoma stick shift.

I learned on my grandfather’s 3 on the tree 1968 Dodge camper van. If you can drive a 3 on the tree, you can drive anything.

I take it you’ve never been to Amsterdam? Lots of screaming and bell ringing to get the hell out of the locals way 😂

This is a great post - I agree with your take.

10 years overall for me. I still browse some niche subreddits by RSS only and no longer comment or vote.

All of these providers need to cease operating in the UK - it makes no sense to compromise security for the rest of the world just because one country wants to make it easier to spy on citizens.

This is the kind of deep shit I come here for.

How about a partner and a local - Belts and Suspenders, and you only get one two-week shot at this.

FYI - the Lemmy devs fixed a serious bug this week that was affecting database performance and wefwef has been working MUCH better the past couple of days. I am trying other clients but keep coming back to wefwef because it provides basically the same experience on my Android phone and on my iPad.

I’m sorry, but any mod that gets a message threatening them like that and stays on has zero self respect. It’s a volunteer job for god’s sake!

Yes, it is https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld (according to the link on lemmy.world main page)

I switched from Evernote to Joplin several years ago and haven’t looked back. I had over 8,000 notes in Evernote and now have over 11,000 notes in Joplin. I’m using free Dropbox storage for syncing (3GB out of 6GB free) and run Windows, iPad and Android clients. I haven’t missed Evernote at any point.

Regarding the donation, I signed up at Patreon which is referred by Ruud who I believe is the admin for all the .world Lemmy and Mastodon instances. I just saw where they actually prefer donations via OpenCollective, so I will likely change mine to that at some point.