SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Slightly below dead center, so I'm apparently a "Modern liberalist".
As with most such tests, it is inherently flawed by failing to distinguish between absolute and relative scale in the questions as well as the questions being much too vague. A Finn like me giving this set of answers means something very different from an American giving the exact same answers, yet the test tries to match both under the same absolute banners.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
The root cause is Bluetooth, not the headphones. The only (partial) solutions to the problem require licensed codecs that must be supported on both sides of the connection and many prominent phone manufacturers are not interested in doing that (not least because to get benefit, all the headphones would have to support the same codec).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
Not sure if it's the absolute best but it sure is bang for buck: A good led headlamp bought directly from the Chinese specialist manufacturer. Much better quality than almost anything sold in Western stores for a much cheaper price (I paid 50e because I wanted fancy red light mode and high CRI but you can get good ones for just 30e). I hadn't realized just how useful it would be for everything from tinkering with small things to reading tiny text to trying to see the notes in the low contrast sheet music my guitar teacher had given me and how much more pleasant a good one is to use.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
it's a high cost:high reward thing
It doesn't even have to be that high cost.
When I bought mine I was lucky that a local magazine (well regarded for their comparative tests) had done a large comparative review just a year or two earlier. The top two were fancy high end beds costing 5000e or more. The third winner was the highest end model Ikea sold (for around 1000e back then). No points for guessing which one I bought and have been happy with since.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
my experience on reddit is that most of the time someone gets called a bot or a shill, the accused is really an actual human who simply dared to deviate 0.01% from hivemind-approved window of opinions
My experience has been the exact opposite. The calls are about obvious giveaways in how the accused comments / writes the post and how all their replies are the exact same non-committal bullshit that LLMs are prone to generating.
And I was just last week debating with myself if Yuri fiction was a step too far. Truly, I feel like practically a saint!
Also what is it with all the dysfunctional autist BS in web fiction? So. Much. Dysfunctional. Autism. You’d think getting through an engineering degree and working 20 years in the field would have prepared me, but no, even the nerdiest engineers seem like the most well adjusted normies compared to what seems to be the norm in web fiction circles.
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