Was definitely on by default on my device.

Personal data is still accessible, if the app you choose to pin is something like the dialer, or your mail app, then yes, you can obviously access contacts and emails. The feature doesn’t block the pinned app from accessing everything it normally accesses.

As for opening other apps, this applies to stuff like links or launchers. If the app has links somewhere, you could open your default browser app. It does not allow you to “escape” the pinned app to anywhere else in the system, unless the pinned app has a way to launch other apps the way launchers do.

The feature could certainly use improvement, but if it were only useful with people you trust, it would be pointless.

It’s obviously intended for situations where you have to let someone use your phone, and don’t want to give them free reign. With people you trust, you wouldn’t need something like that.

It’s far better than nothing, and is in fact part of android.

It is.

Apple has “guided access”, android has “pin app”.

I only have experience with the latter, it works by opening the task management view, and selecting “pin application” on a running app.

That then locks the device to that app. To access anything else, it has to be unlocked as if the screen were locked.

They seem to be what Tidal pretends to be.

Apparently Tidal finally ditched MQA and went back to flac. How they ever went in for it with how shit it it turned out to be with some basic investigation, I have no idea.

And they let you buy the music outright, too!

Recently quit youtube premium due to the price hike finally hitting my country. I’ve been using yt music for my listening.

Since that went away along with yt premium, I dusted off my old music file collection (mix of itunes and bandcamp purchases, cd rips, and soundcloud downloads).

Discovered Qobus looking for places to buy my favorite music to update my collection.

I used to keep my entire collection on my phone, but I opted to start using ytm since I had it and my collection got too big…

But now, I have to say I am blown away with how nice Symfonium+Jellyfin (or another music server) is to use!

Last time I looked into it, nothing handled dynamically keeping a portion of your music on-device for offline play this well!

Oh, I don’t either, but making that fact clear can be fun sometimes :D

Please tell me that whenever people commented “he must be twice your age!” you simply nonchalantly replied “triple, actually”.

Wine unfortunately can’t be used for that kind of stuff. Programs run in wine cannot communicate directly with hardware in the way they can on windows.

Not yet, at least, but the implementation is in very, very, very early stages. As in, people have just about started figuring out how it could theoretically be done.

Also, easyeffects can be used to apply audio processing, if you want to. (Should be in basically any distros default repos)

I don’t use any effects on the output, as they sound great, but I do use dynamic range compression on the mic for the benefit of my friends.

It levels out the loudness, so whether you whisper or shout, you sound the same level of loud. That way they can hear you even if you speak quetly, or don’t get their ears blown off if you loudly swear in frustration.

Doing the same on windows was way too much work to ever bother with, on linux, easy peasy.

Endeavour OS, here. I didn’t have do anything in particular to get mine working.

You might need to use a windows system to verify that it’s working at all, could simply be broken.

The other option is that they’re on an old firmware that works differently for some reason. You’d need the EPOS software on a windows install to do an update.

I feel this so much it hurts.

Some people are TERRIFIED of devices.

They look at the UI like it’s the cockpit of a fighter plane, with a thousand buttons, some of which make things explode.

Unless they know exactly what to do, they won’t even try anything.

Nevermind that UIs are usually designed to allow a user to figure them out by just prodding at everything and seeing what it does.

Linux drivers are usually part of the kernel nowadays, or sometimes get loaded as kernel modules.

Either way, most distros should just come with the audio drivers that implements the support for these. Generally, being open source, linux drivers implement support for everything the devs can figure out, rather than making a separate one for each piece of hardware that’s out there.

If you’re on an older kernel, that might be it. I remember when I got a DS5 controller I had to use a kernel newer than 5.15 because that’s when support for it was added to the game controller driver.

Also, like I said, battery replacement is VERY easy.

There is literally an official PDF for how to access it.

The part number for the battery is AHB732038TPCT (found out by opening mine) which is like a cheat code you can put into google to find one :D

Even better, Sennheiser seems to use standardized batteries for all their wireless stuff. There is actually a lot of empty space inside these, so I kinda wanna try replacing the “proper” battery with part number AHB622540N01, which is the battery for Sennheisers Momentum bluetooth headphones.

Single cell batteries all put out the exact same voltage, and are charged the same way regardless of capacity, which makes small ones interchangeable with big ones (unless the circuitry is unnecessarily smart). This other battery is 1000mAh (original is 530mAh), which should net these babies 200 hours!!

Also new pads can be found by looking for part numbers GSA371 or GSA301, but these are getting harder to find, so probably gonna need to find some generic ones that work.

That is a STEAL.

The volume wheel definitely works on mine, so something is wrong. I encountered the developer that added driver support for GSP headsets back in a conversation abut them on reddit, so I can say for a fact they are explicitly supported.

Its scope is far bigger and more comparable to an entire game-engine project rather than a single asset.

I would have thought that applied to ANY universal 3D format. For everything you might want to work, to work, the feature-set that must be implemented is truly mind-boggling.

I can’t imagine a format only supporting a subset of what USD does, ever becoming universal.

Isnt this a mostly solved problem? (Not in Godot, but so far as such a format existing)

A lot of stuff works with USD.

I learned using python.

I’ve yet to find anything that would have been a better place to start, and the concepts you pick up coding almost anything are extremely transferable.

A small project is good because it doesn’t just teach you the basics, it makes you apply what you learn to actually do stuff.

I write little python scripts to do various things all the time. Most recently I made one that automatically posts the next comic strip to !moomin@sopuli.xyz.

My recommendation would be to come up with something like that, then start figuring out how to do each step of accomplishing the task you want the code to do, then putting it all together. Look things up a lot, use print() often, and trial and error your way to the goal.

You could also read guides or watch videos, but personally I learn WAY faster by just doing.

Reading the code, making changes based on how I think something should work, then being proven right/wrong also seems to give me a better understanding than just following instructions.

Puzzle game hall of famer, this.

My sister made me a crocheted friendship cube. It always sits next to my wifi router.

What workforce?

Big studios are already ditching the idea of maintaining insitutional knowledge by doing more and more using cheaper contractors.

The downsizing is happening either way.

The mic sounds fine. You can find samples online, ofc, but people have never complained that I’m unclear or quiet. It’s not as good as the wired sets, and I think that’s down to the wireless connection, but it serves the purpose of communication, and doesn’t pick up on too much background noise, either.

The charge port not being USB C is unfortunate, but my G915 keyboard is also still micro usb.

Unfortunately neither peripheral has a newer equivalent that is as good.

I am regularly the first to identify the presence and location of enemies in multiplayer games with friends, purely based on audio. Using audio to outplay opponents on my 370s has been easier and more intuitive than on anything I’ve used before.

The excuse that “gaming” headsets are “optimized” for footsteps or are improved by the “virtual surround” software they often come with, is bs.