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    From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to All on Fri Dec 9 11:30:26 2022
    i hate using them at times when they fall out of my ears. Especially when they get trapped in a car seat.
    They are also expensive. I fear losing one or both of them.


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Utopian Galt on Fri Dec 9 12:59:28 2022
    Re: airpods
    By: Utopian Galt to All on Fri Dec 09 2022 11:30 am

    i hate using them at times when they fall out of my ears. Especially when they get trapped in a car seat.
    They are also expensive. I fear losing one or both of them.

    I don't really like that style of headphones in general. They aren't really comfortable to me, though I haven't tried Apple's. I don't think I'd want to use the wireless ones, for the same reason you mention - I'd think it would be too easy for them to fall out, and I might lose them.

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  • From StormTrooper@21:2/108 to Utopian Galt on Fri Dec 9 22:47:23 2022
    i hate using them at times when they fall out of my ears. Especially
    when they get trapped in a car seat.
    They are also expensive. I fear losing one or both of them.


    I've not used airpods specifically, but I find that style I have the same problem with. They seemed like a great idea but you appear to need to have the right ear shape for them to work.

    ST

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Utopian Galt on Fri Dec 9 16:14:08 2022
    i hate using them at times when they fall out of my ears. Especially
    when they get trapped in a car seat.
    They are also expensive. I fear losing one or both of them.

    I find that if I consciously wipe the grease/oil off of them before and after every use they tend to stay in better, but I'm not one of those people that can walk around all day with an airpod in without it falling out.

    Plus the people that walk around all day with an airpod in their head look like idiots.

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  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Esc on Fri Dec 9 22:01:15 2022
    BY: esc(21:4/173)


    |11e|09> |10Plus the people that walk around all day with an airpod in their head|07
    |11e|09> |10look like idiots.|07
    I have to answer the phone at work so I dont have the luxury to do that.


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  • From StormTrooper@21:2/108 to Utopian Galt on Sat Dec 10 07:32:10 2022
    Plus the people that walk around all day with an airpod in their head look like idiots.

    I have to answer the phone at work so I dont have the luxury to do that.

    Be it my imagination, or airpods have the ablity to behave like glorified hearing aids if you're not actively using them? Think I heard that one somewhere....

    ST

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to StormTrooper on Sat Dec 10 03:24:12 2022
    Be it my imagination, or airpods have the ablity to behave like glorified hearing aids if you're not actively using them? Think I heard that one somewhere....

    I don't think so...in fact mine have noise cancelling so they do precisely the opposite :)

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to StormTrooper on Sat Dec 10 16:14:24 2022
    Be it my imagination, or airpods have the ablity to behave like glorified hearing aids if you're not actively using them? Think I heard that one somewhere....

    ST

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    I can attest that my airpods were much more uncomfortable that my hearing aides. While backpacking, I would take my hearing aides out when I got to bed. I put the airpods in so I could listen to some video and/or podcasts. The airpods were so uncomfortable that it's only a few minutes and I pull them out and turn off the phone.

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  • From StormTrooper@21:2/108 to esc on Sun Dec 11 05:15:15 2022
    Be it my imagination, or airpods have the ablity to behave like glori hearing aids if you're not actively using them? Think I heard that o somewhere....

    I don't think so...in fact mine have noise cancelling so they do
    precisely the opposite :)

    Ponder, must've been another product I saw somewhere. When they weren't receiving data from a device, they'd pass through the ambient noise with some modulation for over loud sounds...

    ST

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  • From StormTrooper@21:2/108 to ogg on Sun Dec 11 05:19:54 2022
    I can attest that my airpods were much more uncomfortable that my hearing aides. While backpacking, I would take my hearing aides out when I got
    to bed. I put the airpods in so I could listen to some video and/or

    Sounds like you might be better served with the over the top cans. Wonder what it was I saw that was meant to feed filtered ambient in.

    ST

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to esc on Sat Dec 10 10:20:00 2022
    esc wrote to Utopian Galt <=-

    Plus the people that walk around all day with an airpod in their head
    look like idiots.

    I notice more retail employees walking around with one earpod in. Seems a little improper if you're being paid to be focused on work and customers.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to StormTrooper on Sat Dec 10 10:24:00 2022
    StormTrooper wrote to Utopian Galt <=-

    Be it my imagination, or airpods have the ablity to behave like
    glorified hearing aids if you're not actively using them? Think I
    heard that one somewhere....

    A company tried, and they failed - wondered if Big Ear had something to do with it.

    They made a set of earbuds called Hear One, and they came with a killer sound-shaping app. You could adjust the sound to cancel out frequencies
    (like a high-pitched screech of metal wheels on rails on a train car or the sound of tinnitus) or use it to discriminate local conversations in a
    crowded restaurant. You could do all sorts of sound shaping like reducing
    the volume at concerts (without that muffled sound earplugs give you) or use an ambient mode to enhance outdoor sounds.

    They were lobbying to get the restrictions protecting the hearing aid manufacturers to be able to be marketed as hearing aids, but they ran out of funding and went bankrupt. I'd expected Samsung, or Apple, or someone to buy their IP and roll it into their products, but it's been a couple of years
    and I haven't heard a peep.


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  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Dec 12 13:24:50 2022
    I notice more retail employees walking around with one earpod in. Seems
    a little improper if you're being paid to be focused on work and customers.

    Perhaps they see the writing on the wall, that human employees in retail will be rendered redundant within a decade. :P

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to esc on Tue Dec 13 06:51:00 2022
    esc wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Perhaps they see the writing on the wall, that human employees in
    retail will be rendered redundant within a decade. :P

    I think ChatGPT is going to be the biggest redundancy-maker. Lots of people are making livings doing, among other things, content creation for web
    sites - especially remote/home workers. I think most of the web is going to
    be AI-generated content in the next couple of years, and human content creators are going to be left behind.

    Creating your own GPT chatbot and curating AI content for customers will be the next big thing.




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  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Dec 13 11:29:37 2022
    Creating your own GPT chatbot and curating AI content for customers will be the next big thing.

    Startup idea...

    heheh.

    My wife and I have been experimenting with NLP to train a virtual novelist. It's actually pretty freaking tough. But what I have found is that it can be useful to seed ideas for fiction pretty well.

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  • From StormTrooper@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Dec 13 23:02:40 2022
    A company tried, and they failed - wondered if Big Ear had something to
    do with it.

    Sounds like a plot device from Get Smart, the Big Ear. https://getsmart.fandom.com/wiki/Magic_Ear_Listening_Device

    ST

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to esc on Wed Dec 14 06:17:00 2022
    esc wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    My wife and I have been experimenting with NLP to train a virtual novelist. It's actually pretty freaking tough. But what I have found is that it can be useful to seed ideas for fiction pretty well.

    The only NLP I know is neuro-linguistic programming - a visualization tool. Are you referring to something else?


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  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Dec 14 20:17:40 2022
    The only NLP I know is neuro-linguistic programming - a visualization tool. Are you referring to something else?

    Yeah, natural language processing. Letting a computer make determinations about sentiment, etc.

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