Ok, I found a Refresh button hiding in the Settings. The latest Bad Voltage is there now, as are a few other podcasts.
er, that doesnât have anything to do with listening to music, though, right? You can quite happily pair with iOS over Bluetooth if youâre a pair of headphones (A2DP is allowed). Sure, you canât be a Bluetooth serial port without getting approved by Apple, but thatâs no different to them requiring a license to make devices with a lightning connector. (That is to say: this is obviously pure unadulterated gouging and they should pack it in. But I think Bryan was pretty clear in the show about that.)
Donât understand. When my headphones pop out my phone stops playing so all i have to do i re-seat the jack and press play again. Why do you need to rewind the podcast?
Pop out of his ears, not the plug from the jack - the phone wonât notice that has happened. [Edit: But that would be an interesting feature for headphones to have!]
Appleâs new AirPods detect this (IR sensors built in to the earpiece section), and pause playback, and go to sleep for energy saving.
thatâs pretty neat!
From Appleâs product page:
Audio automatically plays as soon as you put them in your ears and pauses when you take them out. To adjust the volume, change the song, make a call or even get directions, just double-tap to activate Siri.
Driven by the custom Apple W1 chip, AirPods use optical sensors and a motion accelerometer to detect when theyâre in your ears. Whether youâre using both AirPods or just one, the W1 chip automatically routes the audio and engages the microphone. And when youâre on a call or talking to Siri, an additional accelerometer works with beamforming microphones to filter out background noise and focus on the sound of your voice.
As usual, Apple have engineered the shit out of something as simple as headphones. But in a good way
One thing with respect to routers/firewalls - is everyone familiar with Universal Plug ânâ Play, UPnP, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play#NAT_traversal ?
If you donât disable UPnP in your firewall, anything you install inside your network can open any TCP or UDP port to the outside for listening and port-forwarding. Itâs most commonly used for games to allow multiplayer without forcing the user to fiddle with their firewall settings, but itâs a giant security hole. Itâs the first thing I shut off on any home router I buy.
Is this just common knowledge, so nobody mentions it?
@sil ~28:00mins âI am not necessarily disagreeing with the point that itâs Hype but, I think that ship has sailed for all the existing things. I mean if you take the, say, HTC One M9 or M One9 or whatever it was called. Machined out of a single billet of aluminium or whatever, it was a lovely looking device, but everyone was saying âOh it is HTC, it doesnât matter.â They basically canât climb out of that hole⌠So people, ⌠itâs genuinely harder to be objective about whether this thing is aesthetically pleasing.â
It was called the One M9 from HTC back in 2015 with the aluminium build, so you were right about the description.
http://mashable.com/2015/03/30/htc-one-m9-review/#cKA6BkO0ukqN
Nope. I think most people donât have a clue. And, even the nerdier people that do donât fully grok the security ramifications.
It needs to be mentioned. A lot. So thank you.
I didnât know that. Thanks.