Thad E Ginathom

My old man was a chemistry prof. so I say "aluminium," which is proper IUPAC nomenclature. The phrase "tin foil" used to really annoy him. Following Fowler's reasoning, I always use the English spelling "judgement." Fowler makes a reasonable case for "connexion," but that's a much harder sell.

OEM should mean Original Equipment Manufacturer. Have we strayed from this and it's no longer a given?

Many have so strayed, yes.
@Claritas, in a conversation elsewhere, a friend wondered why "tin roofing?" I replied: it's made of steel, it's coated with zinc, so they call it tin! lol.

(it wouldn't be pronounced the same. More P-hhh than ffff)

Hmmm... I don't deny the right to spend one's disposable income as one pleases! Even in my bad-hearing state I could go out and spend $$,$$$ on a speaker system! But I wouldn't buy two or three in a month.

Maybe hifi/headphones has never been my actual /hobby/ as such.
Well, no... I think it has, just because I care what I listen to. But it has never been about one-night-stands for me.

Same i usually keep something and try to make it work unless it's really offensive. In which case i just didn't do my homework properly.

...I am not talking about those who are in denial about deafness, who damn well should get professional help, and yes, aids if necessary. For everybody's sake, starting with themselves.

My father's case is likely mostly due to the streptomycin given him when hospitalized with pleurisy in 1969-70. The measurements are from 2021 (at age 98), but he was pretty bad even back in the 70s & 80s, behaving much as you describe immediately above :) His latest hearing aid, though (L only - there's obviously no help for R), is pretty effective - and doesn't have a volume knob that he can turn down.

I remember streptomycin in childhood. There's plenty of over-loud stuff that I did to myself, but that's another thing to add to my possibles list, along with measles. Thing is I /never/ could converse over a background noise. Talk to a woman at a party? Forget it! :/.

I don't have volume controls: I just turn off.

Best wishes to your dad! I trust he's still going strong approaching 100. I'm only 70.

Yes! I had already bent it down, messing around. When I found out how to replace it, I also read the advice to flatten it.

I have much firmer clicks now. :)

Oh, yours need to be flattened? On my logitechs it was the opposite and had to be curved more. Hmm good to know.

Honest, I don't know. I read a brief instruction on the net: it seems to have worked out for me.

I think those springs must be some sort of small engineering miracle!

@Cryptowolf, you could. But my bees are abuzzin' in the cigarette trees! Even though I gave up thirty years ago.

(Astonishin, shocking even, that that was a /children's/ song!)

Call me Burl :)

Oh! Google says...

"And the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees"

Another lyric I've misremembered all my life?

i misremembered Bare Necessities, so we’re even.

What is a conversation I don't understand at all?
Thank you, I'll take potent potables for $200.

Wet Leg:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIuyI9I_DlDwxykE7Kt7h2g

I just love that there is a band, especially of two young women, with this name. Quirky songs. But that's the deal.

These youngsters are not Scottish, but they probably own wellies. They are from The Isle Of Wight.

Way back then, sixties I guess, there was a British dried-pea product called Surprise Peas. They were actually very good: didn't need soaking and tasted like fresh.

Schoolboy joke of the time: "What do you get free with Surprise Peas? A wet leg."

I've only had durian once at a market in St. Martin, but it was one of the most wild sensory rollercoasters I've ever experienced. And the reactions of passers-by while I carefully cut it open was funny. That's some stinky shit! But good lord is it delicious!!!

Jackfruit is ok, love me some good mango. But durian is THE KING of Fruits! Wife only allows me a quota of 2-3/year (cost, smell). Season is coming soon, w00t!

Each to their own fruit! Excuse my while I fry some more jackfruit :)

There's a 3d model you can spin around and zoom in @ https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/oer-updates/2022/industry.html

I think it's a cast iron stove tbh... the woods all gone already.

OK OK, so it's an /iron/ three-way speaker cabinet!

I'm not so easy to disillusion. :/

But yes...
"Trywork

A cast iron stove with two large kettles used to render whale blubber into oil."

That's a super model!

Besides the medical term I've always associated "Atrium" with "gathering place" since that's how the parlance translates here, even if it doesn't always overlap with the classical architectural definition. Language nuance is fun and idiotic!

recalling my history of architecture classes, it's derived from Latin meaning the entrance to a larger space, or literally "door/entrance to a hall".

Oh, thanks, folk. I guess I should have googled.

So, a headphone, then, could indeed be an entrance to larger space. It all makes sense now! :)

I very much enjoyed my revisit to their music. And Debbie Harry's voice: restrained power and control. Wow.

Yeah, she is far more than just a pretty face. Incredible talent.

She seems to have huge control and skill to belt out songs which are probably not at all easy to perform at all, let alone as part of a high-energy act.
No disrespect meant by that terminology! Her voice is lovely, and the songs seem very musical

I'm a middle-class white guy born in early fifties. Privileged. I can never know the experience of indigenous folk of those countries at that time but...

I was born to an unmarried teenage mother. I was adopted as a baby by a wonderful couple, but things could have been different. Britain was still shipping orphans to other countries at that time, and it was often not to a happy fate.

... They were still putting the mothers in lunatic asylums too.

Yes, *19*50s --- not 1850s. :/

Actually, there's only one word for how Britain treated those kids (it's own kids) back then: Human trafficking.

(ok, ok.... two words)

I understand that the guy behind KXstudio is now the maintainer of JACK (1 and 2?) among other things. Amazing guy: completely self-taught in software development.

No chance this was due to you switching from pulseaudio/JACK to pipewire? I found that moving to pipewire really did a lot from me, especially on duplex devices.

No chance at all. So far, I've only vaguely heard of pipewire.

There is no real reason for me to even use JACK. Just that I sometime plug in an EQ and... I've been using it for years. Ever since it was the only way to get my Echo Audio firewire thingy to work with Linux.

Ow... This is one reason I can't do IEMs -- I get that stuck/pressure thing going with even the simplest of earbuds.

Which ear?

@Kunlun. One of the ones on the sides of my head. Left side, actually. Don't ask which head. Since covid-vaccine side effects, life is increasingly crazy! Had third shot today: will I grow a third head?

Worst thing is I now want to throw Linux away, and install latest Windows, full Enterprise edition. I guess that must be the microchips at work. Resisting so far.

I knew it.

I want to take a home antibody test. But I fear it showing that I am an ant.

Or, worse... an anty

one day at a time.... inhale, exhale..... :)))

@Thad E Ginathom You should see relief today. PM incoming.

Please be here as much as you can stomach...your presence is appreciated by many (myself included)

@shotgunshane to the rescue! Hopefully problem is fixed at least for now.

And humble thanks to all those who appreciate my (mostly) offtopic noise! Warms the heart :)

Then it was. Now it isn't again. I'm enjoying it while it lasts :)

And now it is again.