General Motors accidentally made a good car so that’s why they had to kill it.

They’re earbuds. You’re going to using them with a phone, maybe a laptop, or even in a pinch maybe a desktop. None of those output enough power to melt through a rubber cable without severely destroying themselves and never working again. OP would be posting “my phone exploded and I’m deaf now” not about the cable having a pimple.

Even my dedicated amp, a Shiit Magni outputs 6 watts with both channels combined, and ain’t nobody connecting shitty earbuds to an amp. The rest of the cable is going to sink away the heat from 6 watts before the rubber could get hot enough to melt.

And how much power do you think the DAC in a phone is going to output?

The built in DAC in a phone can barely drive my headphones, let alone melt a silicone cable. They typically output less than a watt. On a good day. Rubbers melting point is 365c and 1 watt isn’t gonna do that.

These are earbuds, not big ass speakers. There shouldn’t be enough power going through those cables to do melt anything.

You’d have to put it all the way around it, including near the connector. Obviously you can’t put it inside the connector, but that’s another avenue for noise to get in. Outisde the box of noise with it’s own box of insulation is a much calmer place.

It’s a good thing you held onto it.

If you vote 3rd party you’re still voting against Trump. It’s just not in any meaningful wall.

720p is fine, but I’d prefer 1080p most of the time.

It mostly just comes down to bitrate. A 4k video at 1Mbps is probably gonna look like shit. My drone and my go pro shoot 4k footage at 60Mbps h265 and that looks amazing. But if I’m acquiring a fuck ton of movies I’m not gonna download that shit at that bitrate. As long as the video is like 1080p and 5Mbps or higher I’m happy. If the file size is >6 gigs for a movie I ain’t downloading that shit even if I can, and that’s with a 1gb symmetrical internet connection and a 30TB NAS.

And for those who don’t have ADHD Adderall gets them WIRED.

That’s assuming that you haven’t already burnt through your supply of fridge beers.

You can also just wrap them in a wet paper towel to get the same effect. Or even better wet paper towel with some ice on top.

To redo the entire UI?

My boss and his family did this back in 2020. There’s a great picture of him with a shit eating grin standing behind his work.

I’ll do that too, but only when walking. I’m too fat to do that when running.

In addition to that I’ll practice Spanish on my phone during my nightly walk/runs. My neighbors must think I’m really weird.

Swap longboarding for running and that’s me.

Nothing beats screaming your favorite song into the warm summer air driving down some nice roads.

And that’s probably why it sucks so much. If they’d just cloned the work flow of other programs GIMP would actually be good for amateurs.

Also the UX difference is worth the money alone.

I thought he was trading in his old Lexus SUV for it, but nope he traded in the fun car. To be fair he was daily driving that M4 and it had some hail damage he didn’t want to have to get fixed.

The docks will work with anything that has Thunderbolt 3/4. It’s only the power switch that won’t work, and you can’t do the breaking USB spec of charging over 100 watts @20v. The downside is those OEM docks tend to be Thunderbolt only, and if you connect it to a USB only device it will either not work at all, or have SEVERELY limited functions.

Is yours a dock dock or just a big hub? I don’t really have much experience with the dock docks, but I know the overgrown hubs we use at work love to burn out the HDMI converter chips, but usually work well enough besides that.

FYI OEM docks are CHEAP used once they’ve been out for a few years. And no you can’t mix docks from other OEMs and have the power button work since there’s no standard for it.

I’ve found aftermarket ones to be super unreliable though, especially if you use HDMI and power from the dock.