Well, I mean, if it works as intended.

Happy birthday! 🥳🎂🍥

... Can't believe this thing is literally older than me...

I took way too many hours just comparing the different colors when I was considering buying it, but I'm glad I did. Pink really is the best color out of the lineup.

If the road is narrow and visibly winding with lots of trees close by, you bet those cars would slow down just to not wreck themselves. All while everyone else can use the road as normal.

Yup.

What even is your problem that you'll get worked up enough to spend energy spreading misery over some tiny annoyance from some internet stranger? Do you get pleasure out of that? If so, for shame.

When I get annoyed by some internet stranger's conduct online, I don't engage. I disengage. Life's too short to get worked up over the little things I find, and we'll all feel better when we don't engage in that negativity.

Yes, I've blocked people without ever saying a single word. Sometimes while lurking, I'll find some conduct (not beliefs, conduct) that I disagree with. I don't then go on and admonish them, I make them "disappear" from my life, then go on thinking about what I should eat for dinner.

I think human parts are a hard no for me, but I'm general good with anything, though usually much less so if the product isn't being produced incidentally.

This means cow leather is generally a okay, but crocodile is something I'll shy away from.

This is my first DAP actually, but the sound quality seems to be pretty good. My ANC Sony Ult Wear headphones wired and off do also sound clearer, more natural and open (no fake sounding bass muddying everything else) with the Pop Eq on the device. Compared to having the headphones connected to my phone via Bluetooth.

There's no crash issues with the current firmware (v2.4.0) I've experienced, the Echo Mini has been dead on predictable in a way no Android phone could. However, it would load larger album images rather slowly, which would affect the wake up speed. There are tips out there about lowering the resolution of the album art to compensate, but I haven't done that just yet.

There are preset EQs you can select on it, as well as a custom fixed frequency slider EQ that you can tune to your liking. The base acoustics is a bit lacking on the low end, making it sound a tad bit flat there, but the Pop EQ option did fix that for me. Due to the simplicity of the cpu however, EQ only works for "Standard Quality" 16 bit depth FLAC, not for 24 bit if you are going for lossless.

Do note that I have only loaded up a 16GB SD card with mostly FLAC files, when they are 16 bit depth, so I haven't quite stressed it the same way some users have. I do know that it has a song limit of 8192, so do take that into account.

The battery is very good, a single charge has lasted me a whole day of listening with 2/4 bars left when I got home.

It can also function as a DAC if plugged into a phone/computer via the USB C port, but I haven't had the chance to try that out yet.

All those safety warnings are useless nonsense, until:

This vacuum is not water resistant and no part of it shall come into contact with water. Do not operate this vacuum on wet floors.

Wash the infuser with water or coffee machine cleaning powder only. Do not wash with soap. Every 6 months, relubricate the seals with food and water safe silicone grease certified with NSF/ANSI/CAN 61 and NSF/ANSI 51.

Well, good to know.

Remind me not to go to the US anytime soon. Such a lack of checks and balances against an administration hell bent on arbitrarily seriously injuring swaths of people on a whim is rather concerning. It wouldn't be impossible for me at this point to arbitrarily be deported into some random despot country were I ever to try to visit, even if I didn't do anything illegal, and have all my paperwork in order. That is very concerning.

The rule of law is there to protect as much as it is to assert control. What the supreme court is doing here, even if not in technically, would be approximating forgoing the rule of law entirely.

Oh, how so?

There are 3.41 million MRT rides a day in 2024. While I don't know the figures per train, considering personal experience of just how crowded the trains are during peek hours, it seems to be well within the ball park.

They are during rush hour, they all are, all the way to the very brim. Which is why LTA is being politically pushed to tighten the train frequency ever closer (currently at around 2-3 minutes at peak).

The counter here is also counting 2 people per car as well.

ADHD: The world is too noisy today and I can't focus on that important thing I need to do instead of some stupid hyperfixation for 14 hours.

AuDHD: The world is too noisy today and I need to get out of here and recuperate.

I see "more bike paths" and I also say 'yes'.

Wake up a bit earlier, eat meds, go back to sleep.

Huh, in all the excitement, I've appeared to have actually left out the name of the device.

It's a FIIO Snowsky Echo Mini. It's their budget sub-brand lineup featuring their expertise in audio fidelity in as cheap a package everywhere else they could get away with. Not that the product isn't otherwise good. The support (dev communication) is swift on the official forum and firmware is being updated very regularly—about monthly with new features each time.

I think it's the lead from back when leaded gasoline was a thing.

Know when to let go sometimes. When you can start to tell a friend is getting irritated by a discussion (or worse, a debate), drop it, even if it's naturally hard to do so. You're friendship isn't worth whatever inconsequential thing you are getting way too deep into.

What. The. Ever. Loving. How is the audit log not just a simple access log!? How can the AI even choose not to log it? Why not just call it the "AI feels like writing it down" log then?

Okay, that's quite a cool memento. I might not mind that.