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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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

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

Cons:

1. Someone at work said something and I felt bad. So I'm not gonna take anymore for the rest of the day~
2. I woke up too late... Meh, it's too much work to figure out when to take them.
3. I hyperfocused on something and skipped my alarm, now I'm an hour late to my dose. Oh well, maybe I should just skip this one.
4. I accidentally took a double, oops. Let me minus one off from later in the day.
5. Did I just take it? I did remember taking it, I think, maybe? But I forgot to mark it off... Or was it a memory from yesterday? Oh well, guess I wouldn't really know now, so I'm just not going to take another.
6. I just don't feel like it today.

I've got no issues whatsoever. But I did look up what to do before adding my SD card. The general consensus is that:

1. You should update the firmware when you receive it new out of the box, by connecting it as a usb device and dropping the latest firmware .iso into the root directory. I restarted the device after and it started flashing the firmware all by itself. FIIO had been very active on the firmware updates, fixing a lot of things in the process. I remembered the firmware being 1.3(?) on it before I updated it to 2.4 (yes, very active).
2. You need to format the SD card on the actual device before use, and do it twice. I did that with a reboot in between just in case.
3. Always eject the device/SD card properly. The Mini doesn't handle corrupted audio files elegantly and would crash from what I've read. I never had an issue as I do unmount my SD card/Mini before unplugging from my phone. As an additional precaution, I would also turn the Mini off before ejecting the SD card from the device.

Edit: Remeber to refresh the media library every time you add, remove, or change any audio files. The Mini doesn't do it automatically, which does make sense. The CPU is slow enough that the media refresh can potentially be a multi minute affair. I had to wait about 30 seconds for my meager library of around 11GB to load. Not to worry otherwise though, the UI itself is super responsive so far. Just speculation, but I suppose some of the potential crashes may have happened when someone tried playing a missing file.