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[Question] Has anyone here tried or own any of the Nothing ear buds?

I have the Nothing CMF Headphones and just got the Nothing Ear (3a) about 2 weeks ago.

I love the CMF Headphones. I have now gotten one of my coworkers to buy one of his own and we both went on a company trip together with them. The ANC is fantastic and was great for the airport and airplane for travel.

The 3a are great so far. I have an iPhone, so I have had some issues with it disconnecting and not wanting to reconnect. But overall I am enjoying them and they are good earbuds and produce good sounds.

I love the ability to connect to multiple devices at once on both headphones and quickly switching between devices. Like when I was in the airport, I’d be listening to my iPhone while walking and then sit and switch between my Macbook and Steam Deck using the Nothing app on my iPhone.

I used to have Beats Studio Buds+ and AirPods, but I was looking for something else and have been satisfied with both of these so far.

Downsides…the 3a earbuds don’t seem to have as good of a solid connection than other earbuds. I just feel like it doesn’t have a good enough fit in my ears than other earbuds. I’m also not a fan of the way they label the noise canceling as it was confusing and that made me realize the noise canceling is not that different when it comes to low or high. Adaptive does seem to work in adjusting, but not as good as the CMF headphones, but that’s for obvious reasons with a better cover over the ears.

The charging case is also sometimes difficult to open because it doesn’t have a great indent for your fingers and you need to use your fingernails. It’s not always, just sometimes and can be a bit frustrating. There’s also the downside of no wireless charging for some, but I’m okay without it. Updating is a bit weird because it needs to be in a specific way to begin and continue updating and I have to read the instructions each time to let them update. I think it was like putting them in the case and leaving it open, but it was just an odd way to have the update go and it wasn’t fully instructive the first time I did it so I kept trying different things until finally understanding what they meant to begin updating.

But overall, I’m happy with both of them and the Nothing app for iPhone. I can’t speak for Android, but my coworker has Android and seemed to like his experience overall and not have issues with his CMF Headphones.

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There would be no more internet access for anyone anymore if that were allowed.

Soooo many insecure networks out there ripe for the picking if you know what you’re doing and have the tools available. And the tools are often free, not costing any money. From there, those networks are the places people will go to commit their “piracy”.

And what exactly is piracy? If I purchase an album on iTunes but choose to download it on ThePirateBay, is that really piracy? Because I have done that when the music THAT I FUCKING PAID FOR is no longer available for me to download off of iTunes and Apple won’t give me a refund for said music purchase. People do it for games that include shitty DRM and don’t allow them to easily install on another device like Linux too.

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What's wrong with Ellen DeGeneres?

She’s been outed as not being the nice person she appears to be on TV. There was a big controversy a few years ago that some of her crew had a lot of stories about her behaviors behind the camera that show that she wasn’t such a nice person to the people who helped make her show a reality.

I don’t remember specifics, but it’s not hard to find if you go looking for videos or articles on it. From what I remember, it was the typical diva sort of behaviors like don’t look her in the eye and being rude to others. Nothing too too serious like sexual assault but still not nice stuff and people view her as a phony since.

There were also some things she did to guests like when she “forced” Mariah Carey to reveal she was pregnant by offering her alcohol and Mariah basically had to admit she was pregnant as to why she wouldn’t drink alcohol. Kind of a shitty thing to do to someone.

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Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. What is your opinion on the freedom of satire in general and the satire of religion in particular?

We pull back too much because Islamic nutjobs will get violent because you dared draw a picture that resembled their stupid prophet. By doing that, we are giving them what they want and telling other religious groups that if they get violent enough, we’ll stop to appease them too.

You can mock Jesus, Moses, Krishna and any other religious figure because their followers, at worse, are going to verbally protest, if they do anything at all. But draw fucking Muhammad and people will tell you to knock it off because we don’t want to upset the assholes who will riot and kill people because they can’t handle someone having a differing opinion. Society bends over backwards to not offend Islam out of fear.

In response, we should have doubled down. Make more cartoons, get more vulgar with it…go all in, not stopped to appease them. Some people did for a while immediately after the attack, but not enough and not long enough, imo.

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MyMiniFactory has acquired Thingiverse

As part of our commitment to SoulCrafted content, MyMiniFactory has adopted a zero-tolerance stance on AI generated content on our platform.

Thingiverse is now a SoulCrafted platform. In practice, that means we'll be taking steps to reduce and eventually remove AI-generated designs from the site.

That is really interesting. I wonder how they are going to find those and remove.

Even before the boom of AI, I remember seeing a lot of random crap of unusual shapes just being added together and uploaded. I wonder if they’ll remove those too.

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Unfortunately I’m thinking the general populous is going to eat this up for the same reason as everything else authoritarian: convenience.

“Oh look honey, it’s so convenient now that my ID is on my phone! I already carry this thing everywhere. Why not also my phone and I can leave my wallet at home??”

I really want everyone to fight this. This is not going to end well.

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CAPTCHAs make me lowkey mad

I believe sometimes they fail no matter what because of a condition on your end.

I’ve encountered this behavior when I’m connected to a VPN or on Tor or sometimes because I’m running Linux. I think they will sometimes fail no matter what under these circumstances because the website is too lazy to actually put some effort in additional steps to vetting you.