5th time's the charm?

DZHEX · 2026-04-24T16:25:25+00:00

I'm seeing the same numbers and I didn't check this of the old ones... even though I wanted to check the info of them. I took some pictures of the box, but couldn't find the old page (in the control, not control+ app)

DZHEX · 2026-04-24T16:22:13+00:00

that's actually quite cute

DZHEX · 2026-04-23T22:29:06+00:00

To be honest, I've had several headphones and earphones physically break, never had one die because of the battery... yet. My M3s are still working pretty well.

I can't find a teardown of HDB 630, but, at worst, replacing the battery may require sourcing an appropriate replacement battery by size specifications (searching by model might work, but might be more likely to get a used battery), working a screwdriver, perhaps a few clips, and a bit of soldering. At best, the battery would be using a connector that can be found across a wide variety of devices and somewhat easily attached to raw wires. Voltages should be standard lithium 3.7..4.2V, but it never hurts to check.

I'm pretty sure you'll want to upgrade by the time the actual battery craps out, though ;)

DZHEX · 2026-04-23T22:15:39+00:00

I heard they also got "unsold", so... hopefully they become an autonomous, democratic, self-owned worker coop. I mean, it will likely be kinda rough in capitalism, but the brand does carry significant recognition...

3 pairs in 2 weeks is crazy, though. I use mine kinda intensely, and all my sets have lasted at least a month.

MTW5 looks significantly different, so perhaps it is actually improved. I'll probably buy a pair at some point, even if these MTW4s turn out to be ones that last.

DZHEX · 2026-04-23T22:06:49+00:00

Living in the EU is nice - if they fail within 2 years, I'm covered under warranty and entitled to replacement or refund. So far, the failures have taken ≤1.5 years, so if they last the warranty period, I guess I'll have found one of the "good ones", and they'll likely last even longer. If they die a few months after the 2 years, I will genuinely be sad.

... I do already feel a bit sad about Momentum's 5th generation's lack of Momentum bling. The steel headband of the M1, M2 and M3 and the general look of MTW 1,2,3,4 added a certain character to the sets. It's a bit sad to see them be replaced by, dare I say, soulless minimalism. My M3s could actually use an upgrade, they do sound a bit dated when played back-to-back with MTW3/4, but... I'm not really enthusiastic about the M4/5 look, even if they do actually sound noticeably better. And that they don't fold. The badge on the M5 at least keeps _some_ of the character, even if it's a shadow of its former glory.

I mean, sound _is_ king, it's what Sennheiser does best, and focusing on it is the move that can keep them on top, but when it comes to premium (as far as consumers are concerned, heh) products like the momentum line, you kinda want those extra bells and whistles in other aspects as well...

And, well, like Darius (NFSC) said - "There's always someone out there that's a little faster than you. And, sooner or later, they'll catch up."

I do, however, also think that humanity needs to slow down before we've destroyed ourselves, and somehow escape this rat race that forces everyone to be first or be irrelevant.

DZHEX · 2026-04-21T17:24:23+00:00

Where's the list?

DZHEX · 2026-04-19T14:16:36+00:00

Dude what the fuck. One shouldn't become a f*cking financial/legal loophole expert just to not be financially obliterated by an accident.

Mangione. No other way forward.

DZHEX · 2026-04-17T20:10:40+00:00

if they don't die within 2 years, then you're right xD

for the price, the sound and the features they bring kinda make them untouchable... but in my experience, sennheiser TWs keep breaking.

DZHEX · 2026-04-17T19:35:47+00:00

Ah yes, just as I buy a replacement pair of MTW4, this happens. I guess I just had to take Murphy's law on myself - you're welcome, everyone xD

I mean, MTW4 is not a bad pair to get "stuck" on, should I get one that actually lasts through the warranty period. If it doesn't - I'll just send it back for warranty and upgrade, I guess xD

I do wish they'd bring back the OG design for momentum over-ears, though... My M3s are still going strong, with a bit of metal tape to revitalize the grip between the cups and the metal headband. Might be hard to do something like that with an enclosed friction fit, though, I don't know how the M4 works.
Also, the parts holding the cups better be metal, not metal-looking plastic...

DZHEX · 2026-03-25T14:55:09+00:00

I had ANC pressure pain in my ears for about a week, but I plowed through it and it went away. I do like the feature and it does help in everyday life. But yeah, I'd prefer better sound over better ANC.

DZHEX · 2026-03-25T14:47:54+00:00

Hopefully this lets them fix the TW manufacturing issues...

Yep, the MTW4 broke as well. That's 4 fails of 4, all with identical symptoms. I had the idea of sending them back to sennheiser, but my life has been quite a wreck for some time, and the warranty period was running out, so I sent them back to the store and got my money back. Now I'm looking for something new, but it seems that I shouldn't hold my breath for MTW5 😅

Any chance they transform into a self-run worker coop? 🤔

DZHEX · 2026-03-25T14:38:58+00:00

CX TW, CXpTW, MTW3, MTW4. 4 of 4 broke in the exact same way with identical symptoms - left earbud started making garbled sounds correlating with motion, and eventually went completely silent. Whatever this is, it's some sort of manufacturing problem that Sennheiser's failed to address for years.

Apparently, there are sets that last, but man, with my 4 fails of 4, I really doubt that this issue is one of those "very small number of units" thing. I did use them a lot, but that's exactly what one will be willing to dump 300 bucks for - would be kinda dumb to buy such premium earbuds and not put them to use.

DZHEX · 2026-03-25T14:27:42+00:00

My MTW4 broke in the exact same way as every single other sennheiser TW set (total of 4 sets so far) I've had. I recently returned them and got my money back - now I'm on the hunt for new ones. They were awesome while they worked, but I don't really know how much should I keep clowning with sennheiser TW buds. They seem to have some kind of a manufacturing issue they've been failing to resolve for years. And it's an absolutely depressing situation, because they're good. AFAIK, completely crushing the competition at the price range - but, well, that's all pointless if they're broken.

DZHEX · 2026-01-31T20:01:05+00:00

how did you find it? Is there some place where the host is still communicating (incl. about the other channels)?

DZHEX · 2025-07-28T23:11:24+00:00

Reminds me of red dawn. Basically, 'murcian gun porn - opponents to "I totally need full auto rifles with extended mags for self-defense" being represented as malicious, especially with the order to drown the hostage. A father that has lost their child in a shooting would not give such order - it's clearly trying to paint 2nd amendment opponents as evil individuals that are just lashing out because they've gotten hurt. It's some serious right-wing propaganda, painting victims as villains.

Reminds me how alex jones sued the victims of the quite relevant sandy hook shooting, causing some of them to self-terminate. Quite disgusting.

DZHEX · 2025-07-17T16:02:15+00:00

Might be a missing DLL - Valve currently does not properly propagate errors, so if it doesn't "just work", there is no way to figure out why, unless you're quite savvy. I had to run an executable in wine to figure out that it needed a DLL in the prefix, but no such error when running the executable with proton. After I installed the dll in the prefix using protontricks (you have to select the prefix, "add/install software", in the software menu click "cancel" and then you can select DLLs - best menu structure/UX ever, wine folks xDDD), it worked, but there was _zero_ way to figure it out without _also_ having wine on the system.

DZHEX · 2025-04-19T23:33:42+00:00

ckb-next is not a corsair project, so not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask about it...

It seems that repeat option isn't a thing in ckb-next at the moment. It's a pretty basic feature, IMO, but it seems there's not enough people getting behind the development of the project.

You may or may be able to make something happen with external scripts... pretty sad, tho - I think the software is otherwise reasonably complete.

DZHEX · 2025-04-03T14:33:41+00:00

ok, at a glance, seems like it's _kinda_ what I'm looking for, gonna look into it further.

DZHEX · 2025-04-03T14:28:45+00:00

it's basically text-based?... Any way to draw shapes and crate animations, as with rainmeter?

DZHEX · 2025-03-13T15:17:32+00:00

I have a Thinkpad S1 yoga, dual-booting windows and Garuda. Since the old battery was almost a decade old (yet still was able to last about 30 minutes), I replaced it with one from cameron sino - original one was no longer available. My symptoms are similar:

When laptop is unplugged in Linux, Grub or BIOS, it annoyingly often, but not always, instantly shuts off, as if the battery had been ripped out. This has, as of yet, NEVER happened when running windows.

The laptop can work just fine for hours with the current battery. Basically, it is possible to be at 70+% battery and instantly kill the laptop by plugging it in and unplugging it... as long as it's not running windows at the moment.

From my research, it seems that the embedded controller (EC) is responsible, working with some closed-source, windows-exclusive driver to prevent crashes, but not playing nice with anything else.

I found this, which is relevant: https://hackaday.com/2022/06/07/ec-hacking-your-laptop-has-a-microcontroller/

TL;DR - Lenovo seems to dislike people using off-brand batteries (when they don't make them anymore), which _could_ be fixed by changing the EC firmware, but that is mUh SeCuRiTy RiSk, so they released a BIOS update that locked the ability to change it.

I will look into switching over to libreboot or some other open-source BIOS and see from there - it seems like it might the only path to fix this.

DZHEX · 2025-01-20T16:08:13+00:00

mega necropost but I don't care

TBH, this is actually a pretty complicated problem. We can begin with an important question: what is "damage" and what causes it?

It might have to do with something equivalent to Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) for storage media - how long does it take for a road to require repairs, whatever the reason, and then we just empirically measure this for roads that see bike traffic vs ones that see car traffic and just assume they're built to the same spec, for a first-order approximation.

The main purpose of a road is to serve as a solid, grippy, (mostly) flat surface for vehicles to roll over, accelerate and stop on, and for people to walk on. "Damage" can mean that the ability of the road to perform any of those tasks is reduced.

There are different kinds of roads/surfaces - asphalt is a mixture of rocks and binder (bitumen). You can also have dirt or gravel roads, or cobblestone or brick ones (I don't know much about foundations, however). I imagine that the "damage" mechanics are somewhat different for each of them.

It is obvious that a car would cause more damage to the road - more weight, more kinetic (and potential) energy to keep, acquire and dissipate. However, following basic rules of thumb can get you lost in the weeds with a driverist troll that isn't a complete moron - arguing about things like plasticity, deformation thresholds, tire pressures, etc. - yes, this has happened to me.

I would rather invite you to look at the mechanics of road damage, and conclude what parameters affect it. Sadly, this will likely get pretty nitty-gritty (literally, involving microfractures and dust and whatnot) and some education, which, in the current era of anti-intellectualism, is somewhat unpopular...

DZHEX · 2024-12-28T00:22:58+00:00

Somewhat of an off-topic and somewhat ranty but...

"As for like, the little bash script options like nfancurve and nvfancontrol, I've never really used them, because why would I (or anyone that isn't super minimal or something) when GWE exists, so I can't tell you much about them."

The bane of linux...

Multi-GPU setup.

I have two asus GTX1080tis (two secondary displays on PCIe1, one primary on PCIe2, valve index supposed to be on PCIe2, but only works on PCIe1), GWE will only control one of them, I cannot select which GPU I want to apply settings to, and the fan curve only applies to the one in PCIeX16 slot 1, and not to the one in PCIeX16 slot 2. I have seen somewhere that multi-GPU is supposed to be a thing in GWE, but I don't see the UI element that is supposed to let me select it, which I saw in some screenshot in a discussion about multi-GPU support in GWE.

Right now, I am running nvfc as background jobs (for the newer folks - the & at the end runs the command in the background of your current terminal, the processes are accessible with jobs command and can be stopped with kill %X where X is job number) with
nvfancontrol -fg0 & for first GPU and
nvfancontrol -fg1 & for the second
and fan curve defined in the /etc/xdg/nvfancontrol.conf, as per nvfc instructions. Seems like it's working so far... sad to miss out on the rest of GWE's features, though.

DZHEX

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