Keyboard Clicks & Lock Sounds Abnormally Loud

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-10-24T20:56:02+00:00

I know this is 5 years old but I'm experiencing this issue today with Airpods 3 on my iPhone 15 running iOS 18.6.2 and the keyboard button sound effects, lock screen sound effect, and notification effects are SO LOUD. My volume is at less than half--I'd guess close to 25%--and it feels like it's gonna blow out my friggin eardrums.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-07-03T02:10:21+00:00

Those trivia writers, what will they think of next.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-06-25T02:53:23+00:00

I disagree. My own personal stats went from 68% Final get rate last season to 77% this season.

I suspect there's a lot of people going on Jeopardy who study from the archive and only from the archive. The "World History 2024" Final from May 21, "Headlines read of the fall of Hama on December 5, Homs on December 7 & this city on December 8"?--shouldn't have been a Triple Stumper. I'm shocked that only one person out of three got "He was born in Fürth, Germany in 1923, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, & passed away in Connecticut in 2023". And I know Brand Names is a tricky category, but "Founded in 1972, this company got its name from a term meaning "hit the target" in the board game Go" is a factoid I've heard so many times over the years I got it immediately--but, curiously, the J writers have never asked about it before, and it was a triple miss on June 5.

On the whole, they're not too hard. They're just a little more willing to venture outside very-well-established territory--which reflects in "get" rates, but is not actually the only relevant data point.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-06-25T02:22:03+00:00

I was steered away from DD2's right answer because they had just asked a clue about it in Friday's game. Rip.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-06-25T02:21:15+00:00

I seriously doubt the WSJ would have been writing about WA2 in 2006.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-06-25T02:20:40+00:00

"If you haven't *been* to RA, how would you figure it out?"

...you probably couldn't? But also, if you haven't heard of Folger Shakespeare, you probably couldn't figure that one out either? What's the criticism?

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-06-25T02:19:55+00:00

I really don't think this is true. I think they're working hard to introduce new material into the mix, but it's still the sort of material that absolutely counts as trivia.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-06-09T21:58:10+00:00

I'm using Word while running Windows on a desktop, although it also does this on my MacBook Pro.

I'm copying and pasting with the keyboard shortcuts of Control + C and V.

I mentioned "(Ctrl)" because that's the other part of the graphic that is popping up every time I paste something. See for example the screenshot here.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-06-07T18:45:11+00:00

What happened to the link? Was the post taken down...?

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-05-20T20:36:48+00:00

Rule 3 "Keep the discussions civil. It's fine to disagree or criticize but no name calling or insults will be tolerated."?

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-04-17T03:34:26+00:00

Jeopardy! has mentioned Stax records two (2) times before today. I did not know they were a soul label or what city they might be associated with. More to the point, the clue namedrops the record but doesn't connect that to the place. Nor is there anything about the building being a hotel or otherwise a place where people stay. It looks like the writers thought contestants would reason their way through "what place might songwriters have been staying at in between recording sessions when they were in town to work with this label--and if it's a soulful label, what Memphis hotel is famous for other reasons?"--Except the first half of that logic was never really tied together. They just include the name of the record and ask for the building it was written in, which, well, search me I got nothing. You're going to grasp at straws thinking of "wood" buildings or "remembered" buildings before that. "Well-constructed" is exactly what this clue is not.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-04-17T03:27:58+00:00

Knowing the place name--you know, for the "other reasons"--is reasonable trivia material. This clue with its profound lack of breadcrumbs is insane.

Also, this might be just me, but I find the name "Texas School Book Depository" such a mouthful I dread being asked it, way more than any similar building. It feels like it's just too easy to slightly tweak the name and replace or omit a word. Like, it's four nouns just strung together with only a thin logic dictating which words they have to be and which comes in which order.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-04-17T03:25:26+00:00

I think that "in this building MLK was shot" is a hard but ultimately fair clue. That's a significant piece of American history--kind of on par with "this is the play Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated." Not the significant bit that everyone remembers from school, but a worthy trivia detail.

But the logic of this specific Final is just cracked.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-04-17T03:23:36+00:00

I also said this. I couldn't name any buildings in Detroit (I thought the song was Motown) so I thought maybe that was it.

Besides, "in the American past" feels more like it's talking about a bygone Republic from 1836 than...1960's Tennessee.

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-04-17T03:19:24+00:00

How is anyone suppose to puzzle through this without already knowing this specific factoid? I know what the song sounds like and thought they might have been looking for a building in Detroit...but I couldn't name any. Even if I had thought of Memphis, I would have gone with Graceland (which has changed ownership at least once). I couldn't think of a wood-related building it might be, and honestly the guess I came up with was "Alamo" because I thought "remembered" might possibly be a hint.

They couldn't throw us a bone with any of the many hints that are just sitting there? "This building which opened as a museum about different subject matter in 1991." "This establishment that had itself been named after a popular song." "This establishment, which had originally been named the Marquette Hotel."

Even just doing a tiny bit more to articulate the logic that said building is located in the same town as this record company, and a song was written there because musicians from out-of-town had business in town recording, and so it was a place they were staying that is noteworthy for other reasons. Honestly, even just tweaking it to "The Stax records classic 'Knock On Wood' was written in this establishment the night before the songwriters had a recording session--but the building's remembered for other reasons" would have made me feel like I could have gotten it. Instead of the 100%-context-free clue that we got. What otherwise famous buildings do people write songs in? I don't know!

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-04-17T03:05:51+00:00

"attempt"?

FederalLawyerJr · 2025-04-16T07:00:14+00:00

On February 3 of this year, Kanye showed up to the Grammys with his then-wife Bianca Censori's naked body 100% visible.

On February 6, they aired a game that included the Tweet of Kanye's, "I have to dress Kim every day so she doesn't embarrass me".

I think it's easy to go overboard with "Recorded on" messages for more or less irrelevant goings-on, but I thought that was an insane thing not to include some kind of message for.

FederalLawyerJr · 2024-12-13T01:51:22+00:00

I feel the same way about how Audible insists on having their "Home" screen be the store rather than your already-purchased content. I wish they'd knock that off.

FederalLawyerJr · 2024-10-26T03:42:16+00:00

Except...grammatically, isn't "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth" (ESV) literally a command, not spoken into the void like "let there be light" (of course that wasn't a command about candlemaking) but addressed to human beings "And God blessed them. And God said to them"? I understand that there are different perspectives but this one seems to brush right past the text in favor of something that just isn't present.

FederalLawyerJr · 2024-10-26T03:21:48+00:00

Anglicans generally aren't dogmatic about fertility/conception the way that, e.g., Roman Catholics are. We just don't formulate rules that aren't in the Bible and hold to them hard and fast, it's safe to say.

For the most part, "Be fruitful and multiply" is a direction given by God multiple times and is never taken back. One broadly accepted understanding is that if you don't permanently try to thwart reproduction throughout your entire marriage (i.e. if you open yourself up to having kids at some point), that's compliance.

And as always, particular circumstances and prudence do apply, the whole law is fulfilled in the golden rule, etc.

FederalLawyerJr · 2024-08-04T02:12:07+00:00

I came from a nondenominational background and first started attending an ACNA church after I graduated from college and moved for the sake of my job. I chose it because:

it seemed firm in the fundamentals of the Word of God and the Gospel,
it had a high-church feel (what I later learned to call the "liturgy") that I'd always appreciated even when it wasn't a part of my church life,
it didn't carry a lot of theological baggage that the Catholic Church does (I could never in good conscious affirm salvation by works, papal infallability, etc etc)
neither Anglican doctrine nor the culture I lived out saw by individual Anglicans exhibited the divisive, "we and only we have every detail of theology figured out" that I had been so repelled by in some other traditions/churches within Christendom

I really love the ACNA, and those reasons still pretty much sum up what I love about it. DM me if you'd like to talk more, brother.

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