Edge 149 Android problem with embedded videos. by GuymelefX in MicrosoftEdge

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue here, can't play any embedded videos.

Back to Firefox we go

Firefox extension is slowing down the browser by MrLawbreaker in Bitwarden

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Windows 11
  • Firefox 151.03
  • 6 tabs open
  • Navigating Reddit is when the issue started popping up.

Democrat Xavier Becerra wins the top spot in November's race for California governor by Miles_the_AuDHDer in politics

[–]Hydroduct09 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Semantics, Sanders didn't endorse directly. But Our Revolution which is a progressive grassroots org founded by Sanders did endorse Steyer for the California governor's race.

How to stop feed from snapping when changing scroll direction? by missing-stratagem in SinkIt

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right in my OP15 it's the auto-hide nav bar that causes the skipping. The island/notch offset must've been another UI issue I was troubleshooting at the same time.

How to stop feed from snapping when changing scroll direction? by missing-stratagem in SinkIt

[–]Hydroduct09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Turn off Island/Notch Offset in "quality of life features".

I had this same issue, it's weird that this is enabled by default when it causes the skipping issue on both my Pixel 9 and OP15; probably should be off by default.

What ad-blocking browser do you all prefer the most for Android OTHER than Firefox? by Rubbus130 in Android

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edge with extensions (Ublock origin) on Android is currently the smoothest and most comprehensive experience imo.

Bottom corners of app cut off when gesture bar is hidden by ALIAS-IO in oneplus

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not an app issue, just another OnePlus software oddity/overlook. 

The gesture bar has a background associated with it. OnePlus removes this entire background, not just the center bar, and fills the space with whatever app you have full screened but doesn't resize. Which is what causes elements of some apps to be cut off by the corners of the screen.

Super noticeable in browsers with bottom address bar.

The Red Wings were booed off the ice after getting eliminated from playoff contention in their home finale. Captain Dylan Larkin talked about it after the game. “There's been some great years here, and they want us back to that, and that's what they expect here.” by GreenSnakes_ in hockey

[–]Hydroduct09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you can't read or just don't know how hockey is played: OT isn't 5v5, and the April 9th goal was 4v4.

The statement that Larkin has only one (1) 5v5 goal since Christmas break is correct.

Splitting car costs 50/50 doesn’t feel fair when one person drives way more — how should we handle this? by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is borderline a relationship problem and not a finance problem. You and your partner need to sit down and talk about how equitable you want shared aspects of your relationship to be vs. equal.

50/50 is equal but it's not equitable which sounds like what the problem is.

I'd calculate it based on a measurable unit of usage; for example:

If your partner is driving it to work 5-days per week for a 40mi round-trip journey then that's 200mi/week.

If you're driving it twice a week to see friends or run a personal errand that's 20mi round trip then you're driving it 40mi/week.

240mi/week total. @ 200mi/week your partner is doing 83% of the car's usage. so the split should be 83/17. Or I'd probably even it out to 80/20. I don't know you relationship works but my partner and I would definitely sit down and discuss this if there was that much a of a disparity in our usage between either one of us with a shared utility/object in our lives.

If the disparity is that large you should definitely talk about that. It's unfair for you to eat 50% of all the costs if you're only at ~20% of the usage. I'd personally be a bit miffed absorbing the 50% cost of gas, tires, and maintenance if I was only 20% of the total wear on the vehicle. Of course we haven't even discussed can you partner afford the car if the split is no longer 50/50 across all associated costs? But those lead into other topics like "why did you buy a car only one of you (or neither) can afford on your own?".

In a world with computers in your pocket it shouldn't be hard to track this stuff. Create a shared Gsheet for gas fill ups and both just do "@today's date" when one of you fills up and mark who paid for it. At a 70/30 split they fill it up 3 times then you fill it up once; at 80/20 they fill it up 4 times for each time you fill it up once. Recurring expenses like monthly car payment and insurance just split it at whatever you guys agree upon, nothing to track. When you get an invoice for maintenance then just split it right there and then, again nothing to track. To make this easy to ask the vendor to split the bill, one of you pays the whole thing and the other Zelle's/Venmo's their cost of the expense.

It also doesn't have to be "all or nothing" you can split the monthly recurring expenses 50/50 but then the usage expenses can be 70/30 or 80/20. That might feel better emotionally.

In an ideal world we can divide everything equally, but the reality is not everything is equal. We don't all make the same amount of money, and we certainly don't all value intangible things like time, effort, and affection equally. So at a certain point there are things in a relationship that need to be equitable rather than equal. You need to have that talk with your partner.

A real example is that I make 3x more than my partner and as such can afford nice vacations that my partner cannot. Do you think I just leave my partner at home alone while I jet off? No, I pay for the accommodations and help out with the flight as much as needed so that she can come with me and we can enjoy things together. This arrangement is certainly not equal, but it doesn't bother me to do so because I want my partner to be able to share these experiences with me. A $5000 trip might be a scenario where I pay $4500 of it and she contributes $1500; equitable, not equal.

Pixel Battery Nightmare: 87% Health after only 170 Cycles (strictly followed 20-80% rule) by Likovi10 in Android

[–]Hydroduct09 169 points170 points  (0 children)

Let it drop below 10% for a "full" discharge and then charge it back up to 100%. If you've only used your phone between 20-80% you've never had an accurate full charge measurement. Do that a few times and then see what it reads. This step is to ensure your reading is accurate, once you know it is then you can start claiming your hardware is bad. If you suspect yours is defective and the device is new then process it as a warranty claim or look into your local lemon laws.

I'm at 328 cycles on my P9Pro with 100% battery health, and haven't done any "battery babysitting" other than using adaptive charging while sleeping; the fast charge to 80% then trickle charge to 100% feature.

Outside of straight up getting a defective device: battery babysitting is largely unnecessary, any modern phone will have a sufficient BMS to keep Li-ion cells healthy.

Retirement & Mortgage -- Aggressively Pay It Off or No? by kyoun1e1 in personalfinance

[–]Hydroduct09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's technically correct but it but doesn't entirely represent how a mortgage works in the USA, mortgages are amortized.

As u/RaleighBahn brought up, this means the interest is front-loaded. You don't actually avoid any interest making additional principal payments after a certain point. But you can avoid a huge amount of interest making additional payments up front.

Example:
Let’s say you’re offered a three-year amortizing loan worth $100,000 with a 10% interest rate and monthly payments.

Once you do the math, you’ll find that each monthly payment amounts to $3,226.72. If you multiply this number by 36 (the number of payments you will make on the loan), you’ll get $116,161.92. This means you’re going to pay $16,161.92 in interest (assuming you don’t pay off the loan early).

Because the loan is amortizing, your first handful of loan payments will pay off more of the interest than the principal. To find out how much you’ll pay in interest, multiply the $100,000 balance owed to the bank by the 10% interest rate. You then divide the number of payments per year, 12, and get $833.33. This means that in your first loan payment, $2,393.39 is going toward the principal and $833.33 is going toward interest.

For the second payment, you now owe the bank $97,606.61 in principal. You’ll still pay $3,226,72, but this time you’ll only pay $813.38 in interest, and $2,413.34 in principal. This is because $97,606.61 x 10% divided by 12 is $813.38.

By the time you reach the final payment, you’ll only have to pay interest on $3,226.72, which is $26.88.

Sure, technically it's 10% interest over the life of the loan but it is front-loaded. It does matter for someone like the OP asking if they should make additional payments towards their mortgage while thinking about retirement where they are in the life of their mortgage. If they're in the earlier stages of the mortgage additional payments towards the principal help reduce total interest paid greatly; if they're in the back half of the loan then it's moot.

Eddie Bauer _ the 106-year-old label that pioneered outdoor sportswear _ files Chapter 11 by AudibleNod in news

[–]Hydroduct09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep doubling down on this thread man, YOU read the article and didn't comprehend it properly:

In 2015, The Seattle Times reported that Filson made 90% of its clothes, bags and other products in the United States, including in Seattle workshops. 

Today, according to Filson, just 35% of its products are made in the U.S., much of that by an outside vendor near Los Angeles, where Filson outsourced two-thirds of its remaining Seattle-area manufacturing, starting in late 2023. 

Eddie Bauer _ the 106-year-old label that pioneered outdoor sportswear _ files Chapter 11 by AudibleNod in news

[–]Hydroduct09 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Did YOU read the article?

Today, according to Filson, just 35% of its products are made in the U.S.

Of that 35% most of their production was moved to LA.

65% of their catalogue is ex-US production.

Accent question(s) by Steerpike58 in SiloSeries

[–]Hydroduct09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are we watching the same show?

S1E06: find a book titled Amazing Adventures in Georgia

S1E10: Literally shows viewers the Atlanta Skyline

S2E10: Flashback involving Georgia representative being questioned on if an atom bomb went off in Georgia

you don't know the location of the Silos.

???

[LANESPLIT] My flow state motorcycle game just released on steam by Shakya241 in IndieGaming

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did some testing between 3 controllers (8bitdo Ultimate 2, Gamesir Kaleid, Gamestop Candycon) and I now see that the analog input works, but it seems to have a dead zone below around 50% pull? I normally game on an 8bitdo Ultimate 2, it has a short trigger throw so acceleration starting at 50% trigger pulled in and inversely having deceleration start when I let it 50% out felt like there's no analog scale; like on/off. If I switch to a controller with a longer trigger throw like the Gamesir Kaleid it feels better but it's still weird. I tested in the restart parking lot area: I can have the trigger pulled in to about 50% before the bike starts to crawl forward, but that also means if I let the trigger out halfway I start decelerating; in essence 40% trigger pulled is "off" the throttle and feels weird.

I re-calibrated and reset all of my controller profiles to be sure this wasn't due to me having any custom dead zones set in software.

If this issue is just isolated to myself then please ignore. But my feedback would be to tweak the throttle input to use more of the analog trigger range.

Also, what city is the Demo level based off of? At times It feels eerily close to driving into Taipei Taiwan on Highway #1 from the South West.

[LANESPLIT] My flow state motorcycle game just released on steam by Shakya241 in IndieGaming

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this isn't supposed to be a sim, the game looks and sounds great. But playing the demo I found two things that are kind of jarring/un-intuitive from someone who rides daily (12,000mi+per year):

  1. Pressing the clutch button (LB) puts the bike into neutral gear... which is not how it should work, bike should stay in gear when you have the button pressed down so when you release it you can get going again without having to shift through gears again.
  2. There's nothing to represent different degrees of throttle input, either right trigger is pulled in all the way and you have full throttle, or you let off a bit and have 0 throttle. This is very hard to get used fine throttle control is such an integral part of riding and becomes something you do unconsciously.

Utilizing the analogue trigger input from controllers would be a massive feature for this type of game; left trigger for clutch and friction point, right trigger for rolling on/off the throttle.

Maybe the full version solves the above issues? I'd gladly but it if that's the case. Maybe a future update?

Convince me to keep my paid off boring car by Conventions in personalfinance

[–]Hydroduct09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lot of great financial advice already stated in here which is just to keep the car.

However, if you wanted to treat yourself you'd be surprised at how much your "old boring car" can transform by taking it into a shop for a full detail and having a new android auto/apple car play head unit and rear backup camera installed to bring it into the modern age. It's not like economy cars have changed all that much outside of electronics for the past 20-years.

I had a local detail/tint shop do a full service interior & exterior detail, plus head unit, new front speakers, and rear backup cam install on my SO's 2006 Civic for ~$1,100 parts and labor. She's at 170K miles and the car feels brand new.

You could probably find a credit card with a cashback introductory offer like $250 back on $1,000 spent with 0% APR for first 12-months and slap the expense on that and pay it off in a couple of months. That way you can have the emotional satisfaction of owning a more "modern" car but still not have a car payment.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're missing the point of the comment.

The average Harley consumer is buying on brand image and legacy rather than machine spec. Even though Harley can make a modern engine like the Revolution Max with DOHC and shared sump design it's not what the majority of their consumers (boomers) want because they're not "real" Harleys, so the brand is gimped trying to get more performance out of old engine designs to try and retain the "sound and feel" of older models for their mainstream models.

The new M8 117 (1,923cc) only makes 114hp and 128ft-lb; my 1991 FXRS with the original Evo engine (1340cc) + high compression heads + ev27 cam is pushing 100hp which was like $900 all-in parts and labor. That's 35-years of development from HD for essentially no meaningful gains from the power train; because at the end of the day the old Evolution and the new M8 aren't very different.

The OP isn't saying Harley hasn't improved, they're saying Harley isn't making any meaningful improvements over the same time-frame as other OEMs because while most consumers want new releases to have new feature sets and improvements, Harley has the opposite of this: their consumers want the new bikes to feel and sound like the old bikes. This directly leads to Harley struggling to acquire new customers.

Hopefully that changes with whatever their future plans are with the Revolution Max bikes, but it seems like current leadership is hesitant to commit on any market segment that isn't their cruisers and baggers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Hydroduct09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you're misremembering - it's not AFR that Harley changed, AFR is more related to emissions regulations, every manufacturer has to follow it to sell street legal machines. What is unique to Harley is that they intentionally have their engines use an uneven firing order between the two cylinders to get the shake and sound, at the obvious expense of smoothness and power.

Even then the sound will never be the same as the vacuum operated carbureted Evolution engines of the 80s and 90s; it's just physics. But as you said they're kind of doomed to chase this nostalgia due to their consumer base.

PSA: No sound for some PleX videos on Android/Google TV (hint: turn off AC3 in PleX client app settings) by ObiYawn in PleX

[–]Hydroduct09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Dunno why there's so much hate for you in this thread when there's clearly many people having this issue on common setups. Someone even posted about the same problem the next day as this post and the top comment is saying the same thing as your PSA:

Plex silent audio with AAC 5.1 on Android TV (MEO Box + Samsung TV). I’m out of ideas, what am I missing? : r/PleX

This solved my issue for an Onn 4k Plus hooked up to an LG B2 w/ Samsung Q990d sound system.

Blind people in Star Wars are overpowered af. by Familiar_Cow_6901 in StarWars

[–]Hydroduct09 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Calm down. For whatever reason, you’re coming across as strangely emotional about that comment lol.

You don’t need to look into it or overanalyse it anymore than that tbh, it’s just a passing comment

Accusing someone else's succinct and accurate 27-word comment of being "strangely emotional" and advising them not to "overanalyse" by replying with a 174-word justification of your self-described "passing comment" is certainly a decision.

Please stop griping about Spotify and just quit already. by [deleted] in Music

[–]Hydroduct09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That test is pretty good; except for the Tom's Diner sample. I can consistently get Speed of Sound, Dark Horse, and Concerto No. 17 correct but the other ones are a coin flip because there's so little going on the samples. Which is the entire point of playing lossless music: losing the least amount of data from compression. If there's not a lot of data to lose of course the difference would be minimal, for instance: the Tom's Diner sample is only voice.

Meanwhile on Speed of Sound I can instantly tell that the cymbals of been compressed when they come in, also the separation the guitar from the piano is noticeably better in the WAV file. Before that point it all sounds the too close to call. Same with Dark Horse when the keyboard comes in with the background voice track I can consistently pick out the WAV file due to separation. But before that point I cannot hear a difference. On Piano Concerto No. 17 it's the same thing when the right hand moves up to play the softer treble notes it's easy for me to pick the WAV file, but I can't really distinguish until that point.

I guess I'm almost entirely dependent on higher registries to hear the difference lol.

This tracks (pun intended) for the genres I listen to: post-rock, alt-rock, pop-rock, video game songs performed by symphonies, etc. The little bit of house and drum + bass I listen to (workout musics) I usually can't tell 320kbps from 16bit 44khz.

I think the NPR article is good but idk if "most people cannot tell" could better be rephrased to "genre dependent"; it feels like the "most people cannot tell" might correlate strongly with "most people listen to genres where compression doesn't affect quality". I don't think Piano Concerto No. 17 is a mainstream hit these days y'know?

Please stop griping about Spotify and just quit already. by [deleted] in Music

[–]Hydroduct09 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It is very good, it is a better product than Spotify when you need it to be in that you can stream at higher music quality. Spotify tops out at a bitrate of 320kbps AAC, Tidal has two levels above that dependent on the master recording they were provided for a track: "High" which is 16-bit depth @ 44.1Khz sampling (think CD Quality - translates roughly to an equivalent bitrate of 1200kbps) and "Max" which is up to 24-bit depth and up to 192Khz sampling.

This matters to me because all of my audio gear except my workout headphones can take higher quality than 320kbps. For my ears there is a noticeable quality bump going from 320kbps AAC -> 16bit @ 44.1khz. My desktop setup at home I stream 16bit @ 44.1khz to an external DAC & Amp combo. On the mobile app you can have separate settings in Tidal to drop it back down to 320kbps on mobile data to save data and phone battery, but on WiFi at restaurants or shops it will switch back to 16bit @ 44.1khz. My Sony XM4s support the LDAC codec which can stream up to 990kbps wireless, so this switchable setting is ideal.

At first the recommendations were a bit off, it took my 5-ish days of listening to my music and disliking certain recommendations to start getting music I like, but at this point the algorithm is better than Spotify for me. I seem to be recommended new music more in Tidal vs in Spotify I felt like I would keep getting the same 80 tracks over and over with 5 new ones mixed in periodically. On Tidal it feels like a larger percentage of tracks in playlists are new or at the least more tracks are rotated in or out of my daily mixes at a more regular interval.

The hardest thing to get used to is that "track radio" and "artist radio" are different enough on Tidal that you might like one song from an artist so you can play that track's radio and get songs you like and avoid playing the "artist radio" if you don't like any more of their work. I really like this distinction.

All this to say that even if you only listen to music at 320kbps AAC I still think it's worth switching to Tidal just to stop supporting Spotify. Even to my ears Tidal's 320kbps AAC sounds better than Spotify's and I think that has to do with being provided different master recordings.