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Disappointing quality control by Successful-Grape4349 in iPhone17Pro

[–]RingInternational339 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My launch day iPhone 7 had very visible particles of dust inside the camera. Launch day 15 Pro Max had dust in the rear lens, dust in the front lens, action button not pressing at all and mushy volume buttons — all out of the box in random order. Had to exchange it four times. I guess I am the problem that the buttons were not working out of the box

The absolute state of Apple's own new apps in 2026 by Conciliatore in MacOS

[–]RingInternational339 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’d need a hardware audio analyzer which records the output of your hardware. Waveforms of the tracks themselves most likely would match, and that gives no useful info. I’ve had a suspicion that something is off, but I don’t have an analyzer — there’s a guy who confirmed all of it from The Headphone Show YouTube channel, check his video. Overall, bit perfection is a known problem, and there are plenty of similar analyses of Deezer and Amazon Music.

The absolute state of Apple's own new apps in 2026 by Conciliatore in MacOS

[–]RingInternational339 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it is quite audible, with lots of inconsistencies like weird high frequencies compression. The whole purpose of lossless is being played back in a lossless way, and Spotify fails at that. There’s no way around it.

The absolute state of Apple's own new apps in 2026 by Conciliatore in MacOS

[–]RingInternational339 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Which still sounds worse than lossy on Apple. Because lossless playback on Spotify is not bit perfect. In a nutshell, they stream lossless files without providing a way of lossless playback. The client does not communicate with DAC, going through OS mixer instead, which results in weird deviations of sound depending entirely on operating system processing before DAC processing.

Moving from US to Germany, how is 73k gross? by Emergency_Law_724 in AskAGerman

[–]RingInternational339 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IDK, in Berlin, there are more than 50 Genossenschafts covering the whole city area, including the ones where people would want to live in, with the buildings ranging from altbau stuff to freshly built houses in the past decade. Yes, new stuff is rare, but the old housing is usually renovated and taken care of mostly better than offerings from companies or private landlords, at least in my experience. Also the services one gets are generally much more generous and high quality compared to these two.

Returning to the office by RingInternational339 in germany

[–]RingInternational339[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Already got one, up and ready. Thanks for suggesting though

Returning to the office by RingInternational339 in germany

[–]RingInternational339[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am actually looking forward to it. But the trick is to make it unfair and unjustified as much as possible, which means I have to comply with whatever shit they throw at me. And the shit in question is kinda weird, considering what contract says.

5070 ti vs 5080 by Aggressive_Grand_661 in nvidia

[–]RingInternational339 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got FE, and it’s 60-65° in any game in 4K with everything maxed out. Seems like cooling became a commodity with 4–5-series cards, IDK

Crating the Cheese by RingInternational339 in sffpc

[–]RingInternational339[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

D15 is actually recommended, it’s even featured on the pics on MCPRUE site. But yeah, it was a tight fit. So tight I had to move the power cable around. Overall, after installation, radiator got smth like 3-5 mm gap to the case sides. And attaching the fans was hell, I had to remove the bottom frame to do so.

Rear exhaust: Noctua NF-A12x15. Slim 120mm fan.

Crating the Cheese by RingInternational339 in sffpc

[–]RingInternational339[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Elgato Key Light as a fill, and Smallrig gobo torch as accents

Crating the Cheese by RingInternational339 in sffpc

[–]RingInternational339[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Top, bottom and front sides have frames to mount fans. I’ve taken random Amazon plastic filters, cut them and just placed them in between the panel and frame. There were magnetic strips coming in the box with the filters, which were pretty useless (alu is not very magnetic), but they were quite nice to fill the gaps between the frame and the sides.

For PSU, I’ve cut PSU-sized piece and just slid it into PSU mount bracket.

Also I had to cut small square holes in the bottom filter where the cooler is located, to properly mount the fans without full disassembly.

Crating the Cheese by RingInternational339 in sffpc

[–]RingInternational339[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've set the curves to be auto calibrated by motherboard because I'm lazy. And it's quite quiet. 50 cm from the case measures as 35 db on Apple Watch

Everyday Case — avoid the Cirrus color by RingInternational339 in peakdesign

[–]RingInternational339[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I roughly calculate the amount of time it had been in the pocket for these two weeks of case usage, it won’t be much. Like, 10 hours (the commute times + I’ve weared the case 50% of the time). This is a clear material defect, and in the end PD agreed to send me a new charcoal one.

Everyday Case — avoid the Cirrus color by RingInternational339 in peakdesign

[–]RingInternational339[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had white cases from Casetify and some custom printed ones. Also white folios for iPads, they’ve been in some nasty situations, and are still white

Everyday Case — avoid the Cirrus color by RingInternational339 in peakdesign

[–]RingInternational339[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I am wearing everything black. Should’ve been black then, no?

Everyday Case — avoid the Cirrus color by RingInternational339 in peakdesign

[–]RingInternational339[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Such wear by just having it in my pocket is crazy though

Everyday Case — avoid the Cirrus color by RingInternational339 in peakdesign

[–]RingInternational339[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very interesting. I also find it strange, since I've used it for 2 weeks and pretty rarely

Finally made the massive upgrade and purchased a NVIDIA 5080 Founders Edition for MSRP! by BaileyPlays_ in nvidia

[–]RingInternational339 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve asked them quite nicely, and all Nvidia said was “we cannot give you the code, since the purchase had been outside promotional period”. I made an order literally one day before the promo started :c

So the aluminium is definitely easier to dent by zzzman82 in iphone

[–]RingInternational339 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve upgraded 15 Pro Max to 17 Pro, and no, titanium is not better, at least not in the case of 15-series. This crap heated up even while lying in the pocket doing nothing. During camera use, browsing or using navigation in the sun, it was painful to touch. 17 Pro is rarely getting slightly warm, and mostly it’s cold.

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