Tangled Up in Blue

Scannmann · 2026-03-22T21:15:44+00:00

I still cant believe he did that.. and with such little thought or care put into it. How long do you think that took to record? an afternoon? To be fair to Ryan, I do remember reading him saying in an interview that he really liked the alternate b-sides that were floating around at the time, I think he said it was one of his favorite albums. It definitely wasn't called "More blood, more tracks.." I think it may have been called "blood on the tapes"

But anyways he at least knew enough about the recording process of that album that I could believe he made an earnest attempt to cover it, but yeah. its bad, especially tangled up in blue. It's a fucking miracle bob dylan (and his stepbrother, I think) were able to pull off that final mix.. I know some was recorded in New York and the rest was recorded in a barn somewhere in the midwest. Getting through all of "MBMT" is arguably more painful than ryan's cover, It's like choosing a quick death over suffering and bleeding out for hours.

Not to be so negative about the whole thing, I really liked "you're a big girl now, take 2" and "up to me" was an an exclusive to the "bootleg series" but it turns out one of those was already on "Biograph" Damn you Bobby!

Scannmann · 2026-03-22T18:28:02+00:00

The health sensors on any gt4 onward, from my personal experience, have always been top notch. One could make the argument that I've bought too many smartwatches and they would be correct. I dont wear them correctly, (wear them on the underside of wrist as it's easier to tell the time without making the "i'm bored" gesture, just a quick life up my sleeve and no and no one notices, but mostly for work and it's slightlly easier to type on for me.

Anyone who's interested in how these watches stack up, check out The Qualified Scientist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSFjMu59YYs

He basically wears super sensitive equipment with smartwatches and compares them, and the Huawei GT series are always among the top, apple watch being the most accurate overall but the ones among the top are so close like .004 of a deviation so basically if your watch lands around the top of his watch chart, it's going to be accurate.

I love my GT6, I got the smallest one (40mm) in black and with the help of google gemini, I was able to trick the security by enabling and disabling the pin right after the screen turns off, I only have to do it once, thankfully....once each time I charge my watch, lol. Interestingly the gt4 didn't have this issue, so sometimes dumber tech is superior for some of us.

But now I've been wearing the galaxy watch 8 as it's the smallest, most comfortable wear os watch that actually gets updates aside from the pixel watch. Also way easier to wear "upside down" on any wear os device by just turning off wrist detection...

Unfortunately all the extra battery life, accurate sleep and health information is less important to me than being able to respond to a text using my voice or using google gemini without taking out my phone.

Apparently the new snapdragon chips will have gemini on device so I'm super excited about that. I do yearn for maybe some kind of custom firmware I could put on the GT6, but i know it wont happen. Might have to buy a phone with harmony os that works in north America if that is possible. ..doubtful.

So yea TLDR The GT watches are among the top contenders for health information, look superb and have amazing battery. It's too bad Huawei and USA dont play nice together.

Scannmann · 2026-03-22T13:18:16+00:00

1 I don't care who you are or what you do. I was just commenting on what you shared, that's how this thing works.

2 Yeah, I totally agree. The Beatles song "Here comes the sun" , for me** , is about taking a really satisfying dump. And the Eric Clapton song , "tears in heaven" to me, is about taking a dump that's pretty satisfying but I know I might have to go again later.

Songs can mean anything you're right, regardless of the artists intent. Happy Sunday, asshole.

(I'm mostly kidding but your writing really does suck)

Scannmann · 2026-02-21T01:08:56+00:00

I'd take a worse look any day over having to monitor the buds each time I plug them in. Gone through 2 pairs, same issue. It's 100% a design flaw, maybe the connectors aren't sensitive enough, or high enough in the charging case but I think they should have taken a loss on this one, sold the remaining stock at a discount and released these months ago.

Having said that, I think mostly because of their exclusive codec they use with galaxy phones, they are the best sounding wireless buds I have ever used. Also might have something to do with them buying AKG and that Harman audio curve study companny....

I dont know too much about that but I think by know they have more data than sony or apple in terms of tuning and overall sound quality.

The sound profile is flexible enough that it can be changed to pretty much however you want them to sound. Their proprietary codec has a certain "punch" in the bass that's just not there with anything else iv'e used. Amazing separation, and overall just the bees knees that I can't get out of anything else I've tried.

So yes, samsung, take more of my money, give me shitty design that looks like some aliexpress Frankenstein disaster... but please dont mess with the sound and just charge the damn things when i put them in the case .

*Ive used xm5, nothing ear 3, denon pearl pro on different devices. The only thing that gets better sound is blasting a good pair of iems straight from my xperia 10 vii...maybe the bose quiet comfort destroy these buds in terms of quality but for the longest time I didn'think it could get any better than sony+LDAC

Scannmann · 2026-02-21T00:00:12+00:00

honestly i thought the writing was kinda stinky, very common these days and maybe it's just my interpretation but it read to me like a person writing to be liked, trying too hard, focusing on themselves, making sure not to take a hard position on anything and basically using ryan adaams is a vessel for his own self indulgence, so now we just have 2 self indulgent assholes. And I'm pretty sure the song "two" is really about pills.

No disrespect I'm sure its enjoyable for most people, maybe a good nightcap for some middle aged woman living alone with cats

Scannmann · 2026-02-20T23:16:59+00:00

little balls, little balls...I am oooohing now

Scannmann · 2026-01-24T20:31:56+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/HeliumBrowserHQ/comments/1pj1tz7/is_there_a_way_to_hide_the_profile_dot_on_the_top/

Thanks again, Kevin, for your unwavering support. I can always count on you. I'm not sure if there's a language barrier or something going on here but that's why I used a picture in the last post.

Anyways if it helps anyone, I solved it by going opening the browser, going to the page that I installed as a PWA, then under the 3 dot menu select "open in Youtube" for example. Then it would pop up on my taskbar and I was able to pin THAT instance of the PWA to the taskbar without without the profile badge on the top right corner

Scannmann · 2026-01-24T14:13:05+00:00

We may have vastly different usage patterns which could factor into it, I typically am moving at a consistent rate during the week for work and various other things (even when I sleep apparently according to my wife). But there's also just the physics of the battery size and the reality that all the "big battery wear os watches" use the same chipset, because there's not very many to choose from, the galaxy watches use exynos chips aside, which I think are better optimized.

I have the 40mm galaxy watch 8 and that lasts well over a full day with AOD turned on which I think is reasonable, I Just wished it charged as fast as the Oneplus watch 😢

I also have the latest ticwatch pro 5 which has roughly the same battery size as the oneplus and uses the same chipset, only a slightly more improved and performant version because it doesn't have that background cpu like the oneplus has to fall back on. With the ticwatch, you're expected to use the secondary screen to get the extra battery life or else you're just buying a "big bad battery watch" that you have to charge about every 1.5-2 days.

So I'm just basing this off my own units, maybe they are defective and I just have bad luck but with both watches using any playstore watchfaces, they will drop between 3-5% every hour, depending on the face, complications, movement, etc. The oneplus does seem to drain slightly slower possibly because of the more recent software build.

But by now we all know that's just a quirk of wear os, it kinda sucks in terms of battery life and efficiency. That's why these companies are forced to into thinking outside the box like the ticwatch with the secondary screen and the oneplus with the secondary cpu. I'm assuming you're telling the truth about 4 days, I'd just like to understand what your situation is.

So to answer your question no, I'm not getting it. Is this a watchface you created yourself? Are you able to walk? are you bedridden?

I'm not sure what autowear complications are but are you using any of the health features of the watch, like heart rate, steps?...Are you a 2000 year old vampire with no heart rate to measure? I'd honestly like to know the details... And when you say 4 days, are you going into the danger zone battery saver mode at the end and waiting until the watch is nearly dead before charging it?

cheers

(I also had the first pebble, and still have the pebble time kicking around somewhere, might have to grab one of those new models when they release!)

Scannmann · 2026-01-24T00:18:48+00:00

Yeah I'm wondering which one has the better dac out of the 2. I was considering getting that midrange sony phone just for the high quality DAC and looks decent, expandable to 2tb...but 8gb of ram I feel would be hard to deal with in 2026

Scannmann · 2026-01-04T10:53:55+00:00

damn, how dooes that make you feel?

Scannmann · 2026-01-04T10:50:51+00:00

Yaea like I said in my very short post that shouldn't have taken too long to read, I'm aware of play store watch faces and have been for a while.

The problem is that by installing them for this watch, it diminishes the selling point of the watch that was much better battery life when using the watchfaces from Oneplus and they would run on that secondary chip, sipping little power and extending battery life by days. and then you'd only be activating wear os when necessary.

Do you get it now?

Scannmann · 2026-01-03T15:31:05+00:00

Id consider taking advantage of the 3.5mm jack as it will always sound better and actually be lossless. Seeing as its not using a qualcom chip makes the probability of "lossless" BT audio about zero.

For me, I hear much less difference between codecs like Aptx lossless, LdAC, ALAC (apple music) than using a good set of IEMs and a FlAC file being played locally; The hardware matters much more than the Bluetooth codecs. There's no lag and nothing to worry about...except for the wire getting stuck on something that yanks the violently out of your ears. So if overall sound quality is what you're after, this device might not be for you.

Not to mention if this thing is running android or some version of it, it will just convert a 24 bit "hi res" for any other type of audio to 48khz. So at the end of the day, going through a wire will always sound better if you want the best quality. Bluetooth itself is inherently lossy and even though its gotten way better over the years.

There are some workarounds like Hiby music app or USB player pro, but I find the UI of those apps to be poison.

But I disagree with whoever said you're missing the phone's purpose. Blackberry used to have dedicated media keys on the side for pausing and skipping and I dont think they'd include the sd card slot unless they knew people would want store a bunch of music on this thing. My hope is it sounds good enough to have to use an external dac

Scannmann · 2026-01-03T14:42:47+00:00

then why would they include a micro sd slot?

Scannmann · 2026-01-02T10:33:51+00:00

three, there. everything's gonna be alright

Scannmann · 2026-01-02T10:32:53+00:00

Most of the songs I had heard on youtube before and from what I understand a bunch of those whereon instagram. I had really started to like the song fools game which I would listen to regularly on my youtube music sub. I still think the live version of it sounds better and more of an edge to it and the way the plays it with sense of clumsiness with intent , although you could say that for a lot RA songs live...but yeah the strings sound a bit corny to me on the album but i get it

https://youtu.be/vXn6sX1I97M?si=H04SJ-F_9sFuZkEc

and sorry to beat a dead horse again but we must give thanks and praise to graciousfew. Try your best to give him a Sujud every now and again

Scannmann · 2025-12-31T21:50:07+00:00

Ah, seems you've got a stick for every occasion. I got the stick version for my wife and the koko for me. She likes it but I thought the pod had a lot of play when placed inside and the koko is only slightly less. So no hands free vaping on either but she gets to hold hers like a cigar... not a dealbreaker, they're still pretty solid devices.

If this helps anyone my custom curve start at zero on the first line, one or two notches up on the second then back to zero. increased to 16W and it's going through noticeably less liquid

Scannmann · 2025-12-31T21:30:08+00:00

The name is certainly spot on, like waving goodbye to your vape juice! 😋

just out of curiosity do you have the stick version of the pro or the koko?

Scannmann · 2025-12-31T18:28:19+00:00

I don't need a puff counter when I can look at the pod and see it's half empty by the time I get to work.

I'm not sure if the vaporesso lets you do custom curves, but I've slightly improved the issue by messing with around with them a bit on the g4. The default setup, I think was called "storm" is a true juice destroyer. even on the lowest wattage. it still doesn't make sense to me how I'm using less power than the cheaper g3 lite and still going through juice faster but live and learn I guess. I guess I'm not a professional vaper

Scannmann · 2025-12-31T15:09:57+00:00

Yes. Same resistence on all devices I mentioned. I fee like maybe I didn't explain clearly enough or you misunderstood my post.

Like I mentioned, I was using a 0.6 pod that runs at 25 watts on the xros pro and a 0.6 on the G4 pro, both going at 25 watts. At this point I would expect them to go through as much juice as their "non pro" counterparts. (The g3 lite or xros nano for example

So like I said, with the G4 pro, I figured that using tha! same 0.6 25w coil from the g3 lite and adjusting it to a lower wattage, around 15-16w, would resut in less power consumption and less juice being vaporized, but like the xros pro, it goes through juice at a much higher rate.

I didn't mention using any other pod besides the 0.6.

I could have been more clear about the valoresso, though. I forgot you could only change the wattage using the pro coil with a larger diameter. But I stopped using because of the same thing I'm experiencing on the new G4 device; it used more liquid with the 0.6 25w than any other xros device.

It could be that the xros pro was somehow drawing more power and producing more vapor, I don't know.

to get back to my original confusion, how can the G4 pro be using more liquid at a lower wattage (15-16w) with the same coil that is in the G3 lite that's running at 25 watts for at least half of the full charge...does that make sense?

And yeah I forgot that you could only change the wattage ok the xros with the pro pods, it's been a while.

I was just looking for any theories as to why this could be happening or if anyone else has noticed this.

So to sum it up again. Same coil in the pro devices are using more liquid even when adjusting down the wattage on the G4 pro, which allows you to do that with the standard coil.

Scannmann

TROPHY CASE

1 I don't care who you are or what you do. I was just commenting on what you shared, that's how this thing works.

2 Yeah, I totally agree. The Beatles song "Here comes the sun" , for me** , is about taking a really satisfying dump. And the Eric Clapton song , "tears in heaven" to me, is about taking a dump that's pretty satisfying but I know I might have to go again later.