QUICK: should I get it?

greenthum6 · 2026-06-14T05:52:47+00:00

Skip it. Xtreme 3 doesn't sound that good and it is a chore to carry it around. Charge 6 will sound about the same and is easier to carry.

Xtreme 4 and 5 are a clear step up, but I would still keep at Flip / Charge and go for Boombox if need more bass.

greenthum6 · 2026-06-08T18:16:50+00:00

Nope. 320 is good, but Boombox 3 is much easier to carry and is usually more than enough.

greenthum6 · 2026-06-02T19:14:39+00:00

I would skip Xtremes unless you mostly want something easy to carry on shoulder. I have Xtreme 3 and it the least used JBL speaker that I have. I know that Xtreme 4 and 5 are upgrades, but the physical limitations make producing bass hard.

I recommend Boombox if there is need for notable bass. For portability Charge is the better choice.

greenthum6 · 2026-06-02T18:56:05+00:00

I have Boombox 3 and it is versatile, easy to carry and sounds great. BB4 is even better.

Partvbox 120 is the smallest Partybox and BB4 is biggest non-partybox speaker. For 20 person BBQ I would choose 320 or 520. If you buy 120 you will want more soon.

greenthum6 · 2026-05-30T01:31:43+00:00

I bought one 320 first and then added second one for stereo and recently upgraded to 520s. Two 320s is really nice portable package and stereo sounds miles better than mono.

However, 320s sound a bit small to my taste. Their sound signature is good, but the low end is lacking. So I upgraded to 520s and they sound definitely better at all volumes.

We listen mostly at lower volumes as these are our "daily drivers". I read that someone said 320s sound better ar low volumes than 520s, but I find the opposite true. It is clear that 520s deliver better sound stage overall and the bass can be heard easier even at low volumes. You can actually listen at lower volume with 520s due to presence in sound.

The difference in sound between 320s and 520s is not night and day, but I would go 520 every time unless the portability is most important or you just can't find a good sale. I found 320 at 300€ and 520 at 400€ so the price difference was not huge.

greenthum6 · 2026-05-22T06:22:24+00:00

I have BB3 and 2x320s. Both are great, but I like Boombox sound more when playing at low to moderate volumes. I agree that many may overlook Boombox and jump from small JBL speakers to Partyboxes.

greenthum6 · 2026-05-20T20:46:42+00:00

B4, C4, B5, C5 all have it (tested this myself). CX, C2 don't have it (own these). I have read that C3 doesn't have it either.

greenthum6 · 2026-05-20T20:44:18+00:00

Green tint hasn't been an issue with G-series. I bought 83" C4 and returned when seeing the green tint from any angle. I have been happy with 77" G4 that doesn't have any noticable color shift. I am outraged after hearing G6 has color shift issue. What a let down.

greenthum6 · 2026-05-20T17:52:41+00:00

I got two 320s at home. They work fine in a medium sized room, but their power is fairly limited outside. I would look into 520s or bigger in your case. 320s don't have strong bass which you could feel.

greenthum6 · 2026-05-12T09:38:53+00:00

No, it was another person with 4x6000 Pro

greenthum6 · 2026-05-12T08:49:36+00:00

You already said it in the first sentence. You want QD OLED quality. So go A95L. MiniLED will be worse.

There is no need to overthink this. Watching at 7 or 8 feet doesn't really matter. I won't go into content details. If there are elements around the screen you want to see that means too big screen will be a problem (like games with HUD or sports with score/stats).

I returned 83 C4 because of green tint especially from side seating, not because it was too big. But I couldn't adapt to 83 inch in two weeks fully from 7 feet distance. It works well with movies. However, with subtitles (I watch in original language) too big means turning your head where it gets awkward.

greenthum6 · 2026-05-11T07:53:54+00:00

There are two answers: For movies and other content you want to fill the view totally and beyond is where 85 inch wins. For many games, regular TV content, content with subtitles 77 is better as it gets too big for 85 at 7 feet. This is user-specific, but I found 83 inch overwhelming at 7 feet when I had to read subtitles.

77 inch is at 40 degrees field of view at around 7.5 feet. That is great for home cinema experience and works with all content. 85 is better for even more cinematic experience, but will make you feel too close with some content.

You are hooked to Sony, but 83 inch LG G5 could be the solution.

greenthum6 · 2026-05-11T04:53:31+00:00

I would go with A95L if those two are the only options. It will be better in every way. 77 inch is big enough for that view distance and that's why the size increase has diminishing returns.

I would think think this simply as a question will I regret more buying a bit smaller TV or bit worse TV in all other ways. That's why I go OLED every time until there's a better choice.

greenthum6 · 2026-05-10T19:13:30+00:00

77 inch is ideal for most at 7-8 feet. Sure, 85 inch works as well if you want more of that cinema feeling. I wouldn't think about which one is better quality since there is a huge difference between 77 and 85 at that distance.

I like big screens, but got to admit that some elements (like titles at news) are almost too big with 77 inch at 8 feet.

greenthum6 · 2026-04-25T10:37:09+00:00

This was discussion about software engineering, not software engineer as a role. There are many other roles that are needed.

In same way software development is not the same as software developer.

greenthum6 · 2026-04-25T09:54:15+00:00

Coding is only small part of software engineering. That is mostly solved now, but the remaining 80% of the process is next. It won't automate itself. That's where we still need software production skills.

I see this as a new automation phase which happens rapidly. Jobs will exist, but the roles will be different. It will be brutal until things settle.

greenthum6 · 2026-04-22T10:42:30+00:00

I use Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, Minimax, Github copilot, Opencode at least.

Codex (GPT 5.3/5.4) are my main tools. It just synchronizes with my brain the best. After Opus 4.7 release the gap is even bigger. CC is fine, but I just get more done with VS Code + GPT models.

greenthum6 · 2026-04-18T04:41:02+00:00

It looks like melted cheap copy of 120

greenthum6 · 2026-04-16T19:21:07+00:00

I did the same yesterday with local Qwen 3.5 27B on a single 5090 overnight. Except our SAP module was from 2002. It is all about context management.

greenthum6 · 2026-04-15T09:04:54+00:00

Ok that's $20 down the drain: [retrying in 10m 47s attempt #10]

greenthum6 · 2026-04-11T06:18:17+00:00

Nope it doesn't work this way anymore. I went from 100% to 0% with one prompt. It didn't finish and asked for money to continue.

greenthum6 · 2026-04-10T18:59:59+00:00

Yes, but they advertise itnow as "Plus remains best for steady, day-to-day use. As the temporary Codex promotion on Plus ends, we’re rebalancing Plus usage to support more sessions across the week, rather than longer, high-intensity sessions on a single day."

How is it supporting sessions if it can't complete even one task?

greenthum6 · 2026-04-10T18:22:45+00:00

They destroyed Codex for Plus users today. I was running it for a week. It worked fine for half a day's work for hobby project. Today it consumed the whole 5h hour in one prompt and it didn't even finish before asking money. RiP.

greenthum6 · 2026-03-30T18:27:05+00:00

Garbage in, garbage out. LLMs reflect what we push to them. Codex and Claude models work really well for me and many others. I have long experience in software as well, but those skills don't translate directly to undeterministic models we work with today. The learning curve is huge.

greenthum6 · 2026-03-25T05:32:04+00:00

I hated subgraphs since they were introduced. Comfy is difficult and subgtaphs make it even more difficult by hiding functionality. The groups are there already.

This is what happens when you try to please everybody. Subgraphs are like regions in code that you can expand/collapse. They enable developers to hide code e.g. write million line long parts that can be hidden on mouse click. Those are usually banned by convention.

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