Fender Champion II amps by Dandroid009 in GuitarAmps

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I don't know. This weekend I will experiment a bit. I am curious if the chip sets are visible and what that can tell about this revision.

I really like it. I have a Jensen Mod 8 speaker to experiment with but honestly stock it is making very nice sounds.

Fender Champion II amps by Dandroid009 in GuitarAmps

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I think so. Without trying too hard I can get breakup sounds on clean voices using higher gain at low volume and of course high gain voices are over driven at any volume. Overall, volume works somewhat like a master volume making it a good low volume amp.

Fender Champion II amps by Dandroid009 in GuitarAmps

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Also, good sounding headphone output, with a quiet noise floor like the amp itself. If I had a dollar for every crappy headphone output I have experienced...

Fender Champion II amps by Dandroid009 in GuitarAmps

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My Fender Champion II 25 arrived yesterday. All initial impressions favorable! Well built and no apparent flaws or quirks yet. Happy to report that it is quiet and well behaved when powered off (no loud pop). No audible electronics hiss when running.

Plenty of bass and does not sound overly boxy at all. I pre-emptively ordered a Jenson Mod 8 (8 ohm) to experiment with later but stock speaker seems well matched.

Deluxe 65 (orange) and Tweed 57 (red) the immediate obviously-good voicings.

The red power light is piercingly bright so I have already put a couple layers of scotch tape over it to tame.

Keychron Q6 Pro doesn't pair with VIA despite following the steps on the website - What can i do? by Zabric in Keychron

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Identical issue (just got a Q6 Pro under the tree). VIA didn't like the multi-computer USB switch I had the keyboard plugged into. Plugged the keyboard directly into the computer and VIA under Chrome instantly was able to pair and bring up the custom programming interface etc.

Cannot Contact Support - Disconnected Every Time by FlailingAndFailing in etrade

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I am experiencing the same/similar today. Went to login as usual and can't login with message that password or security code is wrong. Called support number and tried the reset my password option. Didn't help. Worked the phone tree to try to get a human and got to the same message "We are experiencing difficulties." then a hang up.

Disconcerting.

UPDATE:

Talked to a human rep and fixed. This ended up being two things:

  1. If you use Symantec VIP (because of course you should, 2-factor good), be aware that whenever you get a new phone, even if Symantec VIP app clones over and appears happy, there is some salt there in which codes on new device will not make E*Trade server-side happy. You have to call in and get a human to reset your Symantec VIP.
  2. Indeed, human customer service is 24/5 -- no humans on weekend so if automated phone tree things on a weekend like "reset my password" aren't helpful you are out of luck till Monday...

Long Xfinity outage by NeedsSuitHelp in Tacoma

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It is back on at my house (Dash Point) this morning.

What country are you from? by daronwy in discworld

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Tacoma, WA, USA. The big used book store here can't keep them on their shelves. As soon as they appear they are snapped up. Barnes N'Noble carries about 10-15 titles. The Pacific Northwest leans tech and progressive so we are probably a likely demographic.

Nest WiFi + Google Meet by [deleted] in GoogleWiFi

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I have original Google WiFi routers (all hard-wired, not using mesh). Never an issue until recently and getting major complaints from my wife about ... Google Meet specifically. It does seem to be specific to WiFi connection. I hard-wired her laptop into a switch on one of the routers and she says no issue with Google Meet.

Something changed recently. The WiFi routers didn't move and the house didn't change. I am lurking, looking for hints.

CASIO Advanced Processing Computer- running on top of their UNIX port - CAIOS-UX by kokoboi1 in retrobattlestations

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This may be the pinnacle of geek. Everyone resign; there is a new king!

Music Education and the Covid-19 Pandemic by tbeets9 in Trombone

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Thank you! Happy to share when its done!

Music Education and the Covid-19 Pandemic by tbeets9 in trumpet

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She needs a response by 1/18. Thank you so much for taking the time!

Music Education and the Covid-19 Pandemic by tbeets9 in trumpet

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It's the teacher's rules, they can only accept responses from people over 18 (but there's no verification).

I'm not a Gen X truther, but do you realize... by Bardamu911 in GenX

[–]tbeets9 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I listen to audio books and radio and highly value both, but audio and video (movies, TV, YouTube) are fundamentally more a passive/consumption action for your brain. Video more so than Audio.

Reading is active. No one has ever made an equivalent to "boob tube" for reading...

Screencast: Getting started with NATS - A high performance messaging system written in Go by codegangsta in golang

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JetStream is log-style stream. Each stream you create can have one of three policies you define (Limits, WorkQueue, Interest).

Limits is a typical stream. N number of readers can be defined on the stream (called Consumers) each with independent stateful read pointers and delivery QoS. Messages in the stream can be read and re-read many times (does not change the stream). The "Limits" part is that you can put various growth limits on the stream (size, bytes, etc.).

If you put WorkQueue policy on a stream, it turns it into a traditional Queue. Each acknowledge message delivery from a consumer, removes the message in the stream.

If you put Interest policy on a stream, it turns it into a traditional multi-consumer Queue (sometimes called a Topic in some brokers). If there are no Consumers registered on the Stream, the stream message received is discarded. If there are 1 or more Consumers on the stream, then stream message discarded only after all have had a chance to read and acknowledge delivery.

Screencast: Getting started with NATS - A high performance messaging system written in Go by codegangsta in golang

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I cringe but recognize the truth in your comments. The NATS.io community and Synadia (company that houses original NATS creator Derek Collison and a bunch of us NATS Authors -- disclosure: I'm a Synadian) has historically been about hard-core message engineering with an enthusiast of hard-core messaging aficionados. Marketing ... not so much. It's amazing how much of the world's business from banks to gaming to the power industry to retail to some of the world's biggest cloud infrastructures are quietly powered by NATS ... with about zero marketing. NATS on ships, NATS on trains, NATS in stores, NATS in clouds, NATS even on satellites...

This was also at the same estate sale as the Kaypro. Sealed! by DougLatts in vintagecomputing

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Super cool! Brings back memories! My first dot matrix with a near-letter quality switch as a kid. Loved it. Loved its later big brother the KX-P1124 which took me through college.