What BIOS setting are you changing? Secure Boot?
Would love to have one of those. Guess I'll have to settle for 3D printing one and hacking up a Bluetooth headset/speaker to make it work.
I saw that, but it's November 19 already. So they've either not restocked or have sold out already.
I clicked a few of the "Where to buy" links from the bottom, but only the non-Bluetooth ones were available.
I have an old rotary phone / bluetooth "headset"! Though it's only technically portable.
It's a 50's wall-mount model that the phone company would have hardwired (no RJ-11). I've got it hooked to a Bluetooth -> POTS adapter that will decode the pulse coding. It rings when my cell rings, you can answer/place calls from it, and you can dial 0 to engage the voice assistant. Technically speaking, I can absolutely text people from a rotary phone.
Is it practical? No. Do I use it? Rarely. It's mostly decorative, but if I'm going to have retro tech as decorations, I like to make it work. Next "wish list" is an old payphone.
not amazing as a Bluetooth device. Microphone didn't pick up super-well
That's disappointing. Seemed to work well in that video, though it was quiet; I did wonder how it would fare in the real world, though.
A Bluetooth version of the TMP communicators might have better success albeit at the cost of having to hold your arm up for the whole conversation.
I've used smart watches for phone calls like that, and it was pretty annoying after not very long at all.
I could probably easily make a Bluetooth TOS communicator, but that would be two roughly phone-sized things to carry around, so not really practical.
OTOH:
Reminds me of a still from Portal 2.
I can't believe I'm defending Reddit, but I've seen equally or more disgusting questions in the "Ask" / "No Stupid Questions" communities here. Thankfully they got modded.
glorify the rich & exploitation/objectification of women for massive profits.
I get it. I almost feel like some of that was both lampshading the practice as well as exploiting it. Every time that would come up Maya would have commentary on it.
They also mention Trump several times.
Yeah, that made a modern-day rewatch kind of difficult. I intentionally skipped those parts. Having re-watched several old shows somewhat recently, sadly, the orange T-bag comes up quite a bit. Just is what it is (or was what it was?).
Also ignore my other comment. I accidentally hit submit before I had anything typed out lol.
So true. And I'm confident it's not just nostalgia making me think that.
Literally my first thought every time I see David Cross in any role (past or present).
The DVD screensaver was perfect: unobtrusive and did what it was supposed to do: prevent your CRT screen from burning-in an image. On top of that, it gave you something to look forward to when it would perfectly hit a corner (which some people thought was a myth; sadly the GIF version does not).
Now, any screen in your home is fair game for intrusive ads. Why make something simple, elegant, functional, and unobtrusive when that otherwise idle (or even in-use!) screen can be crammed with ads.
In case you thought I was joking...
mplayer handles filesystem wildcards beautifully. This is playing anything by STP in any subfolder of my main "Music" directory. I use wildcards between words because it's lazier than escaping the spaces.
Raktajino@laptop:~$ ssh rak@media-pc
rak@media-pc:~$ mplayer -shuffle /media/Music/*/Stone*Temple*Pilots*
MPlayer 1.5+svn38446-1build5 (Debian)
Playing Acoustics/Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (Acoustic).mp3.
Clip info:
Title: Plush
Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
Album: Simply Acoustic
Track: 10
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A: 233.8 (03:53.7) of 234.0 (03:54.0) 4.5%
Playing Rock/Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated.mp3.
Clip info:
Title: Dead & Bloated
Artist: Stone Temple Pilots
Album: The Best Of Stone Temple Pilot
Track: 7
Genre: Grunge
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
A: 9.1 (09.1) of 310.0 (05:10.0) 4.5%
As a general rule, I will never click a link unless it clearly states where it's taking me. Except I needed to see what the error meant, so I clicked open on it. Yay interstitial ads! 😠
Laptop-style speakers may be just enough. It would be tight and maybe the badge would have to be enlarged slightly to accommodate it, though.
I did a deep clean of my laptop not long ago and was surprised at how tiny and flat the speakers actually were. They won't fill a room, but they're enough for light music or a Teams call at arm's length. Granted, it might not be good in a noisy area, but that would be a problem for the mic as well (not to mention public speakerphone use is kind of frowned on lol).