I guess I’m easy to please, but, recently I got myself a better bluetooth dongle over the holidays. I had one before, but it was stupid cheap, connection was frail and didn’t have good range. Now I have one with Bluetooth 5.4 and I’m amazed with what I can do with it.
I can funnel sound to any one of my bluetooth speakers so I don’t have it hogging my main speakers when I want something close by me.
Speaking of which, I wish I had really known this far earlier in my days of using a computer. But, being able to split audio in multiple ways. I can assign where sound is going to, program to program. One browser gets these headsets, that browser gets the TV speakers .etc
That kind of shit amazes me and damn shame I never explored this before.
Sufficiently advanced technology…
I work for a turbine engine manufacturer. I don’t do the cool stuff as I’m just an old IT guy, but I get to talk to those that do once in a while.
Think about this the next time you go blasting through the air at 500mph (804kmh) and 34,000ft (10300m) in the air in a metal tube…
The blades of the first stage turbine operate at the temperature they were cast at. In other words they operate at their melting point. If you’re not familiar with turbine engines, well… It’s there in the name. The turbine essentially is the prime moving part in the engine that actually produces the power to run the rest of it. If it goes, so does the engine and quite possibly in an extremely exciting way.
How does this work? Magic… Or good engineering. I’ve been told how it works, but I honestly do not understand it well enough to write about it.
For me that is the very definition of fascinating.