The install instructions for the clip on band has you cut the original pleather and foam off the band and peel away any adhesive. The irreversability of that made me nervous for no rational reason. So I opted for a cover similar to these ones from wicked cushions.

https://wickedcushions.com/products/sony-wh1000xm3-xm4-headband-cover

There also seems to be plenty of similar options on aliexpress.

It just zips on which is a suoer easy and quick install. I liked that I could just quickly try this before committing to a biggger repair. My only complaint is that the zipper pull dangles and that could be annoying. I used a dab of liquid electrical tape on where the pull meets the slider to prevent any rattling. An unexpected pro/con is that the silicone grips my hair more. That can be a slightly uncomfortable annoyance at times, but it does help the headphones stay in place better when laying down.

I already bought 3rd party replacement pads, but I’ll keep that trick in mind for the future.

Sony parts prices are insane. The urethane pleather on my headband started cracking on my xm4’s. A replacement headband was half the price of a new unit. So I ended up getting a silicone cover that will hopefully keep the pieces from flaking off into my hair. I also needed new earpads. Oem pads were around $40 for EACH side. The pleather just has a certain degradation time and once it hits, it all falls apart at the same time. Replacing all the pleather parts on my unit would have cost just as much as a new headset.

I hate having something designed to be somewhat repairable but practically speaking it isn’t due to pricing.

Thermal energy is primarily dissipated as infrared light which moves at the speed of light. There is no way for space to accumulate heat. If that were the case the entire solar system would be unlivable. The IR emitted by satellites is truly negligible in comparison to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun.

The area of radiator needed directly corresponds to the amount of power harvested by the solar panels. It doesn’t matter what the load is. So a compute frame with the same amount of solar panels as the space station would need approximately the same radiatot area as the ISS, unless you are bringing nuclear power into the mix.

I agree that space based datacenters are a bad idea, but the thermals really are not the gotcha people are making them out to be.

Radiators in space work by radiating electromagnetic energy(light). Heat can only accumulate in matter, not in space, so that is definitely not one of the things we need to worry about.

With radiators just like with every existing satellite system.

https://youtu.be/DCto6UkBJoI&t=12m57s

Very large scale datacenters would likely have some nasty fluid handling problems to solve.

I’ll just note that I am not a fan of putting internet infrastructure in space. I think polluting the upper atmosphere with a bunch of metals every time a satellite deorbits will certainly have negative consequences. So IMO space should be limited to things we can’t do with earthbound infrastructure.

I’ve thought about this quite a bit and really consider advertising to be a form of assault on attention. The presumption that companies are entitled to our attention without our consent feels like an attack on our own agency.

Before we get to banning advertising though we first need to figure out how to connect people to businesses that have goods and services they actually want to seek out. Word of mouth is great, but it’s insufficient. We need some sort of directory. The yellow pages were surprisingly functional, but some modern accessibility and ability to update info is needed. I think the 10,000 pound gorilla in this space is Google maps. However, alphabet is fundamentally an advertising company at this point and prioritizes selling ad placement over user experience. Could organic maps eventually serve as a searchable business directory? I’m not sure. I think any open source initiative would quickly be ruined if companies thought that rigging that system woild get them more customers.

Is a public option viable? I’m not sure. There’s a lot of equal access and gatekeeping concerns there. We shouldn’t allow obvious scams to be listed, but what’s the threshold and who makes that determination? Is someone’s Mary Kay mlm a legitimate business or scam? The potential for corruption is very high in an endeavor like this. Imagine if someone is buddies with an administrator and can get their competition completely delisted. Such an endeavor would likely face lots of litigation over claims of unfair treatment.

Many companies I think would be eager to stop paying for advertising if they had a means of connecting to customers that was effective and lower cost, but to achieve this, you’re literally trying to compete with the entirety of google/alphabet.

The link I included in my comment goes over driving one in recognizeable notes to play the nokia tune. It’s worth a read if this concept interests you.

https://www.labdarna.com/en/understanding-piezo-buzzers-how-they-work-and-how-to-use-them-in-electronics-projects

They use piezo buzzers which work differently to most speakers. I would guess that the units used in smoke alarms and microwaves generally have integrated drivers that only operate at a single frequency. However, it is possible to drive piezo discs at different frequencies. Their ouput will always approximate a sound square wave though, so don’t expect to be able to use them like a normal electrodynamic/ voice coil speaker to play arbitrary sounds.

Autotrader has a decent filter system. Although, you’ll mostly get dealer listed used cars not private sellers.

I hope AMD and Intel will recognize the opportunity to maintain their cadence and earn some market share.

I don’t recall the media covering the fake electors of the Jan 6 coup hardly at all. The media loved to cover the big violent crowd becaus it was flashy. However, the fake elector scheme was the more significant crisis in my mind. That showed a planned and coordinated effort by people in power to subvert democracy.

SpaceX was his one good company thanks to the work of people like Gwynne Shotwell. xAI must not have been getting enough investor interest and rather than admit it’s a stinker, he’s shackling spaceX with it.

If I were a spaceX investor, I would be absolutely pissed about this and talking to my attorneys.

We need to add digging/ tunneling to the grid.

Yes, very joyous. I didn’t realize raucous had overall negative connotations. Perhaps rowdy better describes the concept I was thinking of.

Someone has never seen a herd of cows get let out to pasture for the first time of the spring. It is a raucus event.

I recently got a makita yard tool that has a dedicated spot to hold an allen key in the handle. It’s a nice touch that shows the designers actually talk with people who use the tool.

I think of votes as adding or decreasing visibility. Which is a little different than “I like this.” An upvote means you think other people should see a post/comment.

So unsavory but important things still deserve an upvote imo. That doesn’t mean you like the thing being discussed.

Mine also has 100 logged entries for 3 users. It can display a table or trend line of historical data, and it has a usb port that supposedly can be used to download the log. But if you need a specific driver or software to access the file then I don’t know if that violates the “no app” requirement.

https://www.pulseoximeter.org/fl-08a.html

I hadn’t tried accessing the data externally before and this post got me curious enough to try. The program looks ancient and does not recognize the bp monitor as is. I don’t feel like playing the driver hunting and compatibolity mode game. The monitor does not host a standard storage volume so I don’t believe the files can be retrieved without the software. I would be tempted to speculate that this is representative of the type of experience to expect if OP doesn’t want to go down the bluetooth connection to app route.