Don’t you mean from 0x00 to 0x0A?

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schwing.

But what’s your wired use case? Are you mostly sitting at a desk working or sipping your favorite drink and listening, or are you using those headphones while traveling/out and about?

For a home/desk setup, I ended up buying a small, fairly inexpensive external DAC/amp specifically for high-quality lossless listening. It works great with my iPhone/iPad and my PC. It’s small enough to take with me (fits in the palm of my hand), but it does start to feel inconvenient when you’re traveling.

When I’m out and about and still want wired, I usually just use the USB-C to 3.5 mm adapter. And honestly, once you’re walking around with background noise, the main advantage of lossless is mostly lost anyway. It’s hard to hear the difference between lossless and a good high-bitrate codec unless you’re really in a quiet environment and actively listening.

Also, on the technical side: a 3.5 mm jack is analog, so the “quality” isn’t about the jack itself, it’s about the DAC and headphone amp behind it. Many built-in phone jacks (when phones have them) aren’t that great compared to even a modest external DAC.

If you’re talking about Apple Music “Lossless” (up to 24-bit/48 kHz), the small USB-C to 3.5 mm dongle is typically enough and it’s easy to just leave it attached to the headphone cable.

If you’re talking about “Hi-Res Lossless” (up to 24-bit/192 kHz), a lot of built-in jacks won’t support that full rate, and you generally need an external DAC anyway. So if you’re chasing hi-res playback, the presence of a built-in headphone jack matters less because you still care most about the DAC/amp quality and capabilities, not the hole in the phone.

That’s why I don’t see a built-in jack as a must-have, it takes space inside the phone, and for higher-end wired listening you’re better off with a dongle or DAC/amp anyway.

Question is: which of those is truly the best short play?

I don’t know I’m not buying this whole thing.

My company is a Microsoft partner, we deal with all types of issues and requests including account hacking and lockouts. This just doesn’t read like a Microsoft customer support email. It reads more like a scammer actually.

The first paragraph sounds strange and not how they would typically start an investigation response.

They can, and have, recovered full access to our customers’ data in such an event, so weird to say they can’t.

even our engineers cannot retrieve them.

That just reads very strange. They don’t talk like that.

Then the final line with “Sincerely,” improperly indented looks like classic scammer text alignment.

And they wouldn’t sign it as “Microsoft Customer Support”. It would be signed with the agents name and wouldn’t be finite. Their ticketing system places footers that instruct the user to reply to the email for continued support.

This message looks bogus to me.

Am I the only one who has no idea what we’re looking at here?

Right - and then the ISP will prioritize their own VoIP services traffic within your locally shared block.

If you want to be able to accept mail, you’ll need to directly expose your mail server on your public IP (router configuration required). You’ll also need to allow your server to egress your WAN as well. That being said - if you really want tighten your security, and don’t care about missing some emails, you could limit your server to seeing only those servers you know you’ll be communicating with, such as work, bank, or GMail servers only.

You can make it so that retrieving your email with your client of choice requires a VPN connection to your home network also.

Couldn’t agree more

I’m not saying we shouldn’t recycle, we of course should. But most local recycling plants don’t have that capability.

And the biggest problem are plastics - glass and metal materials are much more forgiving.

Raw materials is not what we’re talking about here. Local recycling plants are not processing raw materials - that’s a completely different process. They are very limited systems designed to process consumer materials.

Not as much as you think. Many of the recyclable materials you mentioned are “contaminated” with the contents they were used to deliver because folks don’t wash them well enough. It’s not their fault; we’re told to “rinse” the materials, but they really have to be fully washed, a tough task for many of those cans with crevices and ridges that are often missed. Other contaminants include throwing in what you think is the correct metal or plastic, but it’s not, and that ruins a whole batch.

As usual, John Oliver says it best.

That one I got back in the 80s as a kid where I could change the channels and turn off TVs everywhere I went. Man that was super fun.

One of the best small phones still available.

OMG, yes please 🙏

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The problem is that unbiased reporting usually reveals conservative corruption and poor behavior.

They really know their audience.

Hey, easy pal!