I’m still annoyed by the little things — like the fact they switched from a very native looking 1Password toolbar icon in Safari to the ugly full color icon.
Not the same as what you are talking about, but your comment reminded me of AccurateRip [1] which I used to make extensive use of back when I was ripping hundreds of CDs every year.
Pretty sure AccuRip is only a collections of checksums to validate your rips. http://cue.tools/wiki/CUETools_Database actually improved on it to provide that healing feature (via some kind of parity, I guess?).
Do you have any tricks you can share on how to rip a large library of CDs? It would be nice to semi-automate the ripping process but I haven't found any tools to help with that. Also the MusicBrainz audio tagging library (the only open one I am aware of?) almost never has good tags for my CDs that don't have to be edited afterwards.
I’ll be honest, this was around 2005-2008 — it was a long time ago and at the time I really enjoyed the ritual of it all.
The main advice I can give you is to use ripping software that integrates with AccurateRip (XLD, EAC, etc) and use a widely supported lossless format (like FLAC).
Also — I can’t remember all the details, but there’s a way to store a CUE file, along with some metadata alongside your rip such that you can recreate an exact copy of the original physical media.
At least for now, I’ve moved on to streaming services, but I’m happy to know that I have a large library of music that I ripped myself to fall back to using instead, should I ever choose to.
I never had it fully working because the last time I tried, I was too focused on using VMs or Docker and not just dedicating a small, older computer to it, but I think about it often and may finally just take the time to set up a station to properly rip all the Columbia House CDs I bought when I was a teen and held on to.
In the distant past iTunes was great at this (really). Insert a disc, its metadata is pulled in automatically, it’s ripped and tagged using whatever coded settings you want and when it’s done the disc is ejected.
Watch a show do some other work and when the toast pops out a new one in.
Ripping DVDs with HandBrake was almost as easy, but it wouldn’t eject the disc afterwards (though it could have supported running a script at the end, I don’t recall).
It really was. In the early 2000s I had a stack of Mac laptops doing exactly this. Made some decent cash advertising locally to rip people's CD collections!
I was ripping my CD's with KDE's own KIO interface, which also does CDDB checks and embeds original information to ID3 tags. Passing through MusicBrainz Picard always gave me good tags, but I remember fine tuning it a bit.
Now, I'll start another round with DBPowerAmp's ripper on macOS, then I'll see which tool brings the better metadata.
Maybe think about going with the cheap table saw and spending the remainder of the money to get a nice track saw.
Of course, there are some things that you really do need a table saw for, but track saws are amazing and inherently safer in comparison to a table saw.
Particularly for sheet goods, I’ll never use anything but a track saw at this point.
This has been my particular position for a long time now. We don't need safer table saws. If you want a safe table saw, just use a different type of saw.
I've been wondering what I'm supposed to do with my third thumb. /s
I just tried using this in a text screen. My first attempt was on the keyboard which added random characters and brought up the little thing at the top to undo, my second attempt was above the keyboard, but my most recent message was a link so I got taken to safari, and my third attempt in a small sliver of the message screen in the upper left worked.
Obviously if you're familiar with it, it's easier to do, but I rarely have three fingers available while I'm writing text on a phone.
I tried that with an iPad once - if there's a way to do so without looking faintly ridiculous I'm all ears. But I'm an Android person as far as phones go, lack of a standard system wise undo command isn't quite enough to send me back to Apple.
My solution to this would be to enable the Assistive Touch button and set its double tap action to 'shake'. If you don't want the button all the time, create a personal automation shortcut which runs when a specific app opens and closes, setting Assistive Touch on and off as you wish.
Alternatively have Voice Control enabled and say "undo that".
I have used and deployed the ttgo lora boards. The boards are a bit cramped, soldering the headers requires you to remove the screen in order not to melt the ribbon cable (w I didnt try). But they work. Zero problems in the field but two out if 20~ died on my bench while just coding/out of nowhere. Furthermore, IIRC, the default i2c pins used in many libraries are used for lora/oled so you need to define two custom pins using TwoWire for example.
I guess the risk involved isn't substantially different from eBay, but I've had pretty good luck selling Apple hardware and phones via Swappa: https://swappa.com
The beauty of something like this is that its easily battery powered. It won’t be the fastest or most powerful option, but it’s an awesome tool to have on hand for repairs that aren’t easily done at a desk.
The headline misses the mark here IMO. This actually seems really great, and critically it appears to make it very easy to help fix errors in ISP provided data.
For my location, the data generally seems accurate. I will be following up with a local provider that claims to offer 1 gig fiber — that’s definitely news to me.
Check out OpenEPaperLink if it’s something you’re curious about: https://github.com/OpenEPaperLink/OpenEPaperLink