Questions you want answered.

The strawberry one is worth a try - Glycerin, Water, Calcium Carbonate, Hydrated Silica, Natural Flavor, Carageenan, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Strawberry Juice and Other Natural Flavor. It’s... Not bad.

I like mint in certain types of foods, but don't like it in toothpaste. Or fluoride. (I despised those fluoride swishes as a child.) Or any flavor. I just don't like toothpaste. I wish I could get it "unscented". Arm & Hammer is the best out of all of them because the baking soda taste drowns out some of the unpleasantness. I'd go full baking soda, but have concerns that it would eventually wear the enamel of my teeth, so now I primarily just use either Arm & Hammer, or whatever my dentist sends me home with when I go for cleanings twice a year and just grin and bear it. I also cram my tongue as far back in my mouth as possible so I taste the least amount possible and only taste it full on for a couple sends when I brush my tongue just before rinsing.

Blech!

Any Bluetooth headphones out there support actively listening to 2 or more bluetooth devices at the same time? Mixing the audio together.

Some of my headsets support Multipoint and will stay connected to multiple devices but switches between them dynamically and only plays audio for one device at a time.

Is that still a limitation of current generation Bluetooth or just my devices?

Bluetooth support varies by device and vendor. Even Dell has surprising gaps in their device support. For any device you want to use, check both the devices for compatibility with each other.

There might not be an easy solution to that. The most obvious one I can think of is to buy a headphone mixer. They’re small and not too expensive. That said, they’re bigger than you probably want to deal with, and might even require other equipment or connectors to achieve your desired results.

RawkGWJ wrote:

There might not be an easy solution to that. The most obvious one I can think of is to buy a headphone mixer. They’re small and not too expensive. That said, they’re bigger than you probably want to deal with, and might even require other equipment or connectors to achieve your desired results.

I use a small mixer (Hart Just Mixer 2) on my desk for this and it's a great way to mix the audio from a PC, cell phone, and consoles together so I can wear one pair of headphones and hear multiple devices with their own screens.

But, yeah, even a small mixer like that is a lot bigger than I'd want to carry around for headphones and I'd still need to buy and carry a few bluetooth receivers (like this) so I could get audio into the mixer (and a battery too I guess). Have you ever seen a pocket sized mixer with more than one bluetooth input built in?

If I had enough of those bluetooth receiver/transmitters I could use receivers to get audio from devices into the mixer then a transmitter to push audio from the mixer to headphones and I wouldn't need to carry the mixer around as long as I stayed in range. Hopefully this just becomes a builtin feature of bluetooth before I decide to try something that ridiculous

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I wrestled this mangled thing out of my old car recently and I don't think I should reuse it. I'd like to avoid physically going to a hardware store if possible. I can measure it but I don't know my screws; can someone help me identify the type so I can order some off Amazon or something? I figure I need at least three of them.

which part of the car did it come from?

It was holding in (the remains of) a battery tray.

Looks like a simple machine screw or a panel screw. Machine screws generally hold two pieces of metal parts together. A panel screw generally holds a piece of plastic or sheet metal on another piece of metal. You may have better luck finding replacement screws at Autozone.com instead of Amazon.

When searching online for that sort of thing search for "fasteners" if you're having trouble. That will get you to places that sell specialized sizes and materials.

Go to Rock Auto and use the part finder to find out what it actually is.

Shamelessly reposting from the tech thread because I am desperate.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

May not be the right place for this (and please move if there is a better spot).

My PS4 controllers won’t sink anymore. I have a Launch PS4, two different controllers with the same problem.

The controllers will turn on the console and then do nothing else, and flash light blue. If I hard reset the console with the controller plugged in while it reboots, then they will work, but only until they go to sleep or the console turns off. Then it’s back to the blinking blue light. I tried resetting the controllers, but I am still having the same issue. I have even tried to plus them in and play wired but I get the same error.

I have experienced this with both controllers and have tried multiple cables. My first thought is it is the Bluetooth on the console, but why can I use the controllers to turn it on?

Anyone have any ideas?

No idea, sorry Iso. I would try the PS4 thread. At the worst, you can do a factory reset on the console and see if that fixes it. Will tell you if it is a software or hardware problem.

If your controllers won't sink anymore, try replacing the weights.

What?

It sounds like the Bluetooth pairing is falling off when the console goes to sleep. I agree with LeapingGnome that doing a reset of the PS4 is the best next step after everything you've done so far. I had some controller pairing issues with my console where it would pair with one of my controllers but not the other; a factory reset resolved that.

As far as plugging the controllers in directly, you actually need to go into the settings on the console and set it to use the USB connection when the controller is plugged in. By default, the PS4 will continue to communicate with the controller via Bluetooth even when you physically plug the controller in; the USB only charges the controller. I have no idea why they set it up that way, but you can at least tell it to use USB when available and see if that helps.

No luck finding the specific part on Rock Auto, but in the Tools & Universal Parts section I found some screws that match the measurements I was able to take, and I was able to order just four of them. Not sure about the threading but for two bucks I'll take a chance. Thanks for the help.

BuzzW wrote:

No luck finding the specific part on Rock Auto, but in the Tools & Universal Parts section I found some screws that match the measurements I was able to take, and I was able to order just four of them. Not sure about the threading but for two bucks I'll take a chance. Thanks for the help.

Late to the party, I know but I just came accross this article and said "wait, wasn't somebody trying to size a part on gwj"

https://www.popularmechanics.com/hom...

Has anyone here ever hired someone to create a specific font?

I am working on a comic, and I've been lettering it by hand so far (in Clip Studio Paint), but I hate doing that. However, I do like the look of it.

I know there are some websites where you can submit a scan of your handwriting, and they turn it into a font automatically, but I haven't had great success with them (even after I edited some of the kerning(?) with a free font creation software).

Ideally, I'd like a pro to do it, and do it better than I ever would.

I searched on Fiverr, and found plenty of people who claim they can do it, but I'd prefer if someone here could direct me to someone they know will do good work (paid, of course).

Kibo designed a number of decent fonts... But sadly, the old magic no longer works.

Can you still watch content from Hulu in a web browser? If so, is it a different url than https://www.hulu.com/ ?
I can't seem to watch any premium content. Hulu claims it to be locked behind a paywall that I'm already paying for (and logged into). To be clear, I can watch content on devices that are not my PC, but I don't know why my PC browser just redirects me to the three subscription plans.

Robear wrote:

Kibo designed a number of decent fonts... But sadly, the old magic no longer works.

I've been trying to figure out what this means and I am completely lost. Have old font tools stopped working?

Malor wrote:
Robear wrote:

Kibo designed a number of decent fonts... But sadly, the old magic no longer works.

I've been trying to figure out what this means and I am completely lost. Have old font tools stopped working?

Kibo was a Usenet personality in the 90s. He had scripts to grep Usenet feeds for 'kibo' and would respond to to threads whether they were referring to him or not.

deftly wrote:
Malor wrote:
Robear wrote:

Kibo designed a number of decent fonts... But sadly, the old magic no longer works.

I've been trying to figure out what this means and I am completely lost. Have old font tools stopped working?

Kibo was a Usenet personality in the 90s. He had scripts to grep Usenet feeds for 'kibo' and would respond to to threads whether they were referring to him or not.

That sounds like something the smartest of Dereks would do.

(Warning. Salty old man question)

In 1980 I put a cassette tape into my spectrum and had to wait minutes for my game to load.

In 2020 I put a CD into my Xbox one and had to wait 7 hours for my game to download.

In 1980 I put a cassette into my walkman and played it instantly.

In 2020 I pressed play on my phone and read a message saying I wasn't signed in and would have to wait for phone data to be available and go through a passworded process in order to play the song I had bought.

In 1980 I bought a game and it worked......you get the picture?

My question is what decisions were made when that lead to this?

Greed.

When corporations win, consumers lose. It is an inherently adversarial relationship thanks to capitalism. The funny (?) part is that this system came about thanks to scarcity. But the digital realm has no real scarcity. So corporations created fake scarcity to keep playing the game they know how to win. We let them get away with it, so they keep winning and we keep losing, more and more as time marches on.

Hey, remember managing irq conflicts? Remember having to customize your autoexec.bat and config.sys files to maximize your xms and ems? How about obtuse commands to load your C64 games? Remember having to use a pencil to wind your cassette? None of it was all that simple. And much of it was limited in capability and features.

Your rose colored glasses are a bit strong.

Fortunately I had to poop, so that gave me a little time to consider my hot take, which is, as is typical of the species, not very complete. It only really deals with the rights management part of the question.

We the consumers are also to blame for our unfortunate circumstances. The cassette tape that would load an eight bit game in a few minutes would be woefully inadequate for loading a fully realized 3D rendered ray traced 4K textured virtual environment with networked drop-in multiplayer.

Are the corporations responsible for foisting that massive data requirement on us? Well, maybe a little. I mean, they had to keep innovating to build the next generation of silicon to keep selling new hardware. But we're at least as much to blame. They sold us more, but we gobbled it up and demanded seconds. So here we are on the cusp of a new console generation with machines about to be available that could run circles around the supercomputers of my youth, nevermind the pathetic hardware that I used to play video games.

As it turns out, though, everyone doesn't have to have their own copy of the fully realized 3D rendered ray traced 4K textured virtual environment with networked drop-in multiplayer. We're about to come full circle from physical copies of things that we actually owned, to digital copies of things that we pretended we owned, to digital copies of things that we didn't even pretend to own any more and maybe even rented, back to the dawn of computing, to the rented time-shared compute resource.

Cloud based gaming is upon us. Hallelujah.

I remember computers being tools I could customise instead of a service with limited choices.

I'd be more than happy with smaller games if it meant they worked and could be played anywhere at any time. There are thousands of fantastic, enjoyable games that don't need cloud based hyper computers to run them.

I've got great news! You can run Retroarch on almost anything. Anywhere. Without internet. And you don't have to engage with internet based hyper computers ever. At all.