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- Mon Mar 24, 2025 7:06 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Are Youtube taking the piss ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 33
Re: Are Youtube taking the piss ?
I found the search engine/browser offers to stream youtube vids if you name the song in search , its on a one off basis without actually entering Youtube.com , that way adds are avoided , you dont get the biased scroll down list of similar music like youtube provides , If I let youtube to its own de...
- Sun Mar 23, 2025 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Are Youtube taking the piss ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 33
Are Youtube taking the piss ?
I played a tune by Steve Miller band earlier , https://youtu.be/qbGFrrifeEs for roughly the first two minutes of the song I got three 10 second adds for every every ten seconds of music, its unlistenable Id be interested if anyone else see's the same . Take the money and run is right , Screw-You-tub...
- Sat Mar 22, 2025 4:21 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Two great pulls
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2484
Re: Two great pulls
There seems to be no end to the useful stuff I'm able to get from my local recycle yard , Today two iphone 13's , one with a cracked screen the other with cracked rear glass panel , both functioning The one with the good screen , unlocked , factory reset , the other locked to the owners Apple accoun...
- Tue Mar 18, 2025 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Two great pulls
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2484
Re: Two great pulls
I found a set of Sennheiser DT-100's in the recycle today ,
Im missing the rail end stop on one side and a couple of other small related parts
the whole thing needed a cleaning ,
but its in otherwise very good condition so well worth repairing ,
Im missing the rail end stop on one side and a couple of other small related parts
the whole thing needed a cleaning ,
but its in otherwise very good condition so well worth repairing ,
- Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: Bad Trip to Edgewood
- Replies: 0
- Views: 120
Bad Trip to Edgewood
As a sort of pre history to the world we now find ourselves in post Covid , this documentary explains a lot about the foundations of chemical and biological warfare . It contains film footage of animal and human experiments ,as well as direct testimoney from survivors some will find disturbing. . Mu...
- Sat Mar 15, 2025 11:47 am
- Forum: The Peabody Lounge
- Topic: When AI Gets it Wrong
- Replies: 2
- Views: 217
Re: When AI Gets it Wrong
I wonder how many people have ended up with a bag of marshmallows instead of scallops , not exactly a life/death situation ,but still reveals the stupidity of the AI the whole show runs on . A quick search revealed this , with some rather more serious consequences , its time proper laws were brought...
- Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:28 am
- Forum: Test, Measurement and Repair
- Topic: WinPE as dedicated audio os
- Replies: 0
- Views: 387
WinPE as dedicated audio os
Id highly reccomend trying a Win PE installation for audio , User interface will be familiar to anyone with Xp/Vista/7 experience , it runs on a cut down WIN10 framework, Its a bit like computing in the olden days ,where everything needed to be loaded into RAM at start up , , PE configures a RAMdriv...
- Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:01 pm
- Forum: Document
- Topic: Bootstrapped Op Amp Articles
- Replies: 42
- Views: 235608
Re: Bootstrapped Op Amp Articles
Bootstrapping is a term I associate with transistors , not so much with valves , Is the principle involved ,applying NFB in parallel with the input ? as opposed to series applied , like a tapped cathode resistor arrangement , which doesnt effect input impedence , Could we say a self biased cathode f...
- Sun Feb 23, 2025 8:56 am
- Forum: Test, Measurement and Repair
- Topic: Regenerating laptop bios battery
- Replies: 0
- Views: 581
Regenerating laptop bios battery
I have a coin cell from a laptop motherboard that had dipped down to about 2.5v from 3v nominal . Its one of the less common types ,so in the short term I decided to try putting a charge on it , Theres various methodologies out there but I decided the safest method was allowing it gradually charge f...
- Fri Feb 21, 2025 5:04 am
- Forum: Test, Measurement and Repair
- Topic: Thunderbolt/firewire audio
- Replies: 4
- Views: 925
Re: Thunderbolt/firewire audio
I had a chance to try out the Fireface and TotalMix , The mic/line amps have programable , digitally controled gain , as an audio testing setup thats really useful, compared to standard continiously variable gain controls found on many interfaces . The unit also has settings in the driver panel to a...