People who hate OOP just didn't learn CLOS.

That would be the Common Lisp Object System. And not using undefined abbreviations might help popularise it.

Everything was good enough in Windows 7.

Aren't airpods just bluetooth headphones?

For just listening to music, yeah. They’ve got other features that aren’t supported elsewhere, though.

specifically, configuring noise cancelation or transparency mode, as well as multiple different profiles for microphone usage. plus buttons on the airpods themselves.

Still baffles me why the first gen airpod "button" wasn't the winner, but unfortunately Steve's no longer with us.

Apple doesn’t make anything that’s “just <standard protocol>”.

Something needs to make it very expensive and feel exclusive… Yes, you can have AirPods with noise cancellation, but you need a 1k€ iPhone to go with that.

Incorrect.

AirPods noise cancellation can be controlled by holding the AirPod stalk.

And that’s not an excuse or a workaround: That’s how I always do it. I’ve never bothered doing it through software on my iDevices, because that’s much more cumbersome.

I think the parent was being sarcastic, because while you can trigger some function on the AirPods themselves, a large list of features are unavailable, not documented and purposefully concealed (as the main post describes in detail). AirPods don't even report their battery life to third party devices (as normal Bluetooth accessories can)

Yes it does. I have Airpod 4 ANC connected to a Samsung Galaxy S24 as we speak and I cycle between ANC and Transparency mode frequently by squeezing the stalk.

This thread is full of weird misinformation.

This is misinformation. I change anc modes using the air pod while connected to my non root android device. The anc works identically when connected to an Apple device

You needed to have configured it on Mac/iOS though.

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. "

For those like me who didn't know, this is Adam Smith.

mu4e, but I suspect that a local maildir is a poor choice anyway.

It's better to have a local cyrus running and connect to it by imap, with, say, gnus.

You can do the same with a local cyrus.

Seems like a clone of https://gitlab.com/Lockywolf/imap-idle-mail-checker/

The README for that project mentions IDLE, but not CONDSTORE.

So what happens if you lose your connection to the server? How do you get up to date with the current state?

mbsync does it.

It's separation of concerns, the monitor only checks that something has changed, while mbsync does the synchronisation.

Except it's only imap->maildir. ImapGoose also does the reverse

Great news!

When all the carbon frozen in the permafrost of Siberia is released back into the ecosystem, the Earth with once again look like a tropical paradise it once was, being able to sustain giant cold-blooded reptiles.

(Well, not sure they actually were reptiles, but most likely cold-blooded.)

> most likely cold-blooded

I wonder if the vast chunk of humanity that shares this trait will be able to survive the scenario. I doubt it somehow.

Apparently at least a chunk of dinosaurs were warm blooded.

But this is about the Carboniferous, about 40 million years before the first dinosaurs.

Ah, my mistake. Do you happen to have a link to this? I didn't know about other giant reptiles, except for the dinosaurs.

What sort of a link would you like, perhaps this?

https://archive.org/details/Vertebrate.Paleontology.Evolutio...

That's on chapter 9, "The Conquest of Land and the Radiation of Amphibians". Caution, this is a book from 1988, the Carboniferous era may have changed a lot since then.

(Carboniferous = Mississippian + Pennsylvanian.)

An image search for "Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles" may also be gratifying. I'm fond of Moschops ("calf face"), though that's after the Carboniferous rainforest collapse.

Those links work great, thank you! Turns out, life is weird and exciting and really old!