I suggest they also program a child lock for the buttons. My son caught his fingers between a chair under the desk and the desk itself while pressing the down button, luckily I jumped in time to help. I've since then moved the controls on top of the desk and at the back.
I don't know if this works for you, but since a month I started taking a 1h walk every evening, after my kids go to sleep. I'm in my 30s, walking for me was something older people do. I also run every other day. But I find it so relaxing, it gives me 1h of reflection, burns a few hundred calories, and in that time I would have probably sat at the computer anyway. I think this is one of the good habits one can pick up, and in your case I think you need to pick up some good habits. Focusing on how to break your phone addiction could be hard since it's very specific, so maybe changing some fundamental things that you do will shake off this behaviour.
I have the QC35 and besides the noise cancelling they are crap. The bluetooth drops off when I'm sometimes only 8m away, the battery life is low, but the most annoying thing for me is the multi devices connectivity. They will connect to both my iphone and mac at the same time, but never in the way I intended to. A lot of times I need to turn off the bluetooth on the iphone, or turn the phones on and off several times, or desperately try to connect/disconnect the phones to the mac, do this a few times a day and see how it feels. There is no option on the phones to switch between devices, or even to stop multi connectivity, the phones know better and will connect to the device which is 'closest'. Good luck when you sit at the desk with the laptop and the phone on it. The only way is to use the Bose supplied app, which is full of dark UX patterns. Every time it asks me to create a Bose account, to connect my other social accounts, etc. And it doesn't even solve anything, do I really need to open my iphone and open the Bose app to turn off a connected device every time I start the headphones?
By comparison my Beats solo are much better, for range battery and connectivity, but they don't have noise cancelling.
Except that I never payed any attention to bluetooth range, it's the opposite experience here.
I have the QC35-II and never had problems, neither with battery life nor with bluetooth. In fact, given that it seems like no device ever gets bluetooth protocol right, it surprised me that the headphones do exactly what I want: connect to two devices at once (laptop and phone). So I can play music on the laptop and when someone calls, the headphones seamlessly switch to the phone, and when I hang up, they switch back to the music from the laptop. Also reconnecting works without anything to complain about. I am also switching back and forth between two locations, meaning two laptops and two phones, and the only thing that is mildly annoying is that when switching the desk, it takes a little longer to reconnect to the other set of devices again. But it does work.
What would be cool is three devices served at once (laptop, land line phone, mobile phone).
I am not using the Bose app at all.
But what is annoying is that they don't charge and work at the same time. Frankly, I was pissed when I found that out. WTF, there are integrated USB charger/voltage regulator circuits readily available that do that for you. Probably it's due to heat dissipation problems as always so they might have artifically disabled this to avoid at all cost headphones bursting into flames on people's heads.
The QC35 was the first product that made me realize Bluetooth had turned a corner. The way my calls could transition from QC to my car when I start it, back to the headphones, seamlessly, we a revelation. As was the time I walked to the bathroom without my phone, and my music kept playing, 30-40ft through tile walls.
I'm very, very happy with the BT performance of my AirPods as well.
I bought some Outdoor Chips 2.0 snow sports earpieces for my ski helmet a few years back, and they took me back to the bad old days of bluetooth; static and cutting out when you dare turn your head the wrong way or put your phone in the wrong pocket. They went back to REI, and were replaced by Sena Snowtalk which works the way that modern BT stuff (cars, Bose, Apple, etc) works.
I have the QC35-II as well. I've now disabled it on my phone, and hopefully it will only connect to the computer. I wish they would have put a physical button and let me cycle through the connected devices. But no, I don't know what they've thought, that the headphones will guess my intention? The reason I have it on my phone is that because of the poor bluetooth range I will keep the phone in my pocket and stream to the headphones when I walk through the house, but when I come back to the computer I need to hassle again to switch the connection.
> I have the QC35 and besides the noise cancelling they are crap.
This is the main reason why I have never bought a Bose product before (and probably never will). I've heard this assertion way too many times about Bose headphones, that besides noise cancelling they are average (if not worse) headphones overall and of course way too overpriced. I've switched to ear monitors and to be honest that turns out to be a good enough noise cancelling solution at least for me (provided that you get a good fit). I tend to just use wired headphones as you get rid of the potential issues that you mention: bluetooth and battery. Hope that good headphones companies keep manufacturing wired headphones in 10, 20 or 50 years time but I see that hard as laptops and phones are slowly deprecating the beloved jack connector.
Strange, I've used QC35 II so far with three different phones and one tablet, all Android, no problems whatsoever with Bluetooth. Turn on BT in the device, click the BT button on the headset to cycle the device. That's basically it.
EDIT: I turn off BT in all but one device!
I don't use the Bose app for anything. The only time was to update the firmware and re-enable the noise cancellation button, which somehow vanished.
As for range one can't expect much more with Bluetooth, especially indoors.
If you meant QC35 II and not QC35, could your issue be something in the Mac and/or iPhone and not the headphones?
It is for retail investors, but Treasuries are the real "King" when there's a liquidity crunch. Bonds are basically as liquid as it gets, and safer than than cash. That's why yields go down in situations like we see right now.
Not that I think that a liquidity crunch is happening right now anyways since liquidity is readily available if we judge by the Fed rates and how commited towards supporting the repo markets they seem to be. And even just the psychological effect of that strong Fed support make everyone feel safer about their liquidity levels, which makes a run for cash even less likely! Liquidity is probably the biggest self-fulfilling prophecy in Finance.
Assets are rather useful though, depending on what they are.
If it's living space, that's rental value right there. If it's production hardware, depends on what you produce, from which sources and how easy it is to reconfigure.
Farming assets can become extremely valuable.
If the asset is a stockpile of a good, again, some goods can become very valuable.
In case of a deflationary economy (unlikely imo), wouldn't Treasuries' yields adjust and still be as widely accepted and safe as they are now? Huge amounts of cash are an extremely risky way to hold liquidity in general, and much more so in a deeply depressed economy. There is simply no way to insure that much money against a potential bank bankruptcy or for banks to hold it without parking it anywhere.
The Fed action today suggests that they do not think a credit crisis is unlikely. And while it is true that big corporations and players in money markets don't hold a lot of actual cash, it does seem to be the case that every asset class is getting punished, and that is actually kind of weird.
More generally, all tradeable/redeemable issueance of the sovereign are royal peers: cash, treasury bonds/notes/paper, US savings bonds series I/EE, even agency bonds.
Its value is not suddenly dropping as the same rate as the other investments. You can (hopefully) buy food with it.
(But being good to your family, having low or no debt and some prudent food storage are also wise, among other things our church has counseled us for a long time). (Edit: and savings "for a rainy day".)
(Edit: This is considering the definition of "cash" to be not just paper in your hand, but as a regulated currency whether paper or in a bank. Further clarification in another reply just below.)
Depends on the crisis and what you consider "currency". Hyperinflation is also a crisis.
More generally, in times where people would rather have useful things like food, tools, and gas than pieces of paper you'll be screwed if cash is all you have - because there's going to be one hell of a price hike. Even more so because economic output is likely to go down.
Then in case the crisis gets really bad it'll turn out you can't eat cash. Nobody is going to hand over food or other useful things in exchange for a few bits of paper with questionable value.
> More generally, in times where people would rather have useful things like food, tools, and gas than pieces of paper you'll be screwed if cash is all you have...
This may be happening in some limited fashion even in the current crisis. My country still has its own currency within EU, and is undergoing unprecedented levels of lockdown over the last few days. The currency is already tanking compared to Euro (lost 4% over a few days), as people stockpile stuff.
Cash was not king during periods of hyperinflation in Germany (30s), Venezuela (ongoing), and many more. It is roughly as common as a stock market crash.
Good point. To help make such decisions, maybe one could also try to gauge the overall level of honesty, competence, and responsibility (edit: and strength given trends) of the sponsoring entity. (I have been in USD and varied bonds rather than stocks for a while now, partly due to general debt and overconfidence levels, and plan to revisit things, around August after current trends play out more.)
Liquidity isn't everything. What makes USD bills any better than Hasbro dollars? Why are people trading dollars over the internet when they could be just trading packets, which are infinitely more available (liquid).
You're missing an important piece of the puzzle. People want to trade for something that they perceive to have more value than the thing they are trading. This can't work if you have an infinite dollar printer (or magic numbers somewhere on the internet) because the money will be perceived as worthless (or will become worthless in the not so distant future).
The future is being able to trade something which is perceived as holding (or accruing) value which can't be arbitrarily reduced by policy-makers, and also is highly liquid, difficult to forge, easy to verify, low-cost to transact, and can be used as payment for most services. Any guesses as to what this might be?
I had so much frustration yesterday while renting a movie from Apple TV for my kids. I wanted to view it on my wife's laptop (also a Macbook), apparently she can't download the Apple TV app unless she subscribes. I had the app from when I had the TV trial. Overall such a poor and buggy user experience, not going into details, but I hear these devs are getting 400k/yr for not giving a shit about the overall user experience.
Doesn't WebRTC need a TURN server to proxy traffic when you're behind a NAT? It's not really peer to peer when all the data goes through a central point.
TURN only proxies if it’s unable to make a connection via STUN, which requires the server to handle only a few packets when the initial connection is formed and provides direct peer to peer access after. Many home NATs only need the latter.
Yes, but then you get Candy Crush install by itself, and every day new KB updates, system updates that you cannot prevent like it's not your own system to chose, optimisation processes which start consuming CPU without you asking for it, clunky UI. I prefer to use a Mac just for the peace of mind.
Because it's better to run an unpatched OS (considering installing updates on a hackintosh tends to break it) than to run an OS with some pre-installed software that you won't even notice?
I meant that I run on a Macbook. I was comparing Windows with MacOS. Btw, software that I won't even notice? I paid 2.5k on a laptop that I keep docked most of the time, so I guess I do notice it, along with all the other things I've mentioned.
Cloud is not purely hosting, it's the services on top, the benefits of the company behind it. I don't know the statistics but probably bigger companies will pay a premium knowing that it's Amazon doing the hosting and not 10 different Uncle Lius.
