nekomatic

You can get little ‘media player’ gadgets that take a memory card and play whatever movies or images are on it out to an HDMI socket. Here’s one for example (not a specific recommendation though). Strangely they seem to be less common and more expensive now than a few years ago though, at least on UK eBay. Maybe nowadays everyone just uses their phone.

Sorry to hear that anyone has lost money and thanks for all the good advice. Not directly related to this scam but worth mentioning while security is on people’s minds, check that your phone doesn’t show the contents of incoming messages on the lock screen. There were reports in the news of a spate of thefts where people had phones and bank cards stolen from their locker while they were at the gym, then their bank accounts were cleaned out. The way this worked was the thief got the bank account details from the card and used them to set up the app for that bank on their own phone, which the bank verified by sending a code in a text message which the thief could see arriving on the locked phone. On iPhone you want to set Settings>Notifications>Show Previews to ‘When Unlocked, not ‘Always’.

To the very best of my knowledge the only thing special about orange mains extension leads is that they are orange, so they are easier to see.

The hi-fi community have decided that minimalist amps using these ICs are called ‘Gainclones’, so if you search for ‘gainclone pcb’ you’ll find some. How to judge which ones are well designed though…

Here it is and I only wish she’d done more like it. Superb in every way.

Ladies and gents, I give you Moby Dickless. I’m not sure how they blagged their way on to the bill at a jazz festival, but I like it!

Obviously the correct answer is the one Amy Winehouse would have made if they hadn’t got cold feet about letting her. Although I’ve always thought Love Is A Losing Game was a Bond song just waiting for its film. In its absence though, anyone who didn’t vote for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is purely wrong.

Sounds like Pablo Casals I’m 51 and don’t claim to be good, but I think I have a much better understanding now of why not than I did in my twenties - having not played much in the intervening time - so with a bit of practice, who knows?

I use Apple Music so most of my actual listening is streamed from Apple, but I buy downloads (mostly Bandcamp or iTunes) or CDs (mostly secondhand) for stuff that's not on there or I feel I really want to own and/or support the artist (obviously secondhand CDs don't do the latter) and am slowly getting through ripping my CD library into iTunes. iTunes Match means I can play the downloads and CD rips on any of my devices, but it's not part of the Apple Music Family deal so my family members don't get the same privilege, but that's fine because they mostly don't like my music anyway. I have some vinyl but no deck, so where possible I've been finding them on Apple Music then selling or giving away the originals unless they have some personal significance. I'm no… oh wait, yes, yes I am.

Looks like a blast, and I’m sorry I couldn’t have made it - maybe next year!

I liked it too, and the rest of you are a bunch of humourless curmudgeons with no imagination. While I would have tweaked a couple of things about their arrangement if I were in charge, I thought it was a wholly unironic tribute to what a good tune the original is, while at the same time transforming it from (superficially at least, I don't know if there's a subtext) a beer-soaked celebration of bad behaviour into a rather wistful elegy for it, as if describing something long gone and somewhat missed. Which would be rather anti-woke, if you think about it.

Moon Hooch at Manchester Academy 3. No bass guitars or any stringed instruments in fact, just a drummer and two wind players doing hypnotic loops and riffs over live dance beats. Rave with saxophones, basically. Previous to that, Korngold’s The Dead City at English National Opera. Amazing work, huge luscious orchestration, superb performance.

Only observing that the Fairbrass brothers are now vocal conspiracy theorists, particularly around COVID and vaccines. Not telling you what to think about that, but it might affect how their songs go down with an audience.

I’ve just re-read the thread looking for where anybody told anybody else that they shouldn’t play anything, and I couldn’t find a single example.

Before playing a Freds song I assume you’ve also reviewed the ‘problematic creators and their music’ thread…

Apparently my Jazz is one, although such is my ignorance of these things I wasn’t aware until someone here commented on a picture I put up on my cab rebuild thread. I guess one day I should get round to trying a short horn Jazz for comparison…

Well this discussion is making me feel better about walking up or down Denmark Street three times within thirty-six hours during a recent London trip with the family and not going in to any of the shops. And yes, it is a brilliant city to visit, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

I have definitely had USB cables that worked with some devices - so weren’t just charge-only - but not others. I can only guess that it’s something to do with the impedance or capacitance of the cable and the ability of the non-working devices to drive it, or something.

The pink LEDs I’ve seen look like they’re white LEDs - which are blue LEDs with a yellow-emitting phosphor in front - with a pink filter on the phosphor.

Bought a strap, communications were prompt and friendly, it was despatched quickly and perfectly packed - a pleasure to deal with this Basschatter.

Nice work with the graphics! Also, we have the same tablecloth.

Also, you can measure the specs of a driver if you have a a small amount of test gear and patience. There’s a description on Rod Elliott’s website somewhere.

Fair enough, I confess I didn’t watch it.

I would file the hole into an ugly oval and hide it behind an added rectangular plate with the right size and position of holes made in it. Ask me how I know about this technique.

If I understand correctly what that board is doing, it isn’t changing the voltage itself, just requesting your choice of voltage from the USB-C supply via the ‘power delivery’ protocol. Not all supplies support all power delivery voltages though, so if you have a rechargeable power bank with a USB-C socket on it it may still only be able to put out 5 volts.