I remember building my own track ir with ir leds and a floppy in front of an old webcam. This was more than a decade ago, but I would have assumed there is no more demand for this since VR headsets are a thing(I completely left gaming and everything about it since then).
Anyway, great work!
The difference is that the OpenFit are not bone conducting, they have speakers which sit over the entry of your ear. And I think that's the reason why they are not really working for me.
Maybe I should give the bone conducting ones a try.
I was expecting that the surrounding sounds blend in with the music instead of drowning it out. Like you can hear music coming out of a speaker while a car passes.
Shokz OpenFit ear phones. I bought them to be able to go running or cycling while listening to music and hear my surroundings. However it doesn't really work, because as soon as there is a little bit of noise around I can't hear the music anymore. A passing car, or a little bit of wind(which happens quite often on a bike) is enough to not hear anything that comes out of them.
SEEKING WORK | The Netherlands | Remote | Android/Backend Software Engineer
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SEEKING WORK | The Netherlands | Remote | Android/Backend Software Engineer
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Technologies: Android(Kotlin, Java, Compose, XML, Gradle), Spring Boot, Swift
I work an app that lets me download and convert my plex music collection on my computer. I have a large collection that is mostly in flac. And I have a cheap mp3 player that I use for sports. However that mp3 player has only 8gb of storage, which is very little if filled with flac files. So with my app I can browse my music collection and select albums which then get downloaded and converted to mp3.
SEEKING WORK | The Netherlands | Remote | Android/Backend Software Engineer
Mobile Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in developing, maintaining and shipping Android apps. I've also worked on backends with Spring Boot and some small iOS projects.
I wish they would make a 5a version that is smaller and has lower specs and is therefore cheaper. I really like the idea of getting updates until 2031 and being able to just replace the battery.
Yes, I reduced from full time 40 hours to 32 hours. Which results in a 4 day workweek. I did this when becoming a freelancer. I'm in Europe and salaries here are not that crazy high as in the US, so getting a 20% pay cut might even hurt. However currently I make around ~110k per year with less work than before, thanks to freelancing.
On my off day I do the bare minimum of work, like writing invoices and do taxes. This takes max 30 mins, depending on what I have to do. The rest of the day I do whatever I want, without feeling guilty. I do sports, nap in the afternoon, pursue my hobbies or go shopping.
This really increased my mental health. And it was absolutely worth it. My "day off" helps me regenerate and just takes all the stress away. My plan is to do this until I retire, or even reduce my hours more.
I heard an interesting podcast where they interviewed a German pilot. And he said that in order to get promoted(getting to fly a bigger plane, in his case) the only factor that counts is the years of experience. There is nothing a pilot can do (this might depend on the airline) to speed up this process. The reason is that they want to avoid pilots taking risks in order to "get better", like being faster, more fuel efficient etc.