Re:Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
by foobarbecue on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:55AM
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There seems to be a new broad trend of stretching feature names. Shopping for headphones, "noise cancelling" began to be used recently to mean "pretty good seal" and now I see "7.1 Surround Sound" on headphones with two drivers to mean "has some fancy audio processing."
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Re:Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
by gumby on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:13PM
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It’s not new, sadly. The phrase “snake oil” goes back to the 19th century but names a phenomenon going back millennia.
Re:Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
by dredmorbius on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:45PM
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The original snake oil, from the Chinese water snake, (Enhydris chinensis), worked.
Ingedients being hard to come by, and the market uninformed but spend-happy, hucksters appeared and the "medicine show‘ emerged. Patent medicines were also amongst the first widely advertised products in mass media beginning in the mid-19th century.
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-snake-oil-got-...
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/?q=10.1007%2Fs12686-014-0200-1
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377/a-h...
http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/omega3-fatty...
Re:Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
by hanniabu on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:17AM
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I'm actually looking for headphones now. How would I know what headphones have actual noise canceling features?