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| technomancy | you know what would be amazing is if you could mount a volume potentiometer in one of the side panels | 00:44 |
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| doppler | more layers of volume control? oh no! | 00:45 |
| doppler | ;) | 00:45 |
| technomancy | there's only one way to make it not suck: move it to hardware | 00:46 |
| doppler | you say that but pots get scratchy over time | 00:46 |
| doppler | I'm telling the truth but I'm also half-joking. a pot would be pretty nice. | 00:47 |
| chartreuse | Not sure if the DAC would be able to do that, there's no pre-amp stage where a pot could just the line level | 00:47 |
| technomancy | I've never had a device last long enough to find out. | 00:48 |
| chartreuse | I had a early 2000s Toshiba laptop that had an analog volume pot, and it never got scratchy despite years of use and abuse | 00:48 |
| doppler | I thought Toshibas used rotary encoders. | 00:48 |
| chartreuse | I've got two Pentium 4m era toshibas and both of them have an analog volume pot. No step and a hard stop at either end | 00:50 |
| doppler | huh, nice | 00:50 |
| chartreuse | I don't know about newer ones, but at that time they were analog. Never a surprise turning it on late at night and it making a loud beep or anything | 00:50 |
| doppler | I think I'm picturing a certain era just after that that used digital knobs. more like mid/late 2000s. | 00:50 |
| doppler | come to think of it I think my Pentium MMX Toshiba also had a pot | 00:51 |
| doppler | a true pot, as you describe | 00:51 |
| doppler | the digital ones offered a pretty garbage UI, IME | 00:51 |
| doppler | and all of them could stand to be larger | 00:52 |
| doppler | it'd be nice to expose an entire knob and not just the side of a wheel | 00:52 |
| technomancy | also I want to replace the headphone jack with a 1/4-inch jack | 00:52 |
| technomancy | there's plenty of room! | 00:52 |
| doppler | :) | 00:53 |
| technomancy | (that one's not serious) | 00:53 |
| doppler | I won't stop until I have twin XLR outputs | 00:53 |
| chartreuse | A simple way of adding a volume pot to the headphone output would just be one of those short inline volume controls. I've got one that's just a 3" extension | 00:53 |
| chartreuse | Psh, go for one of those balanced headphone jacks and a driver for it | 00:53 |
| chartreuse | There definitly is enough physical space for a 1/4" though you'd be having to mount it in a jank way | 00:54 |
| chartreuse | Maybe get an aluminum side panel and a panel mount jack :P | 00:54 |
| doppler | yeah :) | 00:54 |
| chartreuse | I've already eaten into my free space changing the dc blocking caps for more BASS | 00:55 |
| technomancy | 1/4-inch headphone jack just seems like the ultimate middle finger to Appleization and I love the idea just for the sheer audacity | 00:55 |
| doppler | I have a funny story about losing a pair of headphones to the strength of a 1/4" phone jack | 00:57 |
| chartreuse | technomacny: You should also stuff a "tube" headphone amp into the case as well | 00:58 |
| doppler | I was wearing headphones and I walked away (well, really, I jumped away) from the device they were plugged into, and the cable ripped right out of the connector housing | 00:58 |
| doppler | the connector did not so much as slightly unplug :P | 00:59 |
| chartreuse | Might be enough space around the trackball or below the trackpad for a tube in there :))\ | 00:59 |
| doppler | they were pretty cheap headphones so I threw them away rather than repair them, but I feel this attests to the durability of 1/4" somewhat, since this was enough strength I could see 3.5 mm connector getting pretty screwed up | 00:59 |
| doppler | s/strength/force/ | 01:00 |
| doppler | chartreuse: it should stick through the chassis so people can gawk at it. just cut a hole in the sreen so the lid can still close. | 01:00 |
| khm | remember the 3com xjack connectors? | 01:01 |
| khm | retractable tube amp | 01:01 |
| doppler | hahaha | 01:01 |
| chartreuse | doppler: Just mount a tube socket to the side and plug it in that way | 01:02 |
| chartreuse | One on each side for stereo | 01:02 |
| doppler | yes, and they should retract as khm suggested | 01:03 |
| doppler | put them on springs with a solenoid so when the audio amplifier powers up they pop out automatically | 01:03 |
| khm | they should extend farther as the volume increases | 01:05 |
| technomancy | USB over XLR cable; come on, let's do this | 01:37 |
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| wagga | So, I have a problem. I ordered a reform from from crowd supply, but I made a typo in my email address. As a result, I never received an email to create an account and track my package. I tried to contact crows supply via their online form (https://www.crowdsupply.com/contact/other), but so far nobody has replied to my query. | 14:06 |
| mntmn | wagga: damn, sorry to hear that. i can raise it internally if you give me your order number and the (wrong and right) email, maybe best in a query here | 14:11 |
| wagga | Thanks mntmn, one moment... | 14:12 |
| wagga | mntmn: I sent you a pm. | 14:16 |
| mntmn | thanks, i will take care of it in ~20 minutes | 14:16 |
| wagga | No rush, but thank you. | 14:16 |
| wagga | Do you have any insight as to when the laptops will ship? Is the global chip shortage holding up production? | 14:17 |
| mntmn | the chip shortage is not affecting production because we already made all the electronics | 14:18 |
| mntmn | the problem is that we need a long time to assemble everything as we are a tiny, overworked team with no money | 14:19 |
| wagga | He hee.. I understand. | 14:19 |
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