But it’s the greatest city on Earth, according (exclusively) to New Yorkers!

I’m on that authentic STALKER diet. Bread, salami, sometimes canned meat, and pills to silence the voices.

The exif data says that it’s 4000x3000 pixels, but with an upper-right orientation. Looks like the camera always records the image data in landscape orientation and simply changes which corner represents the (0, 0) pixel.

It also means that Catbox doesn’t re-encode the image and preserves its metadata (for better or worse), which is good to know.

Why did this image load from right to left? It’s bothering me more than it should.

Do early ipods not show up as mass storage devices at all?

Maybe I’ll put it in another community. Audiophile Circlejerk if it exists.

But my main points boil down to:

• Extra hardware -> extra work & materials -> extra cost
• Additional point of failure
• Horrible effect on repairability, e-waste
• Limits audio quality and volume (both maximum and minimum) to the integrated DAC’s output
• Limits compatibility to devices that have USB-C and implement the protocols, which precludes everything that is analog

That is a horrid idea from so many perspectives and I hope it never sees the light of the heavens. I would elaborate, but my reply would surely contain an excess of profanities and I fear the moderators’ wrath.

Absolutely cromulent.

No AI, no blockchain, no subscriptions, no streaming, no SaaS… By every modern metric, it’s so dull it might not even exist.

can’t easily get a new one with a headphone jack

That pisses me off to no end. Not just the fact that Apple took a steaming dump and every other company decided to eat it, that’s just natural. But it would be So. Fucking. Easy. to capture an entire niche by just slapping a minimal DAC circuit and a TRRS socket on a phone. And nobody does it! Fairphone doesn’t. Pinephone doesn’t. “Nothing”, which is supposed to be this quirky unique thing, doesn’t, but what it does do is shove an AI in the camera where all it does is crank up the fucking saturation!

Rant over, I have to go seethe alone for a bit.