Woo, what a milestone. This calls for a short celebration.🍾 It's nice to see the server doing well and healthy.
Hah! Don't put words where the commitment isn't there willingly. I understand.
Though such moderation would likely mean me migrating to a smaller community with proper human moderation, which isn't a bad thing. That's how Lemmy works after all.
Someone out there probably had a whole lot of fun with this and only needed to "make it an ad" to justify someone else putting the money into printing and publishing.
Well, at least this one only goes for $60.
Here's an update. The DAC works wonders, though it doesn't apply any eq that you've set beforehand (for now). In other news, I found out I was compensating for bad mixing of certain songs with the Pop EQ. I am now back to no EQ.
I mean, I only connected my phone to the Mini to demo some new bandcamp music, and I was completely blown away by how open and large the instrument separation was. I thought the amazingness was due to Dolby atmos (it was off) or the phone's equalizer (it was also off) or even my headphones' DSP (my headphones was also off). It was none of that. I was simply getting it worse with the increased bass level of the EQ. The Ult Wear just muddies all the mids when the bass is out too strong, no matter where that tuning is coming from I've learned.
Tl;dr: this is an amazing device in terms of audio fidelity, with some understandable limitations that doesn't detract from it's wonderful audio quality. Sony's sound engineers should be ashamed for pushing the Ult in a direction it's not meant to be taking (lots of bass literally blowing everything else away). I think I now know why the Ult button is there, it's not a feature, it's a compromise.
Huh, in all the excitement, I've appeared to have actually left out the name of the device.
It's a FIIO Snowsky Echo Mini. It's their budget sub-brand lineup featuring their expertise in audio fidelity in as cheap a package everywhere else they could get away with. Not that the product isn't otherwise good. The support (dev communication) is swift on the official forum and firmware is being updated very regularly—about monthly with new features each time.
This is my first DAP actually, but the sound quality seems to be pretty good. My ANC Sony Ult Wear headphones wired and off do also sound clearer, more natural and open (no fake sounding bass muddying everything else) with the Pop Eq on the device. Compared to having the headphones connected to my phone via Bluetooth.
There's no crash issues with the current firmware (v2.4.0) I've experienced, the Echo Mini has been dead on predictable in a way no Android phone could. However, it would load larger album images rather slowly, which would affect the wake up speed. There are tips out there about lowering the resolution of the album art to compensate, but I haven't done that just yet.
There are preset EQs you can select on it, as well as a custom fixed frequency slider EQ that you can tune to your liking. The base acoustics is a bit lacking on the low end, making it sound a tad bit flat there, but the Pop EQ option did fix that for me. Due to the simplicity of the cpu however, EQ only works for "Standard Quality" 16 bit depth FLAC, not for 24 bit if you are going for lossless.
Do note that I have only loaded up a 16GB SD card with mostly FLAC files, when they are 16 bit depth, so I haven't quite stressed it the same way some users have. I do know that it has a song limit of 8192, so do take that into account.
The battery is very good, a single charge has lasted me a whole day of listening with 2/4 bars left when I got home.
It can also function as a DAC if plugged into a phone/computer via the USB C port, but I haven't had the chance to try that out yet.
I took way too many hours just comparing the different colors when I was considering buying it, but I'm glad I did. Pink really is the best color out of the lineup.
This thing is amazing! I barely used my phone at all in the morning and all through the afternoon as I went about my business. I got sucked in for the evening onwards, but baby steps.
... I'll need to download more music, and get a bigger SD card. I've already played and replayed every single one of them I had loaded onto my Echo Mini these past 2 days.
Cons:
I literally RSDed myself out of deleting my Reddit account. All while intellectually understanding (from the very beginning) that it's emotion disregulation at work, and that no mod was really out to get me, nor cared, but that's just cause Reddit is such a big place they couldn't be sympathetic to and follow up on every post violation without burning themselves out.
I think the feeling of "all my friends hate me" can be a pretty vanilla ADHD experience too tbf. Although for the longest time before diagnosis, I thought that about my colleagues.
ADHD: The world is too noisy today and I can't focus on that important thing I need to do instead of some stupid hyperfixation for 14 hours.
AuDHD: The world is too noisy today and I need to get out of here and recuperate.
Hey ticoombs, I just saw this while trapezing around the fediverse. It's a proof of work challenge via hashing to make AI scrappers bleed resources when trying to crawl our servers.
Could this be a potential measure against DDOS from scrappers when the server load is high? Or even as general protection with a low difficulty setting? What do you think?
Low difficulty challenge (appears for 1-3 seconds):
Difficulty 5 challenge (appears for 15-35 seconds):
