And the early explosion of bundle sites. Fanatical was BundleStars, Indie Gala, and ton others that had weekly, then bi-weekly and then seemingly daily bundles.
Thanks for the correction. I had thought that only some of the early Motorolas had that feature, but it looks like there are quite a few more phones that support analog audio out via USB-C.
All Most of the ones you can get nowadays actually have a sound chip inside the cable (in the flat part behind the USB-C). So they’re pretty much a USB-C soundcard with just a headphone out. So it’s worth shopping around to find one that has a good soundcard built in.
A good alternative is getting a decent portable Bluetooth audio receiver to plug your regular headphones into. Can get a better headphone amp that way.
What they should be saying is that it’s like exercise.
Just because you know how to run or you know how to do a pull-up, you won’t necessarily be able to do so to the extent needed in a pinch. You have to stay in shape. You have a car, but the car could break down and you might have to walk a mile to the nearest gas station.
Likewise, with math, we run into situations all the time where being able to do simple math in your head you can prevent you from getting screwed.
Like at a car dealership, some will show you different payments and ask you if you want to get the premium insurance or skip the premium insurance and go with the lower payment.
Most will choose the lower payment. If you did the quick math* in you head though, you’d quickly see that the “lowest payment” is off and has a minimal car warranty bundled in.
Grocery shopping. I’ve seen where the price per ounce on the shelf doesn’t match the actual price per ounce.
Should you take the more distant job? It pays $5 more an hour, but is it worth driving 15 extra miles?
Should you take the delivery job that pays $20 an hour but will put an extra 50-100 miles a day on your car? It’s not just gas. Cars are a finite resource. Can you figure out the depreciation per mile?
When you buy a house: Should you buy a house now if it’s cheaper but interest rates are high or buy later when interest rates go down but the price may go up? How much money does each 0.25% in APR really mean to me? (Example: For a $400,000 house, a 0.25% APR difference is $83 a month or $1000 just that first year (not including compounding). With compounding, it can mean an extra $62 a month for the life of the loan for all 360 payments or $22,000! An extra 1% is quadruple that!)
If you think you would keep a house for only 5 years, which loan makes more sense? Pay a bit more in closing for a lower APR or pay nothing extra but get a higher APR? How many years in does the first loan come out ahead?
Quick loan payment estimation (without compounding for short loans (<6 years):
Takes a while to read, but with practice, it’s quick to do in your head:
Take loan amount, number of years, and APR:
Ex. 10K at 6% for 5 years.
Think of it as a geometry problem. You have a triangle with one side at 10k (starting loan amount) on the y axis and 0 days (x axis) and the tip will be at 60 months (5 years) and $0.
At the halfway point (30 months 2.5 years) the principal balance (not counting interest) should be about $5000. So on average we can calculate $5000 * 6% APR for 5 years (or 30% total without compounding)
Original loan amount + non-compounded interest =
$10000 + ( $5000 * 30% ) = $11500
$11,500 divided by 60 payments = $191.66 /mo
0% interest would be $10,000/60 or $166.66
This already gets us really close to the real answer.
I threw the loan values into an online calculator and it came up with $193.33 for the monthly payment.
$193.33 - $191.66 = $1.67 difference or 99.1% of the real answer.
This % difference due to compounding will vary based on the APR and and loan term but not the loan amount. So if you know which terms and APR you qualify for, you can figure this out ahead of time. For our 6% APR for 5 years example we know to add 1%.
If the sales person presents us with a significantly different monthly payment, then we know they snuck something in. I’ve personally run into this where all the payment options had a different service plan and/or extended warranty snuck in.
Also it’s good to know that the interest will cost us $26 a month vs 0% APR or paying in cash. Which helps us figure out if it makes sense to buy now (do we get $26 of benefit a month for having it now) vs waiting.
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I haven’t used mint in a while but did for a few years. The out of the box experience (at that time) was better.
Article from 2011:
Linux Mint 11 is a very respectable and speedy distribution and is comparatively very media friendly and easy to use out of the box for newcomers. These qualities likely have contributed to the operating system’s place on the Top 5 Linux Distribution list.
Take a hugely popular distro which alienates some some users with some issues or unappealing GUI choices, Mint comes along and polishes it further and you end up with a distro that is just perfect for that niche.
I think quite a few Ubuntu users migrated to KUbuntu or Mint when Canonical made Unity the default (in Ubuntu 11.04).
The simplest way I think of it is by the properties of exponentials:
2^3 / 2^2 = (2 * 2 * 2) / (2 * 2) = 2 = 2^(3-2)
Dividing two exponentials with the same base (in this case 2) is the same as that same base (2) to the power of the difference between the exponent in the numerator minus the exponent in the denominator (3 and 2 in this case).
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Time to update the doorbell. It plays 30 seconds of a track. What do you reccommend? I currently have ‘Da Da Da’ by Trio. Because I can.
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What is your favorite time travel movie or show?
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