You’re right, the kind of cable often used is not easy to solder. This makes it hard to solder a broken cable together again, or to replace a broken / bent plug. So best replace the entire cable and its plug — it’s still an inexpensive part.

You’ll need to solder it to the contacts inside the can, but that’s quite straightforward.

In case the internal cable that goes from one can to the other breaks, you can replace it with any bit of audio cable so you can use one that’s easy to solder.

I’ve repaired many pairs of wired headphones over the years, as electronic repairs go they’re very simple. The same can’t be said for the wireless ones.

Plus, the more high end ones come with repleceable cables.

Sounds pretty grim to me, why are they sending you slack messages when you’re on a trip with family?

The Macbook Pro has a HDMI port and a Micro SD slot, it’s great to not have to look for a dongle. Steep price difference though.

Thanks for the links ! Good to have an overview of the current crop turns out there is a factory near me

It’s one of the reasons I don’t like the current fashion of controlling devices from your phone. Each time you change the channel you risk seeing your notifications or are tempted to go to the apps.

Yet AV remote controls were UX hell and phones are an improvement. So maybe a separate old phone just for that ?

I watch through the window to see the current weather, except for the temperature, which I assume is more or less the same as yesterday. I know it’s colder at night, but that’s true every night. It’s all very approximative, but I just can’t be bothered to look up the weather. I like not thinking about it at the cost of sometimes being surprised.

> except for the temperature, which I assume is more or less the same as yesterday

I guess you live somewhere very, very different from me.

And I guess I just don't enjoy the surprise of shivering cold, or soaking sweat, when I choose the wrong jacket.

I see your point but these business owners are going to wait until a big player offers this as an online service. As of now installing *Claw requires running scripts, mucking about with Docker etc, no business owner is going to do that unless software dev happens to be their hobby.

People keep bringing dead Bose bluetooth speakers to our repair café. These are a lot more expensive than the competitors. Bose has a reputation so people think they’ll last longer, but they don’t, they’ll fail just out of warranty just like cheaper brands. They also don’t sound meaningfully better. And they’re not at all engineered to be repaired. I’d avoid.

I personally prefer corded headphones and mains powered speakers, but if I were to buy a small wireless speaker I would buy a cheaper brand and ideally second hand, because this category of devices are basically consumables.

It’s a method like any other. The process took him two days, after the LLM suggested which track to mix (like he was working for the LLM instead of the other way around?). Two days is more than enough to learn how to make a mashup in Ableton without LLM’s.

Seems though that working with those AI tools appeals to the author, that they learned and had fun, so I guess that makes it a good usecase for them specifically?

Author here, I think you’re spot on. If I set out specifically to make a mashup and spent the same number of hours working toward that goal I think I could have gotten to the same place. This was a journey that started with wrapping my head around MCP and LLM local software interoperability, and my Ableton knowledge leveled up a lot along the way.

I think this tooling could be useful in the hands of more capable musicians / audio engineers / etc. as there are often repetitive tasks in DAWs and it could potentially unlock new workflows that would have been too tedious without knowing how to program.