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Wireless Headphone Suffering

I hate when I am trying to solve a tech issue and I try one last thing to confirm it's the hardware, and then the last thing works, which sends me back into the "no there is clearly a setting somewhere I'm missing."

So I have a JLab Hands free headset which has been my go-to for several years. A few months ago something changed on Windows and now it only records static. I've run through the ringer, uninstalling drivers, trying generic drivers, I tried VoiceMeeter as an intermediate device and... still no luck.

I go to put a Logitech headset in my Amazon cart, to threaten the universe with this headset's demise. Then I decide to connect the headset to my phone and see if it works and... to my chagrin - it does. So the JLab headset works, but not with Windows and I can't figure out why.

I head to the company helpdesk this morning and offer them the choice of either trying to triage the issue or give me another set of headphones to use and, unsurprisingly, they opted for the latter. Apparently these sorts of issues are well known for bluetooth headsets and Windows and I had already done the two things they would have suggested we try. So I'm back to using a wired headset for the time being.

It occurs to me, the phone workaround I blogged about last week for hearing audio from the computer through the phone could work here, but it doesn't seem worth the trouble and I'd have to contend with corporate wifi on my phone rather than at my house.

"Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline"

Suicides among young adults dropped most sharply in states that actively embraced the 988 crisis line, new research has found.

Some good news for this Friday. The linked NYT article refers to the information in this study.

Suicide remains a leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults in the US. In July 2022, the US launched the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, replacing the 10-digit 1-800-273-TALK number with a 3-digit number and investing more than $1.5 billion to expand crisis center capacity and workforce nationwide. In the subsequent 3 years, contacts to the lifeline more than doubled, with disproportionately higher use among adolescents and young adults. Whether population-level suicide mortality in this group changed after launch of the 988 Lifeline is unknown.

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Twenty years old and yet it has aged quite well. Still a classic.

The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy.

That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Saw it in context of discussion of Republicans being angry at the Virginia political map redrawing. AOC called them out that Dems had been trying to ban this sort of thing for ten years and they always block it. So, since they want it to be the rules, the Dems have begun pushing back.

Great Danes are like velcro

I love my dogs. Duke, our current great dane, but also our first, Elwood, are velcro dogs. Duke is by my side anytime I am home. If I go to the bathroom he escorts me and gets annoyed when I close the door.

It's both very endearing and also very funny and annoying.

And I was thinking about the breeding that led to this for the breed. Most people don't realize, but references to a 'boarhound' are referring to great danes. They were hunting dogs. So the breeding is to keep them close and not prone to wandering off when hunting. And in the modern day that means staying by my side in the house.

"Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down, John Ternus set to replace him"

Wow.

Update: Okay, apparently this isn't as unexpected as I thought. I wasn't aware it was somewhat expected.

Middle of the night writing and editing sessions are becoming too common for me. I'd really prefer sleeping through the night, but getting a quiet hour's worth of work is nice.

Now, back to bed.

Sunday morning grooves

Fs in the chat.

I just took my La Z Boy to the street after 10 years of service. It's still quite comfy, but we got a new couch and have to give up space.

But I had the funny thought that at some point in the future I get to experience the sheer joy of bringing a La Z Boy recliner home again.