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the latter half of the 20th century was all about bragging about the technological improvements with treknobabble on the front  
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Jonny 290 posted:a fair amount of greybeards have youtube videos up where they retrofit a line in to old rear end factory stock cassette decks. basically if you can get ahold of the schematics (or know electronics well enough to trace it out) you just find a spot where the cassette audio circuit is line level, inject your audio there through a couple of resistors, and use a cassette shell with no tape in it to switch the stereo to tape mode there's a mod for adding an aux port to GM head units that hooks into the FM side, so that when you plug into the aux port it switches from the radio to what you've got in the aux port i bought a replacement that was already modded (because the tape deck in the old head unit in my buick died) but unfortunately running off that aux port is really quiet for some reason, so i had to have the volume cranked really loud for aux input to sound normal. but i noticed i'd feel kind of fatigued listening to it like that, which i wondered if there was some output i wasn't hearing that was clobbering my eardrums or something, but either way it was unpleasant so i just gave up and used a tape adapter again since the new units tape deck worked. Jonny 290 posted:i was pondering pulling the stock ford stereo (6cd indash changer lomarf) for a double din head unit so i can get carplay but theyre all just so gross and ugly, except the $1,000 ones, which are gross, ugly, and expensive yeah i wish someone would rip off the ipod interface, have like two-thirds of the front area used for a display, and then a big push-knob for navigating the menus (and another big knob for volume). instead, everyone either wants to do just one huge touchscreen (barf), or just re-hash late-90s seven-segment displays
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touchscreen controls are a loving plague among vehicles
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Kitfox88 posted:touchscreen controls are a loving plague among vehicles
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Jonny 290 posted:There's no inrush protection on these, so when i flipped the power switch on, even with nothing hooked up, my lights dimmed for a sec and it sounded like a .22 went off as the transformer did its THONK BRUMMMMM thing. lol that owns nudgenudgetilt posted:MOSFET. how did that ever become a marketing term. i mean, is it? it's an acronym
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laggy touchscreens especially. i have to drive a prius occasionally and there is easily a 400+ms lag for every press
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i like how on new fancy cars they have shoehorned it into even dumber things than usual, like adjusting the position of vents
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Beeftweeter posted:i mean, is it? it's an acronym for a period in the late 90s, early 00s, car stereo mfgs used it as a marketing term. I mean, yeah, it's an acronym for a real thing, and as j290 says has benefits as a technology, but it was just weird to see it plastered all over the head unit.
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Wild EEPROM posted:i like how on new fancy cars they have shoehorned it into even dumber things than usual, like adjusting the position of vents what lmao
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nudgenudgetilt posted:for a period in the late 90s, early 00s, car stereo mfgs used it as a marketing term. I mean, yeah, it's an acronym for a real thing, and as j290 says has benefits as a technology, but it was just weird to see it plastered all over the head unit. oh, yeah. i guess you could lump it in with DSP/DAB/AAC/etc too but also as jonny says, you could say the same with pretty much any technobabble. it's like swiss watches lol
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agreed, everything from the last few pages owns funny tech poo poo thread’s been on a roll this weekend I want to get a “solid state” sticker/decal for my laptop
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all this tape talk reminds me when i taught my dad to record his reel to reels onto cdrs he loved that poo poo, and now all those cds are just sitting there cause not even he gives a gently caress about cds lol
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:yeah i wish someone would rip off the ipod interface, have like two-thirds of the front area used for a display, and then a big push-knob for navigating the menus (and another big knob for volume). instead, everyone either wants to do just one huge touchscreen (barf), or just re-hash late-90s seven-segment displays
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buncha car audio nerds are using the behringer dcx2496 as a crossover because it is probably the most configurable one for under 500 bucks till you get into like dbx driveracks there's even companies that make aftermarket PSUs that fit inside and eat 12vdc instead of 120vac
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Beeftweeter posted:what lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5lD9RH__3I
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more like taycan all my money for a complex gadget!!!
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Jonny 290 posted:buncha car audio nerds are using the behringer dcx2496 as a crossover because it is probably the most configurable one for under 500 bucks till you get into like dbx driveracks
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i do, too. despite liking star trek, i do not, in fact, want to okudagram my car's thermostat at 75 mph i figure my car is probably the last i can get with physical inputs for everything with carplay as well and i'm going to drive it until it rusts to pieces even the media controls are buttons on the wheel, the center console, and the screen which is perfect
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i have stereo and temp/fan up/down buttons on my wheel and it's fuckin perfect
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:there's a mod for adding an aux port to GM head units that hooks into the FM side, so that when you plug into the aux port it switches from the radio to what you've got in the aux port I got the aux adapter thing for my XM Skyfi in my Sierra circa 2005. it was pretty slick, click the aux input, would power up the satellite receiver and sounded great (for compressed sat rad). The SkyFi also used the old universal mount for my Nokia 7160 cradle lol.
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Agile Vector posted:i do, too. despite liking star trek, i do not, in fact, want to okudagram my car's thermostat at 75 mph my last car had a lcd display for the temperature but it was still a physical jog wheel. it was mostly fine, although having it just spin instead of having a discrete start and end point was a little annoying. i think thats as far as i'd take it of course the a/c vents you could just nudge into place though. i cant imagine having to use a goddamn tablet to do that
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not really tech, but ben affleck is with jlo, the mariners are in the playoffs, and quantum leap is on tv. what loving year is it?
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nudgenudgetilt posted:not really tech, but ben affleck is with jlo, the mariners are in the playoffs, and quantum leap is on tv. i'd say 2003 but that would mean bakula would be in star trek lol
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i've got faith faith of the heart
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my car has one of the best features of any car: the hvac fan speed dial has a minimum and maximum on it, it's not one of those infinitely spinning things. and it's labeled where the start and end point is. and it even has lots of clicks and isn't the usual 4 speeds. it's the simple things
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mine's up/down buttons but it has six positions above 'off' which is cool
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i'm guessing mine was infinity spin because it ranged from like 65-80, but since it just spun around it was still kinda lovely to use because you'd have to take your eyes off of the road anyway. imo they should have put a piezo or something in there to increase/decrease the resistance so you could do it by knobfeel
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Beeftweeter posted:do it by knobfeel Text me
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Jonny 290 posted:the latter half of the 20th century was all about bragging about the technological improvements with treknobabble on the front 
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 https://cari.institute/aesthetics/cassette-futurism Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Jonny 290 posted:the miracle of class D amplifier ICs, yeah. they're tiny as gently caress and like 90% efficient so you don't need heatsink like you did back then I have this class D subwoofer amp from my car that drives a 12" dual voice coil sub running in parallel at 2 ohms as far as I can tell, that is few ohms it did work better when it was in my car. currently I use a PC power supply to power the amp, I'm amazed it works at all. its not bad. it does belong in a car tho lol. it used to fuckin push some bass, it was pretty mad for a while back then. im far too demotivated to bother wiring it into my new car
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I love how every "look at all of the businesses this computer can do for you" ad up until semi-recently was "here's a chart that optionally has a table under/beside it, this is what you use these things for right?" I get that it's meant to show off color and detail and all but jeez, c'mon.
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it's like that ~1995-2000 thing where every computer photo had to have 15 tiny windows on the screen to show that it could multitask (and which linux users still do).
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Car Stereo Status: Did anyone else follow the EMPEG Mp3 Linux Head Unit at the turn of the millennium, thinking it was going to be The Year of Linux on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empeg_Car It's fun to look stuff like this up and get back a bunch of 1999/2000 web pages that are still alive https://www.anandtech.com/show/622/4 
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Jonny 290 posted:
something in my house keeps doing this and idk what it is. There's a definite dim when I turn my desktop amp on which is weird because it's tiny (tangent ampster), but sometimes it just happens. I think the lights are poo poo which doesn't help. Some sort of weird LEDs that have an actual warmup time.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Did anyone else follow the EMPEG Mp3 Linux Head Unit at the turn of the millennium, thinking it was going to be The Year of Linux on the I fantasized about replacing my rio volt and tape adapter with one of these
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