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NeoNachtwaechter

@ NeoNachtwaechter @lemmy.world

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  • Why can't my grandfather find hearing aids he likes?

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  • who was a mechanical engineer

    Tell him my greetings. I am an electrical engineer (I have even studied acoustics for several semesters) and I have made my jokes about mechanical engineers all my life. But I don't think that they are actually stupid ;-)

    He's a very straight forward man

    he is also a very picky man

    He is right about it. They are bad. The sad truth is: they are all less than perfect, and hard to endure.

    Scientists have improved them during the last 10 or 20 years, and they still have to improve them a lot more in the next 10 years or 20. Until then, everybody can only choose these current ones, that are less than good.

    But these devices are even worse if they are not adapted to the person.

    You can't just buy them off the shelf and wear them like you do with a wooden leg, that has either the correct length or you cut off a little.

    You need to adapt many different parameters before they start to be somewhat helpful. It is because hearing is super complex.

    So regarding your question about the best device, it is neither the brand nor the price, but whether you (or your audiologist) can adapt it good to the person.

    This will take some weeks of trying it out, and then adapt again.

    This is the actual choice he needs to make:

    Either have the stamina to let somebody adapt the devices for him, then try them for a few weeks, and then repeat this for at least three rounds of adapting and trying. Or let it all be, and grow old as a deaf man.

  • Keep 'Big Brother' at bay

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  • Quotes may help you.

  • What would you do if there was a zombie apocalypse coming and you had 2 days to prepare?

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  • I would wake up from the nightmare.

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    Do we need administrators and moderators to manage our conversations for us?

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  • So you have to create an instance, and be that bad admin.

    And then don't forget to hate yourself ;-)

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    Do we need administrators and moderators to manage our conversations for us?

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  • And the price is you have a cop now, telling us who can talk and what they can say.

    Lemmy's solution is that you can vote with your feet (=choose another instance with an admin to your liking)

    Of course the solution is incomplete. Real bad admins remain a possibility.

    That is kinda equal to a free world: Real bad humans are a possibility.

    But:

    Big fat BUT:

    If you really want a world where all bad people (according to your own definition) are excluded, then you have turned yourself into that cop that you despise so much.

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  • filtering out [...] I can do for myself.

    It still means too much legal trouble for the admin if the offending data would be on the server.

  • Do you use anything that someone else would consider a collectible and would never use?

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  • My father in law died several years ago,

    He made some very strong and very fine liquor, once every year. I still have half a bottle of the good stuff, and now I don't dare to drink it up.

  • TIL that the US is #10 in foreign aid per capita.

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  • This graph is extremely misleading.

    So, which part of "per capita" did you not understand?

  • Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • pickup trucks are hardly a niche product

    Tanks camouflaged as pickup trucks are.

  • Donald Trump’s data purge has begun

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  • He may not be the inventor of evil, but he surely accelerates it.

  • Donald Trump’s data purge has begun

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  • Has Wikipedia made it to the outside?

  • X expands lawsuit over advertiser ‘boycott’ to include Lego, Nestlé, Pinterest, and others | TechCrunch

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  • when advertisers do what he tells them

    They have actually ... themselves?

    ;-)

  • If the vacuum of space couldn't kill you and you had no suit...

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  • earthling, you have evolved over the course of billions of years to deal with sunlight at a distance of one astronomical unit.

    ...plus a planet's magnetic field, plus a few kilometers of atmosphere!

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • explain why DeepSeek was able to create

    Surely they also received tons of plutonium donations from Iran!

    /s

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • My wedding ring, of course.

  • Sam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwise

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  • Does the elephant call the ant hopeless?

    One of them is threatened with extinction. ;-)

  • DeepSeek just proved Lina Khan right

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  • they will build a tech industry that keeps America globally dominant.

    I don't buy it.

    At least this Altmann guy has already made it clear that he personally wants to be the ruler of the world, and he builds the tools to bring him there.

  • Non americans of lemmy, would you support a ban on american social media on your country?

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  • But such a ban would not come because of censorship. It is not these social media users and their opinions, but these companies that need to get banned.