Post #2075003

2026-05-05 21:14 UTC

@MichaelTBacon @MartinEscardo You know what drives me nuts? Volume control. Once upon a time, you could change volume INSTANTLY. It was just a cheap potentiometer. If something was TOO LOUD, you could turn the pot and THAT PROBLEM was solved just like that. But on a modern laptop? Or "smart" phone? Or almost anything? Yeah, good luck turning down the volume in a humanly reasonable amount of time. The CPU can do like millions of things per second, but not one of them is turning down the volume

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@keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.ca 2026-05-06 01:36

@isaackuo @MichaelTBacon @MartinEscardo As corporate tech enshittifies, I hope the smallscale hacker tech that is increasingly and delightfully able to take its functional place really embraces bringing back physical buttons and knobs, and I have some genuine optimism it will.

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@ernestoDuracelli@ruhr.social 2026-05-06 16:28

@isaackuo @MichaelTBacon @MartinEscardo My computer's audio is plugged into an old ghetto blaster.

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@t0maz@floss.social 2026-05-07 04:54

@isaackuo @MichaelTBacon @MartinEscardo It’s fast to change volume on iPhones (fast reaction to holding volume down button and rapid change of volume). On Macbooks there is mute button but I guess that other non-apple laptops have it too?

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@henrik@eliitin-some.fi 2026-05-07 05:25

@isaackuo@spacey.space @MichaelTBacon@social.coop @MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz What drives me nuts with the volume landscape, is that there's now like 11 steps of different volumes you can choose from. That cheap potentiometer allowed you to choose from practically infinite amount of suitable volumes for you.

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