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<\/figure>\n\n\nIt would be so much easier than listening to the crazy lady screaming about whatever she screams about, or hearing her fella, yelling at the yappy dogs, while grinding away on some piece of metal, driving or \u201cFixing\u201d a vehicle that\u2019s on it\u2019s last legs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
What he needs to do, is stay out from under the hoods of the various vehicles he\u2019s destroyed (5? I think at last count,) and leave it to a professional. His version of a properly running engine is very different from mine! 3 of 8 cylinders firing, punctuated by 5 consecutive backfires is not<\/strong> proper operation! There\u2019s also the thrilling sound of him running a chain saw at 10 PM. I\u2019m not kidding, I\u2019ll turn the lights off and he\u2019ll start the chainsaw. That motor is also on it\u2019s last legs! One can only hope that when It dies we\u2019ll be spared the restful sounds of him cutting whatever he\u2019s cutting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t ask… <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n All I can say is this used to be a quiet neighborhood. This is what happens when you let riff raff move into nice places!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been in hollers in Tennessee, and Kentucky where folks were dirt poor, and not school educated but they weren\u2019t this kind of white gutter trash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n It\u2019s funny in a way, California can\u2019t even do white trash or rednecks right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n You can see why I might be looking for noise cancelling headphones, that are comfortable in the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n There are literally times when I can\u2019t watch TV in my living room due to the noise coming from that white trash. I like having the windows open this time of year, I like the fresh mountain air (even when it is full of pollen). <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n So I\u2019m faced with, turning up the volume to unbearable levels, closing the windows, not bothering to try to live my life and watch a movie or TV show in my house, or a set of headphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n I know there are those of you saying, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you call the police?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Hahahahahaha! Where the hell have you people been living? Police? Helpful? Responding to a noise complaint? The police can\u2019t even arrest and hold her for more than 8 hours after she assaults someone. Which she\u2019s done 3 more times since she assaulted me last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n BTW, if I lived in one of those \u201cFly Over\u201d redneck places… Let\u2019s just say this whole thing wouldn\u2019t be a problem. Folks go missing in hollers all the time…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n I digress, I was considering the Apple AirPods Max. They\u2019re expensive! But I can also buy them from Costco and save $70. I saved $50 on my AirPod Pros at Costco. My concern there is that the Max is generation one and come fall Apple may be releasing a replacement version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n This led me down a rabbit hole of reviews and firmware versions for both the AirPod Max and my AirPod Pros. That\u2019s when I discovered something interesting and strange. I did a search for \u201cLatest AirPod Pro Gen 2 Firmware\u201d then I got articles from last year through this year. I told the browser to limit the results to only this year. You\u2019d think that would narrow your search but oddly it didn\u2019t by much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n I was still seeing articles listing last years firmware as current and it was clear from context, the article had been written last year but the date was today\u2019s date. I looked at several similar articles thinking perhaps there was a current update but there wasn\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n There was however a shit ton (Technical Term) of ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Then it dawned on me, these outdated articles are monkeying with the dates to appear current so they can serve these shitty ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n This reduces the usefulness of the internet and honestly makes me discount the validity or accuracy of publications MacWorld<\/em><\/strong> and 9 to 5 Mac<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019m looking right at you! <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n It occurs to me that because of folks doing stuff like this to keep serving the same 5 ads over and over again, overall the internet is becoming less useful all the time. If the filtering doesn\u2019t work, then the user is faced with a wave of outdated and current information with no ability to determine what is real, and what is useless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Imagine writing an article about Trump when he was President, packing that article with shitty ads, then updating the date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n A query like \u201cWho is President of the United States\u201d could return Trump, Biden, Obama and Bush. How would someone know? If they had to turn on the TV to figure out who the president is, then the internet would be kind of useless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n All this ad crap and targeted marketing was a bad idea to begin with, and it\u2019s only gotten worse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n I come again to a question I\u2019ve asked myself a lot over the past few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \u201cIs the internet\u2019s usefulness eclipsed by having to filter through all the crap to get valid information?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n I\u2019m really wondering. I guess I\u2019ll know when I see an article saying, \u201cAustralian farmers pig has piglets with wings, Farmer Stunned!\u201d I\u2019d bet that at least 25% of folks on the internet would read the article, and a lot of them would believe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n I fell for one the other night, some bullshit about a mystery in some dudes backyard. It was written like some reality show script. A paragraph that said essentially nothing, then a commercial, and another paragraph then commercial. It went on and on, but it was putting ads in front of everyone that was curious late at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n Spoiler Alert: The guy bought a house built in the late 50s, the \u201cMystery\u201d was that someone who owned the house had put in a fallout shelter. Over time, other owners had added soil and landscaping that buried the hatch. Then the shelter had gotten forgotten about except as a dim rumor. The guy found the original blueprints at the county records office and decided to investigate. The shelter was in pretty good shape so the guy renovated the space. It was pretty cool. The article could have covered everything in maybe 4 well written paragraphs with photos. Instead they took almost 100 paragraphs all of which were poorly written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n I finally went to Apple for the answer. I\u2019d not gone to them in the first place because often asking a simple question in Apple\u2019s support section, does not provide a single Byte of data. You\u2019re still going to have to sort through a ton data that\u2019s not relevant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n By the way, as of 6\/28\/2023 the current AirPod Pro Gen 2 firmware is 5E135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n I still haven\u2019t decided if I\u2019m going to drop the hammer on headphones…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n This is how I lose entire days…<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been thinking about buying a pair of nice bluetooth over the ear headphones. 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