The book Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson, had a scene with this. I don't know how historically accurate the device in the book was, because the way the book described it, it came across as an analog device.

I choose to believe IRLRosie is the real Alexa. Not that she is, I just like that reality better.

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I have a pair of HD-650s that are super comfortable and sound "great", but they quickly get boring. The complete opposite of my set of Grado SR80s that are incredibly uncomfortable but make me want to listen to anything that's recorded decently well.

The effect will be the equivalent of taking 600,000 gasoline-fueled cars off the road.

Nope, sorry. It's actually equivalent to adding 66,000 cars to the road.

I saw a bad 1-star review recently for a fine-toothed wooden comb. The buyer put it in his back pocket, sat on it, and was angry when it broke in half.

The seller was very apologetic. Frankly, I don't think the seller should have apologized, at all. The buyer should have been ridiculed for his stupidity.

You can usually see which laptops use 18650s, by the shape of the case. Pick a laptop, and search Amazon for replacement batteries.

I strip the 18650s out of laptops for other uses. It's just cheaper that way. It usually works out to about $1 for each 18650, including the occasional bad battery.

Thin squares, like the MacBook Pro have, are different. It's pretty obvious that an 18650 wouldn't fit in it.

Built in batteries are more likely to be flat square or rectangle types. You're SOL for replacing those with a pack of 18650s.

I only strip them down for their cells. I suppose if you're *real* careful, you could cut the case open, and be able to reseal it. There are temperature sensors inline, that you'll want to keep. and you'll need to solder the new ones together. They're typically spot welded. And, obviously, you'll need to keep the original control board. ... or just buy a replacement pack on Amazon or eBay. When the batteries die in the laptops I use, I don't try to remanufacture them. While I could do the parts cheap, the labor would exceed the cost of the replacement pack.

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Naively, I don't think this approach would work well. Why? Storage devices work with fixed-length blocks of data at given locations. The problem with compression is that the compressed size is variable: A text file compresses well, but media, like video and audio files, are usually already compressed.

I could see an operating system working with hardware-assisted compression, but honestly, given the tradeoffs, I suspect that a bigger drive is probably cheaper and faster in the long run.

Wouldn't a solar panel and a battery be more effective?

Ya, that's exactly what it sounds like.

You'd think that someone along the way would have said "Hey, these run too hot, lets improve the cooling before these ship".

I've gotten to the point where I take caffeine pills and drink decaf. Much more predictable.

Damned kids. We flipped through 5 static filled stations, and were happy with it!

Isn't this the beginning of Stephen King's "The Stand"? Well, see y'all in Vegas.

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It reminds me of when I used to go around the Valley telling people I was running a business selling vibrating toilet seats. I used to claim that "they vibrated at the brown note" and that I "crowd-sourced funding from little old ladies who didn't like eating prunes."

You'd be shocked at how many people believed me.