@eeterrific@Kidsandliz Fun fact about dock (the weed): if you crush the leaves and rub them on the affected area, it will relieve the sting of stinging nettle. Often dock weed grows in the same area as nettle (at least in the PNW).
@heartny Depending on who you read it is 9-10" long and around 3x4 the other directions. It’s on amazon too and they don’t quite agree with the size. I am thinking one measured it with the loop and the other only measured the actual dock.
@ciabelle@heartny Ahhh the long gone missing baby arm! Yes!!! I wonder what meh did with their’s. Hey @koolhandjoe you didn’t steal meh’s baby arm did you? It has been MIA for ever and ever. Maybe you can provide them with another one for, you know, old time’s sake and entertainment purposes. Hey @snapster. You need to order a baby arm from @koohandjoe for nostalgia’s sake for the write ups.
@somf69 not sure if this is a serious question or not, but they recently sent a new device to Elliot @ The Retro Future for review. doesn’t seem like something a company would do if they were going out of business. he just posted the review video yesterday.
@somf69 AFAIK, healthy but experiencing the same overstock on freshly arrived delayed older merch as a lot of others. When your long-term build orders are shaped around a 60-90 day lead plus transit, and the in-transit time quadruples (or more) into 90-180 days, you end up with surges that you have neither warehouse nor customer orders to push it into.
This does not seem to be putting much good stuff on the shelves at places like BigLots, though.
@radi0j0hn Hahaha.
Even when you hear silence you can still hear your heart beat. When I worked in NW Ontario about a 2 week canoe paddle from James Bay, when everything was covered with snow it was so quiet that when you stood still outside you heard no noise except your heart beat. Well, and on occasion, the sounds of ice shifting in the lake beds. That sounds like when you blow (with your lips really close together and your chin back a bit) into a glass pop bottle. That haunting noise would go zipping down the lake along the cracks in the ice.
@Kidsandliz@radi0j0hn I’ve been in a noise isolation chamber before. The only thing I could hear was my constant tinnitus, so sadly it wasn’t much different than a quiet room for me.
@radi0j0hn Back in the '70s, long before the modern fad for thumpitaboom noise, I had a sound system in my car that was capable of actual pain-inducing levels without distorting. Once in a while, I would pull up next to somebody that had their factory radio cranked to “unintelligible+6”, and I’d slip on the hearing protector before running the volume up and dropping in a cassette of the massed pipes and drums doing Scotland the Brave at Jubilee. Or, if I was in a really adventurous mood, I’d go for William Tell, dropped at the Lone Ranger point just as the light changed, with accompanying drivetrain effects courtesy of nonstandard nearly-everything-under-the-hood. (But none of it was chrome plated, and the car looked stock from the outside, which confused people no end.)
@radi0j0hn@werehatrack
I LOVE that.
I once lived in the bottom half of a house, and the people upstairs let a bratty younger brother stay in their half when they went on a trip. He started blasting some sort of loud party rock, so I put something like Beethoven’s 9th on at top volume. Your story is much more satisfying, though!
@radi0j0hn Gotta love the cyclists who can’t ride the “nature trail” without blasting their particular brand of music (noise) to effectively rid the surrounding area of everything that moves.
@radi0j0hn@werehatrack I had a similar one, the car next to me at a light was sharing his thumpa-boom on his crappy stereo. So I flipped on some Tabernacle Choir and drowned him right out.
The universe (or meh) is spying on me! The speaker I’ve used in the shower for forever and a day I suspect has torn as anything remotely bassy distorts and tears now. I suspect the cone has started to tear. And here comes meh with a new waterproof speaker! Gonna have to grab at least one, although the idea of pairing 2 for true stereo is enticing…
@Stormchaser It’s funny - the shower speaker I’ve been using for 8 years just died last week, and I bought a replacement from Amazon. Yesterday. Already opened it and started using it, so I don’t want to return it. But sheesh. The timing…
@donver it’s a bit sus when sellers omit it. Some folks like me have made the switch over to usb-c and don’t get accessories that use micro USB. Anker’s newest stuff has moved over to usb-c as well. Could be a reason why this speaker hasnt sold out it’s remaining inventory.
@carlosps@GLaDOS Presumably this means that at 15 cm, they’re sure it won’t leak. Between 15 cm and 1 m, they think it probably won’t leak. Beyond 1 m, they think it probably will leak. Since it’s not going to do much good for anybody when it’s submerged, all of those are fairly irrelevant. Unless, of course, one drops it overboard. Or one has children who like to experiment with flotation and immersibility of objects.
I ordered two because of the pairing feature, they arrived yesterday and I’m quite impressed so far… Just thought I’d share since everyone hates on meh speaker offerings. Anker has been pretty great in my book.
Specs
Product: Anker Soundcore Icon Rugged & Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker
Model: A3122Z11
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$47.35 at Walmart
Warranty
18-month Limited Anker Warranty
Estimated Delivery
Standard: Monday, Aug 8 - Thursday, Aug 11.
Enhanced: Friday, Aug 5 - Monday, Aug 8.
Please, no more speakers…
@guybrush01 Ha! New here?
@guybrush01 But… but…
TRADITION!!! Minimum two things per week that make noise and/or have batteries!
@guybrush01 Yes, we want pocketknives!
I will wait until the purple tooth version comes out.
Yea! A speaker. But where’s the dock?
@eeterrific The dock is where you put the boat in the water. Once at the dock you can throw it in the water to test the waterproofness of it.
@eeterrific “No dock for you!” - the Dock Nazi
@ircon96 Does Vlad know about you, Dock Nazi?? If he finds out, you can expect a “special military operation” coming your way…
@eeterrific @Kidsandliz Fun fact about dock (the weed): if you crush the leaves and rub them on the affected area, it will relieve the sting of stinging nettle. Often dock weed grows in the same area as nettle (at least in the PNW).
Dock weed
@eeterrific Speaker docks?? Last time I’ve seen those sold here were around 2015…
@Kidsandliz @macromeh That’s what’s so great about the meh site. The things you can learn! Now…about those things you can buy…
@eeterrific Luckily, I think i can handle the Tangerine Turd’s boy toy. Bring it on, Vlad!
Speaker, no dock…
What’s the size? It needs a banana for scale.
@heartny
Or a quarter.
@heartny Depending on who you read it is 9-10" long and around 3x4 the other directions. It’s on amazon too and they don’t quite agree with the size. I am thinking one measured it with the loop and the other only measured the actual dock.
@heartny 7.2 x 2.4 x 2.4-inches
@heartny or put it next to the Grand Canyon for a nice size comparison
@heartny @punkynpye Better yet, a baby arm!
@ciabelle Not necessarily to scale.
@ciabelle @heartny Ahhh the long gone missing baby arm! Yes!!! I wonder what meh did with their’s. Hey @koolhandjoe you didn’t steal meh’s baby arm did you? It has been MIA for ever and ever. Maybe you can provide them with another one for, you know, old time’s sake and entertainment purposes. Hey @snapster. You need to order a baby arm from @koohandjoe for nostalgia’s sake for the write ups.
@heartny @Kidsandliz Have you watching me in the shower???
@heartny The last official picture (not the meh photoshop) gives you a good idea of the size.
@heartny There’s a couple photos on an Amazon page.
@xelar So maybe the baby arm is close to scale after all? I would still like to see the speaker next to a banana for scale.
@heartny Wait. Didn’t we have a thread a while back measuring in beavers or something? I forget who started that one.
@heartny @Kidsandliz
That was @carl669.
@heartny @Kidsandliz @Kyeh
https://meh.com/forum/topics/things-i-learned-today
@heartny @xelar Do you have to hold it like that? Seems tiring.
So is Anker officially out of business?
@somf69 not sure if this is a serious question or not, but they recently sent a new device to Elliot @ The Retro Future for review. doesn’t seem like something a company would do if they were going out of business. he just posted the review video yesterday.
@somf69 AFAIK, healthy but experiencing the same overstock on freshly arrived delayed older merch as a lot of others. When your long-term build orders are shaped around a 60-90 day lead plus transit, and the in-transit time quadruples (or more) into 90-180 days, you end up with surges that you have neither warehouse nor customer orders to push it into.
This does not seem to be putting much good stuff on the shelves at places like BigLots, though.
So, how many of you inflict your music on the general populace all the time?
@radi0j0hn I don’t do it all the time but when I play the carillon it can be heard for blocks and blocks.
@Kidsandliz Most people have never heard silence.
@radi0j0hn Hahaha.
Even when you hear silence you can still hear your heart beat. When I worked in NW Ontario about a 2 week canoe paddle from James Bay, when everything was covered with snow it was so quiet that when you stood still outside you heard no noise except your heart beat. Well, and on occasion, the sounds of ice shifting in the lake beds. That sounds like when you blow (with your lips really close together and your chin back a bit) into a glass pop bottle. That haunting noise would go zipping down the lake along the cracks in the ice.
@Kidsandliz @radi0j0hn I’ve been in a noise isolation chamber before. The only thing I could hear was my constant tinnitus, so sadly it wasn’t much different than a quiet room for me.
@radi0j0hn Back in the '70s, long before the modern fad for thumpitaboom noise, I had a sound system in my car that was capable of actual pain-inducing levels without distorting. Once in a while, I would pull up next to somebody that had their factory radio cranked to “unintelligible+6”, and I’d slip on the hearing protector before running the volume up and dropping in a cassette of the massed pipes and drums doing Scotland the Brave at Jubilee. Or, if I was in a really adventurous mood, I’d go for William Tell, dropped at the Lone Ranger point just as the light changed, with accompanying drivetrain effects courtesy of nonstandard nearly-everything-under-the-hood. (But none of it was chrome plated, and the car looked stock from the outside, which confused people no end.)
@radi0j0hn @werehatrack
I LOVE that.
I once lived in the bottom half of a house, and the people upstairs let a bratty younger brother stay in their half when they went on a trip. He started blasting some sort of loud party rock, so I put something like Beethoven’s 9th on at top volume. Your story is much more satisfying, though!
@radi0j0hn Gotta love the cyclists who can’t ride the “nature trail” without blasting their particular brand of music (noise) to effectively rid the surrounding area of everything that moves.
@radi0j0hn @werehatrack I had a similar one, the car next to me at a light was sharing his thumpa-boom on his crappy stereo. So I flipped on some Tabernacle Choir and drowned him right out.
I thought all anchors were built to be waterproof.
@phendrick Dems in for doze ship and boats and things like dat. Deez are plastic speaker type thangs
@phendrick Fun with homophones!
I thought the second to last photo was the joke photo. Some companies sure could use better advertising/PR departments
They forgot to mention Trout Fishing In America! Oh not a pun. Oh well!!!
The universe (or meh) is spying on me! The speaker I’ve used in the shower for forever and a day I suspect has torn as anything remotely bassy distorts and tears now. I suspect the cone has started to tear. And here comes meh with a new waterproof speaker! Gonna have to grab at least one, although the idea of pairing 2 for true stereo is enticing…
@Stormchaser You might considered switching to a loofah.
@Stormchaser It’s funny - the shower speaker I’ve been using for 8 years just died last week, and I bought a replacement from Amazon. Yesterday. Already opened it and started using it, so I don’t want to return it. But sheesh. The timing…
@macromeh @Stormchaser
Loofahs are too much treble.
@macromeh @Stormchaser @werehatrack Just mount the speaker on a stick. The grill should give a good scrub.
My phone’s volume is always off. Would turning this speaker to mute give me any pleasure?
Uses micro USB for charging. No thanks.
@bakav2 Is that bad?
@donver it’s a bit sus when sellers omit it. Some folks like me have made the switch over to usb-c and don’t get accessories that use micro USB. Anker’s newest stuff has moved over to usb-c as well. Could be a reason why this speaker hasnt sold out it’s remaining inventory.
I’m a little disappointed that the link to whale.i.am doesn’t work.
It was a no from me, then I saw you could play hockey with it.
Why would someone want a BlueTooth speaker in their float?
“IP67 protection: It breezes through water, sand, dust, snow, mud, and even floats!”
@xqcitizen Silly. Speakers are only good in a ginger ale and chocolate ice cream float.
/buy
@uvassassin It worked! Your order number is: calm-unbalanced-fly
/image calm unbalanced fly
The email today - stealth message from Irk?
@Kyeh looks like the message is on mute.
@Kidsandliz Hah, it does!
Is this thing so loud that it blows holes in standard lady jeans or is that image false advertising?
/buy
@mchamden1 It worked! Your order number is: acoustic-threatening-money
/image acoustic threatening money
/purchase
/giphy revoked
No such thing as “waterproof” electronics AFAIK. Only water resistant. The heading/title/name could perhaps be misleading to a reasonable person.
@GLaDOS so …,if I’m an unreasonable person I can throw it in the water?
@carlosps LOL, go for it!
Actually, upon further examination, everyone should be free to!
IP67:
Protected from total dust ingress.
Protected from immersion between 15 centimetres and 1 meter in depth.
https://rainfordsolutions.com/products/ingress-protection-ip-rated-enclosures/ip-enclosure-ratings-standards-explained/
@carlosps @GLaDOS Presumably this means that at 15 cm, they’re sure it won’t leak. Between 15 cm and 1 m, they think it probably won’t leak. Beyond 1 m, they think it probably will leak. Since it’s not going to do much good for anybody when it’s submerged, all of those are fairly irrelevant. Unless, of course, one drops it overboard. Or one has children who like to experiment with flotation and immersibility of objects.
/giphy flashy-faded-cub
Ha!! Take that older grandkids. Now you won’t be “borrowing” my Bluetooth speaker…,until you lose the ones I’ll give you from the MEH
I ordered two because of the pairing feature, they arrived yesterday and I’m quite impressed so far… Just thought I’d share since everyone hates on meh speaker offerings. Anker has been pretty great in my book.