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The majority of people are not thinking about electric cars as a solution to their immediate needs. Electric cars are too expensive (generally true), have too little range (we will come back to this later) and the infrastructure does not exist to support them (depends where you are). In a…

I have been using the Bose QC35 for about two and a half years now. They were an upgrade purchase to a pair of QC15’s that I used for about a year and a half…and then left in a restaurant. Sighs. …

This post will discuss the audio cables that come with the Verum 1 but contains information that may be informative for any audio cable purchase. There are a lot of opinions out there and it can be confusing. Audio is perhaps more susceptible to intense debate around the topic than…

One of the first things you encounter in discussions about good headphones are suggestions that you may need an external DAC, or digital to analogue converter. This device takes the digital information in a file or CD (or whatever) and pushes it to wired headphones or speakers. The simplest way…

Buying a headphone for pure listening pleasure presents a different set of questions to the average practice of placing portability and convenience first. Some refer to these decisions as being part of the audiophile world and its attendant norms and practices. Some simply measure features with a different filter to…

It seems we have two challenges related to science these days. 1: Lack of “belief” (understanding and education) around science. 2: A consequent logic trap that appears to validate relativism, or the perception of alternative truth, a rejection of fact. The latter is tied to two muddled concepts: One is…

If you work in consumer electronics, drones, IoT, or automotive devices based on generic Linux or Android codebases, chances are you have encountered a variant of the GPL License and had to comply with the applicable terms. For the most part, compliance engineering is centered around the GPL Version 2…

First of all, stop. I am often asked to provide consultancy to companies that are considering open source. Some companies want to use third party code for the first time. Some companies want to release their own code. …