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My dad is recovering from cancer and it was a hard fight, I sincerely wish the best for Stallman.

My last DAP is a Sony A35 with a firmware mod and with the unlocked amplifier flag but I rarely use it these days. Make no mistake that thing sounds wonderful and I actually use it on my desktop rig everytime I want to play meme high resolution songs. The modded firmware also lets me use it as a Bluetooth receiver/DAC, but I rarely do it. With that out of the way, I think a DAP is only worth it if you have IEMs or headphones that can take the full potential from it. Imo usually stuff way above 300USD. If you listen to music from streaming services (lossless or not) just take the money you would spend on the DAP and buy a better smartphone that can be used with a simple passive USB C to 3.5mm adaptor, or if you enjoy dongles get a simple DAC. So my answer is not worth it unless you have really great IEMs. (Edit for grammar)

Did you check with an audiologist afterwards? If you are lucky that problem might get better over time. There’s many types of hearing damage and not all is permanent. Best regards.

When I was a teen I would literally spend all my day with earphones on, with music actually very loud (but not dangerously loud) guess I was lucky.

I worked in construction for a long time, and everytime I had to work with power tools I would just use some diy earplugs made with toilet paper, while it might sound hilarious it actually saved my hearing in the long run, for the ones who might ask why I didn’t use correct earplugs. Well, in dusty environments it’s actually better to use something cheap like paper mostly because you will be “burning” a ton of earplugs during the day and let’s face it I wasn’t in great shape regarding my finances, so every penny counted. Later on I would change jobs and actually buy decent earplugs so I could work nearby gas turbines.

Anyway long story short, use proper hearing protection because depending on the exposure you might actually lose your hearing without noticing it. As for tinnitus, besides the usual damage done by not using hearing protection, it can be genetic. My dad had tinnitus due to his exposure to power tools, but I know people who have it since birth.

Some last thoughts, I think younglings should be educated regarding hearing protection. I mean youth will be youth, but I’m pretty sure they don’t want to lose their hearing in the long run.

Best regards.

https://sdf.org/?tutorials/social_network

SDF - The Ethical Social Network What ‘Social Network’ means to us (a history lesson)

…To the users of the SDF Public Access UNIX System, ‘SDF Social’ is based on the concepts and principles of the early Social Networks that we have always been a part of and not the highly commercialized, for-profit and ethically questionable Social Networks of the late 1990s and 2000s.

Simply put, SDF has always been about Collaboration, Non-Commercialism, Choice and Privacy.

Choice is very important here. Anyway best of luck in your endeavour whatever it is.

Also in the IRC section there’s something about “Common sense” it’s a great read. Just saying. Best regards.

You could write 5000 words and I doubt they would change their views. Still I certainly enjoyed reading your words. Best regards.

It’s a policy of the community. You really should read sdf.org faq. Best regards.

I seriously doubt sdf.org will defederate due to political, religious or other kind of views unless some kind of danger to its users is involved, and even then I’m pretty sure we would go to ARPA votes over it. While the instance might be recent the community behind sdf.org is ancient (I say this with my utmost respect for them ) so yea, not their first rodeo or last one. If you don’t like the views of those instances feel free to block them yourself. Best regards.

Former but I’m sure always one at heart. 🎩 Museum security is probably one of the best places I ever got on my job, before I did [redacted] security… [Redacted], and praying to lord that shit wouldn’t hit the fan on my shift. 😖 I seriously love my job rn. It’s slow when there are no schools, I get to actually learn a lot on the job (because tours) and polish my English while getting paid. 😉 Anyway have my utmost best regards. 🎩 Edit: Redacted some stuff for privacy sake.

It’s ok, kids actually behave better than some adults. 🎩

Gotta admit I commented more in a few days here, than I ever did in years of reddit, but yeah mostly lurking.

I don’t have a tech background, currently doing museum security, that’s all. Super enjoyable work. This community is nice, I only lurked in reddit.