Linsoul is an excellent online retailer of digital audio gear, based in China. They sell directly and with Amazon. Some of my in-ear monitors were purchased through Linsoul.
A Linsoul employee has provided a short view into her day at the office, that I encourage you to watch.
Multichannel Television Sound (MTS) became a technical standard in the mid-80s. Ten years earlier, TV show concerts were sometimes simulcast over an FM stereo station. The brilliant, forward-thinking innovator Walt Disney had experimented with stereo for TV way back in 1959, only one year after stereo records were introduced.
In addition to stereo, Walt gave letterboxed presentations a try on standard television sets. He promoted Technirama 70, which is explained here.
Sometimes, my Verizon G3100 Router is a P.I.T.B. – Pain in the Byte.
2026 Oct 3 15:54:02 info sysup: [SYS.6][SYS] Reboot by Power Cycle/Software Fault induced 2026 Oct 3 15:54:02 info sysup: [SYS.6][SYS] system startup 2026 Oct 3 15:54:23 info netifd: [WAN.6][SYS] eth4 up 2026 Oct 3 15:54:27 info netifd: [WAN.6][SYS] WANv4 up, 1000 Mbps full duplex
Epic Systems is doing something Microsoft has done in the past, by putting product development on hold for a security review.
“Ultimately they need to get ready to patch, patch, patch,” he said. “As soon as they think they are patching fast enough, they need to patch faster.”
I’m laughing, because rushed patches inevitably result in needing to patch the patches. This is a drill that’s been played out so very many times before. New features always open the potential for new security vulnerabilities.
What confounds me, after these many decades, is the endless cat-and-mouse game between corporations and hackers. Code that wasn’t rushed out the door seems no more secure than the rush jobs. Despite going through multiple staff meetings, peer reviews and security checks, vulnerabilities in software are discovered by outsiders and exploited.
Artificial Intelligence isn’t merely a new, possibly risky, feature being added to an existing, widely-used system. AI is a fundamental change in the way software is generated, content is presented, and how people interact online.
The Sony wired USB-C earphone I’ve pointed out before is currently $28 on Amazon. Occasionally, it can be had for much less. Who really needs noise-cancelling, anyway?
I have multiple battery-powered Bluetooth speakers in the house, but I say no to headphones with batteries. Bose has decided there’s enough demand for wired earphones to justify introducing a battery-free USB-C model. Being Bose, it comes with noise-cancelling.
https://audioxpress.com/news/bose-unveils-usb-c-powered-noise-cancelling-wired-earbuds
A clever and resourceful techie has synchronized multiple sources of two public domain Bob Clampett cartoons. These provide an excellent view into the progression of home video quality since the introduction of VHS by JVC, fifty years ago.
Here’s another one, that’s by far the best, being Clampett’s parody of Fantasia.
Wasn’t that wovwey?
