Subj : Bluetooth Keyboard To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Sep 15 2024 19:11:00 Hi Ky! > KM> We have many shotgun conversations: if you're in the way, you get > KM> talked to. > And sometimes I learn something! KM> It's a hazard. I know: mixing up facts could be dangerous! > > KM> It came with... ....instructions. Rather extensive > > KM> instructions. > > In English??!!!!! > KM> Astonishingly, yes. And not as microscopic as usual. > There have been times I've scanned the 2"x2" manual-ette just to get it > to a legible size. ...OTOH I scan manuals If I can't find them on-line > so I have an electronic copy and don't have to store or especially find > the original. KM> Been there, done that... I can't even tell this is print, let's KM> go find a PDF... I've found sometimes there are several versions of the same manual -- not languave version, but sometimes publication dates (one may have information the other doesn't), or oeven same/similar date and slightly different information. > > That paragraph sounds like lifted from a review!! > KM> Probably because it was -- mine. :D > Hope you got permission from your other personality to use it here! KM> I'll ask myself next time I see me. ....I seem to remember you don't see yourself when looking in a mirror! > Or as Ed (?) mentioned in a reply his phone already has a tiny keyboard > and that was what he was trying to improve. One detail is possibly the > phone's virtual keyboard has the keys touching, so too easy to have a > finger flop over whereas the real albeit tiny keyboard has separated > keys, making it harder to activate two at the same time. KM> The tiny onscreen keyboards can be way too sensitive for big KM> fingertips. I use a stylus when I'm stuck with the stupid thing, KM> cuz finger is "which key did you mean??" "OK, I'll give a different one!" > KM> Yeah, USB-C is certainly a LOT easier. All other sorts you try to > KM> plug in wrong, turn it over, it's still wrong, turn it over again > KM> and NOW it fits?? > USB-A!!! KM> Every freakin' time! Multiply that for the mini plug. I turned it KM> over six times and it's STILL wrong side up! 'Cause it was the micro-HDMI port! > KM> It's also bigger (enough to be an issue for very thin devices), > KM> and probably costs a lot more (if you're doing millions, ten > KM> cents adds up) and also already designed around micro-USB and > KM> have lots in existing stock. But it is slowly going away. > Agree. A penny extra when purchasing a part to you and I is nothing. > Mutliply that by a million...... KM> Yeah. And there may be royalty costs we don't know about. That KM> was true with USB3 until recently -- a single two-port chip cost KM> an extra $40 in royalties, which was why motherboards rarely had KM> more than one, and for a while add-on ports were pricey. That KM> pair of ports was already half the cost of a consumer KM> motherboard. I remember you either saying that or reading it some place. And yes, I've done the "I don't need all these USB 2 ports, I need USB 3!!" (Now we know why.) OTOH here, for my location here at the computer desk, I generally need a long run (extension cable) to connect the two physical locations. Bit of a problem because of USB 3 length limitations: 3m for 'regular' cable. That 9 feet isn't quite enough. > Company I used to work for in New Hampshire used to give away small > quantities of extra electronic parts. Was cheaper to buy a million than > the needed 850,000. The extra were available in the Electronic Store; > generally anything like resistors and transistors was cheaper to give > away less than ten than to do the paperwork. Yes, I still have a bunch > of discrete parts sorted in coin envelopes downstairs. KM> Good bean counting, to do it that way. Maximize the beans without KM> crop losses. Yup, plus access to free parts gave the electronics engineers, etc., stuff to tinker with and some of those external ideas were incorporated into what the company built. KM> That was exactly the logic when Montana went to permanent plates KM> for vehicles 11 or more years old: it cost more to keep track of KM> the plethora of old farm trucks than the revenue from annual KM> tags, especially when they come and go as if the truck never left KM> the farm, it would often not be licensed, then you've got to dig KM> up the title again when the kid takes it to college. So now for KM> older vehicles you pay whatever the next three years would cost, KM> and get permanent plates. Was about $270 for the truck, once and KM> done, vs. $70 annually for the same truck. Yes, that does make sense. Probably something Iowa and other agriculture states should do. I have seen permanent plates, but they've been on emergency-type vehicles (police, fire, ambulance, buses). OTOH one doesn't see a farm tractor rumbling down the city streets! ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... Insurance company warning: if tent stolen during night won't be covered. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .