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Default sound device is something you should be able to set in your OS, no need to go into BIOS for that.

There are these days when you feel dreadful cramps and when you go, a solid plug goes first and a bulk of mushy stuff follows. Now that would be fun to do in a diaper (until you had to clean yourself up ), but the timing when you're not wearing 24/7 isn't easy. I don't think I've ever had the luck, as far as I remember.

Well 31, perfectly healthy and still in parents' home and not paying any bills is a little bit different than someone who's recently turned 18. In any case, I have no interest for myself in this. I have moved out years ago, I've recently turned 29, and despite not finishing college I have a job that pays me more than what our national average is, and virtually no debts (obviously that will change when I decide to get a mortgage, but who does not have a mortgage in these days?), so I'm not complaining about MY situation, if that was what you were getting from this, Bettypooh. All I was doing was defending people who are 18 or older and live with their parents, who are being labeled as freeloaders here and dressed down for daring to express any gripe at all, when we don't even remotely know the whole story about their situation. I'm not changing my stance in a hurry and as it appears, neither are you so I'd say this conversation is over.

Bettypooh, your answer seems unclear whom its meat for, but nevermind. This is what I want to tell (and ask) you. Behavior of other species is mostly irrelevant in a discussions about humans. I've never argued for allowing freeloading, so I'd be grateful if I wasn't accused of doing so. Same goes for other mistaken assumptions about me and my life. I don't know what's so unclear about my point, so, for one last time. Turning 18 is not the only single metric that determines if you are ready to leave the nest or not. One size does not fit all. I think there are more factors that solely the legal age. If you are ready, good. If you're not (and no, laziness is not at all the only possible reason why you may not be), and parents throw you out anyway, while you have nothing and nowhere to go, that's not a moral thing for them to do. Not in our culture, anyway. Throwing someone who doesn't swim in the water and telling them to either swim or drown runs the risk of them drowning for real, and I simply can not view that as moral. To teach them how to swim first, before they will need to swim, as soon as possible, as assertively as necessary, and then throw them in the water when they need to swim, that would be moral. Your culture might have different general ideas I guess. If you think your culture is the better one, it's your opinion, not an objective fact. And as for house rules, the house owners know deep down if the rules they make are meaningful, have rational basis, have a good purpose, are in everyone's best interest (or at least believe it to be so) etc., or are just made out of spite. Is doing things out of spite moral?

You've got it, but the gun will jam, the engine will overheat and seize, tracks will break and a shell from an SU-152 will destroy the radio. I wish I had a pet lynx.

You should be able to set the on-board sound output as default regardless. What OS are you using? Actual sound pressure level is contingent upon the ability of a device to drive a low-impedance load such as headphones (which in case of your Skullcandy is 32 Ohms) and the nominal output voltage. Some devices have outputs that aren't beefy enough to work with such low impedance loads because they made to be output into another preamplifiers/amplifiers with input impedance on the order of several kOhms, and there's no telling that some type of device will be better at driving your headphones than other, it depends on specific parameters of a specific model of a device. Sound cards (integrated or PCI/PCI Express) are usually designed with the knowledge that people will plug headphones directly in them, so they'd be better at driving headphones with enough loudness than the a pure DAC. Again, whether headphones will play louder with a PCI/PCIe sound card or on board card is impossible to tell without knowing which specific models are we comparing. But in my experience, on board sound card output tends to be dreadfully low, probably putting maybd 10 mW into 32 ohm headphones, possibly even less. Recent MoBos I used to own had notoriously low line output level; it must have been way less than 1V RMS at full volume. I remember I used to plug my amplifier directly to the on-board sound output; an amplifier that at 1.23V input level pushes out 250 Watts into 4 Ohms (and I mean real 250 Watts, not BestBuy's Made in China 250 "Watts"), which would not only be absolutely deafening, but it would very quickly turn my old 4Ohm / 15W continuous power handling speakers I used to use in conjunction with this amplifier, to ashes. For enough loudness and clean sound, DAC and a dedicated headphone amplifier would be the best option. For instance, this FiiO DAC/headamp combo can put out 200 mW into 32 ohm headphones. Plenty enough for your Skullcandy Crushers to actually crush your skull.

Master control room tech at a television broadcasting company.

Disposable diapers are not going anywhere, the market is massive and for any manufacturer, profit is a number one priority, whatever they say. Things like cost, environmental burden, customer satisfaction and whatever other thing their PR department talks about are just factors in their profit making formula. If most of their customers were environmental-minded people who saw that the products they use is causing too much environmental damage for their liking, it would affect the companies profit and they would themselves make efforts to be more environmentally friendly. But I doubt that is the case, hence the existence of a political push on manufacturers to be more environment minded. Obviously many people view that as an infringement of their freedom. They may even be aware of the problems of landfills and garbage islands, but as long as they don't have them on their own backyard... Out of sight, out of mind. Whether biodegradable diapers are worse for the environment or worse functioning (biodegradable plastic does exist) is a more complex issue than one can decide from their keyboard so I'd be wary of making premature judgment. Moving trash to other planets has no advantages that I can think of; you'd basically be using limited raw materials and energy we have to get rid of billions of tons of a mass that may in future be otherwise utilized, or perhaps even necessary. In other words, doing that we could very easily be consuming massive amounts of finite resources just to get rid of other resources. And that would not be a very smart thing to do.

And that brings the count of people missing my point to, two. I'm NOT talking about providing care (such as cooking, doing laundry or other things that they can do by themselves) for anyone's adult children . All I'm talking about is letting them stay under your roof, only for the time necessary for them to finish college and /or find a job so that they can be on their own. Yes, once you're done with schools, there is no reason you can't move out and stand on your own legs. But until then, what do you, as a parent, want? Have your son or daughter, still studying at college, have to, for example, work night jobs at gas stations for minimum wage, in rough parts of the city (where they can get robbed at knife point or worse), just to be able to survive on their own, when they should instead focus all their energy on studies to be as good as possible in their field? Yes, many children want the support of their parents not because they sincerely want to focus on their studies, but because they are trying to freeload and avoid responsibility. Any parent who has such a child and wants to know what's the root cause of that, needs only to look in a mirror. But parent allowing children to freeload is NOT what I'm advocating here for. What I am advocating for is giving the children the necessary support until there's nothing stopping them from being on their own (their personal laziness not representing a valid obstruction), that support being at the very least, simply letting children stay at the parent's house, all the while having the children pay for the utilities and take complete care of themselves (cooking, laundry, etc.) and not being a burden in general. I believe it's possible to hold down a job while studying in most cases, but obviously individual cases may vary, in some specific cases it may not be so. Nevertheless I stand by my previous stance; it IS immoral to kick your child (one that's not causing any problems) out of your house (before they are able to get by on their own obviously); especially so if your justification is that you just want to be finally rid of them so you can follow your dreams. What are the dreams anyway, that your child doing no more than just occupying a room of your house is such a burden? Turning your two-story suburban home into a hotel? Do you honestly think that a recipe for a healthy society is a system, where parents kick their child out of the house the day after their eighteenth birthday, zero fucks given where they go, or if even they have a place to go, or how they manage to survive, or whether they won't simply give up and descent to a homeless life of drugs, alcohol and prostitution, possibly even suicide, or that their only other non-self-destructive options are to either a) struggle with minimum wage jobs in dangerous environments, or b) take an obscenely usurious student loan which will put them in debt for years even before they have means to pay it off, and after taking either option they accumulate more debt by getting a mortgage to even have a place to live, leaving them in constant worry for tens of years to come where they can't afford to have even a teeny tiny injury or illness for fear they might lose their job which they can't afford to lose, not mentioning the absurd healthcare costs in US?

That's not the point! I get it that it may be perfectly legal for parents to set up completely absurd house rules or throw their newly become adult children out of their home even if they have nowhere to go. I'm trying to say that it's IMMORAL (as long as the children aren't doing anything objectively wrong or illegal)!

Wish granted, but you're illiterate and mute so you can't write it down or record it. I wish I fluently spoke all the languages there are.

House rules shouldn't be absurd though, and in my opinion, if a parents are like, "you're eighteen now, so starting today I no longer care about you and your well-being, which is why I can and will kick you out my house, unless of course you abide by all my rules, some of which will interfere with that part of your life that shouldn't be any of my business but I'm making it my business anyway, despite your being eighteen", then they're just being mean, power abusing assholes, and perhaps could use a few parenting lessons. It's not like Joep is doing anything illegal or harmful to anyone or anything. I could understand a no smoking rule since tobacco smoke tends to linger in things an it's kind of a fire hazard (speaking of which, Joep, what's your mom's stance on your pipe and cigar smoking?). I could understand a no guns or other hazardous objects and materials rule. Any rules that could be substantiated by some real, reasonable concern. I could understand a curfew, if not for worrying about one's son's or daughter's safety (since, as we've already established, they're eighteen, at which point the parents no longer care, if they consider kicking their adult offspring out as a real possibility) but for convenience such as not wanting to be woken up at 2 AM by them trying to unlock the door and mistaking them for an intruder. But diapers? What possible concern does that raise in one's parent to include them in one of their not-allowed-in-my-house rules? Really, some of the "as long as you live under my roof..." rules, such as "you won't be going out with anyone I don't approve of", or "you better believe in Jesus and go to church and like it", and, especially "you will only wear things I approve of, diapers not being one of them", are absurd and simply should not be accepted. Your roof be damned. If you are imposing such rules, you're being a despot, not a parent. When I was living iny moms house, as long as I was still in college she and my dad were supporting me (my parents are divorced, dad wasn't living with us) . Once I started working, my mom and I just had a sit down to calculate costs and how money much I should give her each month, which is what I did after that. And it worked. No "you can't do this and that" rules besides what was already plainly obvious to me (and should be to anyone) and didn't even need to be said, (like don't make a meth lab in your room or build a greenhouse and grow Marijuana in it), no sticking one's nose in the other's privacy, no fucking contracts and lawyers and shit... I mean what are we, a mother and a son who also happen to be two reasonable persons, or an intrusive, annoying boss/landlord and the pesky employee/tenant?

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Granted, you have no feeling in your back at all. I wish I had my own V-22 Osprey and a lifetime supply of spare parts and fuel.

Not sure if that's something I'd agree with. If Bettypooh's amplifier doesn't have some special type of power transistors, like sankens in MT-200 package, or perhaps special MOSFETs, the identical replacement parts shouldn't cost a lot more than an ordinary power BJT such as an MJ1502x you suggest. Only if you buy knockoffs from aliexpress, you might save some money... temporarily, before the cheap knockoffs blow again, which won't be a long time I think. Here's the thing however, output transistors are typically the most robust and best cooled semiconductor components in an amplifier, and in many cases they're not the components that fry first. If they do, the driver stage typically goes with them, and other things as well. How does even only a half of output transistors burn and the rest stay intact. Also, which half? One channel? Also, a well designed amplifier, with appropriate fuses on power supply rails, a current overload protection circuit that will limit the driver current if the load impedance is too low (ergo output current too high), and a sufficient cooling, is not supposed to just blow output power transistors. And an even better designed amplifier would have an overtemperature detection circuit, or at least a simple thermostat that will unload it in case of overheating, making it pretty much impossible to blow.

Huh.. I'm not any kind of expert, but I have to ask, how did you diagnose the amp to conclude that half the output transistors are shot? Because I don't think that's the problem, knowing the basics I know about amplifiers. What kind of amplifier is it?

Can someone who knows please tell me how long, from front to back, the Bambino Magnifico Size L/XL is? Much appreciated. PS. I kind of need an actual number, doesn't matter if centimeters or inches, rather than a subjective description such as: "they are long enough to reach from my lower back to above my bellybutton and I'm a pretty big guy". Thanks

Star

I can see that wearing a diaper could be useful for blind hunting from a high seat (not to be confused with high chair where the occupant traditionally also wears a diaper).

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