AV MSP/Colin Birney

Where's the rest of its body?

New instrument just dropped! I think I'd just stick to euroracks, myself but it looks cool.

Woo! Thanks Chris. I still have a bunch of these, in case anybody wants one. #avmsp #avtweeps

I assume machine learning is the AI being referenced, but you have to be explicit.

I learned from film audio that people wildly over estimate the power of tech. If audio is bad, it will be bad but ~*different bad*~ after we filter/pricess it extensively. Rooms still need to be designed soundly. Trying to fix a room by throwing in an AI bit will result in embarrassment. #avimtheam

Sure, but it's also just a waste of technology in general. #avintheam #avtweeps

You should address glare and reflections that are a distraction to far end users. Shouldn't AI be able to tell the difference between a reflection and a person? #avintheam #avtweeps

We should be designing for people since they are the ones doing work. AI can't both be magic and need us to coddle the tech by changing our designs to suit its vague needs. Designing like this is how you end up with treadmills with a first gen iPhone connect tor on it. #avintheam #avtweeps

Are you asking if a large language model can improve audio via.... what? I think we need to be a lot more clear about what AI is because you cannot just throw it down as a broad term esp where it doesn't make any sense. #avintheam #avtweeps

Better have some excessively crusty bread with that.

Howie is consistently one of the best things in my feed. Great teacher. It's nice to always be learning and sometimes it's mathematical.

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running uBlock origin on mobile firefox with video background play fix extension is *chef's kiss*

sidebar.revamp set to false is also very nice. Makes Sidebery look correct again.

What's your alternative? I've found Firefox to be decent speed-wise, relatively secure. The fact that desktop and mobile are linked is nice. But I'm always open to the next best thing. I did find that running NextDNS on Tailscale sped things up a bit.

I guess the upside, if there is one, is Perplexity won't own Chrome.

What app do I need to load before 2026 to get around this?

Is also not like that is a permanent fix. MS happily switches on options you disabled whenever they please.

Oh boy, here it comes!

On the plus side we turn those hours spent tweaking into a whole career or auxiliary company instead of just telling people they shouldn't use the product.

Let's shine a light! We're providing an attack surface in every large corporation, govt, and education setting. Nothing stopping us from making an AV village at a security convention.

I'm hopeful for the Linux-based phones. There's some unique hardware, like the Mecha Comet. Still developing slowly, but there's a large community behind it.

A friend who is a hair stylist said this is a huge problem for her as well. Clients have pictures of hair doing things it just can't do in real life and want that "style".

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User Experience and USB-C - AV-MSP We propose that it's time to retire the HDMI and USB-A cables at the table and replace it with USB-C, a format every user now knows.

We wrote a newsletter about USB-C and why you should knock it off with the HDMI cables in conference rooms.

Come at us. Or just read the dang thing.

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duckduckgo.com/settings#aif... if you need a shortcut to turn off all AI features :)

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Extron AV Associate is decent for getting started. AV Math from AVIXA would also be good. Honestly getting a little bit of install experience would probably be helpful for designing - that was my life before a designer.

What's the assumed knowledge level? They've done some install, they know CAD?