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Here’s how the HomePod works its acoustic magic (extract from a Cult-of-Mac review):

Once you’ve chosen a good spot, HomePod does the rest. It takes a series of steps to perfectly adjust its sound output to accommodate the room it’s in.

Using its microphones, HomePod detects any nearby walls to determine how sound will bounce off them. It then uses its tweeters to form an array of sound beams assigned to direct and ambient sounds. The speaker shoots ambient sounds at the walls, and focuses direct sounds right at you.

When you play music, HomePod analyzes the left and right channels of your track and decides which sounds should go into which beams. It also measures the reflection of the bass from the subwoofer to ensure that the bottom end doesn’t take over your music.

Thanks to its accelerometer, HomePod knows when you move it, and it goes through this setup process again.

@nitinkhanna No. Too late. I have the HomePod. It’s audio quality is superior to the Sonos anyway.

@jws Had a play with Scanbot. It was unable to capture the section of the document with anything approaching clarity. Pixter, on the other hand, scanned it directly into editable text.

/@sumudu @streakmachine

@jws Never mind, I’ve found how to do it. Not a lot of use, though. Can’t export it to Pixter to do something useful with it.

/@sumudu @streakmachine

@jws How does that work? I can’t see any way to do that with Notes.

/@sumudu @streakmachine

@matigo It was going to cost $15 to supply & deliver 250 grams vs $17.74 for 375 grams- I went with the latter for better value.

There are 3 tiers of solar panels use in residential arrays in Oz. Tier 3 units degrade in performance by up to 40% in the first 5 years but are much cheaper than other tiers. The company supplying & fitting my system only use Tier 1 panels, which lose only 1% per year & are guaranteed for 25 years.

Signed up for a solar array on my roof today. There's no storage at my end, the juice goes straight out into the national grid, leaving me with a certain amount of credit, which is then applied to my actual usage.
It's estimated that there'll be a minimum of 84% reduction in power costs to me, the difference being applied over 50 months to pay off the almost $10,000 cost of the array.
The benefits of living alone, neighbouring properties with more than one person in their households are estimated to save 64% at one place & 75% at another.
Then, after the system is paid for, my annual power bills will be considerably lower than at present.

@matigo exceptional

My tea haz arrived. Two bags, one of 125 grams, the other 250 grams. Took a week to arrive.