StrangeDays

Damn. These are nice. I recently tested the prior 20W model and some other brands up to 65W, and they all worked really well provided your cables support them (alas, all the multi-headed cables I bought don't, but regular single-plug cables did).

Gaby said:

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SCRUBBING - People are doing it wrong. All you need to do is pause whatever is playing and then gently touch and hold the perimeter of the wheel without moving for about half a second or so, and the scrubbing indicator will appear and you can begin rotating. It took me a minute or so to figure it out but it works consistently if you do it properly. Although I don’t find it any more useful really than scrubbing by sliding left and right. Hope this helps 

Great instructions. But it’s IMO the action you’re describing is jog dialing, not scrubbing. Scrubbing we’ve had for years, it’s left & right based. Jog dial is circular. 

auxio said:

StrangeDays said:

As for the circular jog dial, it’s a different gesture than left & right scrubbing. You have to activate the jog dial mode, and you know you’ve done so when the timeline has a “circle” icon on it. Otherwise you’re just operating the normal left & right scrubbing. 

Thus this sounds like user error. 

I wouldn't call it an error.  Just a behaviour people will have to learn.

A lot of people are used to DVD and Blu-ray players where actions are immediate because the video is coming from a local source (so the only delay is for the hardware to react).  The problem with streamed video is that it typically needs to pull down more information from the internet to allow you to scrub the video.  Hence the added wait time.

No, that’s not the issue here. The jog dial gesture is a different operation mode than left & right scrubbing, which also use the outer ring surfaces. Two modes. Even when you have 100% buffered content you can demonstrate this. 

First let me say this remote is so much better than the previous shit design. But, they messed up by placing Mute where Play/Pause used to be, in the bottom position. It’s much easier to operate a bottom position button blindly by feel, than to cognitively navigate the finger to Play/Pause above it. This is dense. 

As for the circular jog dial, it’s a different gesture than left & right scrubbing. You have to activate the jog dial mode, and you know you’ve done so when the timeline has a “circle” icon on it. Otherwise you’re just operating the normal left & right scrubbing. 

Thus this sounds like user error. 

sflagel said:

Keys I get. Everyone misplaces keys. But what other item, that is sufficiently large to attach an AirTag to, do people misplace? Has anyone, ever, really lost a back pack, or forgot your carry-on luggage? And even if, these are three items.  I’d love to read ideas because I ordered four AirTags and I don’t yet know what to do with them! 

Sure. I’ve lost numerous jackets over the years, leaving them at various spots. Put one of the fabric caddies in a pocket along with an AT, problem solved.