Hey guys, purchased some Pixel Buds Pro a few days ago and getting constant feedback from people I'm calling, that my voice qualitiy is not that good. Apparantly parts of whats said often get "swallowed", especially at the beginning of a sentence.
This guy seems to have the same issue: https://support.google.com/googlepixelbuds/thread/261791443/bad-call-quality?hl=en
Can someone relate?
Any ideas or do I just send them back?
On a Pixel 7 Pro.
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Thanks!

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*Note: This post was originally deleted from /helloicon and am just reposting here to make sure it is documented and not being censored or deleted.
Edit: I know very well that the community tends to downvote any sort of negativity surrounding the project. However, instead of immediately downvoting me, take the time to digest what I'm trying to say. If any ICON team members want to provide any counter-arguments (though I am certain they will not be able to justify every single thing I will have to say, especially in part 2/3), i would love to hear them. Some sort of transparency and communication from the team would be nice for a change. I believe this isn't just a trivial thing either. This is something that warrants a response from the team. There have been questions that have been buried and ignored when this initially happened. The community deserves better.
If anyone has been here from the start, my name might ring a bell. I was the Lead communications/community manager for ICON for quite some time. I helped cultivate and manage the communities during its peak. In comparison, here is a blockchain project that had similar popularity and trading volume to ICX.
I will make a separate post later going into greater depth about all the things, but for now, I'll stick to basically one thing I wanted to address first. In short though, I absolutely have no faith in this project or team anymore. I think the ICON team has consistently demonstrated a complete lack of transparency, poor judgement, and a company that is embarrassingly slow at adopting new strategies and adapting to the constantly evolving landscape.
There's a whole laundry list of reasons I could get into, but as I stated earlier, i will get into most of it in another post. First thing I want to address is ICON's first dApp, Blue Whale Foundation. I am waiting to see if I get replies from past Blue Whale Foundation members so I can just verify some things before writing more extensively about it, and get confirmation on some things.
For those that don't know, Blue Whale Foundation (BWX) was ICON's first dApp, and it was promoted directly by Min and two senior ICON council members were Advisors for Blue Whale Foundation, including ICONLOOP/PARAMETA's CEO. https://medium.com/biomanforcerose/ico-analysis-5-reasons-why-you-should-have-a-look-to-blue-whale-foundation-4bb55ef3bff3
I don't know if this was ever addressed, but BWX appears to have been a pump&dump/exit scam after the successful ICO launch. Majority of the people on Blue Whale's team immediately departed after the ICO, leading me to believe that they knew this was an empty shell of a project. Blue Whale abruptly closed operations in 2022, leaving many people frustrated and angry. I believe the BWF team recruited me to give BWF an air of more legitimacy. To be clear, I had zero knowledge of what was going to happen, and I was compensated a very modest and flat monthly rate for only a few months, and did not receive any bonus or incentives for making the ICO successful. I believe that other people involved may have gotten paid significantly more than I did, and that they simply used me for my likeness and status within the ICON community to legitimize and get ICON supporters to invest. For anyone that ended up buying because of me, I truly am sorry, and I had absolutely no idea that this was going to be the end result. I should have done more due diligence, but even if I did, I don't know if it would have made a difference because some of the damning information wasnt available until after the ICO. Also, because Min and ICON Council Members approved, endorsed, or were involved in the BWF project, I thought this ICON vetted this project and team. I had always felt terrible once I realized what the BWF team has done, but I didnt fully realize until I left ICON and blockchain space completely. Last I heard from BWF team was that they were going to take some time off after the ICO launch and I didnt hear back from them again. They actually left me in the dark completely for some time, and I was emailing them confused asking what I am supposed to be doing. For a month before the ICO, it was radio silence despite my repeated attempts to get a hold of them, and i finally heard back a month later when they told me that the team went on vacation or something? I can pull up email logs later.
Unfortunately, it seems like this was a pump and dump exit scam after the ICO launched. The ICO raised nearly $4million USD, and I believe the other members on the team could have earned potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars. The amount I earned? Very low, but somehow was actually a bit higher than what ICON was paying me monthly which was like barely above minimum wage at the time.
I will share more details in a future post regarding this, but I mainly want to apologize to anyone that bought and ended up losing money on $BWX. I had no idea that this was BWX's true agenda, and all of the information was deliberately kept from me from by the BWF team. I recently did some digging on the founder of BWX, Will Lee, and he states that he is a "serial entrepreneur", but in reality, I believe he is more of a serial griftescammer, and don't know why ICON and Min endorsed this project and the founder in the first place. I believe it was either gross negligence and incompetence from ICON or it was fraud considering that the ICON council members received compensation from the ICO.
Anyone that knows me knows I have been maybe one of the strongest advocates for ICON, and I would even go as far as saying that despite ICON's no communication policy, I believed I played a major role for ICON maintaining and even growing the community even during the extended bear market period. Maybe it was a coincidence, but there was a dramatic decrease in engagement and interest in the ICON project when I decreased my involvement and eventually left all together. Maybe it was a coincidence? Or maybe it wasn't. What I do know is that other projects i consulted on at the time immediately saw lifts in their community numbers when I gave them a hand.
I want to make it clear that while this is primarily about BWF, this is just one of many things that ICON handled poorly, did not address or take accountability, and showed how little they cared about its community considering that many people that bought BWF were likely those involved in ICX.
I didnt have time to proof read this because I'm sleepy and need to take a nap, so sorry if my thoughts are a bit disjointed or if this is just filled with some grammatical errors.
This is also just one of many many red flags and issues that I have with ICON, and why I no longer have faith in this project. I will post a part 2 and maybe part 3 later that are directly related to ICON, the team, amongst many other things, including my personal experience working for them.
edit: also just wanted to say hi to all the amazing and cool people in the community that were around when i was around. while i cant say too many great things about icon, i can say that a lot of you guys here are genuinely awesome people who helped keep my sanity intact. and im sure there are some that hated me too, and its understandable. My unspoken role at ICON was being the person at whom people can direct their frustrations and anger at, but hopefully, you don't hold it against me. To any new people, welcome, but I want you to know that if you do end up sticking around, be mentally prepared for an endless, repeating cycle of being disappointed, getting your hopes up a tiny bit, only to be let down again. Then repeat.

Siento que desde hace mucho, ( especialmente en páginas de memes, anime, tecnología , ventas y artistas) hay una cantidad enorme que finge ser mujer.
He escuchado varios puntos a favor de fingir ser mujer cuando vendes, ya que muchas veces son pervertidos o urgidos que solo quieren ver a una mujer entregar cosas, lo mismo con artistas. Simplemente se me hace triste que sea tan efectivo el fingir ser mujer para atraer más audiencia.

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🪙 How many coins would you need to sort through to collect all commemorative €2 coins in circulation?
📍How do you display enamel pins?!
💼 The Any Other Business briefcase is…mostly open.
Here’s the Coupon Collector’s problem video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BstloCx8KDk
You can see more on the “Number of banknotes/coins returned from circulation in Euro Area, Euro area (changing composition), Monthly” here: https://data.ecb.europa.eu/data/datasets/BKN/BKN.M.U2.RE10.C.20P0.AS.F.E
And, Wiki Sources: “2 euro commemorative coins” on good old Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_euro_commemorative_coins
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Estando en un bar me cruce a un artista callejero vestido de Michael Jackson. En mi cabeza él era el mismisimo MJ en persona, me puse euforica y empece a elevar la voz y decirles a mis amigos. Ellos me miraron mientras se reian y siguieron hablando, yo no podia creer que no se volvieran locos estando frente a alguien tan historico... Hasta el dia siguiente, ahí entendi muchas cosas.

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I personally feel like the way Destiny does his merch so far is a huge missed opportunity and could be improved for very little effort and potentially way more profit.

The Supplier Issue

https://store.destiny.gg/
The current merch provided Destiny uses is https://www.spri.ng/
These guys seem to suck (maybe a hyperbolic). Their promoted stores aren't impressive to anyone and their limited design ability shows (can put image on shirt and that's it) Carbot, Betr, Nardwuar, Fresh&Fit
If you see an ass merch store these days it's 99% these guys behind it
Not only are graphic tees full of stream memes a niche they are also the most cheap thing to make and are currently very expensive in the store. Also, and i will die on this hill, there aren't that many people who are actually willing to wear stuff like this in public
Similar to most issues, why reinvent the wheel? Merch has been done for years and done well by several large content creators. I would recommend going with the provider https://www.warrenjames.org/

• LIly
• Hasan
• xQc
• Moist

I can guarantee Hasan wouldn't use these guys unless he was making a profit.
There are also other options, world famous LilyPichu (3M subs on YT) also has a store lilypichu.store which is supplied through https://fourthwall.com. There isn't much on there yet but the hoodie looks really good.
Similar to how Destiny is just learning how powerful Twitter can be he shouldn't disregard putting effort/money into merch.
Hasan in one of his merch releases 3 years ago apparently made $126,000 of profit in 1 day (on 2 out of the 4 shirts apparently),
Lastly, If merch is truly that hard to figure out I can guarantee Lily or xQc would at the very least give you the name/number of whoever helped them sort theirs out.

Types of Merch

Rule 1 has to be that Merch shouldn't only be stuff that Destiny would wear: 1,2,3,4 Yes there is an audience for this but their are broader groups to also appeal too.
There is so much simplistic merch which would do really well, it doesn't to be obvious DGG/Streamer merch.
Turkey Tom says it best: Nobody is going to know it's streamer merch, but if you see a DGGer in public, they'll know.

TLDR

Maybe switch supplier for merch to one which seems to be bigger in the industry and deliver better products.
Also allow for simplistic designs with basic color pallets e.g. this but in grey/white/black
PS: i'm not just a hater, I bought the dggl hoodie a while back and do acknowledge setting merch up can be difficult, especially if you've not done it before.
Bonsu meme: Please do the DuckerZ polo you even have a page already for it according to google: https://store.destiny.gg/duckerz-embroidered-polo/?variant=82863583&kw=store

So i've been using this extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stayfocusd-block-distract/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji?hl=en for going to sleep on time. Basically what it does is block me from accessing the browser past a certain hour and It stopped functioning as intended. What do I need to do to get it working again? I reinstalled opera on a previous version too and it still didn't work. Are there any alternatives to this extension that works on opera?

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Could someone help me understand the train system in Milwaukee? So I understand there is the Intermodel train station which I have taken to go to Chicago.
But then I saw an announcement that a new line going to Chicago and Twin Cities is starting. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2024/05/20/new-milwaukee-amtrak-train-to-twin-cities-chicago-starts-tuesday/73769867007/ Did this not exist before, as in there was no train to the Twin Cities at all? Is this a different line going to Chicago than the one I mentioned above?
I also recently saw a photo from Nate Vomhof and in his caption read he hopes to see passenger trains in the future as Regional Transportation Authorities are currently banned under state law. What does this mean? (his post for reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7NZph7O2yG/?hl=en)
So, I'm just all very confused by it all.

Mi nombre es Marco Luis Xiorro, soy un artista nacido en Puerto Rico, criado en Puerto Rico, con antepasados de Puerto Rico, y aun me identifican como Mejicano.
Soy sumeramente famoso, desde el experimento que sobrevivi en los 90s me dejo extraño, todo el mundo me conoce. Pero desde que fui a Mexico esa vez por una convencion todos me identifican como Mejicano y no lo entiendo, soy Boricua de Pura Cepa se lo e dicho pero no me creen. Tantas peliculas y arcticulos, y documentales me describen como Mejicano, hasta Scooby-Doo, solo esa pelicula horrible de 2005 me describe como Boricua (no la reclamo).
Por eso estoy aqui en frente de la prenza para aclarar toda sospecha sobre mis origines, pero esto nunca hubiera llegado a tal extremos, lo unico mal que hice fue chuparme esa cabra...

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