Here in Finland the standard seems to be 8-16, with 30 min lunch, for a total of 37,5h work per week

Oooooh that makes so much sense, I had been wondering why lifting the earcup slightly doesn’t amplify the sound, but that explains it. Thank you for the clarification!

I don’t know how the prices are over there, but used wh-1000xm3 over-ear headphones could be an option. They have basically the same anc than the newer models (interestingly rtings rates tde xm3 better than xm4 and xm5), and even more importantly the voice prompts can be completely disabled apart from power-on and power-off sounds, unlike in the newer models.

Edit: See sushibowl’s explanation below why this is incorrect

What do you mean that blocking sudden noise in technically very challenging? I might be wrong, but from what I have gathered is that ANC is based on playing a “negative” of a pressure wave picked by the microphones in phase with the original wave. Thus it has to react to all sounds in the time that the pressure wave travels from the microphone to the ear, so it shouldn’t matter whether the noise is constant (airplane) or sudden (gunshot).

Of course if the headphones have some kind of pass-through active, then it might take a while until software decides to activate ANC, but that is not a limitation of ANC itself

For me even kagi didn’t provide a recent doc, but at least there is no garbage-sites (which I have blocked)

Oh that makes so much sense. I was wondering why single-click would ever be default.

How about pixel?

Well, here (in middle of finland) the sun set at 14:30, so there wasn’t all that much solar energy available.

Also heat pumps are always at least as efficient as straight electric heating.

This is a problem I have with remote work: in theory it sounds perfect for me, but in practice I don’t get anything (not interesting) done when no-one is around.

Probably, since every other post is about search engines, and many of us have been cursing the ever-worsening search results from google, with no real alternative (that actually provides better results than google).

Now that there is finally an ad-free product that performs like Google did 5-10 years ago, of course, I want others to have the same experience and not get frustrated when they can’t find the information they’re seeking.

Give kagi a try, if you haven’t yet.

That’s good, stealing is wrong