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1. Zach Leatherman 1 min later

   we can burn billions of dollars in electricity costs for fake digital coins and spicy at-scale generic autocomplete but how dare you attempt to control the volume of your speakers

   1. Ben Myers 🦖 4 min later

      @zachleat Tangentially, Apple just announced that M1/M2 MacBooks will be able to connect to Made For iPhone hearing aids via Bluetooth, and now I'm morbidly intrigued about the idea of changing my hearing aid volume with my keyboard.

      …Feels like it would never happen how I expect.

      1. Zach Leatherman 9 min later

         @ben fascinating!

         1. Ben Myers 🦖 10 min later

            @zachleat (I don't know if keyboards will factor into support at all, purely musing about the prospect, but I will say that I'm excited about finally not needing to blast computer audio through my speakers)

            1. Zach Leatherman 21 min later

               @ben given current support—who knows 🤷🏻

2. Robb Knightmare 3 min later

   @zachleat On a Mac? SoundSource can fix this (I use it for my external speakers that run off my monitor) https://rogueamoeba.com/soundsource/

   1. Zach Leatherman 9 min later

      @robb yeah—I did try that—but it wanted me to disable some Mac OS security settings that I was not comfortable with

      1. Robb Knightmare 11 min later

         @zachleat Fair enough, I don’t remember doing that but I guess I did.

         1. Zach Leatherman 28 min later

            @robb appreciate the tip though! I ended up going with https://staticz.com/soundcontrol/

            1. Cory 34 min later

               @zachleat @robb might have to pick this up too

               1. Cory 4 hr later

                  @zachleat @robb ok I lied and went with Robb's suggestion

3. devolute 10 hr later

   @zachleat This was a big surprise when I bought my first usb DAC too. #itJustWerks