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I got one of the limited edition "Almond" ones: - Some first impressions, starting with the good: - It's a really nice device. It looks great and has a premium feel to it. The AMOLED screen is awesome. The bezels are tiny, so it's almost all screen. The default refresh rate is 90Hz and everything feels butter smooth. It has an in-display fingerprint reader which works great and is very fast. There's no notch/hole, which they've achieved by having the front-facing camera be motorised, so it pops up out of the top of the phone when you want to take a selfie, then pops back in when you're done. The sound is great too. It has stereo speakers that get nice and loud without distorting. It has a hardware-based alerts slider, which I've never seen on a phone before. It has 3 positions: - 1. Ringer/vibration on. 2. Vibration only. 3. Silent (alarms only). You can customise it and it vibrates in set patterns when you move it to each position, so you can adjust it while it's in your pocket without having to see the slider/screen. It has a decent amount of resistance, so it shouldn't get switched to a different position when you don't want it to. The cameras seem solid, although I've only taken a couple of test shots. It has a 4,000 mAh battery, which is decent, and it comes with a 30 Watt "warp charger". When it arrived it was 56% charged, so I plugged it in and it was fully charged in about 20 minutes or so, which is pretty crazy. It runs OnePlus's OxygenOS, which currently is based on Android 9. You can manually install the Android 10 version, but they're working on squashing a few bugs in it so they're not pushing it out to people just yet. I was a bit concerned about getting a phone that doesn't run stock Android, but honestly, it's great. Fast and easy to use, with a couple of nice features that stock Android doesn't have. It supports themes and you can change the accent colour to one of your choosing, which is nice. You can install any launcher of your choice of course, including the stock Android one. It has 8GB of RAM and 256 of storage, which is plenty. The storage is UFS 3.0, so the read/write speeds are blazing fast. It uses a USB 3.1 Type-C port for charging/data transfers. It also has a dual SIM slot. It comes with a pre-applied screen protector and a clear case. The CPU is the Snapdragon 855 and the GPU is the Adreno 640, so the specs are right up there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As for the bad, the main negative is the lack of a 3.5mm headphone socket. It also does not come with a Type-C adapter in the box, which is a bit cheap of them IMO. That said, the official OnePlus adapter is only £6.99, which is not terrible compared to a certain other company. One other negative is that you can set up some gestures that require you to swipe in from the very edge of the screen at the sides, but the screen wraps around at the sides and it can be somewhat unresponsive when trying to swipe in from the very edge, so it might take you 3 swipes to get it to work. The only time I need to swipe from the edge is to hide/unhide apps from the app drawer, which I would rarely do anyway, so it's certainly not a big deal. Swiping in from the top works perfectly, which is the main thing. It has no notification light, which I certainly miss. It has an ambient screen, so you can tap the screen when the phone is locked and it'll show you if you have any notifications, but unless you do that there's no indication that you have new notifications waiting for you. Oh, and it does not support wireless charging. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Despite the couple of drawbacks, I love it so far!

I guess I could be considered objectively "good" by 1995 standards. In 2019 there are some crazy skilled guys out there who make me feel like I should stop trying.

i actually go to my local plastic supplier in San Diego and cut my blanks out at home with giant scissors! im not Joking by the way! And i actually have two Prestos. One a 6N and the other a k8. I bought these way back in Ebay for really cheap. $250 for the K8 and $500 for the 6N. ive made my money back on both of them releasing diy 7s, 10 and weird shaped ones. i before everyone was into releasing lathes. You can have the plastic supplier cut the sheet of polycarbonate for you if your not into cutting the sheet yourself.

What I want to know is how long before I stop making silly faces when I'm scratching? I still suck, but I don't believe I've put in that magic 10,000 hours yet so there's still hope.

I probably thought I was pretty decent pretty early on. I was an entitled little bell end with delusions of excellence.

I recorded myself scratching the other night, disappointing. So 22 years and counting.

Before I had turntables, I use to practice cutting on my steering wheel while driving around and listening to Public Enemy. I thought it was Terminator X, but it was actually Johnny Juice's cuts I was trying to mimic. When I finally got decks, I spent the first night working exclusively on one turntable, then the next night on the other. On the third night, it was fuckin' on! All that steering wheel skratching and a little legit practice paid off 'cause I picked up cutting pretty quick. A couple months later, I worked out a trade with a local record shop; eCommerce website in exchange for $3500 worth of wax. As a result, I was grabbing new records every week from an array of genres. I would get my web work done around 2 or 3 in the morning, then I would focus on DJn till about 7am. On the daily. Kept sleeping in my office since I didn't want to drive home due to being mad tired by then. Ended up living in my office thereafter as I never went home after that...I just wanted to create and cut. So, in a long ass round-about way, I became good within the first year. However, I never really did anything with it other than playing some house parties, a few raves, etc. I mostly get down in my bedroom, which still brings me loads of joy.

well, i took about 2.5 years before i actually made a legit mix. and by legit i mean all songs were blended into each other using turntables, mixer, and cd player. so i would say it took me about 3 to 4 years before i thought that i was good. and thats just mixing. i've never considered myself to be good at scratching or juggling. just okay. life hit me hard before i could really dedicate time to be good at scratching.