You might consider the Mackie Crx Cubes. They use bmr drivers that allow a wider Soundstage without needing as much physical space and can be had at a pretty reasonable price. Bass is lacking though, so allocate funding for a small woofer if you want the absolute best experience.

So wholesome. Now you’ve gone and got me all emotional, SatansMaggotyCumFart

This comment right here officer. (Fwiw, I up voted)

Careful doing just this. They actually track http request headers and look for desktop signifiers, so your best bet is to use a VPN in tandem with whatever setup you go with. (Tried doing this a few years back without the vpn, they sent me some very upset texts.)

I’d say I’m optimistic, hopeful, and we’ll intentioned but it’s been many a year since I’ve felt “nice”. Something shifted in society during the Covid era and I just feel awful going out of my way for most people these days. Very much in the “every person for themselves” category.

When something becomes economic, non-profit or not, expectations from the userbase change.

Same. Lol

The antitrust machine hasn’t had its scheduled maintenance for a few generations. It’s gonna take a little while to spin up.

I’ve never personally seen this as a Des Moines resident for 25+ years, but I do think it would go down well at our fairgrounds. Can’t imagine anyone regularly ordering or cooking it though as generally people tend to prefer mashed potatoes or soft foods (meatloaf?) when gravy is involved.

Heck yeah Sirius!

It’s the same reason many unenforced laws exist. It’s an entrance point. As the saying goes, they didn’t get capone on his gang activity.

They don’t brick shit, don’t lie. It not booting until you swap the part back to a verified part isn’t even remotely close to a full bricking.

Why do we live in this hell? Fuckin end users man, let me roll Arch.

That’s lovely. When is the last time you bought an electronic device made entirely of silicon including no capacitors, thermal past, electric motors for fans, etc, etc? Electronics may seem permanent, and yes they have an amazing shelf life, but chips do in fact degrade (see solid state ssds), and you’re held back by your weakest link.

Electronics most certainly age like you or I. A new off the shelf device will perform measurably better than an identical one with 10 years of wear.

Morals and principles are all good and dandy until you’re staring down daddy Google (who can take millions in losses without blinking an eye) offering you a choice between a large check or competition with a business entity that doesn’t need to be profitable . There’s not a lot of people in the world who could stand up to that, even fewer so that would want to when the alternative is a worry free life sitting on whatever millions Google paid you while sipping Mai Tais on your private island.

Printed circuit board.

Although we don’t see it, all of these developments do actually eventually make their way into battery tech. The batteries of today are not the batteries of 2014.

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I would highly highly highly recommend a atomic distro. It’s going to be a much nicer sandbox for someone starting out, regardless of age.