To be fair, the build quality is really what you’d be paying for with a nicer cable, though with an RCA cable that just stays plugged into your audio system all the time I guess that doesn’t matter as much. I buy nice silicone USB charging cables for my phone because they’ll last longer and are nicer to use, though the ones I like cost $12-$20, so not exactly $4k lol.

In this case scientific equipment determined no discernible difference in audio quality, though. I do actually believe in paying for nicer cables but up to a point and that’s really mostly about build quality. $4000 for an RCA cable is just insanity.

China is a capitalist country where capital and the billionaire class are tightly integrated with the government. They are a global imperial superpower like the US. They are not better and its insane to praise China as a socialist utopia IMO.

I think there’s a difficult intersection of

a. This stuff is cool and trendy right now so a lot of that content is aspirational

b. TikTok is addictive and extremely hard to kick + lots of people now see it as their primary source for style and lifestyle inspiration leading back into a.

It’s more that Google is making it significantly more difficult for non-Google sanctioned projects to operate on Pixel phones and there may come a time when it’s no longer feasible to develop GrapheneOS for the Pixel

I mean does it really matter if they offer all the hardware security features and it’s running with GrapheneOS, which is FOSS

I hardly ever read the news and I update like once every one to two weeks, and I’m not sure I’ve ever had a system breaking bug introduced by an update. I’ve had small bugs that break UI stuff but nothing that really impairs my ability to use the computer.

I have run into all sorts of weird issues trying to run games or programs not packaged to run on Arch but those are usually solvable with tinkering and some outside advice.

Arch has just never really felt inherently unstable to me, IMO. If you have patience for tinkering and customizing Arch is a great distro that gives you a ton of control over your system + has a fantastic body of documentation.

People with more sense than money lol, there’s never really a great reason to get Doordash or Uber Eats

I’m skeptical tbh, I feel like VNN has been saying HL3 is in development for as long as I’ve been alive

Cyclists are entitled to basically the same amount of space as you would give a car. If it’s not safe to pass a cyclist unless they are riding single file, it’s not safe to pass the cyclist.