Americans (as indicated by the date format) always have such sketchy-looking power outlets.

run hot tap water over the lid. Not so hot you’ll shock it and crack the glass, just generally more than warm. 10 seconds, then open it.

Because I don’t think anyone should be paid $500k for work. It’s too far from the median. There’s nothing more to it than that, really.

2080S currently, though I’ve had others before, can’t wake up from standby with the power button or USB. On the other hand, once it’s in standby, it’ll turn itself back on after 30 minutes or so. The firmware on nvidia cards has always played badly though. I had an 8800 that I’d have to turn on several times each day before it would POST.

To be fair, the reason they expect 60k to be reasonable is that 500k is absolutely not.

This is like people who work on overhead electrical cabling saying, “why do you people get to work on the ground?”

Standby with nvidia gpus is broken still, but everything external I’ve plugged into my system works first time.

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You mean the watermelon?

Records (LPs, anyway) really demand you listen to 20/40 minutes at a time. That can be quite useful for setting aside some time in the day, but it also requires… setting aside some time in the day.

The used CD market is an order of magnitude cheaper than vinyl.

My personal setup is amp, speakers, cd, tape, bluetooth and turntable, and to give you an idea of how valuable they are to me, I play records on it usually once every day or two, CDs or bluetooth (Bandcamp or somafm or something) a couple of times a week, and tapes less than once a month. If I didn’t sit at my computer all day for work with headphones and navidrome I’d probably listen to records a lot more though :)

If you get a new turntable, either get one with a built-in preamp and buy some good powered speakers or go the old school way (my preference) of a turntable with no pre-amp, a separate amp with a phono stage, and passive speakers. It’s generally more expandable and easier to replace individual parts when you upgrade or a capacitor explodes or something. You can get those components relatively cheap on ebay too. But basically keep the record player as simple as possible. No built-in speakers, no bluetooth, no bells and whistles. The money should go into the turntable and stylus themselves. For example I got a Fluance RT82 which I’m very happy with. Make sure you put it on a sturdy flat surface, too, not a table with spindly legs or anything. Especially not if you have a cat.

Nono, it’s old. We’ve had 359 more versions since then.

If I was on whatever that site is, it’d be a handy list of people to block.

When it’s a little less than this, my mother and grandmother would call it “curate’s tea” or “vicar’s tea” because of the white collar in the mug, and pass it back for us kids to sort it out.

it says “a massive number of IPs began accessing the website” which means it’s distributed. Mind, they also spelt traffic wrong so who knows.

There’s always money in the banana stand.

Just discovered this thread, but yes. It’s been this way for quite a while (weeks at least) and I’ve seen other people mention it from time to time.

oh that’s a great feature

We’re starting to name Ubuntu releases at this point.

If you’re going to run windows in a VM, then what’s the point? Why not just run one OS?

And for a while, people using tapes to make field recordings were supposed to pay more for the blanks to offset the supposed lost sales of the unrelated music industry.