• A half-decent soldering iron is way better than a super cheap soldering iron.

• Plan the build as much as you can, and then order all the parts at once. This way you’re not tied up waiting for parts to ship which kills momentum.

• Wires take up more space in an enclosure than you think.

• If you can order 3 of something for not much more money than 1. Do it. It’ll allow you to build up stock of things you use. That way when you get an idea, you’ll have parts on hand.

• Allow yourself to fail. Some ideas sound good but aren’t. It’s ok to abandon a project.

• Lean on the community. If you have an idea for a project, someone’s probably done it before. Look it up, see how they did it, learn from their mistakes. You can stand on the shoulders of giants and you absolutely should.

Not to discourage you but that is a super ambitious first project. If you want a good audio player but don’t want to spend a ton, I have the fiio snowsky echo. It’s super affordable, but surprisingly powerful. It drives my 250 ohm headphones without issue. No way you’re DIY’ing anything that good for its price. However if you want to DIY a music player just because you want to, absolutely go for it!

Several times, but there was a limit to how much I felt comfortable charging someone for 3d printed plastic

I do a lot of things for fun that I could theoretically make money from. I model and 3d print stuff, I woodwork, I make electronic projects, I’m a musician, and a software engineer.

Sometimes I’ll get people saying stuff like “you could sell XYZ”. I tried it. I had an Etsy store where I sold my 3d prints. It was successful. Too successful. I was working my day job and then spending most of my free time printing and sanding and painting and talking with customers and dealing with shipping.

Initially I thought how great to be able to spend all my free time doing something I enjoy. In the end i thought how dreadful it is to spend basically all of my time working.

It fucking sucked. I’m glad to have had that experience, but now I know It’s actually super important to have hobbies that are just hobbies.

Install Linux to make a retro gaming machine?

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That was a great read. Thanks for sharing

I’m happy with my TP-Link Omada router. Very capable, super easy to use, feature packed. More than capable for your needs and gives you room to grow to setup more advanced networking

As the other replier mentioned crinicle is great for reviews. For IEMs I use the original moondrop Chu and they’re good, I also use the kz zsn pro. Also good. But ultimately i really only use IEMs when I’m out on a run or walking to the shops where sound quality isn’t as important. If at home I’ll use over ear headphones and I have beyerdynamics dt770s which are great and super comfy (also built like a tank if durability is a concern)

Wired IEMs master race

Angel - massive attack.

Tests both the low end and the high end frequencies really well, plus it’s an incredible track and well produced

Well the post tile says “other than not having a car and voting” which are also not about food.

I get the linked article is about food, but OP worded the post in such a way that it’s just factually incorrect

Ublock origin + sponsor block makes YouTube entirely watchable and you don’t have to fund this horrible company

Why spend several hours with friends when you could spend an hour alone on a jet

I think blind allegiance to family is a much more sad perspective

Family means nothing. Spend your time with people you love and who love you. Don’t spend time around nazi-apologists.

To me this seems like a no-brainer. Don’t go.

Why would you go to an assholes wedding? I’m currently planning a wedding and if I invited someone that didn’t like me, I’d honestly rather they not come.

So. I’m not sure why you think you’d be considered an asshole. You’re two different people that aren’t friends and don’t see eye to eye. Why would you go to his wedding?

What we do in the shadows. The show is based off the Taika Waititi/Jermaine Clement film of the same name. And is also written by Jermaine Clement

It’s a comedy/mocumentary about a group of vampires. The characters are really well written and it straddles the line between the banality of everyday life as a vampire, and obviously the weird supernatural aspects of vampires. It recently aired it’s final episode so you can binge it now and get through the whole thing.

If you like the office/community/parks and rec/I.T. Crowd type of stuff I think you’ll really like it

I have quite an extensive history of scraping web sites for various data over the years, I’d be happy to help you out but I can’t really know how to help without knowing what website your trying to scrape, different sites have their own challenges (maybe behind a login, or using JavaScript to load content - in which case a http response won’t give you what you’re after, or any number of things really).

If you give me a link to a book you want to download as an example I can take a look and help guide you through it

This is fascinating because I got a BRI of 1.9 and it’s saying I’m in the healthy zone. So I don’t really know what to believe here

Strong agree with your first 2 points, stronger disagree with your last point. Do you seriously think a 40 year old doesn’t deserve a vote?