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Lilygo uses old stock bb keyboards, I think. Looks exactly like the one an employer had me carry.

No shade to your parents, but they were teaching you wrong. It only takes a few hours of good instruction to properly drive a stick, and it's not about timing, it's about clutch feel.

You start by sitting on your right foot (like half Indian style) so that only your left foot can work the controls. Push in the clutch and find 1st. Let out the clutch until you feel it just start to grab and the car starts to move forward. Clutch back in a bit to keep from stalling, then back out until you are idling forward in 1st. You are gonna stall the engine A LOT here. This is the most important foundational skill. Keep practicing until you can start the car moving with the clutch alone. Then, using both legs now, add a bit of gas and shift to 2nd, then back to a stop. Should be a small addition to what you now know.

Next, we learn to reverse. Hold the engine from neutral at 800 to 1200 rpm (don't rev the nuts off it) and let the clutch out to the friction point again. The clutch is like an inverted gas pedal in an automatic. Push the clutch pedal in to slow down, let it out to speed up.

All that's left after that is figuring out starting uphill. You are going to stall it a few times, but in two weeks of driving a manual, you'll be good at it. Only thing from here is double clutching, which doesn't buy you much since syncros were added to transmissions.

Can also fix a carb and write code too. Skills are useful!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Interface_Tool

It's a menu driven system management tool for IBM's AIX unix variant. Oddly enough, even Wikipedia shows the relationship from SMIT to YaST. Instead of just smile and nod, next time make up something about "smitty print" (damn near everything was under the "print submenu", ostensibly because you were printing out the config to screen), and look like you are a grizzled veteran of corporate unix from the days of yore.

:-)

I always viewed YaST as SMIT(ty) for linux. Haven't looked at suse in forever, though.

Using a dongle is in no way a replacement for a real headphone jack. A dongle on a phone is a one way ticket to a broken usb c port. It's not meant to be pocketed with a dongle attached. Headphone ports are supported and able to better handle the stress (if made properly).

Just give us a phone with the single most common port in use by our species that is standardized across all nations on our planet: 3.5mm audio port. I don't care if it makes the decice .0000001mm thicker. I don't care if it adds $.01 to the BOM cost of the phone. Go fuck yourself, manufacturers, I WANT MY GODDAMN HEADPHONE JACK BACK YOU BASTARDS!!!

Swapping out tubes (and opamps on your DAC) is very much a thing, and I'm convinced that I can hear the difference between a sovtek tube and a Chinese clone, but that could be all in my head, as it wasn't a blind test. Do some research on the amps, but for computer use, Fosi mc331 has an integrated DAC and puts out about 100w per channel. If my computer didn't already have active studio monitors, I'd have pulled the trigger on it by now. For $116, it's hard to resist.

If you can, I highly recommend you try it out. There's relatively inexpensive tube amps, even on Amazon that you could play with and box back up if it's not your cup of tea. I just looked at the compressor I use and the price has gone up to a point where it doesn't make much sense anymore, but it is SUPER useful to add some warmth in between a digital source and the class d amps I use in my PA system.

I'm curious if you've tried listening to lossy compressed audio through a vacuum tube output stage? I use a cheap tube compressor with the attack and release turned to minimal and just a little bit of extra makeup gain so that the tube colors the audio a small amount. Think of it like sanding the layer lines of a 3d print, but for audio. It does introduce a small amount of hiss and colors the midrange a bit more prominently, but you can eq that out.

If you are using the files played back at different tempos or keyshifted, the difference between lossy and lossless is a lot more apparent. For standard playback at normal pitch, mp3 is just fine.

Every time I try to slow down my car, I hear chopped up and recontextualized Amens...