Depending on your setup, budget and location, Nubert makes some nice speakers. I’m pretty happy with my A-125 and a XW-900.

They also make a soundbar (AS-225) that uses the same drivers but reaches low enough to eliminate the need for a subwoofer.

Depending on the resistence and sensitivity of your headphones, you can try the Fiio JA11. They got PEQ via a webUSB aswell.

Some people have reported issues on certain phones. But most seem to be fixed by now and mine work great. Maybe just check for issues, before you go for the plunge.

Man. Every time I read an unsolicited comment like this, I get moved a bit more to the “optics matter” camp.

If someone is interested, they will ask. And if they ask, you get to camly explain your thoughts and feelings.

That’s how I managed to get everyone to think of the “haha, my food eats your food” guy in my social circle as the weird “berates people for their personal choices” guy, rather than me. He brought it up in the most childish, naive way, and I got to be the adult in the room.

And that stuck. A bunch of my friends lost their fear of meat alternatives, because of me wordlessly picking the meat alternative from the fridge in the grocery store, while picking things out for the BBQ. People do notice these things. And some will copy you, if you seem cool enough to copy.

I’ve only used an LLM (you can guess which one) once to write code. Mostly because I didn’t feel like writing down some numbers and making a little drawing for myself to solve the problem.

And because a friend insisted that it writes code just fine.

But it didn’t. It confidently didn’t. Instead, it made up something weird and kept telling me that it had now “fixed” the problem, when in reality it was trying random fixes that were related to the error message but had nothing to do with the actual core problem. It just guessed and prayed.

In the end, I solved the problem in 10 minutes with a small scribble and a pen. And most of the time was spend drawing small boxes, because my solution relied on a coordinate system, I needed to visualize.

Half-Life Alyx looks fantastic. It’s a modern but faithful representation of the Half-Life universe. You can jump from HL2 to Alyx and feel like you’re part of the same narrative and story. Even though there are almost two decades in between.

Half-Life RTX has more polygons, higher-resolution textures and a much more resource-hungry lighting system. The entire Half-Life universe was cast as a cameo to star in another guys remake.