Use MCUs that can be programmed over straight USB.

On a high level, you can get a cleaner like Deoxit D5 in a spray bottle. Most pots have a slit in them so you can spray into them, then turn the pot through its range a bunch of times. It’s worth a try as a start. Obviously do it while the unit is unplugged.

If you want to consider a more aggressive rebuild, like a capacitor replacement, maybe find a cheap old amplifier at the thrift shop to use as practice for desoldering/resoldering.

You might be able to connect the BT to one input on the amp, like the tape input, and the CD to another.

The Orville has a great take on it too.

There’s an episode where they bring in someone from a scarcity-era planet and she’s freaking out about how they have replicators and future medical tech, and the crew explains to her that if the technology were airdropped on her world, thry wouldn’t be socially ready for it and it would just become a means of further stratification.

I see a Roadmaster wagon. To the used-games store!

It can’t be a real “as seen on TV” product because they didn’t use the phrase “in the palm of your hand”.

One day they’ll need to sell a larger product and be forced to hire actors with freakishly gigantic hands.

Some mainboards have very few PCI-e slots.

I ended up with a similar adapter because the onboard SATA on my board was flaky with optical drives and I rip CDs.

We have an entire universe (from snaps up to univere-scale k8s setups) derived from “it works on my machine, so we’ll ship my machine”.

How much bad software isn’t being shook out because it’s kept alive in a container with just the right dependencies to prevent it from activating bugs and bad assertions?

Some of the old hardware forms, Gideontech and Pimprig/PCApex.

A Greaseweazle mihht be another angle; you could image discs at lest.

So some domestic firm with a terrible, non competitive product fellated him. Did we see a pressboard trophy to go with Apple’s glass one?

I’m amused that it was also worth individually weiging and pricing them. Couldn’t possibly sell a 14p banana for 13, eh?

More people represents more competition for your position and assets.

At this point Wayland is basically “winning” because of sunk cost. Just because X11 is the wrong answer doesn’t make Wayland the right one.

We could stop and say “here’s what we learned was problematic from both X11 and Wayland and how people actually use computers in 2025, how would we solve these problems knowing that?” But then we’d have to start again from square 1, and nobody with the clout to make it happen is pushing for that.

Sitcom style fun punishment?

“You did something stupid, but took the responsible approach when you realized. You’re going to have to spend all Saturday afternoon with your Dad, shopping for some nice sterile, hypoallergenic piercings.”

I want to see the camera that will stop white-collar crime.

I ended up with two hubs. One sits on top of the desk mostly for transient devices, and one is taped to the bottom of the desk for semi-permanent devices. Then there’s only two cables to the machine.

Genshin Impact.

Yes it’s a crappy casino for horny teenage boys, but damn if they didn’t put a surprisingly decent game on the ground floor of said casino.

And the tendency to provide numerous m.2 slots.

Give me an x4 slot and I can slide a m.2 adaptor in, but if it goes the other way, it’s only by way of a janky hacky mess.

I’m surprised there isn’t more of a crowdsourced solution-- community maintained block/allow lists and pluggable tools.

Part of the reason filters suck right now is that they’re sold to turboprudes and people pushing compliance solutions that will placate litigious turboprudes. So you get blocking all of Wikipedia and .edu/.gov because three pages have an anatomical diagram of a breast. The kids are frustrated, normal parents have to keep unblocking legit stuff, and nobody wins.

If you could pick from easily managed lists sponsored by groups you personally trusted, with responsive appeals systems, people might be more willing to use them.

The ad-blocker ecosystem has a lot of precedent for how to work this stuff.

We need to reframe the discussion from “it’s for the children” to “it’s for lazy parents”.

People are keen to scapegoat parents, and here it’s the truth. They don’t want to use existing opt-in controls, or put the damn computer where they can keep an eye on Little Timmy while he uses it. Make the entirery of the legal system do it for you!