Wow. Day one on here and it’s already 1000x more helpful than Reddit. What a piece of crap that platform is now haha. “That game is for windows and even if could get it running, it wouldn’t be playable on a Chromebook” after not reading the body of my post.

Anyway, thank you. I’ll try that today.

Haha thank you. Strange. I wonder why Arabic.

I’m considering a used Arris s33. Current netgear is an x4 ac3200. I just looked into it more and it’s not as old as I thought. DOCSIS 3.1 as well. I’m assuming it still needs to be upgraded?

I’ll definitely consider the Deco x. The x25 is on sale for $142. X20 for $130. X55 for $150. Should I just go with x20?

Yes, all five bedrooms have an Ethernet connection in the wall. An Xfinity decided to cut the cables out but I just rewired them all. Nobody in the house will use their ports though… they want WiFi. Anyway, yes, I have five connections upstairs. Router is on first floor.

Awesome info. Thank you very much for the response.

Just to be clear, if the current setup covers most of the house and WiFi speeds aren’t important, I shouldn’t just buy more orbi satellites to use with the Orbi router and a new modem to save money? I don’t mind spending the money but the other three people in the house are older men who are watching YouTube and looking at Facebook marketplace. They can’t even be bothered to run Ethernet cable from the wall to the PC’s.

Anyway, thank you for the reply.

Edit: I’m 15 min into a tryhackme course and it’s pretty fun.

I wouldn't mind starting in some sort of entry level IT position. It looks like most of them start around $25/hr here which is fine. My only real goal is to transition into an industry with room to grow. I don't care about being wealthy. I don't know how to describe it but I need a job that gives me some sort of fulfillment. I'm leaving the booze industry because I'd rather self immolate than continue in a field where there's a defined ceiling and no real reason to put in hard work.

As far as my interest in tech goes... it's hard to say. I bought a Chromebook Plus for the simplicity but I find myself using the enabled Linux more and more every day. I spent about 10 hours trying to get Fallout: New Vegas installed this weekend and now that I have it running, I'm not really interested in playing it. I think the fun was trying to get it running on my Chromebook when I was told that I couldn't/ it wouldn't be worth it. (another reason why I don't use Reddit anymore.) That being said, I think I enjoy learning new skills and problem solving more than I care about tech... if that makes sense.

Anyway, I do appreciate your response.

Nope. No VPN. I left out the strangest part because it sounds schizophrenic, too. Haha. I closed out the Arabic message and took a screenshot. As soon as I took the screenshot my phone went into standby mode, just like when your phone dies. Black screen with spinning wheel but for probably 15-20 seconds. The audio never stopped, though. When my screen came back my phone did a strange sort of jutter that immediately reminded me of what a phone would do when you sent an email maybe 8-10 years ago. It’s hard to explain but do you remember when older phones would almost freeze for a millisecond while it processed and sent the email? Same sort of thing. And the cherry on top was that my phone wouldn’t actually take the screenshot haha. I hate to sound paranoid but I clearly triggered some sort of security red flags. Oh well. Makes me wonder though.

It doesn’t appear that they are, unless you’re referring to 7hz who make both Crinacle Zero and Salnotes Zero

Gotcha. I have Sony Linkbuds but I’m out on wireless. I could rant, and I won’t, but it turns out that all the conspiracy weirdos who tried warning us about WiFi, wireless headphones, 5G, etc. were right. Whoops.

Anyway, I’m ordering a pair right now. I’m psyched. Thanks.

I got a pair this week. Love them for their price and I’m definitely keeping. I also got a pair of KZ Castor Pro and I can’t quite explain it but the Castor sound better and somehow I’d rather listen to the Chu

I was originally going to try the 7hz x Crinacle 2 before reading that the Castor was better for bass. Little did I know, "better bass" just meant way too much bass. It sounds like Crinacle is what I'm after but now I'm wondering if the 7hz is a side-step and I should start with the Truthear x Crinacle Red.

Ahh I just logged back on to say that I’m just gonna wing it and spend like 50-80. Should I not just buy Truthear Zero Red?

Yeah, I’m doing quite a bit of research and they seem like they’re great but not what I’m after. As chaotic as my music is, there are layers and details that just don’t come through on my more fun headphones. For now, I want something that’s clear, good instruemnt separation and detail with modest amount of sub bass, clean mid bass and clean treble. I suppose the term is balance but I keep reading reviews about popular IEM’s and what people are willing to put up with and I’m just like… the excellent sub bass doesn’t matter to me if the instrument separation is muddy. At this point I’m just going to order the Kefine Delci or Truthear Hexa maybe.

I’m honestly not sure. I think it might be. When I play games, my ping is high. I’m not sure if you play anything but battlefield 1 was around 100, even though I think that’s an issue with the lobbies. Arc Raiders is giving me regular network/performance issue icons. I’m getting a ping and packet loss notification multiple times per game.

I’m on xfinity in Massachusetts so it supposed to be one of the top performance providers in the country.

And yeah, I’ll likely ditch the Eero and buy Orbi satellites if I don’t get rid of it all and start with a new system.

Great response and much appreciated. I've always been an over-ear headphone listener and I'm really excited to start collecting IEM's. I'm dabbling with cheap ones for now and once I know what I like, I'll start buying more substantial IEM's.

As far as the Chu go, I definitely agree with you. I suppose I meant that for 20 bucks, something that I can keep in my pocket for when I need a pair of IEM's while grocery shopping, tinkering in the garage, listening to podcasts, riding my bike, etc. they're great. I tried sitting down with them and running them through my ifi ZEN DAC this morning and I won't be doing that again.

Just curious, what's you opinion of budget planar IEM's? I don't think I'll mess around with KZ again but AliExpress has great sales on KZ right now and I was considering trying them one more time. I believe it's the PRX that I was considering for $15. $63 on Amazon.

Ok cool. I was between those and 7hz crinacle zero. I’ll have to find a comparison video review or something.

Do you use them as a mobile IEM or are you usually stationary? I tend to wear mine when I’m cooking and the goddamn cabinet handles hook my cable and rip it right out of my phone so I’m nervous about the pins. Maybe I just need a set of these + quarks for when I’m moving around.

Also, just curious which version you have. I feel like my usb-c dongle takes the brunt of my abuse but I kind of want the usb-c cable version.

Hmmm I’ll see if I can work that out. I’m a bit unfamiliar with all of this but would I save the game download to a folder within lutris and then do the manual install as you mentioned?

Hmmm yeah maybe I should. I've been enjoying Lutris quite a bit but if Heroic gets it to work, who cares I guess. I can do the research but do you know if Heroic also does all the work of extracting and running files? Through Wine I'd assume?

Thank God I didn't go all-in on Linux haha. This is already a pain.

ahhhhh I get ya. I didn't realize that the +Add had a "Search Lutris Website" option. I have it downloading right now. Thanks.

That’s the other one that I was considering. I just wish they used a different type of cable connection. The pins scare me but I’ll definitely buy them anyway.

Oh weird… I was wondering why I was suddenly getting ad after ad for AWS. The algorithm read your comment before I did haha. Is AWS more for experienced people?