Hey in case you haven’t got anything yet, I’ll throw in my few cents.

Mic wise, I would get a dedicated microphone. When buying a headset usually the money goes into the headphones and the mic is just an add-on. I have a mic that requires an actual audio interface to run but I’d get something like a blue yeti or a Audio Technica AT2020 (USB). If you want something clip on I’d look at the mod-mic, maybe a little pricey though.

Headphones wise, I can only really talk about what I use for gaming which is a pair of Beyerdynamic DT770s. They are closed back but are really nice all the same. A friend has a pair of DT990s which are open back so that may be more your thing.

Hope that helps.

Hi! Thanks for posting.

TL;DR Yes! Monitor speakers will be a huge step up. Never tried the PreSonus Eris range. Shop around a bit first to look at alternatives.

Going from built-in TV speakers to a dedicated system will be a huge improvement almost no matter what you get. Now the fact you are looking at monitor speakers in particular PreSonus’s range tells me you are looking for something for mixing/mastering.

With that in mind, I’ve never tried the PreSonus Eris range so I can’t comment on their quality. However, for a huge leap up (not in price), I would recommend KRK classic 5s or a pair of Focal Alpha 50s as a nicer starter to you audio production journey.

Shop around a bit. There are some really good guides out their for finding the correct studio monitors for you. Hope that helps!

In order of use:

• Firefox
• Nvim (with a slightly modified kickstart.nvim)
• SSH
• Minicom
• Python3
• Git
• CopyQ
• Curl
• Wget
• Tmux

That’s the spirit!

I used to use Fairmail but now I’m strongly on the Canary Mail bandwagon

Signal, Firefox, ReadEra (best EBook reader for Android hands down)

Honourable mentions to OLauncher. Super clean UI that makes my phone less distracting and easy to use

No. There’s an adult/s that use their kid to make millions of dollars.

An all time favourite of mine is a song called Radiologue by OSI. The entire album ‘Blood’ is well worth a listen too.

Feels very sluggish for me

Hmm. I can’t upvote

I’ve got it working. Reinstalled and made sure Firefox could send notifications. Then I was prompted I could install this page.

Weird. That’s the same setup as me.

Yes, it’s my default. I have version 114.2.0 (Build #2015957435)

Nice guide! Very easy to understand and works a treat. Stay awesome!

She’s gorgeous. Thank you kind stranger

Only using labels and mirrors to talk to people.

Them: Hello

Me: Hello

Them: Is the report done for that thing I asked your yesterday?

Me: Thing you asked yesterday?

Them: Yeah, I cant remember what it was now

Me: You can’t remember?

Them: Yeah, I’ll go remind myself and get back to you

Brilliant productive conversation :)

Agreed. For me this research was cool, but even he acknowledged it didn’t take into account a lot of variables

I believe the concept was more for manufacture and preservation of old instruments.

Interesting question. Personally, I started with a text editor transitioned to vim, then to VSCode and now I’ve settled on a customised neovim install.

I’m a believer of PDE, that is personal development environment. It’s a concept one of the Devs of Neovim TJDeVries talks about.

In essence it’s the idea of building your development environment how you want it. Personally, Neovim allows me to do this. For example, I have a VSCode style debugger, incredibly fast searching with ripgrep, vim keyboard shortcuts and uses the same language servers as jetbrains products.

Here’s a link to his full conversation on the topic: https://youtu.be/QMVIJhC9Veg

Stay awesome!

Hello from a software engineer in test.

I use Linux because of habit of looking for an alternative to Windows that didn’t require Mac hardware. The machines we’ve been allocated are dog slow Dells, so it was either pain or Linux.

I spend most of my day either remoting into embeded units or servers and debugging/writing scripts to test them. I do that over SSH and bar one I can think of, they all run Debian or a variant.

For me personally, I like to have my development environment mimick (with some niceties) what I work with. In general, I sleep better knowing if it works on my machine, it will probably work on the thing it will eventually be used against. I also know the terminal like the back of my hand and have grown to depend on it for basically everything development. I would never not want to use it.

However, my tech lead runs Windows 7, uses VSCode and relys heavily on GUI programs in general. I would also say, he is far more efficient in his tasks than I am. When I questioned his use of these things he responded “It’s how I like it” and that really stuck with me.

The key take away from this ramble is create a PDE, a personal development environment. Linux is great because your can customize just about everything you’d want to. That being said I’m sure you can customize your Mac just as much where it matters.

Just stay awesome!

Note - I would however check out neovim for the exact reasons I’ve stated here :)