From my small experience with Qualcomm in the past, I’m not too hopeful. In a company I used to work for, we wanted to use one of their SoC with Linux, which they claimed they supported. It was many years ago. But was full of closed binary blobs which even when signing NDAs, we couldn’t get the source for. We’re talking user-space drivers, sensors offloaded to a separate core with closed source firmware etc. It’s Linux, but it’s not Linux in spirit, it feels so closed and proprietary and secretive. They’re coming from Android, which google architecturally enabled vendors to close their drivers by utilizing HAL. It’s the single most significant blow to Linux by any corporation so far. It enabled thousands of vendors to close their shitty driver in user-space and not maintain it for newer kernels (kernel driver is just an IO proxy for user-space drivers). I get that without it, there wouldn’t be Android phones we have today, but I expected them to slowly open up. 10+ years later, almost nothing changed, in fact - things seem worse to me.

This looks the most promising. I’ll take a closer look. Does it provide a rtsp stream?

How about just having a button on a fob/phone which initiates comms, like in the good old days. You can’t relay the signal if there isn’t one till you press the button. But that isn’t sexy and it’s too similar to traditional cars, so they won’t do it.

Any PC that has virtualization features can be used. Unless it’s very old, I’d say it’s supported. But it may not be enabled in the bios by default. It’s called VT-x for Intel and AMD-v for AMD, I think. But both are supported for at least 10 years on almost any PC.

It’s a hypervisor level virtual machine host and you can use it to install multiple os’s on the same machine with little overhead. I’ve been running haos like that for a few months now and I’m super satisfied.

Compatibility is iffy on some of the newer ones. Here’s a list of what works for some of them: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

Bah, I have read this already, I hope the difference won’t be that significant. Or that I can tune it to my liking. I’ll have no reference point and I’m just aiming for it to inspire me to play more.

Honestly, I feel I would probably be happy with any of those, probably even something entirely different too. And given I have not tried anything similar, Nux is just an educated guess.

Well, if I could compare them in person, I would, but that’s unfortunately not possible where I live. There’s barely any stock here I found - one Nux and one older gen Yamaha. And I have to drive significantly to test it out. So blind shopping it is. I will however post my impressions once I get it.

Was gonna say it’s much more expensive than the rest, but on Thomann, B-stock is exactly the same price as Nux (B-stock also). And I’ve heard it’s good sounding and that one YT review on Anderton’s, says it sounds the most natural out of most of what I’ve listed. So now I’m undecided again. And for the headphone out - I don’t really care, I have a headphone amp. I have a sound interface and VST setup I can use for that.

It’s the cheapest from the list, and doesn’t appear to lack in versatility/features. The only thing I notice is it’s not a 24bit interface, but I don’t know if it bothers me. I already have a separate audio interface for when/if I record. And to be honest, while I plan on recording, I’ve recorded like one or two demos in the past 10 years.

Do you think there’s anything to be gained from going one size up? It’s stereo, perhaps near-field, it might sound better with some stereo effects? Currently, I’m thinking either Spark or Nux Mighty space. Spark is a lot cheaper, though.

I actually have a 2x12 cabinet sitting in a shed collecting dust, I haven’t used it in years. It’s just inconvenient for casual everyday practice. I’m a hobby player, with a small kid and a not too tolerant wife. What little practice/playing I get I need to be suuuper convenient, so I gather - desktop amp is a good choice. It’s a dad amp, basically.

I actually have used (and still do) a Vox amPlug headphone amp and it sounds amazing! But I can’t stand using it with headphones. I feel like I’m chained to my guitar. So I connect it to my HiFi system instead. And it works and sounds wonderful, I don’t need/want anything else. This is actually why I may want a desktop amp, it skips one step, which is having to connect to my HiFi system and provides additional versatility. But the headphone amp has its place too, I agree.

This might work. But I need it to have enough versatility on its own. It needs to have high gain (I’m a metal fan), plus some reverb/delay. I’d prefer not to need pedals for a practice amp. At least I think I need this, not sure unless you try. Also, second hand, I currently can’t find anything nice locally (I’m in Serbia).

Regarding price, you’re right, but I don’t have room for a 10’ combo and if I have to add a few pedals/fx, I think it would end up rarely being used. Though I agree these desktop amps are way overpriced. Like, I will likely skip Yamaha, just because I don’t feel like giving $450 for a practice amp.

I actually have a decent audio interface and I do have half-decent speakers, but they don’t fit on my desk, so they sit on a shelf and rarely get used. Anyway, this may be a silly use case and I’m not that bound to it. I just figured - the amp has full range speakers and it does sit on the desk and the amp has an audio interface. But this is more like - nice to have.

This is indeed a big plus I didn’t know it had! This means, even if the company died or stopped supporting the product, you still have options. Thanks.

Because you can’t end to end encrypt if you don’t have control over both ends. You’d need to trust the other end. Signal doesn’t and their user base especially doesn’t.

There is indeed multiple ways of doing anything in freecad. But over time, I prefer staying in Part design as much as possible as this makes it more modifiable and customizable and there are plenty of reasons more for me. But in the end - whatever works is good enough.