I’m feeling a lot less crazy having my strict rule on AV equipment:
It should work out the box without connecting to the internet, and it shouldn’t be connected without a damned good reason.
To the point that I insisted on setting up the PS5 and playing a game on it before connecting, just to be sure.

I’m reminded of this classic: Velocipedia/

People were asked to draw a bicycle, and a lot of them were not functional.
Often in a fun way.

Yep, through misunderstanding I left rtl_433 auto addition switched on for over a year.
I think I ended up with over 9000 unique tpms entries.
Clearing them out from MQTT was a pain in the backside, too!

The sheer risk of running NSFW servers in this post-OSA timeline, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just homer-simpson’d into the bushes, and waited for it to all be over.

“Bots? No, no, those are active users. They also don’t use adblockers, so they’ve better than regular users!”

Very accurate.
When we had the northern lights here, we pulled over on the way to the dark-sky location, and the aurora filled the sky.
After it died back a bit, we drove on to the dark-sky, where we spent 3 hours sitting in the dark working out if the green bits were going to spike up again.

The trick is to buy reasonably open devices, then provide the smarts yourself.
If it can talk to / be configured by HomeAssistant, and doesn’t require internet to work, it’ll probably be fine.

If it helps for a future purchase, Focusrite’s external interfaces have been amazing for Linux support.

To the point where I didn’t even notice; It just worked perfectly out of the box.

I’m assuming you’ve already checked this, but is your interface set to the same frequency/bit depth between Linux and windows? Or if it uses optical, whether it’s set to the same word clock source.

Kinda crazy, because W7 didn’t support first gen Ryzen either!

I am a creator!

I knew I shouldn’t have given away my 7850!

I love Mint for this reason.

When my OS works well enough that I don’t even have to think about it day to day, it’s doing its job.

Amazingly, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this happening.

Charging for a redundant line, then discovering that it actually wasn’t one day when it goes down.

I still don’t get why my laptop shipped with BIOS raid enabled.
It only has one drive!

There is nothing wrong with using things that “just work” when you need them to.
Same reason people buy Toyota and Honda.
My life has enough chaos to handle, without starting my day faffing with Arch for no good reason.

You take the green USB, it’s Ventoy.
You click the wrong option in the list, and suddenly it’s GParted.

For most squishy remotes, you can disable the buttons by taking the remote apart, and putting tape on the underside of the rubber button.

Finally, a local WEEE company gets to make a few hundred bucks selling off the glorified VOC sensors at the end.

Bear in mind that the US’ main parties do not define the extent of Left and Right.