Reminds me of a vintage stereo repair shop near my old place. The guy would give you a free length of lamp cord with every purchase because "its good enough".

Catering to 95% of the population is one thing, but a DIY lasrer engraver doesn't cater to a very large market share of Window's users. I'd guess this might cater to maybe 3-5% of windows users and that's being generous as hell. On the Linux side this caters to quite a few users as they tend to want to make and support open source. Just my two cents though, have a wonderful day on purpose!

Hey, they annoy the lighting guys, too.

There are tutorials for wine and apparently also an AppImage from a different developer, so it should work.

Edit: Also a long thread on github about compiling it from source.

They have the full resonance frequency range!

Almost everything electric that plugs into something else is made out of brass/brass coated steel

Wait, is brass audio cables a thing now? Brass, really?

Then there's the inbetween. Want a refillable fountain pen that doesn't dry up after a month of not used? Spend 50$. Want a in-ear/earbud that's actually good? Research a bit and get one for 100$.

Likely. Just don't rotate the plug while listening.

Doesn't really matter within normal audio frequencies. You're just as good with chrome plated ones as with gold plates ones.

While I get that, tolerating absolute bullshit pseudoscience (or anti-science) and letting people think it is a fact is exactly why there is a huge western general anti-science sentiment harming millions of people.

You have to call them out and shame them for spouting disinformation bullshit as "science" and facts.

The difference in your analogy is that fountain pen enthusiasts never* spout pseudoscience and disinformation as justification and/or discount actual science and blind tests. Audiophiles do that regularly...

Yes, if they say that they love designs, collections, how it makes them feel, whatever, sure. Don't tolerate lying and pseudoscience though.

Here's the actual ASR post: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/kimber-rca-cable-vs-amazon-basics-video.70289/

I thought the breaking in thing was for amps (specifically tube amps).

I've never heard it being used for cables, is that a real thing people do?

THEY SAID THEY WANT TO HAVE THE RUNS AT A PORT IN MACEDONIA

Well they probably designed the product for themselves, not anyone else, because that’s usually how open source works. No one goes and writes open source that they aren’t going to be able to use, that would be idiotic.

No, I'll go optical instead of buying $5,000/oz gold plated deep space exploration cables

I mean, I don't think I've ever had brass audio cables corrode when kept indoors and dry.

The initial investment of a high quality iron goes a long way. And is worth it.

Most of them are going to use the laser diode out of a Blu-Ray, set in a heat sink that'll let them at least try to run the thing at about a watt.

This will let them kind of mar the finish on some wood I guess. Compare this to a CO2 laser that start at about 30 watts that can punch right through plywood and acrylic and diode lasers are just 1. uselessly pathetic and 2. will blind your ass in the ugliest way possible.

You see, something like a CO2 laser is far-infrared, the tube itself glows a nice purplish pink but the laser light is invisible to the human eye; even if your rods or cones reacted to it, which they don't, your cornea is opaque to it. You get shot in the eye with a CO2 laser, you're going to get burned on the cornea. Which, thanks to motorcyclists, might be an injury a surgeon can fix, if your entire eye doesn't just pop like a superheated zit.

Diode engravers use blue light. As in, in the visible spectrum. Pretty close to the wavelength your blue cones respond to, actually. Since your eyes are designed to use that wavelength of light, your corneas are transparent to that wavelength. So if you get hit in the eye with a blue laser, you just get a third degree burn right on your retina. None of the sciences or religions can fix that; there's just going to be a blind streak in your vision from now on.

Wear your goddamn safety glasses while working around class IV laser devices.

I would certainly expect linux ports to get off the ground, and I don't see any reason it would be confined to Windows land. It just seemed disingenuous for folks to be getting mad at the guy to point out that the software being written for Windows first is targeting the largest possible audience.

once you get a crimper it's really easy

i don't. i use amethyst crystals

Correct. And if you want one that doesn't corrode, you get gold plated.

Yes. I'm pointing out that the meme is a straw man argument.

Oh, extremely!

The cad plotting software I've used for laser engravers was Windows-based, but I didn't consider myself any sort of user of any OS to sit in a chair and burn logos into hearing aids.

I wouldn't think any major company would be DIY-ing anything, and be more likely to purchase it readymade. The US taxpayer pays for the writeoff anyway.

IMO, for hobbyists, for tinkerers, for DIYers, make it run on anything. There's no reason not to.