Really depends on what you want out of the system, what you can spend and how much time you want to spend on it.

My old z390 itx system has a 16x PCIE to 4x m.2 card - leveraging an m.2 to 5x SATA adaptor with the built in SATA adaptors has given it plenty of space.

Considering I can grab m.2 to 6 SATA adaptors and fill the remainder of the slots that’s a decent chunk of drives from a single PCIE x16 slot.

Software is another kettle of fish and a good way to timesink, I’d rather not give too much of my personal experience as there are so many ways to skin that cat.

Yeah looks like the AU/NZ version of their site does not have those options. Not that I’d be out buying a new laptop anytime soon, but a used laptop 😎

Unsure if the issue is fixed upstream in the kernel however there are a few topics going in depth about this issue with some reported fixes / workarounds.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/3182

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/crackling-microphone/22173

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1569#note_1102615

Good luck with the issue, hopefully one of these links fixes that problem for you 🍻

Pipewire works fine on my Intel 5960x, Intel N3700, Intel 9900k, Intel 9700, AMD 4800HS and even my Intel ES Erying system. No pops or crackles from any inputs or outputs.

I’ve not tried with a dedicated sound card, just the onboard on all these systems.

Running KDE on one system along with Hyprland on another two with the remainder as headless systems.

You sure this issue isn’t somehow related to your hardware or something else?

I love my rear view mirror being able to auto dim, not sure if that feature is in most cars but it’s saved my eyes a number of times now.

sources > youtube

Clear cookies and site data (Firefox) then refresh the page.

You can continue to download until you hit the limit again, rinse and repeat.

For Plex just unpin the default channels, and leave your local media libraries pinned.

And I’m having issues writing / completing the install to /boot

Files are written to boot by the nixos-infect script, then disappear after sometime… If the VM is shutdown / rebooted I get the previously displayed unrecoverable error screen.

Might be an easier way to achieve this.

Man I feel I’d almost wiped the debian install and added NixOS (nix package manager works fine under debian) using nixos-infect

A clean install and a night’s sleep and I’ll probably forget I was attempting this, but looks promising.

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Ditch GitHub start using codeberg.

Plenty of office alternatives, outlook is easily replaced (didn’t know outlook had banner ads until recently, what a shithole)

If you prefer vscode try codium, some plugins may be missing but so is lots of ms bloat. Kate is a stellar alternative too!

Ladybird in a few years, forks of Firefox for now.

Their embedded in the paint, only visible under UV lights.