Giant isopods. Thry’re the big, ocean dwelling version of the little segmented crustaceans you find under rotten wood who ball up for defence.

He’s so cute! He can monitor me any day!

Make something unmarketsble.

My big hobby project was software for 30-year-old computers, not a big market.

On a high level, you can get a cleaner like Deoxit D5 in a spray bottle. Most pots have a slit in them so you can spray into them, then turn the pot through its range a bunch of times. It’s worth a try as a start. Obviously do it while the unit is unplugged.

If you want to consider a more aggressive rebuild, like a capacitor replacement, maybe find a cheap old amplifier at the thrift shop to use as practice for desoldering/resoldering.

You might be able to connect the BT to one input on the amp, like the tape input, and the CD to another.

It can’t be a real “as seen on TV” product because they didn’t use the phrase “in the palm of your hand”.

One day they’ll need to sell a larger product and be forced to hire actors with freakishly gigantic hands.

Some mainboards have very few PCI-e slots.

I ended up with a similar adapter because the onboard SATA on my board was flaky with optical drives and I rip CDs.

So some domestic firm with a terrible, non competitive product fellated him. Did we see a pressboard trophy to go with Apple’s glass one?

More people represents more competition for your position and assets.

There’s loads of historic precedent for this. Plenty of wartime “safe conduct pass- hand this to a foreign officer to surrender” documents or propaganda missives are styled as banknotes.

It encourages people to pick them up and offers plsusible deniability if someone is caught holding one.

Collectors will want them in 20 years.

It’s clearly DisplayPort.

I think we should look to outside talent. The lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss is available and probably more personable despite several years of decomposition.

How about pseudoscorpions? One landed on my arm a few weeks ago (probably fell out of the AC ducts) and it was charmingly silly proportioned for a tiny little thing waving pincers.

So what I’m hearing is thst there’s high quality loudspeakers just waiting for someone else to use them?

Glorious Marshall, bid that I may use these loudspeakers to spread the principle of Juche as a zesty new way of escalating tensions with my homeowners association!

The 487 was just a full 486DX with a pin that told the motherboard to deactivate the soldered-on 486SX.

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I know that Grok went Nazi but Gemini going fundie wasn’t on my bingo card.

Let me stop at the Sunoco and pick up eught gallons of CHIN.

Is it pronounced like the blood thinner/rat poison (warfarin)?

Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.27 years.

If the 7-1-63 is a date stamp of original manufacture, it’s gone through over 11 half-lives. There’s less than .05% of the original flavour.

I don’t know about the decay products, but I’d wonder how far we are from legitimately edible.

If you’re thinking amplifier, just grab your favourite Japanese '70s hi-fi range and go from there. Can hardly go wrong.

A half-scale Harman/Kardon 330c but with an OLED info display in the panel that held a tuning scale might kill it.

The key is to use the right materials. They sold a modern CD-based stereo a few years ago that apes the look of a small Marantz 22xx, but being plastic garbage, sort of fails the mission. Conversely, Yamaha did some new silver-face amps that don’t look like dollar-store tat.