Hey, basket weaving and leather work were super fun, and I have all cool ones like shotgun, archery and rifle. The most boring are probably your citizenship badges. Don't knock it till you try it.
Got myself a Nakamichi BX-300, and I'm kinda blown away by how decent it is. With the price old 80's cassette decks go for today, it seems like you could produce a fairly well spec'ed machine for ~300 and have it sell. Agreed though, most of the stuff produced today is rebadged white label junk; go to a thrift store and pick up something second hand, it's probably better.
Cassettes on the other hand may be another story though, I don't know if the chemistry allows for old metal tapes to be produced anymore.
No, it's not. Having grown up in it, this is a very general gist: Being out ethics, connected with an SP, and probably a few other situation will manifest itself as injury. There isn't really a concept of "sin", just what's best for survival, and the aforementioned actions simply have consequences which endanger yourself and others.
Let's put it this way, yes, people try to audit out cancer and there is an antivax cohort (this is more about external control, distrust of authority outside of Scientology, causing autism, your usual suspects), but it's not necessarily against modern medicine in most ways (obviously a carve out for all things psychiatric). Once that cancer gets into oh shit territory, they are on chemo, and often times too late, but that's a different discussion.
I have about a decade of real professional coding experience. Not going to say I'm excellent, or near the caliber of developer FAANG are looking for, but I can write code. I can count on one finger the number of interviews I've got in the past couple years. Zilch. There is a massive disconnect from what you hear on the news, and the reality, where somebody like me is a pariah and the deafening silence of _any_ interest.
This is just outsourcing 2.0, this time under the guise of a lack of qualified candidates.
I don’t know about cheaper, but Fuji, HP and photography related companies made disks.
Completely unrelated, but the SCSI versions made them pretty much plug and play with tons of hardware. There is an old Roland sampler I have made in ‘88 that uses one, and Zip disks leave floppies completely in the dust. It’s truly night and day on every level.