I actually quite like the Bluetooth DAC I got because of the disappearance of my headphone jack. It breaks that physical attachment of my headphones to my phone while giving very good quality audio.

I’d recommend checking out the Fiio BTR line if interested.

There’s no helping this one.

The internet must be a miserable place for you.

I wouldn’t worry about it, it’s just a minute detail.

That’s capitalism, baby! Say goodbye to reporting on things that actually impact people, we need clicks and attention to drive that sweet ad revenue, even if it means letting journalistic integrity slide while we report on the attire of the new fascist regime instead of their policy.

There are quite a few options for running your own LLM. Ollama makes it fairly easy to run (with a big selection of models - there’s also Hugging Face with even more models to suit various use cases) and OpenWebUI makes it easy to operate.

Some self-hosting experience doesn’t hurt, but it’s pretty straightforward to configure if you follow along with Networkchuck in this video.