If I'm in the mood for better sound quality I do. Bluetooth has noticably poorer quality on anything but the worst equipment.
I also use the headphone jack when I don't want to deal with the inexplicably still not addressed after decades terrible Bluetooth connectivity issues.
Yeah, someone complained that they have funds to operate for 100 years. First, I doubt that if you account for inflation. Second, it's one of the most valuable resources ever created. I hope it lasts at least 100 years.
He was saying he would unite with someone evil if he could accomplish good, and he would not unite with someone good to accomplish evil. That's exactly the thing everyone else is saying. You have found a quote that perfectly contradicts your argument and supports everyone else, and you don't even realize it.
I buy sheets of paper and cut them to size. I use Strathmore drawing paper a lot. It's not excellent at holding most inks, but it's Ok and it's fairly stiff, which is good for cards. Clairefontaine Triomphe paper gives great crisp edges on the ink, so sometimes I'll draw on that and attach it to stiffer paper (https://www.jetpens.com/Clairefontaine-Triomphe-Notepad-A4-Blank-50-Sheets/pd/10365).
There are tons of kinds of papers and nibs and quite a few inks. Mostly I'd say there's nothing bad, just different things have different uses. Art stores have racks of fancy paper to use for trim or other decorations. You'll want some standard nibs. Leonardt and Speedball sells sets. Some really fun nibs are the Brause 361 and Zebra G. For writing the Windsor and Newton calligraphy ink is really nice. For drawing I try out different brands or whatever color or texture seems nice for what I'm doing.
Just to get started, I'd get a set of Leonardt nibs (they come in a carrying tin) and a straight handle, black Windsor and Newton calligraphy ink, and any drawing paper stiff enough for a card. Then think of a card design and buy the colored inks you need of whatever brand.
The only thing in this hobby that has ever seemed crappy are the plastic nib holders with patterns printed on them. They dry out and split. I can't find a picture online, but every art store with nibs always has these holders too. The Speedball plastic ones are fine.
I hand draw cards using dip pens, ink, brushes, or whatever media is interesting. It's a nice way to spend time, and art shops have a fascinating array of niche products. There's a bit of consumerism there, since you've got to buy the supplies. But a few supplies goes a long way, and there's not really the sort of expansion lock in that other products have. You'll always want a new ink color or a different nib for some purpose, but you can get any brand you want. They don't look great, but, uh, it's the thought that counts?
An expensive coffee costs $5. For a person that makes $100,000 that's 0.005% of annual income.
Musk's annual cost would be $33,120 for all three kids. I don't know his annual income and because a lot of his worth is in stocks it's probably hard to figure out and highly variable. I'll do some pretty stupid math and say he's worth 185 billion and he's 52, so he's made 3.5 billion a year.
Musk is fighting to pay an annual cost for all three of his three kids of 0.0009% of his annual income, a amount proportionally less than what many spend one day on coffee.
I used Debian for a bit many years ago. It was great for all the reasons you are tired of Arch (I had tried Gentoo before Debian). When Ubuntu came out, I was quite happy with it. It had the stability of Debian, but was a bit more polished and had better support for new stuff without sacrificing stability.
I'm moving on from Ubuntu at this point, and have tried Mint, but not Mint Debian. It's nice enough. I'm curious what Debian is like these days though. I haven't used it in a decade at least.
Snaps are ways to ship software where everything is bundled together and the developer doesn't need to sort out dependencies on the distribution. This often makes the package bloated. It has no direct benefits for users, but it makes life easier for developers. Thus, indirectly, users might get access to some software they would otherwise need to compile if no one's got it readily available for the user's distribution. Ubuntu appears mostly to be using it because they don't want to bother sorting out dependcies. On Ubuntu, and only on Ubuntu as fast as I know, some packages in apt will install the snap version silently, which, I think rightfully, annoys a lot of users.
There are similar alternatives, like flatpak, which also bundle dependencies. Some aspects of snap are proprietary to Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, so you'll find people who are ok with the somewhat bloated software if it makes software more widely available, but aren't happy with a proprietary format in what is largely an open community.
I believe snaps are only installed by default on Ubuntu at this point. Debian has apt and I don't think it installs a snap version unless you asked for that.
Ok, so the gist of this that I'm getting is that there is an genuinely open RCS standard, but no one has implemented it. Instead, Google has their thing that's been modified for their benefit at the expense of consumer privacy, and that Apple seems to be making their own similar version. So RCS itself isn't bad, but it's being ruined by bad actors, and as of yet there are no good actors.
Shitting on a company's shit pay strucute is reasonable, but you can't ignore that this is always a choice between other options. Google and Apple are at least as bad in that regard, and they're worse in other ways. Steps in the right direction are better than not doing anything because there's no perfect option. When you do that, things get worse, because the companies will force you to take steps the wrong way.
I asked this in another RCS thread but didn't get a conclusive answer. My understanding is that RCS, although there are claims that it's an open standard, is essentially controlled by Google. Looking this is up doesn't lead me far. Most articles just say that SMS sends blurry videos and that RCS is better at that. They don't discuss who develops RCS or how it works. Am I wrong, is it really open? SMS has serious flaws, but a corporporate controlled "standard" is even worse in my mind.
Restriction enzymes cut at specific sequences, and although there are lots of variations, this limits where the new material can be inserted. CRISPR can match an arbitrary sequence, so there is much more control over where changes are made.
If I'm in the mood for better sound quality I do. Bluetooth has noticably poorer quality on anything but the worst equipment.
I also use the headphone jack when I don't want to deal with the inexplicably still not addressed after decades terrible Bluetooth connectivity issues.