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Precisely. They are overtaxing their resources somehow. Corporate greed and knowing they have no competition.
 
Ordering shit off of Ebay from China has yet to pay off for me. Their Macbook Air knockoff AC adapters usually burn out within two weeks, and some have been faulty on arrival. And just now I got a cable that would supposedly work for my Bose QC 15 headphones. It looked perfect but it didn't fit. Fortunately with Ebay I've never had any trouble getting reimbursed.
 
I have a dumb question.

I have Frontier internet in my apt. I want an Ethernet line to come from a phone jack upstairs (my router is downstairs and it would not be feasible to run a cord upstairs).

What is the cheapest way I can turn that phone line into an Ethernet cord with internet? Frontier says it's their $70 wi-fi extender (basically a second router), but I could just buy some cheap, non-wifi DSL modem or something, right?
 
Actually, on that note - the reason behind this is I'm thinking of buying a Sonos Play 1. However, recommendations for home music speakers are welcomed. My buying criteria:

- Budgeting maybe $200, so, sorry for ruining your potential fun here, NOD and Zack.
- I want to be able to 1) play my iTunes playlists, and 2) play my Pandora stations.
- The more voice-controlled and automated, the better. Ideal world would be able to do the above without opening my laptop or even going into an app on my phone - voice activated or a one-touch remote or something.

Any recommendations? I guess I could do Echo and pay the $25 a year to upload all my songs to Amazon Music, but would I have to recreate my playlists and manually upload every new song I download?
 
Do you want your music to be loud?
 
I doubt I'll ever need it loud enough that it makes it necessary to notably raise your volume to have a conversation, if that gives you any reference.
 
@NOD and @Zackm

so i bought a bluetooth adapter for my stereo receiver. everything is working except the volume calibration is terrible and i have to have my device and stereo both turned all the way up just to achieve a listenable volume. there doesn't seem to be a way to adjust settings of the adapter. what else should i be trying/doing?
 
Post a link to the adapter in question.
 
What's up with Macbook's Thunderbolt ports? So you can no longer connect a usb device to your computer? I can't figure out how many adapters I'd need to do that. This whole thing seems batshit crazy and designed to ensure you only use the very newest Apple products.
 
I want to go PC again, because Macs are such a ripoff in so many ways. It's ridiculous that their laptops max out at 16 GB RAM and that 8 is the default. And then they keep doing shit like this.

I like the operating system better and some of the software, but that's about it.
 
I'd probably want a bit more storage space than those have. My Macbook Air had 256 GB and that was too small. I have about 100 GB of music alone.
 
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