Routers are unreasonable priced. There are routers that cost >200$, because they have a "gaming" in the name and routers that are < 100$ from a cheap chinese brand, that are basically the same hardware.

The wifi chipset, CPU and Memory are the parts that count, maybe also the ethernet ports and usb. So if you wanna buy a good but cheap router, I would buy a used one that has reasonable price and good specs.

I'd also prefer support for Wifi 6(e), but if you are on a budget, old standards high end hardware is really cheap on the used marked.

So here is what I recommend: Look at the OpenWRT list of hardware filtered by ax[1], sort by CPU MHz and look through the table for a good Mediatek / MT chipset in the column WLAN Hardware (the CPU sorting is "alphabetical", not natural, so it might be that the most powerful ones are in the middle of the table).

I recommend:

  - Ubiquity Unify (AP - if you need a router, don't buy)
  - AVM Fritz!Box 7520 / 7530 (not in the list, but a german bargain)
  - Linksys E8450 (aka. Belkin RT3200)
  - GL.iNet GL-MT6000
  - Asus TUF-AX4200 / TUF-AX6000
  - BananaPi BPi R3
  - Xiaomi AX6000 / AX9000
  - Netgear WAX220 (AP)

Don’t disagree, but technically the docs are in the same repo. Not easily consumed though.

We removed bits from the readme as it kept becoming duplicated and eventually wrong. I think that’s the usual reason folks like to avoid it. DRY and all.

I think this is a really good primer for electronic music production if you're going to start from absolutely zero.

If you specifically want to program beats, I recommend this quirky book "Pocket Operations": https://shittyrecording.studio. It's basically guitar tabs for drum machines. Pick out some styles as a foundation and then build on top of it. Think of it as boilerplate code.

Being a software dev by day, and a former musician in high school, the current world of digital music production tools is as incredible as it is overwhelming. It's good to have something that orients your practice and experimentation.

This is the thin edge to a national police action. Crazy how little oversight there is over the executive branch (and this administration in particular).

I went through a few years of unstable income in my early twenties (circa 2000), it wasn't altogether bad, just very very sporadic. When I think back on those years I had all kinds of bad behaviours that were not rational. For example, not paying bills because something more urgent might come up. Not looking at balances because it was easier to not know.

I would go from feeling rich one month because a freelance client had paid a bill, to not having a cent a month later.

There were times when it felt like I was running a pyramid scheme on myself. Needing to use money from a previous job to buy computer hardware to sell to the next client.

In retrospect, I was also too proud to ask for help. I let things get way out of control before my mother ended up taking out a personal loan to bail me out at one point. If I had asked for help earlier it would have been a cheaper problem to solve.

It took years to shed some of the residual behaviours, even after I started earning decent money. Despite having savings and reliable income I would still let bills run until they were overdue.

These days I'm a lot more proactive about personal finances and good money management, but it's hard to tell how much of that is just maturity, and how much is the fact that I no longer have problems with unstable income.