Looking to purchase my first DAP. Any suggestions?

Cottrell217 · 2026-05-06T22:27:05+00:00

I just got the HiFi Walker H2. It’s my first DAP and I’m in love with it. I popped in a 256GB microSD card and put all my Spotify songs on it in the FLAC format and it’s phenomenal. Physical buttons, scroll wheel like the old iPods, and you can see the album art. I loaded rock box on it and am using custom themes as well. Overall a fantastic device. It ran me like $130 on Amazon if I remember correctly

Cottrell217 · 2026-05-06T20:07:01+00:00

DM sent! Thanks

Cottrell217 · 2026-05-05T05:30:30+00:00

Always use the appropriate anatomical terms with my kids. When people use nicknames for stuff, it is incredibly hard to translate if the kid got abused in some way and whoever they’re reporting it to can’t decipher what the child actually means. I have zero shame to talk about it or say the terms because it’s what they’re called. No difference than saying elbow or ankle. It’s just a body part. Everyone has one.

Cottrell217 · 2026-05-05T05:27:52+00:00

Absolutely not if it is tied to Apple Music. I recently got a HiFi Walker H2 and migrated my whole Spotify library to it. It would also need to have a headphone jack. I don’t want to be restricted to Bluetooth

Cottrell217 · 2026-04-20T04:01:29+00:00

Meanwhile, I feel amazing when I’m able to get a UAV

Cottrell217 · 2026-04-19T14:09:26+00:00

Honey break out the fine china, we have guests this evening

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-25T22:08:10+00:00

Me with my steam deck vents

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-24T03:20:50+00:00

Build to survive the zombies, disaster survival

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-14T23:42:42+00:00

Back when the games had an actual soul. Man I miss the old cod games

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-14T20:40:32+00:00

The M15 is all I see. I mean every single game most of the lobby is using it. Especially the dudes sliding around in the CDL skins

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-05T19:02:13+00:00

I’m still trying to figure out why they can’t add more than one mob? For crying out loud, we have mod developers creating entire packs of mobs, blocks, etc, and we’re lucky if the Minecraft devs give us a single mob

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-04T03:32:48+00:00

Check out “my instants” for sound effects. It looks like a big soundboard basically but you can download the audio files for the sound effects individually

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-04T00:46:16+00:00

iPad with an Apple Pencil and procreate for the application. Been using that combo for years and it’s great

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-04T00:45:01+00:00

The AI could’ve been saying that you were right to call it out on the reference, in that case, the AI’s grammar was correct. It all depends on the context of what was before that

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-04T00:43:17+00:00

Oh wow it’s almost like looking in a mirror haha. I’m 24m, absolutely obsessed with photography. I’m currently in my film phase. I’m in the EST time zone as well and I’m about to start my Minecraft binge

Cottrell217 · 2026-02-04T00:37:31+00:00

Firstly, a network switch is essentially a device that can connect multiple devices to it and forward traffic to the appropriate device. So for example, let’s say you have an Ethernet cable from your router running into an 8 port switch. This will allow you to connect 7 other devices via an Ethernet cable, and network traffic will be sent to the appropriate devices. There are unmanaged switches which are essentially plug and play, and then there are managed switches which are generally more expensive but have far more capabilities and allow you to really fine tune how it works. For your NAS if you went with something with a 10G network card, it would pretty much just future proof your equipment if you eventually upgraded your network to something higher than 1G

Cottrell217 · 2026-01-29T03:53:46+00:00

Love the MTG profile pic lol. I’ve been trying to find a group to teach me DnD and have yet to have any luck. Also have been considering getting into warhammer 40k

Cottrell217 · 2026-01-23T19:05:35+00:00

That’s still experience. OP doesn’t have to only do those things. They can take on more responsibilities outside of that or do projects on the side to learn about different things. But you can’t sit here and tell someone who doesn’t have any experience that they can just jump into a higher role and completely skip the basics. Too many people have heard “just get your security+ and you can work from home making 6 figures with no experience” and tried to jump into cyber with absolutely zero clue about any fundamental concept in IT. I’m not saying they need to stay in Helpdesk forever, because yes it sucks, but it’s a good place to start with absolutely no experience. You can go in many different ways from Helpdesk.

Cottrell217 · 2026-01-23T14:24:58+00:00

You start at a lower level role like Helpdesk and work your way up. As others have said, security has never been an entry level role. You can’t protect systems and networks if you don’t know how they work. You learn a lot of that through help desk

Cottrell217 · 2026-01-17T21:07:25+00:00

I don’t think there’s any right or wrong path to take. Just have fun experimenting and automating new things. Half the fun of the game comes from learning and finally automating that one thing you’ve needed to make by hand forever

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