Remy Rose

That’s why I switched too. I installed the latest Audacity on a work computer, after using it lots in the past, without knowing about the Muse group situation. The install kinda tricks you into also installing their Muse bullshit along with it

If you do end up replacing the whole laptop, oddly enough I happened to be looking into the same thing today. Two sources not in your list that you might want to consider: Starlabs and Purism.

I don’t wanna go Framework because of the aforementioned CEO shenanigans. Both System76 and Tuxedo are ultimately selling priced-up rebranded Clevo laptops, for better or worse. Both Starlabs and Purism, I believe, custom manufacture theirs like Framework does. I’m leaning Starlabs because I need something that can run at least some games, and it seemed the better contender there

At work we have a little thingy for digitizing 8mm/super8 film reels. It’s kinda janky, doesn’t actually play the reels at normal intended speeds or even at all really, in a sense. Rather, it takes a picture of each individual frame and then turns them into a video. I’ve been told by purists that this is far from ideal.

However!

The advancing film mechanism makes this incredibly satisfying rhythmic “ka chunk, ka chunk, ka chunk” noise that I reallllyyyyy enjoy. Check it out: https://loops.video/v/g53y-EtF-C

Ooooof… I’ve never done this exact specific thing that you’re doing, but this whole pain in the ass process definitely sounds familiar anyway. The peculiarities of Linux on various SBCs are always fun lol