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When you sign up for AWS you are responsible for the data. If AWS figures out that you use their services for illegal activities they will take action. 
Let’s take traditional datacenter environment for comparison. Some datacenters can lease you rack and networking for your servers. If you put server in there filled with illegal content, whose fault is that? 
AWS is the same thing, it only deals with virtual environments instead of using separate physical servers for each customer’s instance. 

I personally design, develop and integrate  broadcast grade hardware and software. Both video and audio. When it comes to recording that is strictly personal (hobby). I don’t have nerves to work with half baked cheapskate “musicians” which “are going to be the next great thing” and being paid “in exposure”. I prefer my engineering salary and way of work any day of the week. 

Disenchantment is a good show. It is not Futurama, it is not supposed to be a new Futurama. If you want a new Futurama this show is NOT it. Nothing against Futurama, but stop giving undeserved shit to shows because they are not the same to the comparable ones. 
I also remember movie Evolution which was enjoyable for me, but people were talking shit because it was not another Ghostbusters movie. 

Maybe a bit off topic but I would like to divide scalping in two categories. One would be for events and another is for goods. 
When it comes to events I can understand why people are willing to pay more and buy tickets front scalpels. Sometime it is once in a lifetime opportunity so you can either never see that event and maybe regret later or pay extra. 
However the second category is something that is quite recent one. That category is really easy to get rid of by completely ignoring all scalpels. Ask yourself, do you really need that RTX3080 now and pay significantly extra for it? Do you really need that Playstation 5 now? 
If people would stop supporting scalpels by just being patient, there would be no outrageous prices especially on technical commodities. I also “need” GPU for my second PC, but I don’t intend to pay a cent above MSRP so I will wait. If other people would do the same we would stop them.

Let me just confirm this, they had their AWS root account configured without MFA? If so they asked for this. One of the first things they teach you about AWS is to put MFA on your root account and basically use it just to create initial users and then create users with minimum required privilege and setup MFA on each account. Usually CTO or other high ranking company official only should have root account access, not engineers. Those are basics of a basics and this incident happened only because of their sheer negligence. 
 

I am finding audiophiles as interesting bunch. Muddy bass? 10k USD power cable should solve it. Sharp highs? for sure audiophile grade SATA cable for 500 USD will solve it.
 
Acoustic treatment? What is that? That is unnecessary. 
 
It is usually always like that.

Usually the implementation of a chip matters just as much (or more) than the chip itself. 
 
FWIW, the external vs. internal sound card issue doesn't have a lot of merit. People think that moving it outside of the case "solve the noise issue", but the reality is that most of the noise problem isn't EMI. The main issue is that ground noise in PCs is notoriously awful, and the USB ground is no exception to this. It's all about the design of the card, not where it's located. That's why good internal cards are just as quiet as good external cards- they use all of the necessary design techniques to get around the noisy grounds in most PCs. Cheap cards don't, either for cost reasons or because the people who designed them don't know better. Sadly, the latter seems to be extremely common, and even some relatively expensive cards perform very poorly.

Unpopular opinion: Death Note is not good anime. 
I am not big anime fan, but I could not even force myself to finish watching it. I even forced myself to watch complete crap of TV shows, but after 8 episodes of Death Note I could not go any further than 8 episodes. It is always in "must watch" animes lists, but IMHO it doesn't deserve to be there.

Unpopular opinion: Death Note is not good anime. 
I am not big anime fan, but I could not even force myself to finish watching it. I even forced myself to watch complete crap of TV shows, but after 8 episodes of Death Note I could not go any further than 8 episodes. It is always in "must watch" animes lists, but IMHO it doesn't deserve to be there.

I have hundreds of those literally, but generally don't like them. That's why I want ones like from the photo. Also some cables have a slightly different inner diameter and some ferrules just fall out, or some are way too tchick and can break connector.

Additional Nvidia stuff. This time x2 for good price.

Additional Nvidia stuff. This time x2 for good price.

Additional Nvidia stuff. This time x2 for good price.

Lots of people are saying that he is too good for them. That's the whole thing I tried to explain with my IT example. As soon as you go to management in IT your engineering skills will not be as great. I am just seeing his situation as a promotion. Yes, it won't make him better player in terms of skills, however his current position is well rewarded and he worked damn hard if you ask me to deserve it. 

I am mostly working with Mellanox (just waiting when it will become just Nvidia) and sometimes with Cisco equipment and when it comes to DAC cables things can get quite complicated. When I have eg. Mellanox ConnectX NIC + Mellanox DAC + Mellanox switch no issues there. TBH I only used 10G and 25G DAC cables. However, we are working on development of FPGA based devices which use 10G or 25G connection to the network and in that case DACs can be a huge pain. In some cases link won't be established at all, in some cases link is established and there is a huge packet loss and if you look at the eye pattern of the signal it is all over the place.
That is why I have my box filled with Mellanox compatible SFPs by FS and those work like charm in any device.
 
Also, one cool thing that Mellanox has is splitting of the QSFP into 4 separate 25G ports. It can be quite useful when you want to connect 10G or 25G device on eg. SN2100.
 
I should get Arista equipment next week for validation. Never used their equipment before so I am quite curious about it.

The thing that I don’t understand is how come the lots of US people are so brainwashed into thinking that the current system is good? Usual argument is “choice”. What choice? To survive and go into poverty or to survive and become a homeless. North Korean propaganda is nothing compared to the US one. At least in North Korea people are not aware about the rest of the world so they (unfortunately) have an “excuse” not to know any better. 

What you have there is large diaphragm condenser microphone.  And I will have to repeat myself for millionth time:
- those types of microphones WILL pickup clicks from mechanical keyboard. O rings will help a little to none. There is no way to completely isolate keyboard noise, you can just make it a slightly less annoying. They are just way too sensitive.
- get a noise gate (software one is ok). Think of it as a automatic mute button which will engage if the sound input is below the certain level. It will help to eliminate any noises while you are being silent, but will NOT eliminate surrounding noises while speaking.

IMHO there are two types of influencers:
1) Guys like Linus who are actually putting effort into their content and by doing that influencing people on certain products/services. Those kind of preople are actually useful in society.
2) Useless Instagram and similar social network "celebrities" parasites which demand free stuff just because they have lots of followers and all that they are doing is putting photos on social media and behaving like "look at me peasants, I am enjoying".

Regarding VSTs, here is something that was not discussed.
VSTs don't need any special kind of storage, however VSTi will benefit from SSDs.
VST is is usually something that will alter sound and doesn't use lots of disk I/O operations except to load itself into computer memory, VSTi is virtual instrument and in some cases (eg. virtual orchestra) samples are huuge. In that case you need fast storage to read that amount of data.

If you find your mic too silent, cheap option is CT1 from Klark Teknik. It is essentially Cloudlifter for fraction of the price. 
 
K&M are great but pricey. Personally I bought K&M stand because while I was working with PA equipment long time ago K&M stands were only ones without issue and could handle misuse with ease. Maybe there are cheaper versions with comparable quality on Amazon etc. but I just bought something that I know it will work. Also price in my current country was 80ish USD, while in the US same thing is 150 USD. 
 
You have some nice friends with good taste when it comes to microphones:)

If you find your mic too silent, cheap option is CT1 from Klark Teknik. It is essentially Cloudlifter for fraction of the price. 
 
K&M are great but pricey. Personally I bought K&M stand because while I was working with PA equipment long time ago K&M stands were only ones without issue and could handle misuse with ease. Maybe there are cheaper versions with comparable quality on Amazon etc. but I just bought something that I know it will work. Also price in my current country was 80ish USD, while in the US same thing is 150 USD. 
 
You have some nice friends with good taste when it comes to microphones:)

Your board should have S/PDIF pin headers. You can use that with optical out bracket to get optical out. 

For audio setup on linux read this:
 
 
https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/raspberrypi
 
next, you will need some guitar amp VST which can work on Linux as well as Linux VST host. Personally I never used anything like that on Linux so Google is your friend. 
 
For the input you need something with a high impedance. There are several schematics circulating on the internet. Maybe you can try JFET input stage of 1w amp project. Did not try it personally but it seems that it would fit the purpose. 
 
For footswitch one or more GPIO pins of Raspberry Pi can be used do detect switch press. Also, some of those pins are I2C and SPI busses which can be used for display output. I am afraid that there is no out of the box solution that would fit those requirements and you would probably have to write your own software to do that. 
 
And lastly for the output you can connect audio out of Raspberry to something like this 
http://diy.thcustom.com/shop/10w-power-amp-pcb/

The only tricky part is soldering ground of the pickup to the potentiometer casing. For that a bit more powerful iron (at least 30ish W) is recommended because of the bigger thermal mass. The rest should be easy. Also invest into one of those helper arms (dirt cheap) to hold your wires in place. You will thank me later. 
Lastly, don’t bother with lead free solder. It is more difficult to work with and you don’t require lead free certification for DIY stuff.