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Buy a used Braun A1/A2 amp (100-200$). There are maintenance handbooks online for both. Replace the two main condensators, which cost about 10-20$ each. Buy a pair of Canton GLE 200 or their presuccessors (100-350$). They didn’t change much in the last 20 years. Still very good, neutral and enough bass for a small living room. Hook your Technics 1200 MK2/5 (1000$) with an all round needle (100$) to the Phono-In Cinch connectors. Select your favorite vinyl from your collection, put it on the plate of the 1200. Move the arm on the first track of the vinyl. Enjoy completely analog music without distractions. The A1 boots in under 100ms, so does the Technics 1200. Total costs 1670$. Beats any Sonos etc. setup in sound quality and convenience.

Disclaimer: I have booth systems in parallel and I feel disgusted and disappointed every time I have to use the Sonos system now.

It took me 3 retries. I’ve forgotten how to strafe and just moved a bit to the right…

I‘ll chime in and recommend The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem. Not really hard sci fi, but very entertaining and fun to read!

The impact and duration of the Roman Empire is really significant in this geographical timeline.

If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it. (Henry Ford)

A possible DIY way is to use a e-ink display connected to a Raspberry Pi and build a script to display content stored on a usb-stick connected to the USB-Port of the Raspi.

There are cheaper e-ink displays by Waveshare. e.g. the WaveShare 13.3inch e-Paper e-Ink Display HAT For Raspberry Pi for 500€. You can build a box to house the display and the Raspberry Pi for under 100€… Add some scripts to download and display the news PDF and you can enjoy it for 1/4 of the price…

I've just tried `Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson` as the search input and the results are really compelling and interesting! Keep on the good work. I might use it to find new tracks for my daily playlist and dj sets!