No need to put homelab in quotes, it’s whatever is your lab. We all have different setups that grow and shrink as we learn.
Let me show you a smaller option than a full rack amp. I used this exact setup before except using an AirPort Express instead of the pi.
I would do the Pi (your plan) -> this -> bookshelf speakers like these.
Does everything have to be all in one, or are you open to exploring passive speakers and a receiver?
Since this is in Homelab, I’m assuming you have access to a 19” rack. You could rack mount any amplifier (I like crown amps personally) and then feed either a Bluetooth or Raspberry Pi using a line/headphone amp. That also gives you the ability to continuing adding amps to feed more speakers around the house. That’s my homelab answer.
Home theater answer would be to look at a home theater receiver.
What I wish it had was something similar to Roon which would be a Spotify integration. If I search for something and I don’t have it in my personal library, let me just stream it from my streaming service subscription.
We just turn them sideways on a shelf at work. We use a lot of micro form factor and they look slick in a row on a 1u shelf. We fit 3 or 4 (can’t remember) wide across 6 shelves.
A use it with web development by describing what I want something to look like and have it generate a React component based on my description.
Is what it gives me the final product? Sometimes, but it’s such a help to knock out a bunch of boilerplate and get me close to what I want.
Also generating documentation is nice. I wanted to fill out some internal wiki articles to help people new to the industry have something to reference. Spent maybe an hour having a conversation asking all of the questions I normally run into. Cleaned up the GPT text, checked for inaccuracies, and cranked out a ton of resources. That would have taken me days, if not weeks.
At the end of the day, GPT is better with words than I am, but it doesn’t have the years of experience I have.
Fair enough with the USB. I work in television broadcast so XLR is default minimum in my mind.
So with that said, I would highly recommend the Rode NT-USB Mini. Rode would then have options to upgrade down the line.
Audio Technica AT2020 using an XLR connection. USB is nice, but XLR is a better connector for applications like this. Plus an XLR mic doesn’t have drivers to fuss with so the microphone will carry over to whatever setup you have.
Imagine spear-fishing with this. If you could feed target data like socials or anything else public just to create a fishing email. Jesus
That is funny as shit. Thank you
Why cut off a revenue stream now of all times. Why not just double down on micro transactions
This has been such an odd saga to play out.
Well shit, didn’t know that was a thing.
So far my usage is enough to keep me on the free smtp2go plan. But that’s worth keeping in mind if my needs grow.
At the same, does “painting our selfs into a corner” loose having true ending to stories?
Constraints and limitations drive creativity, but you have accept a final product at some point and move to another universe/story.