I like mine. I have tinnitus and its important to me to be able to dial down loud music and movies, without the sound getting muffled and unintelligible. Mine are custom molded with removable 20db etymotics filters; they came with solid filters too that you can switch when you just want to block sound and don't care about fidelity.

Before these I had some etymotics 30$ musician's earplugs and they never worked very well. With them in I couldn't make out the words a singer was singing, and always felt like I was missing out on the music.

My GF has a pair of 20$ musicians plugs she likes just fine ("downbeats"), and she doesn't feel like they ruin the sound. So maybe custom molded isn't as important as a good filter?

For sleeping, shooting, or settings where hearing isn't important, the foam ones are fine.

What's MAU

Firefox for most browsing (especially youtube with ublock), chrome for facebook.

Brother laser printer, black and white, ethernet connection. So fast, so reliable. Do you really NEED color? I find that its not that important, and if I need quality prints, like for photos, a 300$ printer isn't going to cut it anyway.

I hear you, its great for most cases, but when a package isn't available or downloads binaries that depend on hfs it sucks. I've been going through hell with android dev lately and am currently doing my compiles on debian, lol.

Plastic bottles weren't invented in the 21st century

more music related subs, like bluegrass, old time, etc. and active users to go in them.

Spacex livestream archived here: https://www.youtube.com/live/2G-L0u_L0qU

Yes they literally pull in particles from the bathroom air and blow them directly on your hands.

I made a gourd fiddle.

Three. Just two grains is a stack.

I'd just peel it off and maybe rub it with my finger to get rid of leftover adhesive.