With drip machines the trick is finding one that gets the water hot enough for proper extraction. Most of them do not. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the Mocca Master is the gold standard here, but it's expensive.
Of course, the easiest way to get boiling water is with a kettle, and if you can forego the convenience of a drip machine there are a bunch of brewing methods where you supply the water. The French press, the Aeropress and the Hairo V60 pour-over are popular options.

The main thing, though, if you're serious about the flavor of your coffee, is to grind your own beans.

Thought it was Tom Baker from the thumbnail.

I would prefer to have GPUs for under $600 if possible

Unfortunately not possible for a new nvidia card (you want CUDA) with 16GB VRAM. You can get them for ~$750 if you're patient. This deal was available for awhile earlier today:
https://us-store.msi.com/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GPU/GeForce-RTX-50-Series/GeForce-RTX-5070-Ti-16G-SHADOW-3X-OC
Or you could try to find a 16GB 4070Ti Super like I got. It runs Deepseek 14B and stuff like Stable Diffusion no problem.

Can’t figure out why you would use Plex over jellyfin

Probably the biggest reason is that it makes it so easy to securely share across the internet. With JF you're on your own and you can really fuck things up. If you're just running it on your LAN the JF is the obvious choice.

Just a heads-up that Computer Science is a branch of mathematics, and some schools lean into that more than others. There's a lot of theory in addition to the practicalities of writing programs. I'd assess how comfortable you are with math and abstraction, then try to figure out where the schools you're looking at place their emphasis. Since you want work as a programmer, make sure the school offers some software engineering classes in addition to the theory.

So who's actually developing it? If it was Valve they would have said...
I already own HL2, but presumably I would have to buy this anew.

I'll second the Diablo recommendation if you can drive down to the hardware store and pick one up off the shelf. Home Depot has them in my area.
If you're ordering online you have all the choices and I can't help you there.
I prefer a coarser 24-tooth blade for speed, and especially if you're going to be ripping stock thicker than 3/4". The finish it leaves it leaves is perfectly fine, and if you need it any smoother you can give it one pass with a plane. High-tooth-count blades are slow and it takes more effort to push the stock through.

That's some... uh... that's some programmer art there.

I'm guessing the Jointmaker Pro
https://bridgecitytools.com/products/jmpv2-jointmaker-pro
which is faintly ridiculous.

Everything I hear about Nextcloud scares me away from messing with it.

He was known to spell his name several different ways.

I'm just running into this now. It also won't let me log into the web interface. I'm glad I experimented with a second install before upgrading my primary pihole.

Right, because it's hard to make a robot grow a goatee.

I tried Kopia but it was unstable and janky, so now it's whenever I remember to manually run a bunch of rsync. I backup my desktop to cold storage on the first of the month, so I should get in the habit of backing up my server to the NAS then also.

Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 (can't remember which) controlled through the TV with the remote. It's running LibreElec (Kodi) with the Jellyfin plugin. Discoverability isn't great through Kodi, but I can always use a computer or phone to find the media and cast if I need to.

Jesus christ, what is that name.

Veilguard is a 3rd person action RPG, not a CRPG. It plays like God of War or something. It has lots of DA characters and lore, though.

GrapheneOS basically matches Google’s support window

Oh, interesting. I was going to try Graphene once Google stop updating for my current hardware, but I guess it'll be Lineage instead.

Since I don't play intensive games on my phone I'm sure either would be fine. They should both be plenty responsive for non-gaming stuff. Maybe some AI features would suffer, but I haven't found a use for those yet.

I think the PC vs. console divide is relevant here. I'm not sure how advanced text entry on consoles is these days, but I imagine PCs have the advantage with keyboards. Maybe if they use voice recognition on the consoles? But AAA games usually target both, and if interacting with the model is clunky for a big chunk of your market then the big developers might not use the technology.
Of course, indie devs that only target PC can go wild.