For the record I’m not for the IPO.

Working in hardware, this is a shit take. If you’re saying a hobbiest should be prioritized over keeping a paycheck coming to employees at a firm that rely on rpi parts being delivered, umm…

WITH priority as a giant customer (not with rpi, but multi billion accounts) we still were facing 72+ week lead times for components. A smaller company, more likely to use an rpi as an integral part of their widget, would be facing MUCH longer. That means manufacturing halt, and going under.

Should they have taken on industrial costumers in the first place? That’s another question. But to say my octopi server has priority over someone being able to feed their family is bullshit. Not only that but industry customers keep volumes high, allowing for lower end prices.

Incorrect. CBS owned and operated a tv and radio manufacturing arm, acquired Fender musical instruments and rolled their separate manufacturing arm under the Fender design name. They bought toy companies, the X-Acto knife company, all again making stuff while owned wholly by CBS.

CBS even had its own R&D lab which ran for 50 years, again killed in the 80s, including development of military tech.

Then in the 80s the divestment era hit wall st and everything was sold off, including the company itself in the 90s.

Prying open my third eye

Is that not sly Stallone

Can’t punch with your feet

Limited to amd though, yea? Nvidia still holding back their drivers?

He’s seeing red again for sure

Fresh water lakes flow down into the locks, feeding them and also provide waterways for the ships to traverse across the isthmus. The canal artificially connects various lakes in addition to the locks which are used to move the ships up or down.

Merino where?

Rad, have fun with your project! I’ve made my recommendations in order of priority (in my opinion) if you want to take them on as you save up money rather than all at once.

First and most important: Tusq nut, locking tuners (I’ve had good luck with guitar fetish and musiclily stuff if you’re trying to stay on a budget). The biggest problem with budget guitars is tuning stability, and the culprit is ALWAYS the nut. Locking tuners are a nice to have as well

Second I’d recommend some AlNiCo-v pickups since the squire probably comes with cheap ceramics. Again, if you’re trying to stay on a budget you can get some decent cheap upgrades from FLEOR. I’d recommend something a bit more tame to pair with the duncan distortion if you’re trying to increase versatility, and choose a 4-conductor version so you can…….

Third: switching. Find some push pull pots so you can split your bridge and neck pickups. If you’re trying to keep it darker sounding go with 250k, if you want to brighten up go with 500k.

After that you can look at body shielding, upgraded bridge… but these are really diminishing returns. Also you have to be careful when looking at bridges cuz the screw spacing is different between USA and import models much of the time. The body thickness is also generally thinner on imports too so if you’re doing a trem upgrade you’ll wanna make sure it’s not too thick for the body. I learned about both the hard way but thankfully gave access to good machinists.

Shocked the lawmakers could find it

And they all fall down