Got a pretty bad case of food poisoning last month. Didn't really eat anything for a couple of days.
My SO had it worse. She was throwing up almost everything she ate for over a week. After about 4-5 days, I was like. I'll drive you to the emergency myself, but I can't force you to go.
She ended up waiting like three more days after that and calling her primary care physician.
She's mostly better now but it was the worst I've ever seen her.
For better or worse, she did lose a decent amount of weight during that week+ of being sick.
Considering how many systems I've heard this on, not just my own, and how long I've been able to hear it, no. Definitely not.
Some newer boards have gotten wise to the issue and generally shield or provide an exclusion area around audio carrying circuits. Not all of them do it.
Above and beyond that, the amps used are generally crap and distort at high volume levels, so no matter how good your headphones are, the audio always sounds like hot trash at high volume levels regardless of pretty much everything else.
My AG06 costs as much as a cheap motherboard. There's no doubt that the audio hardware, designed and produced by Yamaha, a well known name in audio equipment, had been built with better components than you'll find in your average onboard audio solution, and with more attention to detail about interference sources.
Considering the AG06 is on their low end of equipment, compared to some stuff out there, it's complete trash. There are audio interfaces and headphone amps that cost 5-10x what I paid for the AG06, and some that cost more. I promise you they sound better than my dinky little audio interface/mixer.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, if you're happy with your audio solution, cool. Use it. I'm not here to judge you for what you like. For those who hear the distortion and interference from onboard audio, they already know what I'm talking about and likely have their own audio setup which eliminates any trouble they might have with their onboard audio. As long as they're happy with theirs, cool, they should use it.
I'm happy with mine.
Please don't argue that the problem doesn't exist because your limited experience hasn't noticed it. That kind of subjective anecdotal evidence proves nothing beyond the fact that you don't have a problem with your setup.
That's cool. But don't tell me that it's not a problem just because you don't have that problem.
Americans can come to my country with few limitations (Canada), and it shouldn't be overly hard to get either dual citizenship or to become a Canadian citizen. Our immigration policies are not nearly as strict as other places and we have a gigantic, and mostly undefended border with the USA. Little more than border guards stand in the way, and as long as you're not a felon, and you have a legitimate reason to enter the country, you're welcome here.
We have universal healthcare available to all citizens.
Once here it's a matter of getting an employer who will sponsor your work visa... Then it's a pretty clear path to citizenship from there.
We're not super different from the USA. More taxes, no guns. Some other differences. But we're like... America lite.
Many mainboards have moved to a small piezoelectric speaker, not dissimilar to the buzzer on an old style of digital watch (think Timex), rather than a speaker pinout for the system.
It's soldered right to the mainboard. It's different than the crap cone style system speaker.
The cone style usually was bundled with the case and was usually mismatched lowest bidder garbage.
I'm pretty sure that even very modern mainboards have a piezo style "speaker" on them, though many might forego this in favor of lights or something.
I always hear interference, especially from a mouse, in onboard audio.
I'm happy you haven't had this problem, but I consider that to be an outlier in the grand scheme of things.
I'd also be willing to bet you have the problem but just haven't noticed it. Which is fine. If the issue isn't one you have noticed, and you're fine with onboard, go ham. Have fun. That's not me though.
Baked into the kernel or not, the drivers are there.
But Windows supports so many different and strange configurations that the generic drivers included with Windows may not work with the specific audio device you're using.
On board is easier and for any audio enthusiast, sounds like trash by comparison.
I have yet to meet an onboard audio solution that didn't give you garbage in the output. Whether it's coil whine, a low hiss or a 60hz him, there's always something.
Onboard, in my experience also distorts way earlier into the volume slider by comparison.
I think the only floppy disk that I know of that I didn't use was the 7"? I think it was 7. The one that's larger than the 5.25" that was really common.
From there I've used or handled just about every type of digital storage. The 5.25" floppy disks are classic, but easily near the bottom of my list for favorites. They're down there with anything on tape (which is useful but always a hassle), and early USB drives when they used the cheapest solid state IC they could find and no matter what you did the IC was always painfully slow and there was nothing you could do about it because every manufacturer did that shit.
3.5" was rigid on the outside, floppy in the middle. Still a floppy diskette in my view.
My fairly modern computer, originally released in 2014 (yes, that's modern compared to a lot of the computers I own), has no sound card.
I picked up a Yamaha AG06, which has a USB connection and creates both audio inputs and audio outputs to/from my PC. I can quickly plug in my phone or a Bluetooth receiver (which my phone connects to), and get other audio into my headphones with very little trouble. I prefer it this way, and if my next PC has onboard audio, I'll probably disable it in favor of the AG06.
The only difference is whether they're included in the OS or if you need to obtain them separately.
Back in my days of dos games, you didn't download a driver for your sound card, instead, you told the game where to find the device, and what device it was, and the drivers were built into the game.
Well, I'm probably going to try to get my ccnp for kicks. I'll re-do my CCNA, then do my ccnp. By the time I go for my NA cert I'll pretty much be ready to go for the np cert.
I'll build a new resume emphasizing my network stuff, though my resume is already fairly heavily focused on networking as is, and try again.
I'm pretty happy with my job in almost every way, I know most of the things I would need to know to be successful, despite it being a more generalist position, and my co-workers are cool. Management is better than most, and the pay is more than the last two generalist positions I've worked, plus it's work from home, so I'm pretty comfortable where I am for now. The pay, despite being higher than I've gotten previously, is a pretty far cry from what I probably deserve, just way too low, under $55k USD (I'm not in the US, but the conversion puts me under 55). From what I've seen online, median salary for a systems admin, which is basically what my job mostly entails, is around $73k USD... So I'm around $20k/yr shy.
I know network admins are similar, depending on the complexity/importance of the network they administrate. I'm aware of people in networking that are making more than 100k USD a year; and right now I consider that to be where things start to cap off for networking. I'd be pretty happy with $73k USD.
Realistically, does any average consumer know what's on which circuit?
Spanning the split phase will screw you up, across breakers won't be fun but shouldn't pose any serious problems, as long as it's not in different sides of the split phase.
I'm pretty sure they say this because actually explaining what will work and what won't either requires significant prior knowledge of power systems, or a couple of paragraphs of explainers before you can get a rough picture of what the hell they're driving at.
Everyone I know who has used powerline, just plug it in and see if it works. Those who were lucky, say it's great and works without issue, etc. Those who were not lucky say the opposite.
I'm just over here watching the fireworks, eating popcorn.
I will say that the support I got from co-workers when I was no longer working there. I got a number of messages about how disappointed they were about losing me from the team, etc.
None of that helped me find new employment, nor did it help me move up while I was there, but I was well liked.