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I'm just wondering this because I'm working on my home pc set up right now and currently have a left & right bose speaker, but I find them kind of annoying to have on my desk because they take up space I'd rather have other things in. I would rather just have one long speaker occupying the space below my central monitor if it mostly works the same.

Edit: The question really is do sound bars operate more like accessories to an already existing set up, or can I have that be my one form of audio and be fine?

Moved into a new place and I like it a lot, but the only problem I have is I notice in the hallway entering into my studio I can hear basically every word from the other side. I like to frequently call people online and I'm usually speaking in terms I don't want my neighbors to hear. Any recommendations for what I can do? I'm renting to I don't want to do anything that involves drilling

I already tried:

*Foam: seemingly did nothing

*Some cylinder foam roll thing that's supposed to drape over the gap on the bottom; also seemingly did nothing

*Ordered some paste on weather stripping to put on the inside, but hasn't arrived yet

I've been dreaming of having a comfy recliner like my grandad had since I moved out of my parents house, and I think it's finally time. I was looking at Lazeboy stuff, but I've heard in recent years they've gone down in quality a lot and people mostly seem to recommend avoiding them. I want something I could fall asleep in, aeshetics is secondary.

I'm in Chicago so I have physical store options I think, but online is probably my go to because transportation is a hassle.

I've been dreaming of having a comfy recliner like my grandad had since I moved out of my parents house, and I think it's finally time. I was looking at Lazeboy stuff, but I've heard in recent years they've gone down in quality a lot and people mostly seem to recommend avoiding them. I want something I could fall asleep in, aeshetics is secondary.

I'm in Chicago so I have physical store options I think, but online is probably my go to because transportation is a hassle.

Title is self explanatory. I'm getting my first place here and I want to know what my best options are, and finer unfortunately isn't an option. I'm leaning to T-Mobile but not sure yet

So, for context I'm 26 years old, turning 27 in a few months, still single, living in Chicago in a studio for $1250 a month, and I got out of the Air Force a little over a month ago. I'm just starting my undergraduate degree right now and I'm getting my gen ed stuff done first (I got an English, Biology, Chemistry, and remedial Algebra course this semester). My declared major currently is Computer Science, but I picked that for reasons that probably aren't typical and I'm not really sure if it's going to turn out well for me in the long run.

Basically I'm just doing college right now because I needed a way to make income after getting out of the military and the GI Bill provides a housing allowance scaled for the area you're pursuing school in on top of paying tuition. I picked Computer Science because I've been working blue collar jobs since I was 19 and I've kind of felt the whole time I never really "fit in" because I've always been a sorta nerdy introverted person that tends to overthink things. I was an electrician apprentice for a little bit, and in the Air Force I was enlisted as a "Munitions Systems Technician" which essentially just means most of my job was doing warehouse work for explosives. Storing, towing things by truck, operating forklifts, recording where things went, etc. I've found in these types of jobs the kinds of people that seem to gravitate towards them are usually sort of overly macho types, usually politically right leaning, and only really interested in things in a pragmatic sense. This is a minor example I feel sort of silly bringing up; but I remember we started watching 28 Day Later during some downtime at work and there's that one part at the beginning of the movie where the main character wakes up in London alone and they're exploring the city trying to figure out where everyone went. The shots are all filmed with this old style camera and it kind of makes the whole sequence feel like a music video. The music is slowly building up louder and louder the whole time as if the main character is getting more and more stressed as it's dawning on them everybody has really disappeared. It's doing a really great job establishing what's going on in the character's head without having to use any dialogue. I absolutely loved it.

My coworkers just got mad watching this that the zombies didn't show up fast enough and switched the movie to an Adam Sandler comedy.

For a more dramatic example if that felt kinda petty to bring up; I remember when the war between Israel and Iran popped of this year at least half of my coworkers getting gleefully excitied at the thought of being able to do "real world shit" and one of them asking our boss straight up "do we get to kill people!" My boss didn't respond verbally but he gave him a smile that kind of seemed to say that he was happy my coworker was happy. For me it had been dawning on me that Pam Bondi had been questioned that same week about the Epstein files and had that meltdown on camera about with the "THE DOW IS AT 50K" thing while trying to detract. The timing felt pretty suspicious to me. If you're wondering why the hell I joined the military if I think like this it's just because when I was 19 I wasn't really paying attention to anything at the time and just needed a job and a place to stay. I think being in the military made me start paying attention because things happening around the globe could suddenly directly affect my life.

It just felt like I never encountered anyone anywhere I worked that really ever thought about anything beyond the surface level and I figured if I pursue Computer Science it'll put me around people that are more like me because a lot of my friends I talk to online work in IT, so I thought it was just where people like me flock to. I thought I'd have more common ground with people like that and therefore enjoy work more. I never disliked any of the actual labor part of any jobs I've worked, just the people. Starting college though also got me thinking if maybe Computer Science isn't really the right call. I'm doing fine in my science and math courses, but there isn't any real interest from me besides passing. I also never engaged with anything related to STEM the whole time after I graduated high school. I never learned programming, never experimented with anything, I never even built my own pc. However, I do enjoy my English class, and I kind of always did lean more to English, History, Philosophy, Politics, etc when I was in high school. I never thought it was hard to write essays of whatever amount of pages as long as I could actually find interest in the subject, which usually I could.

I've never actually been able to imagine a career path where I did anything that wasn't blue collar labor though. Everything white collar always felt too prestigious and unrealistic for me, and now with the AI stuff I question even more if anything focused more on reading comprehension, rhetoric, perception, conceptualization, etc is actually going to have room for me anymore or if those fields have become sinking ships for people not already in senior positions. I should have stated earlier when I was talking about Computer Science I was planning to focus my classes more on hardware oriented things like networking vs software development, which I've heard is going through an awful period of job cutting currently.

I'm also above all looking for a career that provides a decent work life balance. I'm accustomed to working 40 hours per week and I'm looking to keep it that way. I actually just posted a thread similar to this in r/AskLawyers (I copy pasted a lot of that post I made here) wondering if maybe legal work would be enjoyable for me, but someone was nice enough to DM me to describe what their life was like as a lawyer. Despite saying they're on track to make $400,000 a year, the hours he also described turned me off entirely. I explained to him after that I value time much more than money after a certain point. When I was in the military the max I ever got paid was around the equivalent of $65,000 per year, and that already felt like more than enough to cover all my needs and pretty much all my wants within reason. I honestly think if I was making around $75,000 a year here in Chicago (right now at least) that would probably be more than enough to afford a nice apartment in a nice area here in Chicago, pay all my bills, and still have a a lot left to blow on whatever. I don't want my job to becoming the defining aspect of my life even though that's what often happens it seems. I found some real passions in my off time when I was in the military (painting and storytelling) and while I can't see myself making enough to live off those I've begun to base my sense of self worth and a lot of my life decisions around that. I need something that supports my passions outside of work not something that pulls me away. If I'm not able to engage with those things regularly I will end up in the psyche ward wearing the sticky socks.

Sorry if this is long winded I just wanted to provide the as much context as I could of my situation in hopes I get some good advice. If you read all of this, thank you. I feel very lost right now and I feel like the solution needs to be found this school year before I start using my GI Bill to pay for classes within a major. So, do you guys have any ideas for career paths based upon what I've described about myself?

So for context I'm 26 years old, turning 27 in a few months, still single, and fresh out of the Air Force. I'm just starting my undergraduate degree right now and I'm just getting my gen ed stuff done first (I got an English, Biology, Chemistry, and remedial Algebra course this semester). My declared major currently is Computer Science, but I picked that for reasons that probably aren't typical and I'm not really sure if it's going to turn out well for me in the long run.

Basically I'm just doing college right now because I needed a way to make income after getting out of the military and the GI Bill provides a housing allowance scaled for the area you're pursuing school in on top of paying tuition. I picked Computer Science because I've been working blue collar jobs since I was 19, and I've kind of felt the whole time I never really "fit in" because I've always been a sorta nerdy introverted person that tends to overthink things. I was an electrician apprentice for a little bit, and then in the Air Force I was enlisted as a "Munitions Systems Technician" which essentially just meant most of my job was doing basically warehouse work for explosives. Storing, towing things by truck, operating forklifts, recording where things went, etc. I've found in these types of jobs the kinds of people that seem to gravitate towards them are usually sort of macho types, usually politically right leaning, and only really interested in things in a pragmatic sense. This is a minor example; but I remember we started watching 28 Day Later during some downtime at work and there's that one part at the beginning of the movie where the main character wakes up in London alone and they're exploring the city trying to figure out where everyone went. The shots are all filmed with this old style camera and it kind of makes the whole sequence feel like a music video. The music is slowly building up louder and louder the whole time as if the main character is getting more and more stressed as it's dawning on them nobody is around. It's doing a really great job establishing what's going on without having to use any dialogue. My coworkers just got mad watching this that the zombies didn't show up fast enough and switched the movie. For a larger example if that felt kinda petty to bring up; I remember when the war between Israel and Iran popped of this year at least half of my coworkers getting gleefully excitied at the thought of being able to do "real world shit" and one of them asking our boss straight up "do we get to kill people!" all excited when it was announced we were going on twelve hour shifts for the foreseeable future.

It just felt like I never encountered anyone anywhere I worked that really ever thought about anything beyond the surface level and I figured if I pursue Computer Science it'll put me around people that are more like me because a lot of my friends I talk to online working in IT, so I thought it was where people like me flock to. Starting college though also got me thinking if maybe Computer Science isn't really the right call. I think I'm doing fine in my science and math courses, but there isn't any real interest from me besides passing. I also never really engaged with anything related to STEM the whole time since I graduated high school. I never learned programming, never experimented with anything, I never even built my own pc. However, I do enjoy my English class, and I kind of always did lean more to English, History, Philosophy, Politics, etc when I was in high school. I never really thought it was hard to write essays of whatever amount of pages as long as I could actually find interest in the subject, which usually I could. I've also never really considered a job focused around those sort sorts of things though because white collar stuff felt too prestigious and unrealistic for me and I never really saw myself doing anything but blue collar work. When I was in the military too I was kind of known for being one of the few people around that actually kept up with and bothered to become familiar with our regulations. I'd get in arguments with my bosses all the time where I would bring up regs a lot. I found though it never really came down if I was right or not, but how the person with the higher rank than me personally felt about interpreting them or outright ignoring it.

I also question though if I actually would enjoy pursing legal work based upon that last statement I made. The military is where I feel like I learned the hard lesson that rules don't actually mean shit, just the person eith the authority to decide what those rules mean. It was one of my major points of frustration pretty much the whole time where it felt like no matter how much I knew or researched a topic that it never mattered because I wasn't a certain rank. Pretty much everytime I had an issue the only way I would really get heard is if I managed to find someone even higher up than the person arguing with me, which I hate doing because it feels childish. I'm kind of wondering if going down this path is just going to be that feeling constantly, or if my habits that made me feel like the weirdo that's overly familiar with things nobody cares about would actually reward me this time. I'm also not sure what "legal work" mean to be honest. I struggle socially and couldn't see myself really debating anyone in front of a room of people. I've always avoided anything to do with public speaking and it's probably one of my biggest weaknesses. So, I don't see myself becoming my mental image of a lawyer. I'm kind of just a guy that doesn't find it overly boring to dig around through a bunch of different resources and presenting an argument about it over text or in small groups. I just get a little dopamine hit when I dig around for a while and finally find the exact thing I was looking for to prove I was right, but I think that's also probably something an AI could do easily.

Sorry if this was long winded, but I wanted to give all the context I could for where my mind is at right. In general I just don't know what I'm going to do to make money in the future now that I'm out of the military. I know more things I dislike that I actually like. So, I just want to know if this sounds like to you guys something I should consider pursuing, or if I sound like I don't actually have a good scope of what "legal work" actually entails and I'd probably hate it? I'm also wondering what jobs exist other than what I think of as a traditional lawyer and if you guys have any specific ideas that sound right for me based upon what I've described. I'm totally lost right now.

I'm start college today as a full-time freshman, but I'm not really sure what my endgame is after college is done. I just got out of the military like a month ago and it didn't really provide me any job skills with really decent earning potential in the future. I essentially just did warehousing for close to 7 years. I'm only starting college right now because the GI Bill pays my rent for the duration of school, so to me really it's just a way to buy more time for myself. I picked Computer Science because I felt like I fit in with "the culture" as I'm autistic and pretty introverted, but I'm not actually a very techy sorta guy and have never had much real interest in it. The most I'm capable of is navigating a file system and using Adobe.

I just don't really have anything that's close to a "dream job" for me that seems viable long term. I do not dream of labor. My only passions are drawing and story writing, but I really doubt my ability to make enough income to afford rent with those skills, especially somewhere like here (Chicago) where rent is relatively cheap for a major city right now, but I expect it'll increase significantly over the years like the other big US cities. The only way I see my peers making money when it comes to art is drawing porn for a measly $2000-ish a month, and I don't really want to debase myself for that much money.

I'm really just lost and I know people will probably say I have time, but I'm going to be 31 by the time I graduate and I really do feel like there's a point where you're sorta locked in by employers where you can't screw around finding yourself anymore and you have to actually start building a career or else you end up in minimum wage service jobs forever. I have enough experience now through working trade jobs and the military to determine what I hate doing, but I still haven't figured out anything that actually excites me. I don't know how you figure that out and I feel like it needs to be this year while I'm still doing gen ed courses before I waste a bunch of GI Bill credits on something I don't actually care about and I end up struggling trying to get jobs against people in their 20's with a real passion for what their doing.

I shopping around for internet providers right now after not having to change service for a few years all the major brands are pushing these "5G Wireless" routers onto me now. Of course the staff in the store insists it's just as good, but I immediately hear home internet over a wireless connection and get suspicious. Problem is none of them seem to be offering anything with a coax connection anymore it's just wireless and fiber (my building doesn't have that unfortunately).

I'm wondering if my suspicions are warranted, and I'm also wondering if I can somehow still just get one of these and use a coax cable connection? I'm reading online about a "bridge mode" but I'm not sure if that's what I think it is, plugging a personal router with a coax connection into the provider wireless one to get a more stable connection, or if that's something totally different.

EDIT: Alright I'm getting a lot of "NO" answers, so my question is what service providers still actually let me use my coax cable? Because all the ones I've interacted with only do 5G wireless now it's really annoying that they can't at least have a port for it on them.