Your way out is Debian...
I second that. Debian has been getting quite good recently. Been using Debian forever. KDE works well enough. Avoid LVM like the plague. I actually like snaps on Debian, but only to run the latest Firefox. I wouldn't want it for
everything. Can't imagine that.
Microsoft's GUI-of-the-year is annoying when managing diverse servers from 2003R2-2019. Now where did they put the damn log out button on THIS version?
I feel funny rambling on about the price of vinyl siding in Oklahoma since what people want is (1) deals on TE or, at the very least (2) pictures of TE that some lucky bastard got a deal on. I swapped out the power smoothing caps on my recently acquired Topward TPS-4000 bench power supply. The new Nippon Chemicons are 100 V vs the spec'ed 75 V cans and they are
still < half the size. I cut a piece off of an old closed-cell foam camping sleeping pad (I'll just sleep a little on the left now...) to fill up the space in the holding strap. Getting the tiny nuts back on the screws was the biggest pain of the whole operation.
I noticed on ebay that there is a lot of TE that is sold close to Richardson, Texas. This is obviously TE that has failed outside of warranty or has been retired from TI's RFAB (Richardson Fabrication) plant. Are there other hot spots for TE? Surely there are many in Silicon Valley, as I see a lot of TE selling from California.
I saw Paul Carlson getting the distortion specs on a tube monobloc (the Maas-Rowe) using a Stanford Research SR780. I thought "well now that looks like a neat bit of kit". Turns out they start at US$3,000 on ebay. Ugh. HP made a nice SINAD meter 8903A (and the newer 8903B). Looking though the "sold" items I see that (presumably) working examples have sold for as little as US$225 + probably US$60 P&H since they are 3U (4U?) rack-mountable boat anchors from the 80s. I'm not quite ready to spend that much on something that I will probably use only once or twice. Here's one from RFAB:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Agilent-8903A-Audio-Analyzer-20hz-100khz-Guaranteed-GOOD/133410220815Here's the slightly better B version that's now in a bidding war and on it's way to US$500:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-8903B-Audio-Analyzer-20Hz-100Hz-OPT-001/293577080017I am, however ready to buy a Kikusui PAN35-20A power supply (see that fine gentleman's thread on it if you haven't already). I'll post pictures when it arrives.
Well, now I'm out of anything to clean electronics: wife took all of the IPA, I used my last can of contact cleaner on Jr's bicycle, and I just used up the last of my DI H20. I'm going to have to leave the house now.