Eh, I have audio interfaces and MIDI controllers on 10ft cables cause shorter just don’t reach my PC, works perfectly fine. Longer than that is a gamble but as far as I know 10ft is the upper bound of the USB 3.0 spec, so should be totally fine unless you have especially shitty cables.
I grew up surrounded by rich assholes people, and can anecdotally confirm that a lot of them, especially those born in it, live in a parallel world, so far removed from the average person’s lives that they just can’t relate, even if they try very hard. So few of them even seem able to (or want to?) realize how much of a kickstart they had in life just by being born in the right family, how much liberty they had having the opportunity to fail without ruining themselves.
We weren’t private jet rich, but still, we went on family trips more often than my friends, had a big house, parents had nice cars, we partook in expensive competitive sports such as golf/tennis/ski, etc… Despite having pretty grounded parents, who taught us very young about how unconventional our lives were, I still severely underestimated the value of money in this world. I had a rude awakening when I met my now wife, who grew up in a much poorer environment. I cut contact with pretty much everyone from my childhood neighborhood.
Around here, private schools “care” about your children’s education… Unless they have learning difficulties, then they don’t want to deal with them. Its harder to flout high average grades when you have less then stellar students, you see… The teachers are also the exact same (ever so slightly worse pay, but better work environment), coming from the same universities and having the same educational program to follow. It does tend to be easier to have facilities and fancy activities when you’re loaded from donations, rather than chronically underfunded by politicians who send their children to private schools.
This made me wonder… What “silence” are we talking about here? “Not talking” or “no noise”?
Love Platinum, they’re the only fountain pens I can even consider using, as they’re the only ones I found that can handle my low writing volume without drying out between uses.