u/BigManDrew_BMD

TLDR: made custom ear tips out of a two part mix puddy

So I just got into the IEM game, and I didn't really find tips that fit me well, so I went out digging and found out that one could DIY it with a to part puddy, read some reviews, looked at some videos in regards to making them and decided to get the materials and make them.

I haven't had the opportunity to try them just yet as I'm giving it more time to cure a bit more than I would have to drill a hole into it for where the sound would come out off.

Now the 1st batch I made, I messed up as I didn't twist the IEMs as it was going in so the tips are facing down words a bit more, the 2nd batch is a lot better.

Note about safety: I wasn't too worried about going deep with this material as it's quite dense when modeling it to the shape of my ear, I allow the IEMs to push the rest of the material into the ear canal.

All together it took me about 30min to make them.

If you're going to do this, take it slow and exercise caution.

I will post updates after having a full week of listening

Cost: 13$

Product: Radians CEP001-R Custom Molded Earplugs

Went from windows to mint to arch to NixOS and now back to arch, neither of them felt right

Windows was using 7 damn gigs of ram on a fresh install

Mint is good and highly recommended but not my cup of tea

Arch at first broke on me due to user error

Went to NixOS because I was afraid of breaking Arch but then realized the same amount of time I would spend on nixifying things would be the same amount of time fixing or actually paying attention to updates and making sure I don't break it again. Not to mention, NixOS got crumbersum after month and I got tired of declaring things

Yes I have posted on the NixOS sub saving how I love it, and trust me I really do, but at some point, I just want things to work with out having to declare it.

Both communities are great, aside from the elitists who think their the god of Linux.

Yes I'm blacking out my IP because I'm on dorm Wifi and most people who are at my college are on the same network and on this Sub.

Use the arch wiki and did the normal install and not the script because that's how I broke it the first time when getting rid of some packages that didn't make sense to me. I did use an LLM on my other laptop to figure out somethings and filter through the tech jargon but other then that it was mostly "RTFM"

I have some projects that I do wish to release that I think would help the community, so stay tuned

Thank you Linux and thank you Arch and it's community

Peace ✌️