Do not use Microsofts Telemetry Studio Code but Code-OSS or VSCodium.

See: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/267

Regarding your question Code is not powerful enough of what we do at work. There we use IntelliJ IDEA. Our frontend guys use Code as it’s enough for them and they usually are not that quality oriented, be it their tools or their product. Sadly mediocre is enough.

and CI/CD goes “f*ck you, no deployment today, Linter is unhappy”

Try Kotlin

Don’t buy trash in the first place. Better for the environment, better for your workflows.

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Colemak-DH on column staggered ortholinear keyboard. Look.

Why has been explained below, different drives have different capabilities regarding read buffer, error correction, etc.

There are (were) very large comparison sheets and articles where different drives and manufacturers have been compared with each other.

I chose my external USB CD-drive on the premise I could flash custom firmware to it so to keep the option of new features and enhances functionality, in case someone would do this. Like how OpenWRT came to be.

If you want to enhance the ripping quality or consistency even more you can try the program “Exact Audio Copy” (EAC) or any other sophisticated CD grabber software. It is already around for aaages, that should give you an idea how tricked out specialized software was already decades ago.

https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/overview/features/features-of-eac/