I started looking at Symfonium some time ago, but something killed my interest. Maybe it’s time to revisit it.

The tidal thing didn’t bother me, as my music collection is relatively large. But yeah PlexAmp is truly an extraordinary bit of software.

This doesn’t really affect my household. My wife, my daughter, and I all have lifetime PlexPasses.

That said, this level of enshitification has me wishing there were options (yes I know about Emby and Jellyfin and I’ve investigated both more than once) but they have me ensnared by PlexAmp and Sonos integration. I’ve been around since before anyone had even seen the letters MP3 strung together, and I have never had a music player as capable as PlexAmp.

Just say no to keyboards that need to phone home.

Well duh, you can’t haunt if you’re not moving around!

Fascinating read! Thanks for sharing.

I fucking hate both my TVs. My nine year old Vizio still has a great picture, but the interface is now an almost unusable jumble of advertising and apps I will never use. My much newer LG C 65 has a fantastic picture, is great to game on, but the interface, while not a steaming pile of shit that the Vizio is, is still gross and disgusting.

I don’t know how we reverse this trend.

Will that sounds like the perfect “Gee I have to spend this money on something bigger and better” reason!

Upgrading by replacing your drives one at a time will likely get you where you want to go. When I upgraded my 6Tb drives in my 920+ to 12Tb drives it took about a week.

I use Plex’s download feature to make sure I always have music available. The same could be done for other media but I don’t bother.

My Plex server runs in my home and all my media is available outside my home. A travel server seems like a solution for a problem that doesn’t really exist.

Very very aware.

So you had another mail server elsewhere that port forwarded port 25 via port 22 to your internal mail server’s port 25.

I take it that outside mail server was secure.

That’s an impressive setup.

Did you really only use it when you were home? If you used it outside the firewall then port 25 must have been open also.

I used to run my own server and this was in the early 90s. Then one day, perusing the logs I realized I was not smart enough on the security front to even attempt such a thing. It was quickly shut down and the MX record moved to an outsourced mail provider.

Big Mark Dawson fan here, he’s probably my favorite popcorn author, and I’ve read almost everything he’s written.

That said, this is pretty damning. Gonna be interested in the response.

I see what they did there…

ANTibiotics!

If you have auto-commit on you get what you deserve.

As the husband of a Soldier, this makes me really happy.

If you’re not my cabbie, my waiter, or my barber you’re not getting a tip. If you are one of those you’re likely getting a better turn average tip.

I have two of them, one in my GLI and one in my wife’s Palisade.

Really worthwhile.

It’s spectacular, but not 75 dollars spectacular. Particularly given the recent release of https://monaspace.githubnext.com/.

[Edit 2024-01-02]

It was, indeed, $75 spectacular, and I now can’t picture a live without it.

Worth every penny.