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.

This is why I am a happy Kagi user.

She knows she is in the minority.

I am just sad she’s missing out.

Witcher 3 is my number 1 game of all time. My wife won’t play it because she hates Geralt’s voice.

We’re playing on XBox Series X, and it behaves reasonably well. We typically split-screen while exploring, and merge the screens during battles.

When playing Divinity:Original Sin 2 we remained in merged screens 90% of the time, but for some reason it feels off in BG3, so we go with the merge only in battles.

Baldurs Gate 3 split screen with my wife.

I agree it’s disrespectful. I have often picked butts up and handed them back.

For people in motor vehicles, I tend to pick them up and tuck the butt under their windshield wiper. This is relatively easy if I’m on my motorcycle stopped at a traffic light.

Why should any human being be treated poorly?

Not a smoker, but I believe smokers are treated poorly, as are businesses that cater to smokers.

But my beliefs are really put to the test everytime I see a smoker throw their butt on the ground.

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.

A while back a woman died after eating at a Disney restaurant and being assured that the food she was ordering was allergen free. Disney responded very poorly to the husband’s suit, but I wonder if the Disney employee believed things were allergen free because of one of these hacked menus.

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.

I’m gonna have to refire up my 2024 save.

That’s funny.

I’m 61. My wife’s been in 24 years. We game together!

That should go to someone who has fewer means than I do. But thank you for the tip.

Besides I’m an XBox fanboy!