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.

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.

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!

I’ll join up. Thank you.

Oh believe me I’m well aware. But 99% of those auxilairies are LADYS auxiliaries. I don’t qualify.

Are spouses welcome?

Well that’s the end of me ever doing anything productive for the rest of my life.

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.

I guess I’ve never been able to figure out which group of Iranian-backed terrorists are the good guys.

When you support the Houthis you support the stoning of homosexuals.

Here’s one. https://www.msn.com/en-US/news/world/protesters-hold-emergency-rally-in-times-square-denouncing-us-strikes-on-houthi-militants-in-yemen/ar-AA1mQZJ6?ocid=sapphireappshare

I forget, aren’t we supposed to be cheering for the Houthis? I thought that was the new cool thing to be doing.