About fucking time a positive step was made.

I've had a usb to sata running to a 2.5" sdd that acts as the main storage and boot for my pi4b, and it's been in use for 4 years with zero issues so far.

I've now got 3HDDs attached to my Proxmox machine for NAS storage via usb ATM. It's been running since Feb. It's had it's issues but those were more my fault for not understanding the flake factor (since my experience with the sdd) I had one drive forget what I named it, so my whole Proxmox died.

But that was remedied by passing the USB straight through to OMV.

Just saying, I've not really had the same experience as you with them, they seem fine if you have an idea what may fuck up.

Sometimes I iron. Someone mentioned school uniform and yes.

But mainly I look at say a t-shirt and go "Meh" shrug and throw it on. Bang a leather jacket on and nobody knows it's wrinkled and they fall out.

Now we're having our 1 week of summer in the UK I'm having to iron my t-shirts because it's too hot for my jacket, but it's only a week.

Try and start easy with an openly atheist president and work from there

Are there still people around that mock the Nemos?

I mean I used to because they were posers, but then it was 20 fucking years ago and now it isn't, and I have a "Spooky till I die" badge on my jacket.

To some of us it wasn't a faze, it was just a step on the ladder to becoming awesome. Many fall off the ladder, hell a lot of people don't even climb it, but those of us that do will rock until we die.

Don't mock the rock.

As someone else has said, whether they're playing from the device or not it's a server.

With that said, I'm a fan of Logitech Media Server and Squeezelite (the player part).

Install both on a pi or something, add a HDD (I bought a usb plug and power cable for £15 on Amazon) and then rip and transfer it to the HDD.

Then you can play it through any old speakers you connect. If you use a pi you can get a hat for it that will make audio quality good.

There's even an app for it called Squeezer on F-droid which allows control from your phone.

It's old but it works, use the Material Theme to make it look nice.

Bonus is that you can install Squeezelite on a bunch more Pis and dot them around the house and play the same library on those at a later date

The general population is very much influenced by the Home Assistant community since the Home Assistant Community is made up of people who are heavily into technology. My parents will run purchases in the tech world past me, as will many of my work colleagues and friends.

The general population are very interested in what we do, even if they do not do it themselves. I mentioned to a tech-phobic friend that I have sensors in my bath that notify me when my bath is run and he takes the piss out of me to my face then talks about how amazing such a thing is behind my back, I know because it happened yesterday. Who do you think he's gonna talk to when he buys his next expensive appliance?

Don't talk our influence down, we have an influence even if you can't see it.

The whole family was adamant it was possession, then at the end one brother casually revealed his mum was drugging them throughout their childhood for a bit of peace and quiet, and that he had looked into the affects and it was hallucinations and shit. Other kids denied it all

I can only take him in small doses...

I've been using Solid Explorer for ever. I like the idea it's FOSS, and I've recently got a new phone, so why not eh? Thanks

The one that made me sad was the monkey that just sat with it's face pressed into the floor because the chip had made its brain infected and it didn't know how to deal with the pain, poor bastard.

The Pope says Catholics must accept Gay people, but won't give them the same right to marriage as straight people. Hypocrisy, although I guess he's probably worried all his clergy will try and marry the kids they're abusing.