I’m 50 and really don’t watch movies almost at all any more. They tend to be so formulaic and too long to watch at home at night. If I’m going to watch something it will likely be episodic tv series. I do still play video games on the regular though.

The problem for me is that my music is arranged around “smart playlists”. My music library would be unmanageable if I had to add every song to playlists manually.

To what app in the phone? Does it keep playlists?

Unfortunately Sony was our last hope for consoles and they half assed it. The very last hope is that Flat2VR ports tens of AAA titles at a rapid procession to PS5.

Yeah Sony was my hope here but despite a few great experiences, they have dropped the ball overall. I’m bored of the cartooney Quest stuff, so I’ll probably not buy another headset for a good 5-10 years until there’s something with a good library and something equivalent to a high end PC experience today.

Unfortunately you can’t really turn off a nuclear reactor.

If you play the same songs on other playlists does it use the local copy?

Hmm, okay maybe I will experiment with it. It seems I read somewhere that there was an issue with doing this. Have you tried it? Then whenever I add new music I’d have to remember to add it to this playlist. Other playlists would automatically use the local copy?

But I need all my playlists, not just all my songs in one big useless playlist. I have around 50 of them.

I just wish it had local sync for my whole music library, not just some small slice of it.

I wish they’d allow syncing of my full music library to my mobile app so I can finally get off Apple Music.

This is exactly the point. They are already at full throttle war with the West. The only further escalation they could make would be nukes, which would be their end, NATO can take out all of Russias nuclear capacity and win the war in Ukraine all with conventional weapons.

Ah, should have checked the instance before bothering. Wasting my time on conversations with .ml bots again.

Russia’s inflation is among the highest in the world, interest rates are also at the level of credit cards elsewhere in the world, China’s banks are refusing to take Roubles now, Putin is burning through the sovereign wealth fund. They definitely do something. If maintained, they can provide some of the biggest headwinds to the war outside of simply providing tons of weapons to Ukraine. They just aren’t the instant fix that many people expect them to be.

That’s great, got any?

I think between all the ideas in this thread that I could conceivably pull it off. I’d probably have to stay on iTunes and Windows Office under a VM, but Windows and office licenses aren’t hard to come by.

I can’t imagine who would ever pay $700 to upgrade from a ps5 for this.

The 3tb are mainly my music and photo library and the rest of my files. I actually have 2 NAS’. I could use them, but I like having things locally and to keep copies of the most important things in multiple places. So one NAS is mainly for backup of the other computers around the house. The other is for home automation and media server.

The disk is less of a problem than the RAM as I just keep it on an external drive. With the 2018 mac mini I have now, I just bought the lowest RAM and SSD possible and added an SSD RAID externally and then upgraded the RAM. I could concievably keep the RAID for the next computer. But even the base 128gb without any of my actual home folders on it is still to small (it’s criminal that they even sell this SKU as it would be entirely unusable for anyone in it’s base config). I could get by on 16gb of RAM (8 is really shit, I can’t do it), but I have to ask myself why I should when I can get more for so cheap.

More than anything I’m just tired of being screwed, and generally want to move to FOSS for everything at home. The FOSS stuff I do run at home like Plex and Homeassistant serve me so well, so reliably, over such a long time, that that’s just where I want to end up with everything so I’m not constantly having to fight being herded into paying for too-expensive cloud solutions or overpaying for basic computer hardware. I’m tired of having my software and hardware be unsupported and then replaced by solutions that are worse just so that they can attempt to extract new revenue streams from me. I want off the treadmill.

Fortunately it’s a free market and I’d take them elsewhere.

Ah that’s new case then. They have to evaluate each one and decide what’s safest then, my point being that sometimes the safest thing to do is to not shoot it down.