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This is part of why I want to have a personal archive on my own local hard drives. If/When Plex dies, that's fine, my files are still my files.

Crosspost from the Hobbies section of GenMay. Custom built this replica of the Pottery Barn Logan desk suite. On it is the iMac setup in my sig. I also built the little wood stands under the TB display and the iMac. Some guy sells "The Last...

Do Passthru for the Audio so it doesn't recompress it

I went into a store planning on getting one of the Bowers & Wilkins noise cancelling headphones and ended up walking out with the HD630VB. So far, I haven’t found a bad output driver into these cans.

I think I'm leaning towards ordering a 110v Schiit Jotunheim and using a small step-down transformer for it. I really wanted to avoid cluttering my tiny office but oh well.

Unfortunately, no. Stereophile reviewed the Cobalt (which is the most expensive one, unfortunately) and appeared to have a positive impression of it. I'm still reviewing my headphone amp needs and I haven't settled on a contender yet. The biggest...

And whatever you do, never EVER sell a computer to a family member or a friend. Unlimited lifetime warranty is always included in those cases and even if they drop a can of coke on the running computer, it's your fault it breaks. Don't do it.

Actually, technically Apple pay the Open Group for Unix certification, there isn't much BSD left. Linux is more like Unix, they just don't pay the Open Group for Unix certification. Furthermore, APFS has it's share of issues, especially on...

What about a DragonFly? https://www.audioquest.com/dacs/dragonfly/dragonfly-cobalt

It does copy sector/sector. You don't even need to specify the filesystem as it copies block by block. It's a very "dumb" program. You give it an input/output & it copies block by block. This is good in some cases, and....not so great in...

Many debit cards still have charge back abilities. If it has a Visa or mastercard logo it probably does. Check with your card issuer (phone number on back generally) if you end up with no newegg resolution.

Pfff why would someone steal a Intel cpu? AMD is where it is at.

Don't waste your money on extended warranties.

What headphones do you have? Are they low or high impedance?