They definitely are proud of their product. It was a huge change for me. I’d been a back pocket bifold or trifold guy my entire life, and I just got to the point I hated it. Had to remove it from my pocket if I was driving or riding my motorcycle or sitting for any extended period of time. It collected crap I had no need to collect, etc.

Bought my Ridge, my wife laughed and said"that elastic will never last". I’m still on my first elastic!

I bought them for two of my three sons who also love theirs.

All that said, I’ve looked a couple of times at ones like you shared, and think they would work great also.

Ridge. It’s minimalist. I’ve had mine for eight years and I love it.

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.

Just say no to keyboards that need to phone home.

One of the fucking dumbest things any sport could do.

This is why I am a happy Kagi user.

I’ve been playing Civ since the very first one. I got my start with it on the Amiga 2000.

Your concerns echo mine, but I also know that Sid rarely makes missteps. So while I’m concerned, I’ll wait until I actually get to play it.

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.

Alright, I’ll give it a shot.

I love the Blues, but Captain Beefheart doesn’t speak to me at all. I think your usage of “avant garde” is exactly right.

I absolutely do not understand Captain Beefheart. I have some on my media server but it is all rated 1-star.

Care to tell me who’s running the country now? Perhaps a bunch of unelected people? Just maybe?

I’m not an environmentalist, and I’m certainly not vegan, but I’ve been spotted at more that one vegan restaurant. Someone going to a vegan restaurant is not news!

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.