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Have no fear, garlic is well represented tonight — in the pesto and the beans.

My physical media collection was in the basement level of a house which flooded in Hurricane Sandy. All vinyl lost. CD paper and booklets destroyed. The disks themselves survived, just needed a good cleaning. So I put them in large sleeve folios. Those folios don’t take up much room, and the media are all still there if I ever want. Pure streaming from 3rd party services isn’t an option for me personally. I listen to too much old, obscure, and international stuff which doesn’t exist on Tidal, and never will. I’ve been thinking about a way to put media files on Amazon Drive or S3, and put together an iOS app that can stream them (maybe something like that already exists). Then connect an iPad to a DAC. Seems more elegant and future-proof to me than buying an expensive dedicated streamer box which will become obsolete when Tidal goes out of business.

U2 -- Achtung Baby Hell, why not?

Everything's a 10.

Have you gotten bags for the rear rack? That would be a very nice grocery shopping bike, especially if your grocery stores also serve beer.

No longer shamefully stock. New suspension post, saddle and grips. Much more bum friendly. Rode to gym today — hopefully the start of a virtuous circle!

Re: 1. "Cloud" needs to be your own service account. etc Multiple Services - avoid single point of failure (assuming you can determine they use disparate systems. Doesn't help if they are all (virtually) hosted by "BigCloudCo" But at this point you are moving from a "HomeBrew" solution to a startup business plan. Indeed. But does it matter? In a large enough system, something is always going wrong. So deal with it. To the point where you don't notice. Netflix is the tech poster child for such issues. "3. The best way to avoid failure is to fail constantly." "One of the first systems our engineers built in AWS is called the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey’s job is to randomly kill instances and services within our architecture. If we aren’t constantly testing our ability to succeed despite failure, then it isn’t likely to work when it matters most — in the event of an unexpected outage." https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/5-lessons-weve-learned-using-aws-1f2a28588e4c

Makes perfect sense to me. Who is the source of your streaming data? (Hint: External provider tidal) I need a client that understands the streaming data .... How useful is that client when that provider goes away> .... If however I use standard protocols ... and can implement my own provider of that streaming data ... hosted in the cloud ... ( or elsewhere) I'm not reliant on transient, fickle, providers .... Some people have already tried to put slimserver / logitech media server in a docker container .... https://hub.docker.com/r/larsks/logitech-media-server/ same approach could be tried with any other streamer source server / program and use someone else's (hosted) infrastructure, so you don't have to host / manage it on-prem Voila - Music Streaming, As A Service - MSAAS! Sorry for all the nerd buzzwords, but I've just seen a bunch of presentations on on similar topics ... As A Service

Where was the fire?

911 GT3

JH13.

CDs will never fully go out of style in San Francisco. Roll that one around a while.

+1 for the Oppo DACs. I use Oppo's ios app on my phone/tablet to control the 105 I have and it is fantastic at streaming from Tidal and/or my networked drive. I'm actually thinking of pitching all my physical CDs when I move. All they do right now is collect dust.

Tomales Bay mussels with smoked bacon, tomato, chickpeas and, uh, bread. Standards are not being maintained ...

Oh guys, my Dl-103 and I love this vinyl: I have the same edition (rhino label)

Now Yahoo admits Every single Yahoo account was hacked, all 3 billion, in 2013 breach https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-cyber/yahoo-says-all-three-billion-accounts-hacked-in-2013-data-theft-idUSKCN1C82O1