I never bought into that device. In fact, I have never bought or owned any kind of hardware that needed a server to function (well, apart from Windows on a couple of my PCs). Smart devices - not a smart choice.

I used to use SPDIF but on my recent Windows machines I found that only allowed stereo connections, not 5.1. Using the cable with 3 x 3.5mm jacks on each end in '6 ch direct' mode sorted it.

I like the Z5500 setup so much I have four of them now - one I bought new for around $500 in 2005, and three more sets I've bought since for 100-150 each. One under my desk on my PC, one on the sim rig, one set in the bedroom with a wall mounted TV, and one in the lounge for music. Sound quality is amazing.

And then you have to tell the model if the book is fiction, fact, or some conspiracy theory someone made up and published as 'fact'

My favourite questions to give LLMs a bit of a workout:

I'm looking for an old paperback book about Einstein published in the 1970s which was in a graphic novel style.

I need a list of childrens encyclopedia published in England in the early 1970s

Tell me the plot of the eleventh book in [scifi series]. (There are only 10 books in that series).

I'm looking for a childrens book where there's a character called Cherry, and the kids help an old lady to find a missing will.

I'm looking for the name of a TV show where the main character was found in the jungle and raised by a tribe, called something like orthowei.

Welcome to hallucination city.

I just picked up a 1991 Britannica in 40+ volumes. When the internet is nothing but AI hallucination and slop, I'll still have access to some actual verified facts.

To me, video games compete on how much that style of game appeals to my own taste. The price is irrelevant.

I don't usually enjoy MOBA style games, competitive shooters, platformers, or other games where you do the same thing over and over again in the same play area/map. Silksong and Hollow Knight fit into this category - not my type of game at all, whether they're free or $20 or $100

I do enjoy space sims (e.g. Elite Dangerous), flight sims, online sim racing, factory builder games (e.g. Satisfactory).

I've been gaming since 1982, and have obviously played a vast range of titles over that time. Gaming is my number one hobby, and always has been.

TLDR; games are not like petrol for my car, where brands offering the same product can only compete on price.

I've spent more than 30 years of my life writing science fiction, all of which has apparently been hoovered up for AI training. I won't see a cent of any settlements or class actions as I don't live in the US, and to be honest I don't care about any of that.

I haven't written a word of fiction for five years, and I don't know if I'll ever bother again. I meet people every day who are excited about publishing 'their' novel which they 'wrote' using AI, with an AI-generated cover. Then they ask my advice on how to get it into bookstores and onto bestseller lists because they know I've done both.

My answer should be: toss that AI crap and do the hard work yourself, but I just tell them I hope their book does well.

In every printed book there's a legal notice that it's illegal to store the book in any electronic retrieval system (ie scan it). That's been around since computers were just a theory.

Also netflix, spotify, etc

I remember summer hose bans in the UK back in the seventies. Water shortages there are nothing new.

Probably dropped off a desk ornament with TWO 22k gold bars glued to the bottom.

These media companies don't realise that their own days are limited. When Joe Bloggs can use AI to create a whole TV show from a prompt, why would he pay Netflix to show him a whole TV show created from a prompt?
Publishers planning on using AI to write books 'in the style of' will also be short lived for the same reason.

Nice little media server, but it's the first and last Mac I will ever buy.

I drive a 1998 Impreza WRX which I bought new. It has 170,000km on the clock (105k miles) and drives like a new car even though it's 27 years old. 15 years is nothing if you look after a vehicle and don't drive it like you stole it.