Thank you for the info.

Thanks for the info. Kind of confirms there are better ways about this that I should look into. But also confirms that it works well enough because sometimes I just want to play music on my TV as I do house chores.

Anybody using jellyfin for their music? I never tried it because some initial comments said it was bad, but it looks like they’ve been improving it.

Oh, I fully agree the price is too high for 6 year old hardware.

I was looking at the Vero that another comment recommended. That looks promising to me. I’ve only done initial looks but that’s probably the route I’d go if I need to buy today.

Google streamer is cheaper, but paying extra to keep google out of my life is OK by me. Just personal preference.

I’m using the shield non pro (tube) with the wolf launcher and it works fine overall. Occasionally it’ll freeze up and I need to hard boot it.

I’m fairly confident the shield line is dead at this point so I’m not waiting on it. When my tube dies out on me I’ll figure something else out. I’m here checking out what others are doing so I can slowly research and set a game plan in advance.

But I don’t expect that time to come soon. Its not like the thing is under high load since my home media is running on a different box. I also suspect if I factory reset my tube it’ll fix my random bugs and negate the need for something new.

That depends on when you’re retiring. The money is running out, period. The fact that its running out in the 2030s isn’t news (the article even states this hit to SS only changes things by a year), and that payments will be reduced is true. But a 50 year old will get that radically reduced rate, but get something. A 20 year old really doesn’t have that guarantee, especially with how freely the rules can change by the time they hit retirement age.

We’re at the tipping point, so of course there’s a lot of upheaval about it, but there really hasn’t been a definitive plan (let alone a good one) on how to change this predicament so that resting on “you’ll get something” seems optimistic at best.

I mean, I’m sure you’re right but it’s buggy as shit on Windows too.