I’ll be honest and say that most of my self hosted music collection was pirated or ripped from CD like 20 years ago. I put it all on an iPod back then.

I found the iPod gathering dust in a drawer when I finally got a car with a usb jack a couple years ago (yeah I’m not exactly laden with bags of cash over here) and recently pulled all that music back onto my newly set up media server.

I have a Spotify family account I’m trying to phase out with resistance from the children.

To support artists I go and see them when they tour and buy a ludicrously expensive t-shirt

Yes I do, and it’s currently bugging out so I need to fix it.

I have it on a smart plug. I have an automation that checks the battery level. When it goes below a percentage (I forget what percentage) it turns on and turns back off at 80 percent.

So it never charges over 80 percent battery level which should keep the battery healthy.

The reason it’s bugged out is because just yesterday I wired in a new plug socket with fancy usb charging points, so I switched out the smart plug for a smart usb plug (a Sonoff micro) which does not seem to be doing the job correctly.

I need to have another look at the automation.

I have my old phone as a clock and an old tablet as a wall controller that’s really just a digital photo frame most of the time.