@peemee You have all sorts of interesting gear haven't you? I actually had a quick look into getting an old iPod Hi-fi (for bedroom) but decided against it. It's sound is decent but doesn't have quite the definition I want.
@streakmachine I wanted one of the better sounding ones but also one that sounds good when you're not sat right in front of it (a common problem). Would have liked playing from USB thumb drive as well but there were none that did that while also satisfying my other needs.
@matigo Can I trust NextCloud to handle files I own? Is it robust enough that I won't lose data? You always make it sound a bit unreliable…
// @joeo10
@matigo It's the Marshall Stockwell II (black & brass version). It's on order so haven't licked it in person yet.
@phoneboy Any friendly, social coming together in this day and age is a good thing. Very important in fact.
Me paying £169 for a bluetooth speaker has elicited much shock. Is that really a lot?
I've just observed someone giving court testimony remotely via Microsoft Teams on a laptop. To do with a minor road incident thingy. Quite enlightening though. What a shambles. It wasn't the software that was a shambles but everything else. Though the fact that the law is done through an app nowadays is partly why everything else was a shambles.
People getting sent e-mails explaining how to 'attend' the same morning the hearing is scheduled for and when they check their e-mail, it's not even been sent. Alleged whiplashee's brief jumping on the the fact that someone was heard saying 'stop sniffing' by going 'Who's that? Is there someone else in the room? I heard a woman!' before having to accept it was a court clerk. People having to defend inconsistencies in their 'witness statements' because giving a good account of a chaotic incident after the fact to a car insurer over the phone when you're really tired is problematic.
If Gabriel García Márquez was still alive he could write a book called 'Justice in the Time of Covid-19'. Subtitle: there's an app for that!