Happy birthday Stefano @monochromios! Despite the tragic circumstances of your vinyl, I hope the wonderful present from your son brought a smile to your face.
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Thank you man. I know tragedies sadly. What happened to my records is a small problem but certainly nothing that will condition me.
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I was very sad when I read your post @monochromios, but I admire your approach of handling the situation (positive manner), so sorry for what happened.
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Thank you. It’s the only way to deal with bad situations. They happen just it. Being negative doesn’t help nor solves problems.
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Happy Birthday @monochromios. I hope you get some vinyl you always wanted.
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Thank you so much. Little by little.
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Happy Birthday @monochromios!
I hope you have a wonderfully and blessed day.
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Thank you so much. It’s been a great day with my beloved family.
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I wouldn’t want it any other way. 
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I knew my wife in a very dark period of my life. If I am the man that I am today I owe her a lot. My son is becoming the man I wanted to be in all my life. I can’t ask for more since what I have is so precious.
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Ever, driven by ennui, or whatever had that feeling “I want something but I don’t know what”?
Well, I’ve had that feeling for a while. Sure, there are the practical things that are on the list. Air Conditioning upgrade. New mattress. But those are sort of needed things. And then there’s my wife’s list. We’re getting the anniversary ring upgraded. She thinks her car might be due for a change. And maybe a sunroom for the house she inherited from her Mom (Did I ever mention that the only thing worse than owning a house is owning 2 of them?)
Nah, I’m talking stress-induced toy desire. My laptop is 2012 vintage, but has 32mb of RAM and what was a near top of the line processor, so it’s OK. I run ROON on a late 2014 Mac Mini. I occasionally use a Gen 1 iPad Air, and frequently am on a Gen 1 iPad Pro at work. My speakers are old. Lots of possibilities here.
Probably the smartest and one of the cheapest toy upgrades would be a new iPad Air. The Pro can still run the latest OS (We’ll see if it handles the new release). But that new M1 chip Pro is mighty tempting.
As is a new Mac Mini - or maybe a proper ROON appliance running ROON OS. (I’m still OK with the very very old netbook running Linux - it’s presently updating Lubuntu 20.4 to 21.4).
And the speakers. I love them, but would love some Maggie 3.7i’s or some Wilson’s more.
The great thing about having many choices is that I can dither around about it and keep most of the dollars in my wallet. For a long time.
Ever feel like you wanted something, but didn’t know what?
(World Peace and Lost Youth are not, apparently, available)
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“I don’t want something I need, I want something I want”.
The secretary in “Love Actually”
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I know that feeling, and eventually decided that I’d quench that thirst by exploring Roon and network audio in general. And after some very helpful advice from @Roark , I went out today and bought all the fixings for a NUC. If all goes well, I’ll have put it together over the weekend, loaded the Roon OS and attached it to my network.
Step 2 will be putting together a PI2AES, but there’s a 4-6 week delay before I get mine.
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Really interested in your experiences with all that. Keep us posted
Thanks.
Hopefully more successful than last weekend’s project to upgrade my home wifi to a Netgear mesh system. Turning off my old wifi and installing the mesh router and extenders was easy, switching phones and laptops to the new network was easy, and then my Logitech harmony hub refused to see the network. Apparently it’s a known Logitech issue (not known by me, or I wouldn’t have wasted my Sunday afternoon).
So I was faced with the choice of stronger wifi in the house or using one universal remote. The remote (or at least my wife’s hatred of having multiple remotes) won, and I had to uninstall everything and put it all back the way it was.
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All the time, but usually logic sets in and ask me, What are you trying to prove upon, what do you really want. But good old logic usually wins. Darn it. 
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I installed one of those a few days ago. Better coverage than I thought as I only needed one satellite when I figured I would need two based on house size. So far has made a big difference in terms of signal strength but I have had a few instances of complete drop off that needed me to reset everything so long term reliability is still up in the air. Im generally happy with the improvements.
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I was very happy with the mesh coverage. I just don’t understand why the Logitech Harmony Hub wouldn’t recognize it.
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Smart home stuff often struggles with a unified broadcast ssd continuing 2.4 and 5 ghz bands. On my router (admittedly a stupidly prosumer model) I have the option to create another network, so I do that, and make that network only 2.4, and only attach stupid light switches to it.
ymmv.
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Thanks, that’s the clearest explanation I’ve gotten. 
I don’t think the Netgear system allows me to create a 2.4-specific network, but I should be able to leave my previous router’s wifi on, just broadcasting in 2.4. Will the 2 wifi networks disrupt each other?