The Spotify Playback Device Dilemma

The "you'll own nothing" trend got worse this week, our thoughts about the Raspberry Pi IPO, poor Nextcloud performance, and Alex's new high-fiber obsession.

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• Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024 — $40 million to be raised for engineering and sorting out the supply chain
• Spotify to Brick Its Own “Car Thing” Device, Won’t Offer Refund — The physical product, announced in 2021 and made available the next year, will be completely nonfunctional in December
• “Unacceptable”: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds
• Average Age of U.S. Vehicles Continues to Rise, Now at 12.6 Years — The average age of passenger cars continues to trend higher at 14 years compared with light trucks at 11.9 years.
• FUTO funds Immich with 3 year commitment: the best image gallery software - YouTube — Louis Rossmann talks about Nextcloud performance issues.
• Nextcloud.nix at main · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — The JB Nix config for Nextcloud has the best performance we have seen yet.
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• servethehome.com - SFF router build thread — @mobilenvidia has done a great job with their thread on the whole Project TMM ecosystem; but I'm now almost two and a half years down the Lenovo Tiny rabbit hole so I thought I would gather some reference material specific to them together in one spot so that it can perhaps save others some time. I'll try to keep this updated as more information comes in, for the moment it only covers last four generations because I'm most familiar with those.