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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Sonos sucks.

    I bought their products because at the time there wasn’t much else in the Wi-Fi speaker market. It worked well enough. Then their app (the only way to connect to them) got worse and worse. Some days the speakers just wouldn’t work. Others the app couldn’t find them. I’ve had to reset the entire system many times, which for some insane reason takes like an hour and doesn’t always work.

    Want to change which network the speakers are on? Good luck. You would think you just select the network and type in a password like every other app in the world, but no, it’s a nightmare. After hours of factory resets and physically connecting the speakers to my router, my speakers are sometimes on one of my two networks, sometimes on the other, and sometimes unable to be found.

    If you’re considering buying Sonos, look at their play store reviews.

    Fuck Sonos.





  • No one needs Plex pass. I don’t even recall what it does. You just send an invitation to their email. It will try to get them to subscribe, but they don’t need to. They just need to accept from you and setup a plain account. Maybe even just login from a Google account.

    You may need to walk them through setup/installation on whatever device they use, because Plex tries to put a bunch of things that aren’t your content on the home screen.

    Strangely, Plex (remotely) performs differently depending on the device. I’ve never had any issue with a computer or phone (you do have to make a one time $5 payment for the phone app). My horribly slow TV runs Plex surprisingly well. It runs like garbage on my PS4, and sometimes struggles on my Xbox series X.

    If the streaming runs choppy for remote users, there are some settings you can adjust. But that’s another story.