I have a confession to make - somewhere along the line I lost pace with technology. I've known I had been falling behind for years, but I now feel so far behind I'm starting to feel utterly bewildered by all the various aspects, especially media storage and access.
The sheer choice available to essentially achieve the same goal, and sometimes the level of expertise needed to implement some of these options, it seems to me, has made the world of gadgets and technology more flexible and therefore more complex than ever before.
Gone are the days when you had shelves of CDs and DVDs. Now the modern equivalent is a NAS media box tucked into some cupboard which networks to your playback device of choice through your home network. The options and preparation to attain this are dizzying:
Buy and set-up the kit so it all plays nicely
Rip all your media to the storage
Does it decode on the NAS or locally
What codec do you choose for your files, what bit rate, what physical size for video, what sound set-up profile 7.1 etc.
Bluetooth / wireless / wired / homeplugs
This is just a home media set-up....you have to keep up with laptops, pc components, smart watches and health bands, drones, vr, camera tech, smartphones.
I realised I don't play music in the house so much anymore because it's all in MP3 on my PC and I've no idea how to get that to play on a bluetooth speaker.
Anyone else feel like you're drowning in tech you only half understand as you get older?!
/rant over