You're incredibly wrong, but in a very classic way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 I'm a senior engineer,

You're incredibly wrong, but in a very classic way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 I'm a senior engineer, and a pretty technical geek. I'm also plenty social, and am that one techie friend for a lot of non-technical people and field regular "Hey what kind of <> should I buy", or "Can you help me configure <>". I've never heard of Navidrome or Ultrasonic. Could I figure it out in 30 minutes of googling or reading? Sure. But the point is that these concepts are not nearly as ubiquitous as you might think. I'm also not interested in hosting a music server for my friends, and dealing with all the tech support concerns that would come with it.