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Yeah, it's not cool. However, the Xperia phones up to series iii all have LineageOS releases, which can extend the life, and I'm hoping it comes to the later series as those get to EOL. They absolutely should have better official support though.

Just to offer an alternative viewpoint, because I have come across these issues and ended up buying a Sony phone because I had such a bad time without the 3.5mm headphone socket.

Some people want more internal storage than even 512gb - I have a 400gb microSD in my phone because with the OS and apps getting bigger, even a large internal storage can fill up fast. Also, it's nice to have media collections, photos, and other files with you, rather than relying on data and cloud storage, and the cost is now very low for a large microSD. It's also easier to transfer large amounts of data between devices that way.

As for headphones, dongles are a pain and USB headphones have to have a (usually not great) DAC in them to work, plus many people already have great headphones they want to keep using. All of that said, the biggest issue with USB headphones IMO is that there is only one USB port - the wear and tear of using it for everything is significant. Also, USB-C plugs are much more breakable and harder to replace than a 3.5mm jack. Additionally, you cannot charge and listen at the same time without a dongle and many of those are bad (none of the ones I have tried have worked for more than a few weeks before connectivity issues started).

I moved to Splid and found it a bit less clear than Splitwise but better in other ways once I'd figured it out. It's not FOSS, unfortunately, but I do trust it much more than Splitwise.

I think it's all speculation so far, but I've heard the company is an analytics one, so it's likely to try to sell user data

Simple File Manager (and the other associated apps) got bought by a company, so this is a fork by a long-time maintainer that keeps it FOSS

I use MiX, which has a "Search local" option when adding SMB, which sounds like what you're after

Jellyfin only l does HDR to SDR transcoding (unless I'm out of date). I had to turn off transcoding to ensure the HDR content was handled by the receiving hardware instead. I believe HDR to HDR transcoding is coming to Jellyfin, as it was held up by their version of ffmpeg that now has the needed feature merged, but I'm yet to see it available in Jellyfin itself.

I don't know about your scenario but I recently started using Insular to manage separating my work apps on my phone and that's been great

I'm curious about this too, but more for for sharing long, self-made playlists. A single song is not too bad to send or find on YouTube but a playlist is difficult

It doesn't have to be live, you can make backups and put them various places for redundancy, so that it can be restored. A backup is small enough to fit in some free cloud storage, preferably encrypted, which helps protect against a few eventualities.

I noticed that HDR to HDR transcoding was added to the jellyfin ffmpeg a little while ago - any news on it being added to the server?

BIFL and Bluetooth are typically an impossible combo because Bluetooth means more batteries and electronics to break/be unreplaceable. Maybe modular systems will come in the future but they'd need to use a completely generic set of batteries.

My best suggestion, based on what you describe as your problem with wired headphones, is to get headphones with a removable cable, as those cables are generally pretty standard. I know sennheiser had a lock in mechanism but you can get third party cables. Also, I was able to take that out of my HD599s and use the headphones with a Bose cable.