Yes. The magnets are ridiculously strong. Several hold screen in place on my heat exchanger, to keep leaves and lawn debris at bay.

Haven’t figured out a good use for the platters, but skeet shooting has crossed my mind.

If the self hosted option doesn’t pan out, would suggest iMazing.

They have an MDM now and their previous versions for personal use were superb, versus iTunes.

The lifetime license is definitely declining in value.

Thanks for the info, may look into it further.

The subscription model is a wee bit off putting. I employ old hardware and don’t wish to be frog marched into an update/grade that could break that.

Have seen it happen before, been in IT too fucking long not to.

Read about a modular, upgradable PC laptop yesterday, the Framework.

Buffed it from the base and came up with a price of $3920. https://frame.work/ca/en/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040/configuration/new?variant_id=454

A 16” MBP, with similar specs (96Gb RAM, since 64Gb unavailable)?

A paltry $4699. For.a.laptop. https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch-space-black-apple-m3-max-with-14-core-cpu-and-30-core-gpu-36gb-memory-1tb#

SMH