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Quod Libet can do 1 and 3 for sure, I think it can do #2 but I’m not positive. I don’t have a music collection with very many albums that have multiple tracks. You can pick and choose which metadata columns show up for your library and sort by whatever you want, including creating your own but that’s outside my expertise. It can do bulk renaming too.

I was using Clementine for awhile, then because of a lack of updates and some other minor issues, I switched to Strawberry which is a fork of Clementine. It added some neat features but lost a few too. After using a dozen or so different players, I found Quod Libet just works like I want it to.

The way I listen to music is to dump all my files into a single folder called “music”, then do shuffle, repeat all. I was in the process of moving my files to a new storage and moved the folder around a few times. Just had to update the library with a scan, took like 10 seconds.

I also have it set up to automatically resume playing from where it left off. One of the options is then queue autosave interval, which does the resume from where you left off. It’s enabled by default I believe. You can set it to autosave every second if you want but to use less system resources, I stick with the default of 60 and I think it saves on shutdown/restart too. I’ve never noticed it NOT resume from where I left off.

It has a plugin system to add features but otherwise it starts off very bare bones. You add plugins to basically build your own player the way you want it. That means it can be a bit of work to initially setup. While that sounds like a pain, the amount of time I’ve spent in Quod Libet’s settings is a tiny fraction of the amount of time I spent messing with Clementine and Strawberry’s options, as well as other players. It’s probably the music player I’ve seen the GUI for the least in my entire life, as a ratio to how much music I’ve listened to with it.

True, it can be tricky for certain things. I suggested it because it fits the OP’s a) and b) points better than anything else I could think of. The different versions of it can vary a lot too. Bionicpup worked great on my old eeepc, a netbook with a single core 32 bit cpu, but didn’t do well on anything newer. Focal Fossa has worked without issue on everything I tried it on. I wouldn’t use either as my main OS, but it can be fun on a secondary system. I kept mine in the bathroom until the humidity from showering likely wrecked it.

Set up a flash drive with puppy linux. It’s relatively easy to do (depending on how much you already know about Linux) and is mostly risk-free (but you can still do damage so always use caution) because it runs entirely in RAM and shouldn’t mess with the internal storage drive unless you tell it to. You can use it to copy any desired files without booting Windows and it will probably run on that machine better than Windows ever did. I think that has a 64 bit CPU but there are 32 bit versions floating around the internet if it doesn’t. I’ve seen Puppy Linux versions advertised as being 'so easy your grandma can do it. One project of mine that was fun was creating a Puppy Arcade, a usb flash drive filled with emulators and ROMS but I had issues with some emulators.

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That’s a conspiracy? I thought it was generally accepted as truth and part of the risks of working with that one person…

That reminds me of a conspiracy theory about Jim Carey being a serial killer who murdered pro wrestler Chris Benoit: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1585159586960486401.html

No celebrity or famous person has commited suicide by hanging. Their death is actually from one of these two scenarios:

1. A hitman who is known by government officials hangs the victim and makes it appear to be a suicide. The victim is either an enemy to some nefarious government agency or legislation plan (Aaron Swartz), it might be done as a way to make the victim appear dead while actually giving them a way out of their situation, so that they can create a new identity (Epstein), it could include famous celebrities who simply do not wish to perform anymore (Robin Williams) or perhaps were cancelled or fired for having knowledge they were threatening to reveal (Anthony Bourdain). Either way, this assassin is capable of infiltrating prisons and hospitals and knows how to manipulate the media and government death systems.

2. Auto-erotic asphyxiation. Not intended to be a suicide but things going horribly wrong as they skirt death’s reach while chasing an orgasm. (David Carradine, Thomas Midgely Jr.) However, the more it appears to be a death by AEA, the more likely it actually is the first type (Trevor Moore).

Not for long… 😢

I have my own that is similar to this one, due to calendar switcheroo stuff. the idea is that biblical scholars at some point in history made up the stuff about Noah and others in Genesis living to 900 years and whatnot, or it was really just a simple mistranslation of ‘years’ with ‘months’ or ‘seasons’ and living that long sounded way cooler and made their religion superior because of it so they went with it.

i’m sure i’m not the only one who has thought of this but if one were to do the math and divide the supposed years lived by 12, it would put Noah at 77.5 years old instead 900, which is still a really long time for that era. each descendant lives less long but still reasonable ages after dividing by 12, all the way to Abraham when the division stops sounding logical, with him supposedly living to 175 which would put him at 14 and likely isn’t true (but still possible).

at this point the time error/lie switches to seasons, so ages get divided by 4 instead, putting Abraham almost at age 44, much more likely. the last one with an abnormally high age (that i am aware of) is Moses, at 120. By that point, it’s actually his real age and no more division is necessary, plus, records from other places would start to show noticable conflicts in ages.

in my mind, if Otto and Sylvester actually did the 297 year thing, what’s to stop them from doing this too?

People can smoke cigarettes without interfering with higher priorities. I don’t feel it applies to ‘most addictions’. It applies to a lot of them, but the opposite can be true sometimes too. I’ve known alcoholics who would have to call off work if they STOPPED drinking for a day, who would not be able to visit with family/friends unless they had a drink or three first.

It’s a good rule, I agree with that, but not necessarily for most addictions, especially the more entrenched one has become in the habit.

Is your life harder to manage because too much coffee? yes = addiction; no = acceptable

Is your life harder to manage because not enough coffee? yes = addiction; no = acceptable

I don’t disagree with you. I’m just hoping to point out the flaw in that logic. Effect on life management is one aspect of one type of addiction in my opinion. There is more than one type: mental (pathologically doing something known to be unhealthy i.e. smoking) and physical (negative physical symptoms after ceasing something routine i.e. opiate withdrawals) come to mind. I could argue there are also social and antisocial addictions (i.e. gambling and masturbation) which can still be done without immediately making ones life harder to manage, but they might and eventually will, most likely, but not necessarily.

Addiction can be nuanced. I feel it’s important to not set a bar like that, as an addict will use that to excuse or enable or deny that their unhealthy behaviour effects their life, sometimes without even realizing it.

reminds me of Bedknobs and Broomsticks and yes I read your title correctly ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I can’t answer your question but I will add that their method of recording their life is similar to my own and it has been very liberating. I’m using a different note-taking app, zim, and record my thoughts frequently in it. At times I will ‘mentally time travel’ and try to remember things in life to write down, from birth to present.

I wish the user had figured out a way to put their thoughts online. I read their entire 6 month post history and there are several similarities to my own life [i’m disabled, live in Ohio not far from Columbus and I too like to add context to things using brackets] so some of it makes me feel like it could very well have been me posting. I don’t have a terminal condition though and their situation seems [seemed?] much worse off.

I also have some of the same questions and concerns as them. How do I share my writings with my family when I pass? I’m not expecting to die anytime soon thankfully but the world is chaotic and death may happen at any time. Do I put it on a flash drive? Do I make a website? Can I make a ‘dead man switch’ that activates within a week of my certain demise somehow, causing the files to automatically be sent to those who will care? I have backups but will my family find them? How will they know my password? What if I die because my apartment burns down, will they think to look for my cloud storage?

Either way, I do recommend more people find themselves a note-taking app they like and use it to record their thoughts and try to create an outline of their life as best as they can remember. I think it helps to remember the past to prepare for the future. Sometimes your own mind will surprise you by recalling things you had forgotten for decades.

I hope that user isn’t in pain anymore, alive or not.

Breaking news from the Florida Supreme court: EVERYONE must wear either a shirt which fully covers the nipples and belly-button or a wool turtleneck sweater in public in Florida, at all times, from now on, including at the beach, regardless of gender, sexuality or minority skintone, according to the new ‘no nipples’ nevenude law. In a surprise move, Florida Governor Ron Destainus upon hearing the news is quoted as saying “Okay, what the fuck? Maybe we should rein it in a little… Too far people, too far…”, a unique position for him to take, wanting less government abuse and overreach for once and sources say he only sold 2 natural parks to the highest oilcom bidder shortly after that quote, a record low. All university volleyball tournaments have been cancelled due to confusion with the ‘shirts versus shirts’ matches.

/s obviously but that’s my take on what would happen and my best The Onion impression attempt.

There’s a ‘joke’ that goes something like “How do you know if someone is vegan and uses Linux? Don’t worry, they will let you know…” with many variations. Thus, I avoid mentioning that I use Linux, to avoid being ‘that guy’. If that makes sense? The operating system might be more approachable if there were less people being pretentious about it, in my opinion. (BTW, I use Manjaro.)

I’ll also suggest FOSS as alternatives when I hear people complain about proprietary software, if the above does not feel like it would apply.

When I am having problems, I research error messages and warnings, read the man pages and old forum posts that might be related, attempt to diagnose the issue myself and try to do everything I can to avoid bothering the devs. This is more due to anxiety but I think it helps to not waste anyones time but my own. Moreso with user-caused problems as opposed to actual bugs.

Finally, one time someone posted a negative rant about a FOSS application. It referenced comments the sole dev of the program made on github as being toxic. I pored through thousands of comments on the programs github page, literally every comment that it had, to find these supposed toxic comments. Instead I saw a dev being plagued by the most trivial, bullshit problems, often things that had nothing to do with his app whatsoever, with him responding in ways no sane person would think was toxic. So I made sure to call that out on the negative rant, asking them to clarify what led to their criticism. They were unable to do so and instead reverted to name calling, making shit up and using multiple accounts to try to troll me, to no avail. I suspect it was some sort of ‘hit piece’ attempting to draw away users from the app for reasons beyond me. I don’t even use the program it was about.

They may not be code-based contributions but I hope they help, even if only slightly.

Take a close look at your USB ports and any other ports for debris. Sometimes you end up with shorts that do all sorts of weird shit. The crappy mouse might have warped the port too. It’s probably not the issue but it never hurts to check.

I did not think it was a prevailing theory. Now I’m curious about what you wanted to accomplish by asking that question. Why would it matter either way?

Oh, well that’s good to know. Thanks! I guess I need to update my own knowledge of what prevailing thought is.

The model of the solar system as planets rotating mostly within a flat plane around the sun, will become something more like the sun being akin to a bullet with a ballerina dress (to represent coronal aura and discharge) with the planets spiralling along with it but slower and trailing just a little behind. It will also include more space properties that aren’t as well known like massive gas bubbles and a non-static gravitational floor, as well as man-made spacecraft and satellites. I don’t know actually know what the current prevailing theory is. there’s a lot of assumption here, plus imagination of how I believe things actually are, with no real certainty or any supporting evidence.

Make amends with your friends,

lest they meet unfortunate ends.