Bought an eeePC on WinXP that ran like trash and barely could handle simple tasks. Dropped numerous flavors of GNU/Linux on it in a few months. I remember thinking "wtf is this" because the settings and interface felt so bare without the WinXP clutter but things ran much better. Fell in love with the repository model of updating everything with a single command, found the UI was actually simple looking on the surface with a ton of depth available to me when my tinkering became more comfortable and experienced. Stayed because I don't think everything in our lives needs to be stuffed full of micro transactions and ads.
When I left the church, I started directing what was my tithes to nonprofits of my choice including FOSS projects instead.
Here I am a decade and a half later and if I didn't have Linux, I probably wouldn't use computers except in the rarest of circumstances. Its just a high quality experience that commercial software can't measure up to because they have different goals.
Pretty sure they built the transcontinental railroad in the time it took my city to add one 2-3 mile auxiliary lane to the side of a road with 2 pre-existing lanes in the same direction and an existing hard shoulder.
I had an awesome professor once who intentionally assigned the old editions of every book needed for the class to save us all a few bucks. If I recall correctly, she called the publisher out on shifting chapters for the whole class to hear.
Another prof photocopied chapters of his own book to save us from the inflated price gouging of academia. He cared more about spreading his message than making money.
Two other profs only assigned historical public domain editions of philosophical texts to keep our costs down, or eliminate them entirely.
Props to all these great profs. I'll never forget the things they taught me, and one even became a thesis advisor of mine years later.
We know you have no money in your checking or savings account... and you've said no at least 50 times in the last month... BUT would you like to use this investment brokerage we've partnered with?
So sick of all the feedback, rate us, try this feature, what's new, turn on feature x, etc. that seems to be a part of everything nowadays, even Linux apps. Linux wasn't this bad only a few years ago and mobile OSs cranked this up to 10.
If I want to rate an app, I'll look under feedback in the help menu.
If I want to see what's new, show me the changelog...once, right after I update.
If I want to turn a feature on/off put descriptive toggles in the settings menu.
Everything that can be seen from the default view should 100% revolve around fulfilling the function of the app for the user. Human attention is a finite thing and we shouldn't be wasting it on shit like this.
Sounds like you're looking more on the download end of things. Nevertheless, if you have unidentified tracks, it may still be worth running them through Picard. It can search its DB using existing partial metadata, or do something like hash portions of the file and check its DB for matches. It really helped me cut down the unidentified and orphan mp3s in my collection.
You could potentially try the app Innertune for the first part of your query.
Minecraft servers I played on coordinated via Reddit and Mumble. Now they've mostly moved to Discord, which, in my opinion, really hurt the lore and meta gaming because Discord's steam-of-consciousness format doesn't work well compared to a forum style message board where it's much easier to avoid shit-tier content and find good, relevant, high quality posts.
Yep, Sectograph, it has some annoyances, but generally very good. I never understood the flags and why it would use them instead of a pie piece for longer events. I wanted to get a big circular led display and make a sectograph wall clock, but the prices for circular led screens scared me off before I got started.
There is no better way for a real 'murrican to get from point A to point B than in the driver's seat of your brand new F150...
...except literally 1000s of other means of transport including skipping, pogo-sticking, slithering like a snake, railroad handcar, ultralight, rollerskating, skateboarding, push scooter, teleportation, hot air balloon, powerwheelz, electric unicycle, trolly bar, walking etc. etc. etc.
For me personally, I have to say bikes and on foot. Even in the colder months, a 15 miler feels great!
"People shouldn't be getting fucked up on acid or mushrooms out in public, but people shouldn't be on alcohol either."
I'm on team decriminalization...and I think it's going to be extra hard in the US because of our car addiction. I have never driven on psychedelics, nor do I ever intend to, but I'm concerned that someone will make a bad judgment call and drive to the convenience store (because that's the only reasonable way to get places in most of the US) and it could end in tragedy. I see this as an extra hurdle we have to tackle, but it doesn't change my stance on decriminalization.
We don't have a lot of police in my area for the amount of people, so I would not count on them to recognize many drunk/drugged drivers. Traffic is largely unpatrolled and I have only been pulled over for anything twice in ~20 years.
I would be fascinated to hear about what driving on psychedelics is like from anyone who is willing to fess up to having done it (or has a story about a "friend"). Sounds like a bad idea, but I'm not an authority on the topic.
My xps13 9370 is also still going strong. No major issues running Linux, even on weird distros. Bought the windows version because the highest spec didn't come with preinstalled Ubuntu. I hear everything xps is soldered and unserviceable now. If that's true, I will be looking at system76 and framework the next time around. The lack of USB A ports was never an issue and it was my biggest concern going in.
Yes, I drive so rarely I would honestly be happy with any crappy old stereo to save a few thousand bucks. I'm lucky my ~2015 car still has completely separate radio and functions (climate, errors, etc.)
I would want to put in a good dashcam system though. Give me the bones; then let me DIY
Somewhat, I'd estimate once every week or two. It's my daily driver and I'll usually update if a few conditions are met: the update icon let me know something is out there & I'm plugged into external power at home & I'm not going anywhere for a while.
I only have 2-3 AUR packages which is where the trouble seems to start for a lot of folks.
Now that I think about it, I did once end up with a mess where ceph was dropped from the repos and subsequently compiled itself from the AUR over the course of a few hours. Must have been a dependency for something.
No distro is perfect, but for me, Manjaro was a good fit. I'm moderately tech-y but with little formal training, but have used some form of GNU/Linux since at least Warty Warthog in ~2005.
I've used Manjaro for a few years now and it's the longest I've gone without formatting and reinstalling. Then again, to each his own. Run what works for you!
Bought an eeePC on WinXP that ran like trash and barely could handle simple tasks. Dropped numerous flavors of GNU/Linux on it in a few months. I remember thinking "wtf is this" because the settings and interface felt so bare without the WinXP clutter but things ran much better. Fell in love with the repository model of updating everything with a single command, found the UI was actually simple looking on the surface with a ton of depth available to me when my tinkering became more comfortable and experienced. Stayed because I don't think everything in our lives needs to be stuffed full of micro transactions and ads.
When I left the church, I started directing what was my tithes to nonprofits of my choice including FOSS projects instead.
Here I am a decade and a half later and if I didn't have Linux, I probably wouldn't use computers except in the rarest of circumstances. Its just a high quality experience that commercial software can't measure up to because they have different goals.