My one and only bit of advice is for a first timer to only use a live usb/disc for a week, doing the most common things.

That assumes they don’t know anyone willing to put the time and effort into helping them migrate. If you have help, I don’t believe you’d have to have as long a trial period. A day or two at most.

Reasoning is that you never notice everything that might need troubleshooting the first few days. Making sure of that is much better done before trying to install and jump in, even with a dual boot set up.

Gods, I hate those. I won’t watch anything that does it

Really?

Don’t see a lot of guitarists poking playing southpaw in metal. She’s pretty damn good

And the award for best metal band name goes to…

Man, I can’t even describe how much I love this fucking song, and the album as a whole. The next album was incredible too.

Vastly underappreciated band

Poweramp

The way it handles its own audio engine is pretty much the best available.

That’s some good shit right there!

The bass makes this track for me. Really digging the hell out of it

Here we go got turned to utter shit here in the US.

It used to be awesome, but then it got bought out and they pushed an update that broke the hell out of it. Three times, it tried to have me turn into a lake. Twice, it kept telling me to turn every damn block until I had to shut it off and resort to waze. And for the week I kept trying to stick with it, voice navigation would cut in and out, give garbled noises instead of words. It was absurd.

I’m glad folks in other places have a good gps navigation app though :)

Cixelsydm’i

Dyslexia!

Yeah, obviously, or the title wouldn’t even have happened.

And it’s been that way for a while now. Back when windows 10 happened, I was able to install mint, get most of my preferred programs set up, and handle data transfer with zero CLI use. Which was awesome, because my dyslexic ass would have taken forever otherwise. It wasn’t until I started putzing around for pop and giggles that I even opened a terminal.

My mom w as able to jump right in after installation of mint, and go through the gui to try things out, no issues.

Thanks :)

Seems like it might be at least a partial answer to my preferences

Does it use embedded lyrics or insist on using the internet?

Secondarily, does it offer any of the more useful tagging controls and library management features?

I keep looking for a Linux native player that can get close to musicbee. Haven’t found one yet, they all lack major features like batch file renaming and organization.

Are they ever going to respect embedded lyrics?

That track is so fucking hard!

It’s an old story.

I used to be heavy into martial arts. I’m a big guy, ex power lifter, and with a good sized belly (though the exact size has fluctuated over the years).

I was working a job where I had the freedom to set up a kind of personal dojo in the side yard while working nights. Neighbor was a smartass after seeing me work out a bit, made sumo jokes to a guy doing cutting practice. Explained the difference between sumo and what I was doing.

The guy was slow, and asked if that was like the samurai.

I said yeah, because I was doing Japanese jujutsu, iaido and general kenjutsu. You know, samurai shit.

He cracks a joke that I must be the fattest samurai in the south. Which, at the time, I was maybe 18-20% body fat, so not even close compared to a couple of guys I took classes with. I had been cutting weight pretty good for months, despite still having that bulgy belly you get when you power lift. Looked fatter than I was tbh.

Anyway, trying to keep this to the short version.

I told the story to friends, and discovered I had a new nickname, as friends do. It got shortened to southern samurai, and after I started using that as a gaming handle, it got shortened to southsamurai by character limits.

Too far gone at this point. It sucks, but every drive has an end of life. After that point, no matter how many hoops you jump through, they’re read only until they quit entirely. I think that’s where you are now, so even if there’s something in the thread that works to get it back to being able to write to it, you should consider what you get on there as read only, and maybe that only is “only once”.

Nice! Thanks for the tip!

Edit: holy shit, how have I never run across that before? That’s a brilliant program right there.