Yeah sad they’re stopping it. I used it to easily access all services when not home… Jellyfin, audio bookshelf, dashboards, nextcloud… All worked rather well on it with very little effort (just had to turn the meshnet feature off and on again on phone once in a while). I don’t think there is any other company offering anything as simple as this was…

Not super common I guess, but I find temperature describing a valid way of describing how music feels to you… Closely related to matching colours to music, which seems more generally accepted as being a ‘real’ thing

https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/music-and-temperature.html?m=1

_Cold: high-pitched, clear, dry, minimalistic sounds. Metal, ice, brittle materials breaking. Abrupt changes. Sharp sounds, with reverberation. Clear, precise, correct, sterile. Digital, technological. Lack of emotion.

Hot: Pleasant, immersive sounds, without abrupt changes. Muffled sounds, as if heard through a warm blanket. Warmth = wellbeing. Rich, deep, low sounds. The sound of soft materials melting. Human, analogue, non-digital. Love, closeness, emotion._

And also for example how a high quality vinyl record playing on old school decent stereo can really feel very different (warmer) from all other ways of listening to the same music… In general imo society did lose audio quality (warmth) when moving away from vinyl and big stereos to digital and pc speakers, Bluetooth speakers, earplugs… it’s still the pinnacle listening experience for albums.

To me that isn’t neutral music at all tho, it always sounds very warm for me… Like the evening cooldown after a very hot day. And I like that about it.

The actual “genre” that comes closest imo is Bossa Nova, think Girl from Ipanema.

Is what you’re looking for perhaps Elevator Music or Muzak??

Focus your resources to keep seeding near dead items, more local/regional/obscure things. 1 seed more or less on a 150 swarm of a very popular, new item doesn’t matter as much as being (almost) the only one left.

Happens in multiple countries. Germany, Netherlands, Belgium I know for sure. Probably elsewhere too.

If you count using shady free streaming websites, I think the number is waaaay bigger than 1%

HDD is cheap and enough, but SSD is silent.

+1. Very easy, very stable.

For getting nice metadata musicbrainz is the best out there imo. Sort your collection, anything new you add, run it through musicbrainz. If your music is missing from musicbrainz: add it! It is the most complete, free accessible database there is. Discogs for example is more complete but not the same level of free to access.

Beets is supposed to be good but I find it complicated, steep learning curve.

Wow.

This works crazy fast and performant. Keep up the incredible work!

E, C and F, because they are all somewhat compatible.

Steam deck works very well for retrogaming and for running non-steam games. You can set up emulators rather easily.

It’s an unlocked device (unlike a Nintendo), you run on it whatever OS you want. If they would pull such moves, community developed steam OS alternatives will arise. All that’s needed to run non-steam games on the device is open source.

Local library, local thrift store, 2nd hand websites… If it was ever published on VHS, DVD, … chances are it’s out there somewhere

There’s way worse songs this could be happening with…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE&t=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w&t=28

Lava chicken is quite groovy actually, tasty. You’re in luck.

You can buy a used office computer from businesses that are upgrading (downgrading) to win11 for less than 50 bucks. They tend to be relatively low power, relatively quiet, lots of PCI slots and USB ports so there are many upgrade options, yet low entry price for a decent computer. If you plan on using as a jellyfin server: either mind the chip now for transcoding capabilities (there’s lists out there) or know that if you want that, you’ll have to put in a GPU at some point if the onboard can’t transcode well.

I have a mix of external and internal SSD’s. Some are running way not as fast as they theoretically could, but it all works well enough for me. You can start with what you have, storage is still expensive.

Public torrents suck for music these days. Little available and a lot that is there is FLAC only, no mp3-320

A good movie in 720p will always be a good movie. A crappy movie with shitty story and shitty acting will still suck in 4K or 8K or 4D or whatever will come. Like good vinyl LPs from 60s-70s never really went bad if they were well taken care of…

I only once encountered it in Czechia near Plzen with 2 lanes. Think it took me 5 minutes before I could/dared. Can’t imagine it with 3. Crazy dangerous situation. Stay safe!

Tho not preferable, there’s cases where it can work. The roundabout layout still provides a better (easier) entry to the crossroads, the traffic lights can create a “cadence”. Technically not a roundabout anymore, it does use some of it’s qualities.

Anyhow, pedestrian crossings on 2 lanes right before any kind of intersection without any lights is way more dangerous than a roundabout with lights.