I bought a Lily58 DIY kit a couple years ago. I don’t think I could ever go back to using a full keyboard. It’s just so comfortable. My shoulders aren’t tense anymore. My hands aren’t bent out anymore. I’m not scrunched up like a ball when I type. Then switching layouts to Colemak-DH was another plus. The two things combined really helped my body relax in front of a PC.

Thanks for telling me the point I made…

My Mom’s a pediatric oncology nurse and she said basically the same thing about COVID. “What’s the big deal, it’s been around forever.” Then bam the world shutdown.

They’re one of my favorite bands. Their whole discography is good but LPWP took everything they’ve done before and stepped it up a lot. If you was to ask me what their best album was before LPWP I would say New Bermuda. Now without hesitation its Lonely People With Power.

Silk worm cotton candy. Infuse the silk with sugar and flavors. Roll it into a ball and shove a stick in it.

What’s funny is iPods were the difficult alternative back then. You could only use iTunes and their proprietary files to put music on the thing. You had to do some hack to get around that. It had very limited space even for the time. They were expensive. Meanwhile me with my cheap mp3 player had gigs of music I just drag and dropped from the file manager. I feel bad for anybody that only knows Spotify as a way to get music. They don’t know what they’re missing.

I have favorite albums and then I have the 3(maybe 4 now) perfect 10 albums.

What makes a perfect 10 album? Like you I have to listen to it from start to finish. There’s not a single skip or down track on the album. They have exquisite and timeless production quality. These albums sound good even in the worst quality. On top notch files they’re the best of the best. They hit me at a time in my life where they just clicked emotionally.

For the longest time the 3 were and are:

3. Animals - Pink Floyd - It’s their best album. It has a zen like flow state to it. There’s no pretentious bullshit on it. Sounds amazing.

4. Ten - Pearl Jam - Jeremy is one of the first songs I remember hearing as a child. The rest of the album is just as good. Also amazing sound quality. Flows perfectly across the whole album.

5. Exoplanet - The Contortionist - It’s late summer 2010. An album finally came out that dethroned Colors by BTBAM from 3 straight years of nonstop listening. That album was P1 by Periphery. I didn’t think anything could possibly top that album. It spawned a whole new genre almost instantly. Then on the last day of August, Exoplanet drops. I was floored. Much better sound production. It ebbs and flows with a grace not heard of in Deathcore. It has these magical peaks and valleys all throughout the album. Not a single miss. It’s crushing. Then it gently sets you down and tucks you in bed as the alarms of the spaceship you just had a musical journey on are softly beeping away in the distance. It’s the single best Deathcore album to ever be released. It’s so far and above everything else most people don’t even count it as Deathcore. It book ended one era of music as another one just began and what a way for Deathcore to end it’s dominance.

The fourth album that’s slowly adding itself to the list is Lonely People With Power by Deafheaven. It does all of the things the other 3 do. It hit at the exact time I needed that album. It tells these crazy stories throughout lyrically and musically. There’s not a single skip on the record. It’s honestly up there as one of the best metal of any type albums of all time IMO. The only thing that’s preventing me from adding it to the list is time. Those other records have a longevity unmatched by most. If I still feel the way I feel about LPWP in 5 years, then yeah it’s a perfect 10.

• Bandcamp, Qobuz, HDTracks, just to name a few.
• Any android phone will do. They still make dedicated music players that are better than an old IPod. Try a Fiio device.
• PowerAmp is my goto.
• USB cable
• Check the devices supported file formats and if they don’t fit your needs keep looking.
• MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, VORBIS. The first three should cover all your basic needs.
• Get a bigger SD Card/Hard drive.
• Honestly that’s overkill.
• Jellyfin plays music. Grab an aux chord. Use a bluetooth speaker.
• AUX CHORD!
• Spotify, Youtube, Tidal.
• Just listen to what the heart desires.
• There are metadata editors you can download. I use my ncmpcpp’s(Linux) metadata editor and that works just fine.

(Didn’t need a video to answer any of these questions btw. It’s not rocket science. Hell, it’s not even new in terms of using computers. Music was the first thing I figured out way back in the day. Been adding to the same collection of music for 25 years. You don’t need a dedicated server to host music that you can put on an SD card and in your phone. Why on God’s green earth would you want an algorithm?)

EDIT: Didn’t realize I missed so many questions.

Everybody clap for Seth here! Just read for the first time!

I was born in the late 1900s, I can only go back so far.

Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint - An instrumental record of train sounds. Pretty phenomenal record IMO. Though it’s not one you listen to over and over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNY7JhPbYug

Yeah there was a post of couple ticks really up close. Totally skeeved me out. Last week I pulled one off my dog on every walk we took. Found a couple just crawling around my computer desk for the first time ever. This season has been horrible in my area. I’m totally over ticks.

Rather see this than the fucking ticks from earlier today.

Rain. Gasoline. This Vanilla Bean hand soap my brothers baby mama bought.

1. Completely different IRL.
2. Completely different IRL.
3. Completely different IRL.
4. Completely different IRL.
5. Do you not eat fish?

Are you currently plugged into the matrix? Or are you living bag of water taking in oxygen and emitting CO2 like the rest of us? Are you seriously trying to downplay the value of IRL experience in favor of a terminally online life? If so you’re proving why the adults in you’re own question are right.

Socializing with strangers.

Socializing within a group setting.

Self preservation skills.

Danger assessment skills.

Fishing.

Oh, you can edit audio with it.

https://www.reaper.fm/

You are correct. It’s been so long since I bought my license it feels like a lifetime. I checked the website and if you buy now it’s valid up to v8.99. That could be years from now. I bought my license in 2020 at v6.05. 6 years is extremely generous considering the software subscription environment we live in today.

Have you tried Reaper daw? I’ve been using it for years at this point. It has a free unlimited lifetime demo, or you can pay them $60 for a lifetime license.

I disagree with that Rock assessment. Is he well curated. Absolutely. The only thing mainstream about him is the genre he’s working in. Psyop strength? You gotta pay too much attention to everything he does in this attention economy for him to be a Psyop. Ain’t no letting the job do it’s work with Rock. You gotta give him your full attention. There’s a level of disconnect that a Psyop needs to work and Rock isn’t allowing that. Could you skim the dictionary and learn every word your eyes touched? I don’t think so.