I've got a music library with timestamps for created dates being >12 years ago (2011) but some of the files likely date back to ~2002 or 2003 when I was pirating stuff with Napster on my dad's PC and have been transferred from filesystem to backups back to filesystems... so on and so on, from grade/middle/high school to college and now adult life.
At some point keeping your files and directories organized becomes a part of your workflow (can likely be automated after an initial hump of tagging songs correctly), such that you can move between music applications with minimal work.
I've settled on still using MediaMonkey (now on version 5) locally on my windows machine, that has its local Music folder stored in dropbox. I then have a linux server in my basement that does an `rclone sync` job nightly going from dropbox to the server's local filesystem on pair of HDDs in a ZFS mirror pool. The server then runs plex locally, which I can access on just about any type of client with the PlexAmp app. There some valid reasons to not like plex, but one thing it does well is it doesn't modify the metadata of your files themselves, and you can set it to prefer the file metadata over its autofetched metadata for your albums.
Essentially if you keep your files and dirs cleanly organized from the get-go, it's pretty easy to then go try out other apps/services (free or OSS) that fit your needs. Some purists will tell you to use Foobar2K or Winamp, which I believe are still viable options. But that said, I think just ensuring your files stand the test of time will be more important than your application of choice you use to consume them.
We switched from Geico recently to a new insurance carrier as well because of how expensive our new rate was going to be.
Likely time to go check on a comparison site for a better rate. Sometimes Geico can try to match that if you have a new quote at a lower price, or you can just switch.
Disclosure: I work at Clearcover (https://app.clearcover.com/apply), the company my wife and I switched to, but I don't think anyone would argue with a $500/6mo rate to a $180/6mo rate (employee is discount is ~5%).
That's an old meme. Audio "just works" for years. With pipewire, it's actually better than MacOs and Windows in many scenarios. (yes, yes, there's always some one-off issue, but that's not Linux-specific - I've got some "audio broken on windows" stories to trade too, and can tell you about macbooks going right-channel-only mono when using specific BT codecs)
I don’t think it’s that big of an issue, but having come back to linux via the steam deck this year I laughed that literally the first bug I encountered was an audio one. This one: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/822
I'd love to be working/owning a bakery/coffeeshop/bookstore. Then I remember my salary as a level of my effort and what it affords me and my family and how much time I can spend with me kids.
And then I also remember that anything I like to do for fun now that I'd decide to turn into a job would likely become NOT fun as soon as it's a job.
Not for me but I want to applaud you all for having a junior position open. Too often companies only want seniors with little desire to invest in growth of junior engineers. We have to let new engineers get experience too!
- Brad and Will Made a Tech Pod (https://techpod.content.town/)
- Pivot (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot)
- The Vergecast (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/the-vergecast)
- Decoder (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/decoder-with-nilay-patel)
- Daily Tech News Show (https://dailytechnewsshow.com/)
- Hard Fork (Casey Newton of Platformer and Kevin Roose) (https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork)
Going more specifically into Software
- Frontend Happy Hour (Ryan Burgess from Netflix and other smart SWEs/managers) (https://www.frontendhappyhour.com/)
- Screaming in the Cloud (Corey Quinn) (https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...)
- Syntax FM (https://syntax.fm/)