Yeah, I’m sitting next to someone and I don’t loudly watch YouTube next to others. Guess I’ll never know how Steam did it. ¯\(ツ)/¯

The mercado had more bootleg DVDs than the entire Netflix library and the watermarks on the busses TVs taught me a few sites I never knew before. :D

At this point its pretty much a moral transgression to buy music from any labels, organizations, or groups filing these lawsuits. If no one bought their music, they’d have to join a mock trial team or debate club and we might finally be able to straighten out the mess that is copyright law. :-D

Sounds like a monopolistic scam. Fuck those guys. Good on you for still getting a good exam score though!

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.

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.

I don’t sail the seas too much, but I’ve been donating to FOSS projects ever since I left the church. This is my tithe.

My suggestion is a little more old-timey. I worked at a number of Goodwill Stores (Thrift Store Chain). The stores I worked at all had a huge selection of audio books on CD, usually for only $1-2. If your car doesn’t have a CD player, you can always choose to rip them to disk. These were well known, mainstream books. Finding niche titles might be harder.

Plasma is the best for me also. Ever since GNOME 3 went “convergence,” I’ve been looking for a traditional desktop experience. Xfce, cinnamon, and budgie all have good things going for them. I choose to use KDE because I love the customizability of the desktop and the settings menu is easy to use. The theming is also very nice on KDE.

Yargghh?! Seriously though, I was furious when they bought Mojang and partially enshittified Minecraft.