No need to change the names, they are too legendary. Well, seriously, these strange names and the like can be left simply as nostalgia.
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I find it funny how we've resorted to streaming services in an age where you can put 256 gigabytes ono a pinky nail sized storage solution. Ereaders are even better, my old Kindle with 4gb of storage can hold an entire library.
I've got a directory like that on my computer, nested under a couple of /old_computer directories. At some point in the early 2000's I switched to a system of (still not so well named) full albums as hard drive sizes increased and internet connections got faster, leaving the old original directory of one-offs from the dialup days to wither.
My favorite part is the New Music directory where I stick new stuff I obtain until I give it a listen to it make sure that 1) it's something I actually want to keep and 2) whether there is any quality issues with the encoding. There's stuff in there with timestamps from like 2002. Yeah, I'm still planning to check that out....someday....
/media/zfspool1/music/new/new/frommurray2008/
It's half a terabyte and I've found all sorts of shit in there, but I doubt I'll ever get it organized. I mocks me in defiance.
True. Mine's already over 25 years old. Just keeps hopping from hard drive to hard drive.
Not unless you keep up with migrating your files. Drives fail over time.
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Spotify is the last subscription I have. I'm otherwise completely free of big tech.
The reason I can't let it go is because I actually would never find new music I like without it's algorithm. I've found such good music based off it's recommendations. I know I could still find these bands without a premium subscription. But, music is a big part of my life and I just don't want to faff around when trying to find some music I like. For the same reason I think I'd struggle to self host my music because it'd totally fail to work at the worst times no doubt
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I noticed the other day my car can play MP3 CDs and Ive been thinking about popping the one I used to have in my first car in there. It's still in one of the 5 CD books I have in my closet.
So will all my records. And probably tapes. And probably my stack of hdds that I have 3 backups of.
Bite me, corpo streaming leeches
How to protect against bitrot?
RAID1 combined with a separate backup drive on a different machine (Raspberry Pi with a USB->SATA drive bay works). ZFS with EEC RAM helps a lot, too (as another poster mentioned).
No, it's not a full 3-2-1 backup solution, but you have to spend quite a bit as a data hoarder to actually get that. As far as I can tell, few data hoarders actually have a 3-2-1 backup without squinting about the details. Having any backup is better than no backup.
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This, except the same also applies to those with OCD tendencies who spent like 2,000 hours meticulously renaming and organizing file and folders. At times the archive has felt pointless but you're correct -- I should never get rid of it. Even besides the sunk cost fallacy aspect, it might actually turn out to be very valuable in the future. I don't listen to a ton of music anymore but I recently axed Spotify and started using Plexamp for when I do listen. I like Plexamp -- just needs a bit more polish to feel like a AAA app.
I'll sort it next year. Or next computer. Or...
I may or may not know where there is a hard drive that has at least one mp3 that was acquired from Napster
And no of course it isn't named correctly, but thank you for asking.
Also it's not about princess Zelda or link
Use Deezer, ReFreezer and FolderSync to download my liked songs as mp3s and sync the files to my NAS.
I have two directories. The original badly sorted one and the duplicate directory that I ran through some tagging software that failed to properly tag everything. Of course I was going to fix that and so I added things there that aren’t in the original directory so I have to keep both around.
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I got a new pair and of waterproof headphones and consequently I have to load MP3s on them since Bluetooth doesn't work underwater. Go to NG through my collection from the late 90's was a wild trip.