Qobuz used to allow downloading entire albums and then switched to only allowing track downloads unless you download some app they’re trying to push (which I never used).

7digital offers both album and track downloads, and looking at my account it seems that it’s the album download specifically that just doesn’t work. I can download tracks one at a time.

Pop_OS has fallen behind on updates over the past couple years with their development team focused on their Cosmic DE. I’m sure it’ll catch up later, but Pop definitely isn’t in a state I could recommend to anyone right now.

Mint is a very solid choice, but just to throw another idea out there if you’re interested in out of the box Nvidia drivers, I’ve heard good things about Nobara. You can kind of think of it being to Fedora what Pop_OS was to Ubuntu. A solid base with some of the more finicky packages preinstalled.

Nice, waiting paid off. I’m actually interested in picking up the new God of War and Horizon games now.

It’s always a gamble

One place will have “ultimate spicy ghost pepper death sauce, you will literally die” and it’s mild as fuck

And then you go to the local Thai place down the road, and the 3/5 star heat level will absolutely kick your ass

I sympathize so hard. I actually wrote a post about this a few months ago. I gave up and switched to Tidal, I was tired of hunting for flacs online.

However, if you’re more willing to stick with it than I was:

Bandcamp seems to be less used now than it used to be, but is still the king. Qobuz (as you described) have been adding in roadblocks to purchasing albums more and more presumably to push people to streaming. 7digital is is kind of dead, I bought one older album from them and the download didn’t work.

On to stuff you didn’t mention:

If you like electronic music, Juno Download and Beatport have a solid catalog, but be prepared to pay a lot more than Qobuz or 7digital.

HDtracks is also expensive and I’ve never used it, but it’s been around forever.

Artist websites will sometimes, very rarely, maybe offer lossless downloads (example)

You can also check if you have any local record stores near you, they’ll usually have CDs as well. Some will even carry new releases.

Good luck.

Bud Light was the first one on the spreadsheet and was going to be my worst beer benchmark at 0 points.

When I tried Heineken, I had to move everything else up to make it the new 0, lmao

Yeah I’ve been careful to not give any thought to the BA rating, I only added that column last night, it hasn’t been something I’ve paid any attention to otherwise.

The KBS and Speedway Stouts were definitely too strong for me like you guessed. Might try them again much later down the line lol

Hell yeah, the way I think about it is the best case scenario is I find drinks I like, and the worst case is I become more knowledgeable about something other people like. Win-win.

That double IPA, to my untrained senses, tasted pretty close to a stout/porter which is why it scored highly. That Slightly Mighty one though, no clue. It didn’t taste like any other beers I’ve tried (including other IPAs), so there might be a promising path somewhere in IPA land that I haven’t quite identified.

I will see what I can find from neipa, kriek, etc. I might need to try expanding my search since I don’t remember seeing any of those at the liquor store I go to, lol

I definitely enjoy some dark chocolate with stout beers. I hadn’t considered the salty combo yet. Will have to give that a shot.

I found that I liked stouts early on and definitely locked in on those as safe bets in addition to random picks. I’ll see what I can find from the types you mentioned.

I don’t really know anyone that likes beer, so I am fully winging it lol

Fedora/dnf makes installing additional desktops super easy, also with no risk to data. To hijack your comment a bit:

To install Plasma: sudo dnf install @kde-desktop

Logout and log into the Plasma session to use it.

To rollback, get the transaction ID of the above: dnf history list

And then rollback: sudo dnf history rollback <ID>

If Gnome’s fonts/icons don’t revert, install and open gnome-tweaks and reset settings.

Yeah if you’re looking for a traditional/Windows-like metaphor, you’re WAY better off with Plasma than trying to wrestle Gnome into that shape.

Definitely worth a try, especially if it’s been a few years since you’ve last played with it.

I’m amazed by the level of polish overall, I’ve encountered very little jankiness that used to be super common with Plasma when I last tried it. Plasma feels like a really mature desktop now, which is awesome. I’m running Plasma 6.2 at the moment, and I think 6.3 is right around the corner as well.

My problems so far are more subjective. Gnome may be a very opinionated desktop, but I happen to agree with most of its opinions. Gnome’s workspaces feature is miles better than Plasma’s virtual desktops, which feel tacked on in comparison. I’m still trying to tinker with this to make it work for me, but honestly this seems like the thing that will push me back to Gnome if I don’t find a workflow I like.

KDE obviously has more features overall though, HDR support happens to be the one that I’m interested in at the moment since I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a new monitor.

Ironically most of my customization so far has been to make it more like Gnome lmao

Still trying to figure out how to make workspaces/virtual desktops more…usable.

Overall though it’s amazing how solid Plasma is now, it sure as hell isn’t the buggy mess it used to be in the earlier Plasma 5 days.

One of my clients at work has this IT guy with a furry profile picture on Zoom.

I assumed it was a mistake, people join with dumb pictures/names sometimes, but no. He never changed it in any of our meetings.

And then I looked at his account in our software, which allows users to upload their own photo, and he put a different furry picture there. A strictly work related account, that only his coworkers and us can see.

And you know what, I respect it.

I was also fortunate in that all of my aliases were based on a domain that I own.

I’m in the same boat luckily, so maybe this won’t be as bad as I’m expecting. I’ll take a look at Addy.io as well, thanks for the recommendation!

I also do this with word definitions all the time.

The biggest problem to me was the official Proton reddit account making an official statement agreeing with Andy. Andy blamed this on a “miscommunication” and it has since been deleted, but probably only because of the backlash they were receiving.

Holy shit he’s still arguing with people about this today?

I started using FreshRSS around the same time Reddit killed their API, it has rapidly become one of my favorite self-hosted apps.

Also,

open source software releases I follow

You have just taught me that I can add github release pages to my feed, I love FreshRSS even more now.