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I second this, but with a few things I wish I would have known:

1. Before you hope on SoulSeek (with an application like Nicotine+), please study up on the etiquette - downloading someone's shared files without sharing any files that they can choose to download for their collection is called leeching, and while some people don't really care, a lot of SoulSeek users will get really angry if you do this because they're giving you their internet bandwidth for nothing in return.
2. To share files, you have to port-forward; be sure to check your ISP's terms of service. I hear that as long as you're not using a huge amount of bandwidth, even stricter ISPs can be pretty lax on enforcing their anti-p2p rules, so you may be able to get away with the risk of breaking the terms of service. However, to truly reduce the risk, you should probably use a VPN.

Of course, there's a whole other ethics of piracy rant I have, but I'd rather not pull it out right now. The main time I used SoulSeek was to download a rip of a rare TMBG CD (like, not a single copy on Discogs and only 1 on eBay).

Yes, but these are my two thoughts:

1. That's basically just piracy, and my feelings are that while sometimes it's ethical*, a lot of musical artists have made a good faith attempt to allow you to acquire it in a legal, DRM-free format at a reasonable price, meaning in a lot of cases it's not ethical, especiallyf with streaming basically eliminating record sale revenue and tour profit margins getting thinner and thinner.^1^
2. When I want to pirate, I would at least do it right; why extract lossy audio from YouTube with yt-dlp when you can easily get a lossless FLAC on SoulSeek or another peer-to-peer network?

*: if the media isn't easily legally accessible, if it's stuck under a bad corporation, and fair use like making an FMV. I think it's much more ethical to pirate film and television, as if you pay for a film (whether a subscription or a Blu-Ray), it's often just going to go to some ultra-rick executive who had nothing to do with the talented people who worked on the film. Also, DRM makes streaming an inferior experience to just opening a video file. Music is a completely different game, especially with the proliferation of indie labels and self-publishing.

1: Of course, if the artist is some multi-millionaire or billionaire artist, then go ahead.

Honestly, while I still use Apple Music for some things (I don't like Apple, but I'm unfortunately stuck on it right now), I'm a big fan of building up a collection of digital media files bought either directly from artists or ripped from the CD collection I'm building. I usually go for FLAC, though less for its compression and more for its superior metadata support compared to WAVs.

For discovering new music, Bandcamp allows you to check out some songs; otherwise, check it out on YouTube or something and buy it directly from the artist later.

Like others have said, Bandcamp might not have everyone, but they do have a lot of indie artists and even some bigger ones. Some artists that don't have everything on Bandcamp might have their own store you can buy from.

It for a fact uses CEF: https://www.spotify.com/us/opensource/

Chromium Embedded Framework literally describes itself as follows on its Git repos: "Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). A simple framework for embedding Chromium-based browsers in other applications."

The Spotify "app" is mostly just web app code running on top of a single page Chromium instance, meaning for the most part, it isn't truly native.

While we're at it, let's just pull in Chris Pine (multiverse crap) and William Shatner (Nexus crap) and have one of those nutty SNW episodes that sounds like a horrible idea but is surprisingly one of the better episodes that season:

True. I just think it's a few years too early; armel is dying, but I don't think it's 32-bit x86 level dead. I feel like 2030 would have been a better year. If they really found the user base was that small, though, then I guess that's less for Debian to maintain.

I like to imagine some weird historian who insisted on pen accidentally flipped the '9' in '2191', and that error just happened to end up in the Enterprise D's historical database; the holodeck just went along with the error, and Riker was none the wiser, having gotten a C- in Early Federation History at the Academy and having frequently gone to the bathroom "for legitimate reasons" during his high school Earth history class. It was only in mid-2380 that he finally discovered his misconception.

Although it'd still be a bit dismal that trip only lived to 70.

MIPS I get, but armel feels a little weird; I’d wager there’s more production users of Debian on armel than RV64 - not a huge use case, but one that merits a bit more consideration.

I think ~2030 would have been a more realistic date, since most of the last devices with ARMv6 would be about 20 years old by then.

I love the Jake Nog shenanigans episodes.

Though I am a Debian fan, I don’t think trying another distro will help too much.

Not necessarily. In the case of this specific GPU, both 12 and 13 support that model quite well. I can’t tell if Trixie supported RDNA4 out of box, but if it doesn’t, I’m sure Backports does just fine.