u/Future-Excuse6167

I was looking at the e-mail from Ali Express in Proton that my Echo Mini MP3 player had shipped and realized: Google has no idea I bought this, and this is probably the first time that's ever happened.

All my online purchases used to be tied to a google account, so if I bought something, I'd get a notification to my gmail and google surely hoovered up that information.

I also used DuckDuckGo to get around, in either Firefox or Vanaguardium, so they don't even know what I was browsing for.

Feels good.

Just wondering how you all structure your library at the most basic level--the level of folder.

Here's mine after a few weeks:

• Singles (big directory of songs unattached to slbums)
• ByComposer (mostly for classical music
• ByCompilation (for genre Best of mixes)
  • Musicals
  • Movie Soundtracks
• ByArtist
• New (stuff I haven't listened to yet)
• Fresh Rips (new CD's get dumped here, almost empty by the time it arrives to the MP3 player)

Questions:
Really curious if y'all do anything structurally drastic--like have a whole separate structure for music you really like and another one for songs you are meh about, or if you different trees for different formats....

So just looking for a sanity check on the numbers here.

The mileage rate set by the federal government is 72 cents/mile. This is what the government thinks is the true cost of operating a vehicle.

A job 30 miles away would be 60 miles round trip.

Thatss 60miles x $0.72/mile = $43.20 per shift.

If I work an eight-hour shift, that's ($43.2/8hr) = $5.40/hr.

I currently take the bus. I get a discount bus pass. $1.50/shift.

So the math would be this: In order for me to BREAK even at a job 30 miles away, I'd have to be making $4.90/hr MORE.

That sounds insane to me. But it's what the math indicates.

Some things that might change things: It's an older car, but it's paid off. But I'm assuming the mileage costs count purchase, maintenance, and gas. I'm still paying insurance and registration.

Also I can't depend on the price of gas staying the same, so even if I meet the cost currently, I might end up losing money if gas prices shoot up.

It doesn't seem like a very good system. Just saying.

Edit: Removed “IRS” and clarified what the rate means.

What do you do when a rip hangs and it sounds like your CD player is about to take off to the moon?

Currently stuck at 7% for about 3 minutes and my ripper (Asunder) refuses to move on. I turned off error correction (which makes the program useless) so I don't know what its getting fussy about.

What I've been doing for other discs is stopping, removing the stuck track from the ripping list, including a stub with the song name so I know what happened if I ever care, and continuing on.

How do you guys handle it?

[RESUELTO! Gracias!]

Howdy! Reformed sabo kid here ironing out the wrinkles.

Just practicing translating my favorite podcast (If Books Could Kill) into Spanish and comparing it to DeepL. Seems to definitely apply to body parts.

Another example:

My dog loves it when I scratch his neck --> a mi perro le encanta cuando le rasque EL (not su) cuello.

Is there a rule and are there any other places with a difference in possessives from English?

I live in a suburban hellhole of a state in the USA.

There ARE cycling paths and projects, but they seem to dominated by the needs of wealthy people who are looking to cycle for fun and not for people who are looking to cycle to live (commute, shop). For instance, bike trails are in surburban/rural areas and it's beautiful and green and lovely, but most people drive their cars there, take out their bikes, ride around, put their bikes back on the car, and drive home. Cycling is a hobby that requires a car.

Meanwhile that section of the rail trail that connects to the city--where the normal people live--never seems to get completed and relatively built-up areas have 0 bike lanes and the few cyclists I see are all on the sidewalks.

It seems the hobby cyclists have SOME political power and commuting cyclists have NONE.

Anyone notice or thought about this dynamic and how it plays out and why it exists?