Clockwise is “ascending”. Scrolling down is ascending alphabetically by default in a file manager, or ascending through paragraphs in a web site or PDF.

It’s ironic that your graphic of time is ascending in a downward direction, but you didn’t understand this.

I’ve never heard of that nor had that happen to me.

That’s funny, I prefer the opposite (actually changing bits) because then it works with every player and device.

I use QMP3Gain. It actually changes the bits in the file so the files work with every app and player without needing to rely on tags. However, It also adds tags to the file which let you undo the changes later, if needed (it’s lossless).

It has two modes. You can modify all the files in an album equally so that they play at the same relative volume. I guess the loudest song is set to your target volume and then the rest are adjusted relative to that. It’s great because it doesn’t ruin the flow of albums whose tracks connect seamlessly. Or you can modify tracks irrespective of other tracks, which is good for random singles you own.

The result is, songs in your entire library all sound more or less the same volume. The exception being that quiet tracks from certain albums will still be quiet.

You can drag every full album you own into the UI, and do them all at once in album mode. It works based on tags. Then do the same with all singles you own in track mode.

It defaults to 89.0 dB, but I prefer to use 95 dB because some devices just don’t have enough volume. A tiny bit of clipping is imperceptible because decoders account for it. Many of your current MP3s already have clipping, and I’m sure you haven’t noticed. So don’t worry if you see red "Y"s in the clipping column.

It uses the ReplayGain algorithm. Once in a while there’s a track that it just doesn’t get right. A certain single will just come out too loud or quiet and needs a different dB value than everything else. Out of the thousands of MP3s I have maybe five files have been like this.

My solution: remove the password or make it blank (I forget which). No more prompting at login.

My whole drive is encrypted, and my wallet only has wifi passwords, so there’s no harm.

How else are you going to rice your Debian install?

Well, my laptop only has one spot for a drive. I guess if you have more than one, it should work. The main point is never share a drive with Windows. Windows will mess it up.

Personally, I dual boot with an external NVMe drive. It works great! I have Linux and only Linux on the internal drive and Windows gets relegated to an external one.

The trick to getting it to work is: you have to temporarily install the NVMe drive internally in order to install Windows onto it. Then you pop it into an external enclosure and it just works. Just make sure your BIOS is set up to boot USB devices before internal drives.

It’s going to be 7 gigabytes.

“Demon”

It was always “demon” (spelled daemon or dæmon), as in a spiritual attendant. Christian mythology has poisoned the word, and anyone who says “daymon” to not offend them is a coward.

See here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demon

Edit: When I say it was always pronounced “demon”, I mean the nerds who started calling a small background program daemon pronounced it “demon”.

Alt-double-click to open Properties on a file is straight out of Windows. It’s something I really missed!

End of story. That settles it. Case closed. No exceptions. That’s final. Consider it settled. It’s non-negotiable. End of discussion. That’s the final word. Nothing more to add. Enough said.

Oh, I see it now. My bad. I missed him specifically showing that early in the video and later it looked like his left thumb was being used instead, but it’s not.

I even remember looking at my own Steam Deck to see the icon on the “select” button, and it didn’t ring a bell being called the quick access button. (Because it’s not.)

In addition, I mixed up my looking at the button with him zooming in on that button in the video. I would have sworn he did that, and I was about to go take a screenshot of it, but he didn’t. Stupid brain. [In my defense, it turns out I have a fever. 🤧]

Battery Storage Mode

This Steam page says you enter battery storage mode through the BIOS. It doesn’t mention there being an additional hotkey for it. Where did you read that that’s what this key combination does?

Make sure you film the whole process!

It worked for him. 🤷‍♂️

It’s not the “…” button. It’s the, uh, whatever, the “Select” button.

He got it in the end though. I quoted the portion that worked.

If they have to suffer, you have to suffer. It’s the golden rule or something.

Edit: he’s totally wrong about what he did and why. This video is truly garbage.

4:14 Cool. I was was uh was very worried that my Steam Deck wasn’t going to turn on again. So, my understanding of what happened there is that the CMOS just needed to be cleared. Uh, apparently holding the volume up and the quick access menu button while plugging in and some like magic freaking voodoo uh makes it clear the CMOS.

It’s all bullshit. Read this comment instead: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/21922838

You have to use the full name.

“I use GNU is not Unix slash Linux.”

It makes people think GNU is neither Unix nor Linux.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has a GUI for almost everything. It has a nice GUI for basic system config, and uses YaST2 for deeper settings, and it uses Discover for Flatpaks as well as system library updates.

Although, I have seen a couple people say Discover shouldn’t be used for doing system updates because it can fail, and to only use it for Flatpak updates and installs. I dunno. But it’s not like typing sudo zypper dup to do a distro upgrade is hard, so I just do that out of an abundance of caution.

OpenSUSE has some other cool features too, like having Snapper installed by default for system snapshots. It’s pretty easy to roll back if an upgrade goes sideways. There’s a boot entry that lets you open a previous snapshot as read-only and then you can make that snapshot permanent by creating a new top-level snapshot from it. So then you can at least use your computer while you try to figure out why the upgrade you did failed.

You’ll probably want to use KDE as your desktop environment. It’ll be somewhat familiar if you’re use to Windows, and it has a lot of features that make it comfortable to use.

There are lots of good YouTube videos on why OpenSUSE is pretty cool. Check some out.

What do personally use G’MIC for?

https://gmic.eu/

The example screenshots all look gimmicky (heh) or super advanced scientific image processing.

I guess noise reduction is useful to the average user. Depends on how good it is.