A valid reason for a start.

Same for all daws for me. I tried to get along with foss ones but they pale in comparison. Ardour crashed a lot for me, especially when the project got large with many plugins so I moved to reaper and had no such issues. On bitwig now and I can’t really think of anything even comparable that’s foss, let alone easier/better.

Her being a narcissist.

“There was climate change when the Vikings were around so it’s not as clear cut as people make out.”

In my country we’ve had the opposite of a heat wave, the worst summer I can remember with rain almost every day and temperatures barely making it above 20 degrees. He says that this shows the planet isn’t heating up and jokes that we need more carbon.

Spend some money on decent grooming products, get some decent shower gel, a facial cleanser, moisturiser. I didn’t touch fragrances/colognes until I was in my 40s and couldn’t believe the confidence it gave when I found one I liked.

You should try some dark ambient instead of noise. Some is more distracting than others but a lot of it is perfect for what you describe. Try Kammarheit.

I’ve settled on gonemad, it’s one of the only ones which has what I need - an audodj feature to queue random albums after the current one has finished and the ability to play random albums (like a button to play a random one). Unfortunately none of the open source ones I’ve tried have both of these, usually the autodj feature

That’s fair enough, I didn’t mean to imply there is anything wrong with it, just that it seems alien to me and my cheapskate ways. I can understand it though, I prefer to use a computer and only really use my phone for browsing but I tend to forget that for some people it’s much more like what I would use a computer for.

$500 seems insane to me, I’ve only ever paid about £100 for a phone and it does everything I need it for.

I miss the data analysis subs

Arch Linux. Been using Linux exclusively for about 10 years now, in various flavours, and will never go back at this point.