grym [she/her, comrade/them]

Oooooh shit i know what I’m playing when I’m back from work

Looks rad

Excited for 0.5.0, there’s some much needed upgrades I need like the proper bluetooth headset mode switching. Hope wireplumber can really grow in the years to come, the linux sound stack has always been utter shit and a nightmare to deal with, my biggest problem with linux still.

Musicbee with wine! I have never been able to find something that does it all as well as musicbee, and I’ve tried almost every single linux music player. I have a huge music library, I add a ton of music regularly. I need auto-tagging, i need to be able to sort, filter and search, a very customizable interface, all of the mp3 tags including obscure ones, gapless playback, configurable fade-in/fade-out, etc etc. With the exception of a few little nitpicks like not integrating well with the KDE media widget, and some occasional annoyances with pipewire, everything works great.

Sadly still no alternative that comes even close to MusicBee.

I need one that does it all. Extremely large library, complete and complex searching, filtering, changing which columns are displayed/how, complete tags editing and display including less common ones, and the ability to add custom library tags (such as tags for grouping purposes, which I use extensively on top of Genre and Comment). Also need gapless play, ability to add fade in/out and control the length of that fade either when skipping or between all tracks, ability to edit the start/end of some tracks, etc. And good tools for auto-tagging, automatically fetching album art, easy re-organizing like MusicBee which allows you to auto-rename and move selected files along customizable rules, etc etc etc. MusicBee has tons of really good tools and 90% of them are basically required for how I organize and add to my library. And a clean and configurable UI where I can decide what I want to see and where it is, wavebar, visualizers, good controls and a nice auto-DJ, etc etc.

Works really well with Wine now, but still there’s some annoying things like it not being detected as a media source, and not being recognized by the normal media buttons/widgets. Also recurring audio problems (need to refresh Pipewire or switch the sink) which have gotten better but still not quite there.

God audio stuff on linux still has a long way to go.

Road-trip, road-trip!

Going to louisville is a fun quest, it’s a long way from muldraugh! I know muldraugh pretty well, got a character that lived for a bunch of months and never went too far from that part of the map.

I went to louisville a few times but never settled there, it’s much more tense. If you’re not careful/experienced you get swarmed very quickly, and once you start being chased there are so many zombos everywhere you’re not likely to find a safe spot before being exhausted. You need strats, often a way of making a noise distraction, etc. Or a good team that knows how to fight, or a shit-ton of ammo but even then the sheer amount of zombies in a place like louisville makes it hard to ever really “clear”.

Zombies respawn over time in any cell that hasn’t been visited by a player in a little while, depending on your sandbox settings that can be a few in-game hours, days, weeks, etc. It’s hard to ever be entirely safe, even very well built safe-houses or areas will have zombies appearing in them if they don’t have players in them for too long. The game’s better than it used to at this process and you have less instances of zombies weirdly spawning inside places where they should not have been able to get in, but afaik it still happens.

Anyway, going to louisville is a pretty fun adventure and it can be quite difficult. Even with good gear and a good car, you get stuck in the road in places with a lot of car jams, or at the military/quarantine checkpoint around louisville.

Logged off for now, Got an ok start at the north-east corner of the residential area with high wooden walls. I’ve got the key to a pickup nearby and need to find gas. There’s a lot of zombos around and I don’t really have a good weapon, but I got curtains on everything so it’s relatively safe for now, need to start getting wood and nails to board up a few things.

Ok I don’t know if that’s a new kind of event but I heard someone scream and get eaten lmao, I think most players spawn in the same residential area of that central town. I’ve got a decent spot, a pickup nearby I got the key to and I just need to get some gas.

Oh nice, i’m in. Is there a spot where people can try to get to, or a specific radio frequency to talk?