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I don't understand the purpose of Spotify posting a complete work of fiction like this. There's nothing random about their Shuffle setting, nothing at all. There's a reason third-party sites that serve no other purpose than to shuffle Spotify playlists exist.

Thanks for your detailed reply. I can feel I'm out of my depth in many ways, but between your reply and the others I've gotten, I have a lot of entryways into the problem, and I'm looking forward to figuring out how to make it work. I've done a bit of coding in C++ in the past as well; maybe that would also be an option. But since the purpose of the exercise is primarily to get more familiar with Rust, I think I'll exhaust whatever options I have down that path first. Thanks again :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to write that long post. I have lots of things to dig into now. I think I'd prefer not injecting anything into the game for the reasons you mentioned, the most important consideration being the anticheat risk. I don't know what the company behind the game have implemented of that nature.

OP here. Thanks for your reply. If what you're asking is the case, I'd be happy to find a solution that runs under X instead. This tracker would in any case mostly be for my own use. I was just excited to finally get Wayland working with my NVIDIA card with the explicit sync stuff.

You're insane if you think the breed needs this. You can feed a Finnish Lapphund any type of dog food. It's not a magical being from another dimension.

If you ever wonder why the people you know seem to be better friends with each other than with you, or why they look away while talking with you, or why they always seems to excuse themselves after interacting with you for only a very short time, this post is why.

evolution is a theory, it just is

I realize the person I'm replying to has no interest in the truth, but in case others are interested, read the first paragraph here to get a sense of what a scientific theory is. The myth/misunderstanding is that a scientific theory is a theory in sense 3 here. Not only is it a myth, it's a very common and very dishonest way to dismiss evolution without having to address the fact that it's a fact.

That's exactly why I am on Tumbleweed as well.

I am not German myself, but most of my colleagues are. Having gotten to know the German attitude towards technology, I feel I understand why life with openSUSE is as uneventful as it is. How anyone got them to adopt something as subversively radical as a rolling release model is something of a mystery to me, but I won't complain.

Thanks for this clarification. I didn't consider that someone might run btrfs without snapshots, but I suppose that might even be quite common. I don't get out much.

There are a bunch of software-related reasons why openSUSE is a good choice (snapper, zypper, yast, to name a few), although few are exclusive to openSUSE. I think the primary selling point of openSUSE (Tumbleweed) is that it is a rolling release distro that never crashes, never requires attention, and just works. One of the reasons people don't talk about it is probably that it is boring. All packages are tested extensively. It never breaks. And even if it did break, the default btrfs file system and snapper ensure that the system doesn't stay broken for longer than it takes to reboot.

If you want a distro that is up to date, easy to use, and dependable, openSUSE is a fantastic choice. It's just not very exciting to have something that never requires attention; a lot of people use Linux because they like things requiring attention.

As an afterthought, I also think the fact that openSUSE and its users seem to be pathologically unable to create any logo or symbol for anything even tangentially related to the distribution that doesn't look like absolute shit might be holding them back.