Arch Enemy - Stolen Life

And then promptly leave, before I get accused of attempted mass murder

Parasite Inc. - Function or Perish

(…) A nightmare, nicely wrapped in gold Stuffed in our heads And we just accept In our human density Bread and games modern I call it enslavement A mental enslavement And you call it life

It’s called “Needles” 😄

Fellow .NET dev here, switched to Linux for side-gigs recently.

In general, the experience is a lot better than Windows / WSL. Some general remarks on the setup (relevant mostly for Debian-based distros, so YMMV):

• Rider / VSCode suggestion is spot on; go with the former if you have cash to spare and you’re fine with snaps, otherwise - DevKit can do DevKit things (with the only problem here being lack of .dcproj support in VSCode; can be ignored with proper integration test setup).
• Containerization of DBMS: by all means, go for it if you have the resources to spare.
• Possible gotchas:
  • If you’re going to use MS apt feed for .NET runtime / SDK, set up apt preferences to point to their feed for dotnet packages. Otherwise, you’re in for a bad time when running updates.
  • Docker: personally, I recommend Rancher Desktop for this purpose, as Docker Desktop on Windows left a bad taste in my mouth. If you’re fine with the latter, it’s up to your own preferences then.
  • Test containers: if you do use it with anything else than standard, bare-bones Docker setup, you’ll need a custom config; stumbled upon that the first time I tried running integration tests.

Some of recommendations I did not already see, that are not-that-well-known; all of these are various flavors of melodic death metal:

Parasite Inc. - Once and for All

Avatar - Bloody Angel

The Agonist - Panophobia (unfortunately, the band is now defunct)

At home: FLACs ripped from CDs (prefer to buy albums I enjoy instead of Spotifying them) -> KORG DS-DAC 100 -> TEAC AX-501 -> Elac Carina BS243.4

On the go: The same FLACs on Pixel 6 Pro -> B&O Beoplay HX

Seconding this. B&O know their stuff when it comes to sound (though I’d avoid TWS due to having bad experience with them myself); currently rocking HX, seem to work fine

Okay, I’ll try to take a stab at this point by point:

• The intended effect was for you to go no-contact with her. Imo - a nuclear option on her part (and as you mentioned, there were alternatives).
• Yes, you do, and yes, I am sure. No discussion on this point, no moral hair-splitting-type-of-deal.
• That’s the best thing you could have done. While battling addicition and your inner demons is an uphill struggle (been on therapy for 4 years after a distaster of a break-up myself), it’s worth it, if not for your friends and family, then for you and for the sake of improving as a person.
• Unfortunately, cannot give you an answer on this. And, to be completely honest, you don’t need one; best thing you can do here in my opinion is to let it go.
• Keep going to therapy, keep working on yourself. This will pass if you keep working on this, I promise.

Almost every track off of this album is an absolute banger 😃

You’re welcome. Just remember to grab higher-gauge strings; for drop C I usually go for sth around 10-52, range (maybe even higher). Otherwise the strings will get loose, resulting in a buzz

If you forego the harmonics and don’t mind changing the tuning to drop C (or C#, I don’t recall off the top of my head) - “They Say” by Scars on Broadway is really easy (iirc, my first song I learned); although this will not teach you much in terms of technicalities and chords.

In general, if you can wrap your head around alternate picking, SoaD songs are relatively easy to learn and a banger to play (with some notable exceptions), although they will mostly teach you rhythm and speed, not much when it comes to chords