yannovitch

For me it’s one of these “it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey” kind of things.

Few years ago one day I discovered retropie and decided to install it. Was a bit of a rabbit hole for me but in a good way, reminded me when I first installed Linux when it was still on multiple floppy disks.

And it was quite cool that my son discovered Duke Nukem 3d or Mortal Kombat that I played with my cousins in my youth.

I'm like you. I call that "being passionated in passions" ^^ (rough french translation).

What I would recommend is to truly question what is the deep root of the interest ("where does it comes from") : Is it in reaction (for example, is it to escape something ? Is it because it's easier to have an other interest than to push when it becomes a bit harder? ...) ? What has captured your interest precisely at this moment ? If you answer all these kind of questions, I think things will begin to sort out already naturally.

If I go deeper in the answer, as we all are mostly in "productivity-oriented life" (or at least utilitarist-oriented life), our environment (friends, life, ...) tend to push us to do things which "has to" be "useful". Useful for our advancement in career, useful for an instantaneous joy, ... But when we reason like that, we tend to forget that not everything has to be useful. It's good to be passionated. To have many interests. Even not useful.

Just be gentle with yourself. In the end, it's not a race to the bottom. It's YOUR life, not the others, and it's yours to choose what you want to do with it.

As a studio owner and music shop co-manager, what I would recommend is rather to have an approach of "where is the added value" + "funding model".

"where is the added value" >> For example if you own a recording studio with lots of very high-end equipment, and you ask for bands to sign with your label in exchange for a reduced rate. Or have new technology (for example, I am one of the first studio in the city to have Dolby Atmos). Etc...

"funding model" >> Rather than trying to make money from streaming only, the value of the band is generally in the community it can gather. Community which can be asked for money with Patreon. Or merchandising sold in concerts. Etc...

Actually, if I may, Caran d'Ache was the "nom de plume" of a French satirist, who died in 1909 (before the russian revolution), but the Swiss company was inspired by his name and his life, as he was one of the first to create what would become (sort of) newspaper comic strips.

I have around 40.000 bookmarks that I try to keep organized (as resources for my blogs, future ideas, etc...). I have an hard time keeping track of what's not good anymore.

Is your extension a good fit for such a large collection of bookmarks ?

(Plus, I'm on firefox, so +1 for a firefox extension)

I, for one, use it mostly with legal extensions to watch public videos and listen to internet radios, because I have an old TV without smart features, and it does the job well.

I use it too to "cast" Youtube videos to the TV (very easy to do with the "Kore" app (or "Send2Kodi" for iOS users)), as I don't want to use Chromecast.

Very interesting, if it has indeed the video capabilities that Shairport (& shairport-sync, ...) lacks.