u/Same_Maximum_971

hi! i installed rockbox on my ipod classic 5th generation today. the main reason i downloaded it was because my main laptop is a chromebook and it would be easier to download music, as you can’t get itunes on a chromebook.

ive faced a few issues just playing around with it. of course, no playlists transferred, though the music did. i knew this would happen, but im struggling to make a playlist at all. i longclick, press create new playlist, and it doesn’t let me use any button to get past the naming stage of the ipod. if i press menu it cancels, if i press the forward or back button it does just that (moves the cursor or goes to another letter) and the play/pause button does nothing at all. i do not have a theme installed yet as i wanted to set this up before i did so, so it can’t be an issue of theme. i did somehow make one playlist, added my songs, and when renaming it it cancelled and deleted it.

when i did have that playlist, though, all the songs were saved as random 4 letters. is this something i can fix? it wld be nice to scroll thru my playlist and pick a song.

there are some other issues im facing that im not remembering right now, but having someone who knows a lot about rockbox would be great to talk to if anyone’s dms are open!

i’m looking for two books, as i’ve really been into the whole wild west theme or southern settings in books/movies

for one rec: i really love the movie no country for old men and am looking for a book like that. unsettling, captivating, on the edge of your seat. could be mystery or suspense, but i really enjoy books with strong/articulate writing without being overly dense or wordy!

for the second: honestly just looking for a cowboy love story 🫩 my only problem with the recs i get when i look this up anywhere is getting modern ones/ones that depend too heavily on the lovers in question. something with an interesting story as well as being a love story. or just a book that’s good but happens to have love.

thank you!

hi! my sisters going thru a rough time right now and i can’t say it’s the best for me right now. i wanted to put post-it notes up of quotes in the bible that are uplifting and motivating to look at anytime we use the bathroom, considering it’s shared. it doesn’t have to be only geared towards women, but if there’s any you can recommend let me know!

hi! i’m working on a western style book, cowboy esque. i’m wondering if anybody gets sick of accents being shown and written in dialogue, such as words getting cut short. (“gettin’, takin’, etc) or things like y’oughta (for you oughta) silly examples im sure, just wanted to know your imput :)

i’m just wondering how awful my mistake is and if it’s normal for new drivers to make mistakes😭😭 i’m really embarrassed
i was coming out of my street and had a green light, and am not used to people going straight there. someone was going straight and i was going left, and i went to make a left without yielding to him. no crash or chance of crash as we both stopped, but i had already crossed over his path so i sped quick and went into my lane and waved as a sorry. i’ve only had my license for 2 weeks and been driving on my own for that long. i should’ve yielded to him and he honked at me and i am SO embarrassed to make a mistake like that 😭 i’ll definitely be more mindful next time but it’s eating me up

this question is stemming from a conversation i just had with my dad. i was playing music and the song ‘i think we’re alone now’ by tiffany started playing. he started lecturing me about conviction and how songs even subtly referencing sex or lust should be convicting me, but it doesn’t.
i don’t listen to overtly lustful songs, nothing that talks about sex explicitly. i will say i listen to songs that reference it, the song i listed as an example. but i don’t feel convicted or that God would be mad at me for listening to a song like that.
that’s not to say i don’t get convicted. i feel convicted most if im talking poorly about somebody or acting unlike the morals Jesus portrays, and he does not. by his logic, shouldn’t my conviction make him feel convicted?
does God show conviction differently for different people? i’m able to watch movies that aren’t Godlike - for example, the new movie sinners. i enjoyed it, but he would never even think to watch it due to his conviction.
just a question of if everybody should feel convicted because one person does, or if your own discernment is only for yourself and not for others. of course, he can tell me i shouldn’t listen to it, and that’d be all. but it started to sound like i was completely in the wrong and he was right.

if i’ve struggled with anything my entire life it’s been my loneliness. i grew up around kids my age of course, but never really had close friends like everyone else did. then i made a big move and lost majority of my friends in my home state, and struggled to make friends in my new home. i dropped out of high school and continued online because of mental health struggles, and no friends i had made kept up with me. you can blame me for that too.
i’m now turning 19 next monday. last birthday i spent inconsolable and inexplicably sad, cried from beginning to end. this year i wondered if id escape it, but i haven’t.
i have a few friends that haven’t kept up with me but that we’re still fine with each other and interact on social media. i’ve made plans w them that ultimately fall through.
i’ve dealt with loneliness for all of my life. and whenever i think i’ve accepted that ill probably feel lonely for the rest of my life, it hits me in another wave. having my birthday, my day, be spent alone or with passing time with my mom or dad is just a reminder of that. don’t get me wrong, im incredibly thankful for a mom and dad who want to make it the best for me.
i invited said few friends to go to the beach with me the weekend after my birthday. i got a lot of maybes, and when i followed up on the plans, got even more no’s. i told my mom this and that i don’t even want to try and celebrate my birthday anymore i just want it to be a day, and she tried to be encouraging and tell me maybe my loneliness is for a reason/a hidden blessing from God. i can’t imagine why this would be a blessing. i feel like im being punished, or that im made wrong and not made to be in any kind of social setting or celebrated. i’m not invited to any tables. that’s metaphorical, but literally, im just not invited to anything.
please give me some words of wisdom. words of encouragement, especially including God. i’m thankful for everything He’s given me but i can never find myself thankful for this. i try so often to make friends, see people, go into social settings but it ultimately just fails

i sell and trade trading cards online. i had a envelope to be shipped globally, and i was pretty sure it was more than 1 oz. instead of slapping stamps on and chancing it being sent back, i went to usps to have them help and make sure it got sent. they gave me somewhat of a fuss about my envelope being small, which was such a non issue cuz i ship out with small envelopes on the daily, but whatever. then the guy told me i should in one of those flat rate tracked priority mail envelopes. whatever. he types in the address of the person i’m sending to and says there was 2 cities and 2 area codes on the envelope. i write down whatever the buyer sends me, so i just asked what we can do. he looked up the address without one city and without one area code and said he found the address and it’s perfectly fine to send now. charges me the 5-8 bucks (i don’t remember how much it was) and says we’re all set. all this just to say,, i went to usps to avoid it being sent back.
my happy ass went to the mailbox today to find the envelope sent back to me. r u deadass? the envelope that i brought to u so it wouldn’t be sent back?????? and this is now a week later that it’s being sent back so i have to now tell the buyer it’s gonna be longer than i told them. i’m so pissed like isn’t it ur job to figure it out.
also, i made sure with the buyer that the new address he put on the envelope was good, so it wasn’t that. this shit is so annoying