Amen. We need a whole movement around this to take back control of software.

cmd+f "jack" on Apple's page, got 0 results. Pass.

Plexamp is a good player for your local files (personal server) that you can stream.

If you are a KDE user, I highly recommend fooyin, which is essentially a Qt6 clone of Foobar2000:

https://www.fooyin.org/

I understand for Audiobooks, but why use anything outside of FLAC for music CDs in 2025? Honest question, not trying to stop you from doing what you're doing.

I also still rip audio CDs, but I don't compress with anything that isn't lossless. Hard drive space is super cheap nowadays, and FLAC is even supported natively in my browser.

Question: Doesn't a carb-free (carnivor/true keto) diets eliminate diabetes?

it would be nice to see all the ingredients and see which ones have poor/toxic additives

It would be nice to see which if any of these support coreboot. There's a big hole that was left behind when PC Engines left the market for a reasonably open low power x86 system that runs coreboot and has a much lower possibility of baked in back doors while sporting the sort of hardware that you can just plug in and leave alone for years on end.