For selecting durations, you can use this --download-sections REGEX

Download only chapters that match the regular expression. A “*” prefix denotes time-range instead of chapter. Negative timestamps are calculated from the end. “*from-url” can be used to download between the “start_time” and “end_time” extracted from the URL. Needs ffmpeg. This option can be used multiple times to download multiple sections, e.g. --download-sections "*10:15-inf" --download-sections "intro"

As for the thumbnails, usually, when I download a Youtube Music album thumbnail, it is already squared. Before that, I used to use a specific hack, but I don’t remember how I did it anymore. Check this discussion, it may help: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/429

When I first saw this post, it had no comments on it, and thought to myself “Wouldn’t it be kinda funny if nobody answers that question?”

Don’t think I ever had any particular epiphanies concerning Git? Maybe when I played Oh My Git?

Both lol. The reason is that I had to render it to DOCX each time for my PI to review it, because she was an old retrograde woman. Therefore, rendering the document, committing changes and reading Git and Pandoc documentation took time – the time that I could’ve used to write the actual thing

I used it once for version controlling my master’s when I was writing it. I wrote it in Markdown with Pandoc syntax, so it worked. I eventually gave up and just used LibreOffice, though, since it was a hassle

Idk, I like cassettes, so I don’t mind being a little silly sometimes

You could say this about any type of music player tbh (LP, cassette, etc.)

I had a Sony portable CD player that I used to use for listening to audiobooks as a kid. It also had an inline remote with a screen. One notable feature it had was custom screen messages (dunno why you would need one tbh). Nothing beats setting the remote so that there was an ASCII dick on the screen all the time, and then have your dad give you the look of disappointment afterwards.

At some point the remote was lost, and the laser assembly broke. I miss that player dearly