tell me elementaryOS 5 was not the pinnacle of UI design. it is so Nice. So gentle. it conveys depth in a really nice, non-distracting way, and i love it.

later versions toned down on the gradients, which is kinda sad to see, but they still very much retained their distinct skeuomorphic pixel-perfect iconography; i swear elementaryOS has some of the best icon design in any modern OS ever

i'm using this tool called cdrdao which records CDs in DAO (disk at once) mode. in short, this means that the whole disc is written at once, instead of individual tracks, which (from what i gather) was the default for most casual consumer-oriented software, as well as early recorder hardware.

but it seems to be having some problems writing CD-Text correctly… my first attempt ended up glitched to hell (screenshot)

i did manage to make it work eventually, so FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS AND ME: you need to use the binary text format and manually include a NUL terminator in your strings, like so:

TITLE is drifter, wander. and PERFORMER is riki moe

(of course it's ASCII so i cannot use my name's Japanese spelling)