I've been working some on learning Rust. It's a pretty cool language, but there's definitely a learning curve. I'm writing a command line version of solitaire with it as a learning project.

I would love some advice on what to do with my music collection. I have 50+ GB of music in my iTunes library, much of it ripped or ahemmed from places. I have an iPod Classic which also contains all of that music, but which no longer updates from my Macbook. My Macbook has bluetooth but for some reason won't recognize the bluetooth adaptor I bought for my little stereo.

As a result, this is how I listen to my own music: plug in the iPod to the aux cable on the stereo. If I want to listen to other music, I stream Google Play Music (the free version) from my phone to the bluetooth adaptor for the stereo.

However this mechanism will only work until my iPod stops working, and there's no way for me to add music to my library in such a way that all systems can access it.

So I think I will have to go on the Cloud? So I can stream, at least to my phone? But I was looking and it looks like Amazon and Google both have pretty expensive monthly costs just to host my music ($10/month). This place has some good recommendations but I don't know, I've never heard of it. I have so much in the Google ecosystem I'd like to stay out of it if I can...

Does anyone have any advice other than "get another laptop with properly working bluetooth"?

You can upload up to 50,000 songs to Google Music for free. It is unclear whether that will last much longer though as they are trying to transition to YouTube Music.

You could also try buying a USB Bluetooth adapter for your laptop. They would be far cheaper than a new laptop. Or look into a WiFi based streamer like a Chromecast Audio - I'm not sure how well they work for local files from a laptop though. Apple no longer supports such a thing for audio only unfortunately.

I need help. My Android phone has both my Gmail accounts on it, my personal and work. Well, the work one has been deactivated, and I can't figure out how to get it off my phone. Gmail keeps trying to sign it in, Play won't let me download anything until I sign in, and the fact that my personal account is signed in doesn't matter. What do I do here?

Settings->Accounts->Click account name->Remove account

If that's not right tell me the make and model. Not all Android's are identical in the details.

Yes! Thank you!

Accounts being a system level setting rather than an app level setting definitely takes some getting used to.

Never mind! I fixed it myself!

Don't need advice, just want to complain.

Last week my office computer died; the tech support people determined that the hard drive was fried and they couldn't recover any data from it. Inconvenient, since I lost some files that were on the hard drive, but most of my work is on either our network or an external hard drive. I had my old computer, which is slow and clunky, but functional enough, if annoying to work with. The tech support people are going to install a new hard drive and the basic software and give the computer back ... sometime. Today I got a message from them - the guy set up a new password so he could work on installing it and making it work with our network. He gave me the password and I logged back into email ... and about three hours later discovered that NONE of the messages I'd sent - some of them important - had gone out. So I had to restart the entire computer, log back in with the password tech support had created, log back into my Outlook with that password and the messages went out. But there were an additional 20+ messages waiting for me, some of which had to be handled ASAP. I'm about fed up with these guys. But they seem to be the only ones who will provide any service at a price the office is willing to pay. * end of rant *