megane_kun
I've had one of those (battery died, unfortunately) and if you'd look at its files, you'd notice that they are organized in a different structure than what an MP3 player might expect.
iPod_Control\Music's sudirectories might contain some songs, but the filenames are hashes (corresponding to the entry in the iPod db). The metadata and the contents are perfectly fine, and you can play the file yourself via a different player (you can probably test it in your computer).
I suggest you just connect the iPod through the 3.5mm output audio jack or find a 3.5mm audio output to Bluetooth transmitter adapter.
EDIT:
WTF. I triple posted. My bad. I deleted the two others, also corrected some minor typos and mistakes.
The Arch Wiki (and possibly other Arch websites, but when I checked I wasn't able to catch it) uses Anubis (https://anubis.techaro.lol/) to mitigate AI crawlers causing issues on their servers. Anubis works by making your computer do some computations before being let in. For users like you and me, it'd be a minor inconvenience, but for these AI crawlers, it'd cost them a lot of computation as they hit these sites a huge number of times.
Using Anubis is said to be a nuclear option, but as these AI crawlers don't care about that, sites, especially FOSS ones, started using it.
The author lost me when they showed the terminal command to install Nvidia drivers on Debian. Yes, it’s one sentence. That’s still extremely daunting to the vast majority of computer users. It undermines the author’s own thesis.
I think it's just a consequence of the variety of ways a Linux distro can present its options and settings. It's far easier—and arguably, safer—to share a command than to anticipate how to get to a certain option or setting.
Just as an aside, I had this exact same problem when a friend asked me to do something on my system. I ended up having to send them screenshots of what I'm looking at in order to direct me to where I need to be. All that trouble could have been avoided had they sent me a command to run on my terminal.
Is it better to have a utility that a user can just click? Yeah! Someone can write a utility program that can do just that, I guess. But then again, the problem now becomes how the user can make sure this utility program is in their system.
I guess it can be a bash script? The user can download the script and then make it usable. It's a few clicks in Dolphin and (Gnome) Files, probably the same in Thunar, but we're back to the same problem: the variety of ways a GUI can take to the same end.
I highly doubt that Linux users, at least the ones who value customization, will want to lose that customizability in order to make things easier for Windows refugees and pull more of them in.
I can only speak from experience but from my understanding most people’s knowledge of Linux is derived solely from wanting to do something and then figuring out how to do it, instead of studying a list of “things you must know to use Linux”.
I second this. While I've been exposed to Linux quite a while back (Linux Mint, circa mid-2000's if memory serves me right) and was given a "Linux basics" rundown, I only started daily-driving Linux around late 2019, and by then, my knowledge of Linux pretty much have faded. It still hasn't prevented me from getting re-familiarized with Linux (Manjaro, then Arch). Of course, some bit of knowledge would help, but a lot of the Linux basics you'd need are already out there if you need it. Just look things up if the need arises.
Also, I find having to learn something I don't immediately would need to use not very productive, even counterproductive at times since it leads me to having a mindset of "I should already know this, why am I being so stupid?"
So yeah! I second this sentiment of "just use your computer, look things up if you have to, it's not going to hurt."
And oh, don't be afraid to mess with your computer from time to time. If you're concerned about breaking things, you can install the distro of your choice into an old laptop or something, and use that as a place to "mess things up."
Edit: I forgot that OP already is using Linux in a virtual box. OP can use that as a laboratory to "mess things up."