My favorite is the swedish “att få blodad tand”, literally “to get a bloody/bloodied tooth”. Somehow it means becoming interested in or finding inspiraton in a topic.

Interesting, my record is the same.

Potatoes.

The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

Sonos speakers. They work well for streaming except not from YouTube, I don’t have Spotify premium, most of my music is local and Sonos and Linux is not a good combination. I’m not a fan of the Windows application either, but at least that works.