I used Vanilla Music years ago. Not sure how it holds up, but it's available on F-Droid.

Canadian laws regarding forced labour are much weaker.

i.e. our laws require actual evidence. There's a reason the US passed a law inverting the burden of proof.

There's a couple interesting libraries that abstract different toolkits under the hood (GTK on Linux, Win32 on Windows). I'm not sure how they compare to using GTK directly. IUP, libui

Did you use ShutUp10 or something similar? It says that when settings are changed via registry/group policy. It doesn't actually have anything to do with your work.

Not true, there are 790 female members according to Wikipedia.