Well no, your shell does. And there are limits to how many matches, for a more robust way use find.
As for the post topic. I use xmms2 with a small script bound to the windows-keys, left for play/pause and the right opens a file selector to load new files.
Sounds like CMOS battery dying/dead on the motherboard. It stores BIOS settings, including password and clock. (Though you really should be using ntpd)
It highly depends on their contract and if they are a big name or not. There is a reason a lot of bands tour though as they make a lot of more money from it than CD sales.
You can access the file systems, both read and write.
In linux they are mounted under /mnt/c etc (at least in debian). And from Windows you can access the linux mounts via a smb share.
And it is basically a complete linux installation running in a virtualisation container except X11. You can install whatever you want and run it. For the most part it is seamlessly forwarded to your host system as well, so if you run a webserver in WSL you can access it through localhost.
Aha, did not know that the id was unique to that instance. But makes sense as it is just a number and not an uuid or similar so it would have to be synced.
I don't know anything about the source but couldn't you just open it in anonymous mode or something via the host's api? Would be better than browser
Not always, latency is a huge problem especially in action games.