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anothermember ,

There doesn’t seem to be any way of saving videos there, am I missing something?

anothermember ,

Yes I’m aware of that, I assumed that a site recommended on here would have that as a main feature otherwise it’s not much use for archiving. I already tried yt-dlp and it doesn’t seem to be supported.

anothermember ,

I really don’t need to but I frame it the other way round to your question, I’ve never needed to, so I don’t need a reason to not drive a car, I’m lacking a reason to.

anothermember ,

It hasn’t had a meaningful update in ~10 years, and the problem is it still has the brand recognition which keeps potential users away from LibreOffice. It’s an embarrassment to Apache if you ask me.

blog.documentfoundation.org/…/open-letter-to-apac…

anothermember ,

OnlyOffice is nowhere near as full-featured as LO, as well as having huge performance issues especially when dealing with large spreadsheets. I have no idea why it keeps getting recommended.

anothermember ,

The GNOME Desktop Environment?

anothermember ,

I love Gnome but I think KDE’s Dolphin beats them all. Fortunately being Linux you can always use Dolphin with Gnome.

anothermember ,

If sites wanted to run ads and host them locally without tracking that would be fine. But since they’re tracking users it’s essential to block them for privacy and security, and if someone isn’t then maybe they don’t understand the level of tracking involved. We need a better name than adblocking.

anothermember ,

Sure, that should be absolutely your choice, it’s your browser.

anothermember ,

When I was a lot younger, on an old forum back in the early 00s, someone called me a “know-it-all”. This sounds silly now but it really hit me in just the wrong way at the time, I was sincerely trying to fit in by showing off my knowledge of the subject with no idea that that’s how I was coming across. I guess it was a learning experience.

Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

My gf and I have had discussions about teaching morals to kids. In that vein, I asked myself, would I teach piracy to my kids? Yes, it’s technically illegal and carries inherent risks. But so does teenage sex carry the risks of teenage pregnancy, and so we have an obligation to children to teach them how to practice safe sex....

anothermember ,

How to install adblockers, how to detect fake download sites that give you computer aids? Show them how to use a VPN and choosing the right one (a true pirate must always choose a VPN with port forwarding capabilities, so you can still seed) I feel like this is all valuable info we all learned as pirates the hard way, and valuable information to pass on to our kids.

Absolutely, I would say whether you’re teaching piracy or not, those are essential things that everyone online must know about; it would be unethical to allow your kids to go online without that protection.

Can you live without YouTube ?

Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?

anothermember ,

Honestly I think I would find that one difficult. It essentially replaced conventional TV for me in the last 10-15 years. I use a privacy-respecting front-end so I’m never at youtube.com itself but if they killed it off I would find it difficult to adapt.

anothermember ,

Nagz - My dog lives on the moon

anothermember ,

I’m used to hearing about how a lot of people are put off of Lemmy because of all the “Linux” people on it, “people pushing Linux”, “elitists”, etc.

And yet I see something like this and think “are we not supposed to give good advice?”.

If is the kind of thing you want for your computing then go for it.

anothermember ,

On self-reflection I’ll admit that there’s a bias experienced by people, like me, who live in the Linux bubble, surrounded by people who are happy Linux users, to overestimate the eagerness of other people to be on board. It’s also easy to forget when you’re on a general Technology community like this one, where a lot of people are talking about Linux, that it’s not everyone is a Linux person.

In fact I don’t even really detect much of a “Lemmy buzz” around it mainly because I participated in Linux-y parts of Reddit, and other places, before now. If anything from my point of view there seems to be more resistance to it on Lemmy.

It could be that having used it for nearly 20 years I’ve lost my ability to fathom why it would be difficult. But that said, both my parents use Linux and are non-technical users - they were fed up with windows crap like in OP so they asked me to set it up for them and it’s been 5 years now trouble free. So even if you do need to be an enthusiast-level user to make it work, you only have to know one. What I still stand by is that it’s good advice for most users.

anothermember ,

I don’t know anything about Minecraft but if Minetest is an appropriate replacement without that minor annoyance I would suggest that’s solicited advice.

anothermember ,

Either Earl Grey with no milk, no sugar, or (for different reasons) Hōjicha which I got a taste for when I visited Japan so much that I now import it.

anothermember ,

I don’t think I’m discerning enough to recommend a good one. It’s not a fancy tea in Japan, but common and I just enjoyed it, it’s perhaps not to everyone’s taste.

anothermember ,

Admittedly I’ve only just found out about this today, but my understanding is that it’s meant to be going back to basics since modern web design is so far removed from the original intentions of HTML.

anothermember ,

To be fair I thought from the start that the world wide web was a pretty stupid name but it did okay.

anothermember ,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, this is really fascinating and just my kind of thing.

anothermember ,

Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet.

No, I’m not having that! That’s rewriting of history. I remember when Google came out, it was pretty much as good as Altavista and no more. It had the additional appeal that it looked (for the time) unique and fresh and had a weird name, I remember getting my friends to try this “weird new search engine that might someday beat Altavista” but it never revolutionised anything in terms of search results at the time.

Also Altavista was not getting progressively worse, I still remember the days when you could type a simple dictionary word into a search engine and have it return 0 results. Altavista is what changed that, not Google.

anothermember ,

I don’t think there’s luck to it, F40 would be delayed if GNOME wasn’t ready.

anothermember ,

Lemmy users be like „I fucking love decentralized freedom“, until someone joins they don’t like.

No, especially when someone joins that we don’t like. The ability to defederate is the freedom that comes with decentralisation. If there were no bad actors decentralisation wouldn’t be so important.

anothermember ,

I want to be a good enough friend to encourage my friends to stay away from Meta. I don’t want to enable them.

anothermember ,

My concern is that the toxic culture from Meta’s platforms will be imported here, and the only way to get away from it would be to not only defederate from Meta but to defederate from anything federated to Meta (essentially creating two fediverses). I hope it doesn’t come to that, but that’s my worry.

anothermember ,

There’s a good argument for keeping it small and focused. Massive all-encompassing social networks are relatively new and not a good thing in my opinion.

anothermember ,

It’s definitely a nicer experience around here if you block certain instances, I won’t mention names myself. The difference is that Meta’s instance is big enough to completely drown out everyone else which can’t be said about the above.

anothermember ,

It feels like the Twitter from just before Elon when it was still bad but not terrible, I was hoping it would be more like the Twitter from 10+ years ago when it was still reasonable.

I waited 4 months for my invite, took a look around and went back to Mastodon.

anothermember ,

Not sure what you mean there.

anothermember ,

I was talking about Twitter. 10 years is not a long time.

I don’t see much has changed in the last 10 years fundamentally, if you’re comparing 20 years ago I might agree.

anothermember ,

I’m a heavy user of spreadsheets and in my experience OnlyOffice is inadequate in features, it’s slow, sluggish, and crashes whenever you try to open anything big. I’m surprised it gets so much attention and I can only assume it’s used by people who don’t do any really heavy-duty work with it. LibreOffice is full-featured and is what I’ve been using for years, I’m very happy with it.

anothermember ,

Landscapes is totally wrong

anothermember ,

I’m not seeing a lot of “RAAAAAAAGE” here, I’m seeing a lot of people questioning whether it meets the definition but everyone is being civil about it (at the time of this comment).

anothermember ,

I’ve never tried it, I’d be interested to but there’s nowhere I know that does it in my country. It does seem to push the boundaries of what is internationally accepted as pizza but the same can be said with a lot of things so I’m fine with it.

anothermember ,

Reminds me of this Mitchell & Webb sketch (warning for strong language)

anothermember ,

Do people really buy pans for just eggs though? I’ve always used my regular pans for cooking eggs and if I’m storing them in my home I’d want them to cook more than just eggs.

anothermember ,

A basic mechanical keyboard will last 20+ years and will be a nice typing experience for all those years. I’m old enough to have seen mechanical keyboards go for 20 or more years under heavy use and plenty of non-mechanical keyboards going bad after 5 years or so with similar use. It’s a great purchase.

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    anothermember ,

    What I love is that they actually have an Iceland in Iceland. I’ve driven past it.

    anothermember ,

    Why the hang-up about “shops”? It’s a colloquialism for restaurants.

    anothermember ,

    While Heinz aren’t the best, American baked beans are not the same as British baked beans by a long way, so you’re probably not actually comparing it to what is sold in the UK as Heinz baked beans.

    anothermember ,

    For me it’s preparing for future nostalgia, I want to be able to just "have it’ to look back on. It may sound strange to some people I guess but I can’t properly get “invested” in a show/movie/game without the knowledge that I’ll be able to rewatch it again, maybe at some point when I’m in my 80s and feel nostalgic about it. It’s a major barrier to my enjoyment in the present. It’s like why people take photos of things. 99% of what I would torrent are things I have access to now, that I would happily pay through the nose for if I could just own it in a DRM-free format.

    anothermember ,

    Can you not just post what the use-case is and the list? I’m not going to watch an unsolicited 20 minute video.

    anothermember ,

    I knew my comments were crap but wow… :)

    anothermember ,

    The problem is that 3rd parties are doing the packaging both on Snap and Flatpak whereas if they had followed proper security practice ONLY THE REAL DEV should ever be allowed to package their app as a Flatpak or Snap.

    Says who? If it were the case, Linux would either be a nightmare of fragmentation or become centralised on one distribution. Distros need to be able to package their own software, and these are kind of like distributions. Also since we’re talking about proprietary software here, is it really any better security practice if the “real dev” packages it or somebody else, they both could contain malicious code.

    anothermember ,

    Valve are not going to put malicious code on their app. Neither is VLC or any other FOSS developer.

    How would you know that? It’s not like it’s something that doesn’t happen.

    Or 5 Bob’s all doing the same thing with 5 copies of Valve on the Store.

    It’s crazy. This is what causes fragmentation.

    I don’t know what snaps are like but that’s clearly a non-existent problem on Flathub.

    Flathub should vet every app and if you are not the dev of the app, you may not host it on Flathub. You’re still welcome to make a Flatpak for home use on your own pc but not for wide distribution.

    I don’t know why you feel like there’s permission involved. You don’t have to use Flathub, therefore Flathub can have what ever policies it likes. Users can set up a different flatpak repo if there’s a need.

    anothermember ,

    think Heinz do some tinned puddings too? The cakey kind though rather than creamy stuff, mind

    I also remember those (in the UK) - tinned sponge puddings - not seen them in several years though.

    Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button?

    Some article websites (I’m looking at msn.com right now, as an example) show the first page or so of article content and then have a “Continue Reading” button, which you must click to see the rest of the article. This seems so ridiculous, from a UX perspective–I know how to scroll down to continue reading, so why hide...

    anothermember ,

    Page load: The biggest and I mean biggest reason someone leaves a page is page load speed. If you’re deep in researching some information, regardless of your internet speed or if the fault is on the user side and your page load is over 3 seconds, you will leave the site. Loading only 1/4 of the page helps with this along with other tricks like caching at the CDN and lazy loading.

    The thing that always bothers me about this is that I’ve been using the internet since 90s dial-up, and even 90s dial-up never had a “page load speed” problem when loading text-based articles. An extremely conservative estimate is that modern broadband speeds are 1000x what they were then so “page load speed” is entirely about the design of the website, and it seems that mostly the excuse is “we want to spy on people”. Am I wrong? Otherwise why not write an HTML page that would be just as compatible with Geocities as it would now?

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