megrania

megrania , 7 months ago to technology in Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users

I feel like people mistake YouTube for a video hosting solution.

But that’s not the point.

• YouTube a huge archive of content that accumulated over the past 17 years.
• YouTube is a content suggestion machine. Discoverability is a key aspect.
• YouTube sets an incentive by allowing people to monetize their content.
• …

So, if the only thing you’re looking for is a video hosting solution, then, yes, PeerTube might be an alternative. In the same way uploading videos to your own webspace would be, and Vimeo also still exists.

But for all the other stuff, YT is, unfortunately, unmatched, and probably will be for a while …

megrania , 7 months ago to linux in Video editor for Linux?

For whatever reason, many of the editors mentioned here never worked for me … like OpenShot, ShotCut or PiTiVi were really unstable the last time I tried (might be a distro or DE thing). Also I found it hard to cut precisely when they worked. Lightworks, Da Vinci, Cinelerra, I had a hard time getting them to run. Maybe that changed in the meantime.

I ultimately stuck with Kdenlive, which is stable enough and allows for reasonably precise cutting.

megrania , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?

Hmm I get your point, but on the other hand, I suppose nowadays many people are just used to look for a niche community … and finding it. So it’s not a huge surprise if the first reaction is disappointment when you don’t find anything like it or just an empty community.

megrania , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?

Well, but that basically means I’d have to rely on different platforms if I want to post and discuss, say, niche music that’d just be buried immediately in the usual “popular” music communities (that often have a slightly rockist slant).

Even on reddit, the ambient music or IDM communities are fairly small.

megrania , 8 months ago to youshouldknow in NAC makes you insensitive to alcohol

As some people have pointed out, it protects the liver, but from personal experience, I can’t confirm the “not getting drunk” part … so I’d be really cautious about blanket statements as the one in the title of this post.

megrania , 9 months ago to asklemmy in What UI design trend do you hate the most?

Yes, and not just that … like, making sure to keep the cursor away from the images all the time because hovering over an image immediately plays some trailer including audio.

Generally, playing media elements without explicit triggers by the user is annoying, but this is the worst.

Like, who thought this was a good idea?

megrania , 10 months ago to linux in Why don't more people use desktop Linux? I have a theory you might not like

Hmm good point!

megrania , 10 months ago to linux in Why don't more people use desktop Linux? I have a theory you might not like

That’s not mutually exclusive with the author’s argument, though.

if a computer vendor offers multiple distributions to choose from, the problem of choice remains.

And if the vendor only offers one option, which one should it be? And how can a user verify that it’s a “good” option?

megrania , 11 months ago to technology in Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification

It’s already being pushed to the Chromium repo, or so it seems:

github.com/…/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8…