I’ve given up on YouTube because of its terrible interface and just use tube archivist + Jellyfin.

Food is crazy. My wife went to jersey mikes and got a sandwich for herself. It came out to $17.50!

I mean Amazon did this for their mp3s. It was literally just an id3 tag with a unique identifier. Not hard to remove but “good enough” to keep regular people from overly distributing it. You’ll never win against the real Pirate community no matter what you do, so just give people real incentive to buy and actually own.

Grimm Fandango (one of the best games ever made) along with Myst and Riven also run on Scummvm!

🍻here’s to all the developers out there who makes sure there site works great not only with Firefox, but also with ublock origin and piholes!

It is always shocking to me how many sites or apps completely fail to load if you dare block google analytics!

I also had this issue. At least tell me why you are blocking me!

Windows 95 crashing for the 5th time that day corrupting another high school paper.

I knew nothing about Linux, but bought a red hat 6 cd and installed it. I never dual booted or ever went back.

This was in the day of getting a modem that actually worked on Linux was a PITA as everything had turned into software based winmodems. And it wasn’t like you could just order one online. You had better have hoped Best Buy/circuit city/compusa had something.

Latest John Oliver on Dollar stores:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QGOHahiVM

Lindows. I can’t believe it still exists in some form…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire

I also have a framework 13. It has been great! I run the latest fedora and everything works great out of the box.

My only annoyance is fedora disable hibernate by default and now that s2idle is the default instead of s3, too much battery is used while sleeping. That said, it isn’t difficult to enable s3 and hibernate.

I use s3 deep sleep which then hibernates after and hour. Works great for me as I don’t do work on my personal laptop so I’m only using it on evenings and weekends.

Technically it’s a cross on PlayStation since it uses symbols not letters.

My in-laws power outlets throughout the whole house have always on LEDs on them. It drives me crazy. My mother in law likes it and says they are like night lights, but the whole house is so bright at night.

Vikunja is very slick!

Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)

This is the way to do it. I can’t stand youtube’s interface and its recommendations, auto play, and other anti-features frustrate me. I find that on youtube, when I go look at a channel, I often can’t figure out which video is the most recent, and really struggle to see figure out what I’ve watched and what I haven’t.

Using RSS let’s me see when there is a new video posted just from the channels I am interested in. I don’t have to go hunting. FreshRSS will watch it through youtube-nocookie.com, but I often find using yt-dlp is better experience, especially for anything longer than 5 minutes.

Parent’s is more complicated, but this simple script may be a good place to start. In this case, I follow a channel that posts new music videos for discovery. This automatically downloads (just the audio) using yt-dlp to a local directory. It could easily be modified to download the video (just change the -f flag). I run this with cron once a day.

https://gist.github.com/line72/ceef5402881d6d3ae732e7b7c9cbf01b

I use freshrss. It is my primary source of information. Here are some of the things I follow:

• Various Local News Sources
• Local City Council Blog
• Various National/International News Sources
• Various Blogs
• Comics (SMBC, xkcd, …)
• Music Review Sites/Blogs
• Various Record Label feeds (I run a small distributor)
• YouTube Channels :: This is so much better than going to youtube
• New Releases/ChangeLogs of various OSS projects I follow and host
• Various Planet (Gnome/Gnu/Debian/…) Aggregators
• Google Alerts
• Lemmy Communities
• Reddit Communities (We’ll see where these go)
• HomeLab/Cron :: Instead of dealing with emails, I generate RSS feeds from my cron scripts/home lab notifications
• Email Subscriptions :: I take some email notification (like new releases on bandcamp) and convert them to RSS

Nextcloud is nice since iPhone natively supports caldav/carddav so you can use the built in reminders app.

Interesting. I don’t see this issue.

I also recommend self hosting photoprism.