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by bisby 3y ago
Multiple major ISPs used to throttle Netflix, so that customers would have a poor experience and switch to the ISP owned streaming service. That stopped the last time net neutrality came up (that was basically WHY it came up). Right now, if
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by bisby 3y ago
This is an alternative front end for Invidious. They aren't changing the stock invidious front end. This would be like the difference between reddit.com and old.reddit.com. Furthermore, this isn't even an official Invidious projec
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by bisby 3y ago
I think it goes both ways though. One can justify more complex solutions, only to not need the added complexity. One can always ignore edge cases to justify a more simple solution. only to find out that the cut functionality was not quite a
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by bisby 3y ago
Just as I was reading your comment, a boat went by or something and there was a sudden rush of sand and debris kicked up from the bottom of the feed, and for the past 5 minutes or so, there's been a constant stream of debris flying by
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by bisby 3y ago
I would assume "if you don't put them back together right, you can't stop, and cars are deadly enough with functioning brakes"
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by bisby 3y ago
The irony that I switched to Insomnia after Postman started demanding a login... and now I've been actively looking for alternatives (Bruno being on the list) now that Insomnia has done the same thing.
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by bisby 3y ago
Or if doing your day job during off hours, you're just looking for a quick solution and don't actually care about polish because you just want to get back to not working.
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by bisby 3y ago
I'm not sure what level of skepticism you are at. But I will say that AR/VR is already great fun as a toy, and for some people with social issues, it can make situations more comfortable. It's not just pure nonsense or "
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by bisby 3y ago
There's a reason for "Don't talk to cops without your lawyer present." Even if you have nothing to hide, your words can be misconstrued against you. I'm fully on board with assisting with a real investigation. But u
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by bisby 3y ago
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/valve-dont-recommend-ubu... Snaps are not "fine." They're generally worse than debs, and worse than alternative "all in one" package formats like flatpa
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by bisby 3y ago
The biggest problem with linux is definitely finding the right distro. Ubuntu is awful. With their move towards "snaps everything" it just keeps getting worse. Canonical is basically Linux's Microsoft. A lot of the "esta
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by bisby 3y ago
That's untrue though. Linux has a disk utility (I use gparted personally). And you can surely do it on the command line in a single command. On Linux you could automate that task. How would you propose automating "open disk utilit
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by bisby 3y ago
Zoom supports the xdg-desktop-portal for screensharing as of semi recently. Sway's screensharing portal (via xdg-desktop-portal-wlr) only lets you share a full monitor at a time. You cant only share a screen region or a single window,
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by bisby 3y ago
Many games on Steam are DRM free. You have to download the game through Steam... but from Gog you have to download the games from Gog too. One uses their app as a gatekeeper and the other uses a website. KSP is an example just off the top o
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by bisby 3y ago
That's fair. and there are plenty of stories of game devs that do moderate their forums being incredibly toxic themselves. But point being, Steam is a whole platform. When THPS 1+2's "Upload a custom skate park" broke, I
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by bisby 3y ago
Gamestop has a single interaction with the sales process. Once I've bought my game, unless I want to return it, I never have to think about gamestop again. So while the "get the game to the store" costs more, the act of swapp
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by bisby 3y ago
Screen sharing and global hotkeys have been my only pain. Pipewire and desktop portals have solved certain aspects of screen sharing, but not all of them (since apps arent updated to use those portals yet). I feel like global hotkeys could
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by bisby 3y ago
While I won't argue loot boxes, and I dont know enough about mod/skin communities... The 30% developer fee makes a lot more sense if you consider that steam is much more than a game store. They host forums, guides, achievements, c
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by bisby 3y ago
Wasn't trying to suggest it was AI. I'm aware it's crowd sourced. But in the end, I disagree with the crowd sourcing most of the time, so regardless of if it's a single person, crowd sourced, AI, or anything else... it d
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by bisby 3y ago
The tom scott one was one example I was thinking of... With the sponsor segment clipped out, that video lacks a LOT of context. The main one I was thinking of was Senpai Gaming. He does reviews of microphones and streamer equipment. He just
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by bisby 3y ago
Yes, I'm aware. I suspect the users who contribute tend to fall into the category of "The host saying 'and now a word from our sponsor' or explaining that 'today we are using product X so don't be surprised whe
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by bisby 3y ago
By "on desktop" I mean FreeTube (and simply not via NewPipe or on mobile). It has options for the different types of things to skip, but my issue is with disagreeing with how overly strict they can be about flagging things as spon
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by bisby 3y ago
Right. My issue is that I disagree with what they consider "sponsored sections" sometimes. "Only skip sponsor segments longer than 30 seconds" isn't an option. Long ads that make up most of the video: bad. A brief p
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by bisby 3y ago
I use sponsorblock on desktop, and sometimes I find the parts that they skip annoying. I don't fully agree with where and when they skip things. Watching Hot Ones today, they had a segment about how they have Hot Ones Hot Pockets now.
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by bisby 3y ago
Bandwidth and data caps aren't hand in hand. If I download a COD update that is 100gb right now at 1gbps. or I watch 3gb of netflix a day at 10mbps, i'm still using 100gb. But the bandwidth requirements are very different. They ei
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by bisby 3y ago
To some degree "there can be a ton of different versions of things" only applies to core OS packages. You mention Mac. but what version of python ships with macOS? What if I need a version other than what ships by default? At a ce
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by bisby 3y ago
I internally tend to contribute SpaceX's success to Shotwell. Sure, Elon challenges the status quo of space companies and prompts "radical new ideas", but I think she is the force that makes it an actually viable company that
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by bisby 3y ago
oldest "math text" certainly not. Wikipedia says "Elements is the oldest extant large-scale deductive treatment of mathematics." There is a category for which we can count it as "the oldest" The only older &quo
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by bisby 3y ago
Thunderbird also lost the ability to have threads auto collapse for a while there (it seems to be back now?). So any long threads were auto expanded. Felt kinda like supernova was so heavily focused on "the redesign" that it faile
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by bisby 3y ago
You prompted me to go through the FreeTube settings. SponsorBlock is just right there. I didn't even think to look for it. Amazing! Thanks. I wonder how many of the open source clients have it built in.

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