The workaround is to not use the software you don't like.

Use yt-dlp, it gets the job done without any ads, donations, cookie banners etc.

I hope someone watches it and post a tl;dr here.

I'm interested too, but I don't understand why everything has to be a video (instead of something like a blog post) and don't have an hour for that.

Is it trying to solve any problem that is not solved by rsync/rclone?

Don't get me wrong, I love new tools, just curious how is it different (better or worse) from rsync?

How do symlinks work from the point of view of software?

Imagine I have a file in my downloads folder called movie.mp4, and I have a symlink to it in my home folder.

Whenever I open the symlink, does the software (player) understand «oh this file seems like a symlink, I should go and open the original file», or it's a filesystem level stuff and software (player) basically has no idea if a file I'm opening is a symlink or the original movie.mp4?

Can I use sync software (like Dropbox, Gdrive or whatever) to sync symlinks? Can I use sync software to sync actual files, but only have symlinks in my sync folder?

Is there a rule of thumb to predict how software behaves when dealing with symlinks?

I just don't grok symbolic links.

Universal editor you are talking about is vim. Spend 15 minutes doing vimtutor and you'll be happy 15 years later.

Others have said already, but XMPP and RSS. Also, nobody mentioned NNTP yet.

I wish everything was accessible by NNTP and we had better NNTP clients. NNTP is like RSS but for forums (so, Lemmy, Reddit, or anything where you could reply to posts). Download for offline reading, read in your client, define your own formatting, sorting, filtering, your client, your rules.

If Lemmy was accessible via NNTP, I could just download all posts and comments I'm interested in and reply to them without any connection, and my replies would get synced with the server later when I connect to WiFi or something.

Is there a link to this talk (or interview, or whatever this is) but in a video format, or at least a text without all those «SEE ALSO» self ads?

I'm probably just in a toxic mood, so I'm sorry for what I'm going to say, but…

WOW, Someone who plays a game and ALSO uses a BROWSER? Wow, breaking news, I guess. /s

Lack of commercial availability doesn't change that.

But is there any reason why it doesn't?

Depending on your phone / android version / launcher this cab mean different things I guess.

On my phone (MIUI) a dot like that means this is a new app, after you launch it a few times using that icon (using icon, not by other means like jumping into app from a notification or via opening a link) that dot disappears.

Arch never broke for me.

Unless you seek trouble and do stuff without knowing what you are doing (like blindly copy pasting commands from internet into your terminal), it generally just works.

It's not as good as those distros where all packages come preconfigured for you to work nicely together, so if you want to build a custom system (like, choose your DE/WM/panels/widgets etc), you have to configure all of that to intergate nicely. But you could always just install KDE and everything is pretty stable there, same as in any other KDE based distro.

I think the way to know is to unplug the PC from internet and see if Firefox can translate stuff.

Vimium-C.

Well, it goes right after UBlock Origin, which was mentioned many times already.

I might be wrong here, but IIRC Krita has this feature where you can expand any side of the canvas, so technically infinite I guess.

I was reading some opinions and blogs about helix and thought it's really cool, gave it a try, and almost immediately switched back to vim. It was the moment when I tried to use some regex substitution and as it turns out there are no regex matchgroup substitutions in helix. You can't easily do stuff like replace all occurences of a pattern "firstword secontword: thirdword" with "thirdword - firstword" for example. At first I thought that I'm just new to this editor and don't know how it's done, then after searching for a while found that helix doesn't try to implement things that can be done by external tools, and the way to go is pipe your selections (or entire buffer contents) to sed or awk or whatever and and read from their stdout back into your file (?).

So, while it feels more unix-way (why have regex substitutions when you can pipe into tools that already do this), I still like that vim has this builtin, it feels more integrated into the tool probably. At this point, if helix doesn't want to implement things other tools can do, why even have regex search and select? This could be done by piping into grep as well, I think. Anyway, just my silly opinion and my experience with helix is that I can't use it without regex match groups and substitutions and I'm too lazy to learn how to pipe into sed and do this properly in helix, and it feels natural to me that vim has this builtin with a great amount of advanced options and features.

Like, for example, in vim you can do regex searching and tell vim which part of the match should be your final selection. It's incredible how powerful regexes in vim are.

Passenger Entertainment Systems in Boeing 737 MAX.

Because dota is better than lol. Lol.

For the longest time people wondered: how do bees fly and don't bump into each other? There are so many of them!

To find out, people used high speed cameras, and then they were shocked by the fact that bees actually do bump into each other.

Isn't it ridiculous that we just take our assumptions on something we have no idea about as facts?

So, basically, vim? /s

What's wrong with libreoffice, exactly?

What's your reason for wanting to switch to Linux? Python works under Mac OS just fine.

Is it local? No freshess or ttrss server sync?

The trick is to use custom CSS to hide the default tab bar.

Others told about snapdrop, sharedrop, localsend etc.

But depending on what devices you are talking about, you might do with just an http server.

I have a file manager on my (android) phone with a http server built in, and my laptop is connected to it via WiFi hotspot all the time. I just start a server on my phone and use a browser or any other download tool (curl, wget) to transfer files from my phone to my laptop.

If you have python installed, you can run an http server on any device you have (for example, a laptop) via python -m http.server and access your files from any other device on the same network by manually typing your local IP into a browser.

Yeah, I just downloaded a few communities from AUR, they run really well under Plasma 6.

Have you never tried to download a community?

Probably it would be better to edit my comment, but I'll go with a reply to myself.

To all fans of RSS: there's this service called FeedBase that is essentially a RSS to NNTP gate. You add your RSS feed to that and it becomes a newsgroup on their server, and you can subscribe to it using any NNTP client. New articles appear as new posts in that newsgroup and you can post your own replies to them. So, you get RSS but with discussions or comments.

https://feedbase.org/

If you try this, let me know what RSS feeds you're reading, so we could read the articles together and have some discussion there!

P.S. This comment is not an ad. I genuinely love feedbase and use that myself.

But we already have decentralized encypted chat, it's XMPP.

Is yours truly P2P? What about clients behind NAT? Does it use STUN/TURN servers?

There's nothing better than feedme right now.

Thanks mate, much appreciated.

The best part about this update is that you can actually watch youtube videos in VLC again.

Let us know when it's ready, I'd like to try that.

Have you read this article?

https://www.edwinwenink.xyz/posts/47-tilde_server/

Eh, I wish it wasn't docker only.

I want to apt install stuff or at least download and run a binary, but not docker.

I use Quassel hosted on my server.

Believe it or not, I had a similar question just today.

However, what I want is to add tasks to todo.txt and somehow see them in my calendar (as events or as a task list, my calendar app supports task lists as well as calendars). I was thinking of a way to turn my tasks from todo.txt to calendar events or something and I guess a script on a server (I have a server and use it to sync stuff like notes and files) could watch for changes, parse them and add servers to Google calendar.

Anyway, it's a slightly different question, and I can't answer your question.

Maybe there's a python library to work with Google keep notes, and you too could sync your todo.txt with your server (using syncthing) and watch file for changes, parse them and send them to Google keep using some API. I'm not sure if it's possible but you could try searching in that direction.

Same for me. Arch is great and I'm happy with it, but I need MS Office (I know about Libre Office, but there are files that are made in MS Office and I have to work with them) and at least CorelDraw (at least until SVG spec allows tab characters in text objects) to fully work in Linux. Until then, I have to use Windows :-(

It just works. You install yggdrasil on all your devices that support ipv6, you write down ipv6 of all devices you want to connect to, you type the ygg ipv6 and connect, as long as ports are open.

It's funny that my device that is as powerful as a dozen of computers were ten years ago can't do a thing as simple as save a bunch of lines into a plaintext file and then read this plaintext file and open each line without a desktop.

Thanks for suggestion.

If you want to send something to a computer in school or a work PC or something without admin rights.

snapdrop / sharedrop work in browser, without any installation, and that's the point. As much as I hate web apps, sometimes they are your only option.

I agree that localsend is great when you need to exchange files between your devices often, but when you quickly need to send a file to someone's PC without admin rights, snapdrop and sharedrop are a faster way to achieve that.

Did they fix the page numbers not being properly right aligned in ToC?