It does! Both linux and windows versions work very well, though I discovered on ubuntu that you can install both an app store and a .deb version and they will be entirely separate instances. Wild! And confusing for noobs when updating!
Fly safe friend! That sounds miserable! Hopefully it is travel for a fun reason, at least.
Thats a super fair stance.
Consider looking into something like freetube (pc, there might also be apps for android that do the same, I don’t know) Its logged in as an anonymous account so you can subscribe to stuff, but you can go into the settings and disable all the distractions, which is what they call everything thats not videos :) All I ever see is stuff from my subscribed channels, and if I go into the individual channels, the only thing that remains is the main videos feed, everything else (about, shorts, community, etc.) is disabled. I also have sponsor block enabled to auto-skip all promotional content including self-promo.
The algorithm is basically non-existent on freetube, in that your recommendations feed on the side of the video player is going to be mostly the same channel you are watching now, not just random shit. Maybe a few things thrown in that are closely related -like if they work with another channel a lot that other channel might come up- maybe some weird bug videos that aren’t related at all, but those are all semi-sciency so that could be from my own watching, idk, I think the dev included some basic channels for the main feed so it wasn’t empty, they don’t really change and I’ve had other people mention seeing the exact same videos in their feed, years apart. I haven’t seen much, if any, questionable or undesirable content without explicitly searching for it, though.
I find the distraction-free mode of using it to be very much like back in the day when you had to know what you wanted because there was no algorithm. Its not addictive or changing my opinions, imo, because I genuinely struggle to find new channels, what with no algorithm shoving shit down my throat, so I get what I’m looking for and nothing else. I check it a couple times a month, quickly run out of new content, get bored, and go do something else. Perhaps thats a workable option for you, as well :)
Your link in this comment doesn’t seem to be working. The prior one did though.
I understand your desire to not use youtube, but you are missing out on The Spiffing Brit and Let’s Game it Out
If you aren’t familiar, they are game breakers. Spiffing brit tends toward grand strategy games, and finds balance issues in them for a living best I can tell, and lets game it out griefs NPCs and systems to see how much abuse a game can take and what sort of tomfoolery he can manage. He tends toward very complex base building and mining type games.
Even if neither of those genres are your thing to play (they aren’t really mine), the channels are funny as hell and totally enjoyable.
Actually, depending what the flies actually do inside that might indeed be relevant.
I live in the Midwest and I get these flies called cluster flies. They usually only come in in the fall when looking for somewhere warm to overwinter, but I’ve had them other times as well.
They aren’t like houseflies in that they wont really reproduce inside the house, they mostly hang out near windows. I wait for a lot of them to build up on the screen, close the window most of the way, crack the screen open a bit (storm window) and go outside to open the rest of the way.
But once everything is closed up for the year, any left behind just die.
If those are what you’ve got, you probably wont be able to stop them getting in without completely ruining the insulation and humidity profile of your place, especially if its an older place which aren’t neatly as airtight as newer ones. They will get in through any ducts going outside, cracks under your siding that aren’t sealed, you name it.
Best you can do is get rid of them when you get them.
I was a big fan of all the hidden shit in labrynth, the shots where you’d see one thing and they’d shift perspective to show you something else, like the rock face or the hidden passages. Thats still enthralling to me because they are very very good visual illusion effects.
The helping hands were also great. I wish they’d done a little bit more with those, maybe in other places, and not just the oubliette scene.
One more reason to drop the ballot in a drop box if one is available to you.
I’ve been voting absentee for years and have never returned it through the post.
This seems like the sort of hiring process to get a bunch of people selected for just to grief the system and provide feedback, as a community.
Im not a fan of cake OR dancing!!!
But if people make each other happy and i dont have to spend a lot to celebrate that, sure!
If you are in a position to be impacted by my “easier for me, harder for you” mentality, you by default aren’t the sort thats struggling in life.
It targets those in some sort of power, those who wish to restrict my life for mo good reason. The sort of people who (think they) can make rules to govern my life.
I challenge you to come up with a time where finding the loopholes makes things worse for people who are also living under the same rules.
The second half of this post is how I got through highschool. And college. And the military. “I didn’t see anything about it in the handbook/UCMJ” was my motto. And I already realized hard work didn’t pay off, cuz I watched my siblings do that.
There are two ways to get through life. You can conform, which is hard for you but easy for everyone else, or you can find and exploit every loophole you can which is hard for you AND hard for everyone else. I’m not one to make things easy for other people unless its also easier for me, so…
I find my days to be much better overall when I don’t spend a lot of time online over an extended period. I’m more productive, more creative, and less anxious. I still find out all the impactful stuff, anyway.
Its not like knowing the bad news as it happens helps me in any way, genuinely, so why bother wasting all my bandwidth on it?
My dumb monkey brain is meant to tell five kinds of poisonous berries from the one edible kind. What does it do with an international pedophile ring, climate collapse, and rising inequality? Shuts down is what it does.
If they take fresh/baked goods, egg bread and egg noodles are a good way to get nutrients into bellies without being super difficult to do. The threat profile on such things is also totally different so they are allowed on a lot of places where raw foods wouldn’t be
Also a great use of eggs that are “maybe borderline” rather than tossing them :)
Not the longest game lore/series retrospective I’ve watched!
And thank you for that! In exchange, here’s castlevania, a lengthy retrospective. Love these longform videos cuz I don’t always have energy or enough interest to do the things myself.
Roku, in my experience, likes to break apps every 3 months to force you to reconnect and reinstall them, so pihole works, I’ve had one for years, but it didn’t work very well for Roku, unless adblocking is your one and only concern and tracking doesn’t matter to you. I assume it’s the window where they can still get fine-detail logs.
This might be out of date info; I have had mine off the internet for years at this point, but it’s because of that crap.
Shakespeare actually wrote that part In originally but had to cut it from the live performances because he couldn’t find a trained cat who would do it reliably. Shame too, it’s the most realistic part when it’s included. They didn’t spay or neuter back then so there were just always kittens everywhere. If you died a dozen or so would mess with you to make sure you weren’t faking it.
What did you get? Do you really think you’ll regret it?
Based on getting progressively better each time I played through one of the horizon games even with months or years between them, I’d say yes.
When I first started, I was awful with aiming and stuff (shooters have never really been my thing, I’m trash at aiming, horizon is JUST far enough from a full-on shooter that it piqued my interest and held it solidly), now I’m playing actual FPS/TPS because my skill and muscle memory in that regard has improved substantially. Enough that I got platinum on both horizon games. :)
In my case I like being a healer because it’s the one role nearly everyone else tends to be dogshit with and constantly wiping doesn’t scream “fun” to me. I was the main healer and raid leader for my guild when I played WoW (holy priest, never respecced), and I genuinely enjoyed the constant stream of things to pay attention to. As long as my running mates were doing their jobs adequately, my job was very active-zen. We rarely wiped, and even PUGs went smoothly most of the time because a good healer can make up for a lot of shit from a bad tank or aggro-pulling dps.
I had a couple mods, nothing that automated heals or anything, just UI tweaks to clean up clutter and then add more, but different, clutter, like an extra 3 rows of hotbinds and combo macros so literally everything was easily accessible. Cuz if you think I used keybinds to cast anything, you’d be wrong. Clicky clicky!
Kinda miss playing, tbh, but I stopped liking the sort of people who play it…
They forget we build the boats and planes and bunkers in the first place…
And the cement trucks, excavators, and battering rams. :)