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LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Yeah, I never thought I’d use a dedicated email client anywhere but work, but Thunderbird is really good.

I also use K-9 on mobile, which I like even more, but marking messages as spam never seems to stick. I still keep getting absolute trash from Google, even though I unsubscribed to updates a long time ago.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

My current employer doesn’t use Outlook, but I’ve worked for several in the past that do, and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen all of those messages at some point.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Very fast for me as well. I just launched it to check, and it took just a second or two to cold launch it.

Takes a few more seconds to refresh and get new messages. I think it’s actually faster than checking my email in browser, especially since one of my email addresses is the Yahoo! account I created in the 1990s and use for junk subscriptions.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

A good pirate lives in a gift economy and gives and takes as needed

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

“Libertarian” always seems like a misnomer. Libertarians only want people like themselves to experience liberty. They aim to do nothing to address inequities like social and systemic discrimination against LGBT+ people, BIPOC, women, and others. They aim to do nothing to address poverty. It’s social darwinism at its ugliest. This is why they are practically indistinguishable from conservatives here in the US – the way they arrive may look different, but the outcomes are the same. At best, they are wearing blinders. At worst, they actively support the power structures and systems that result in things like poverty and abuse.

People who legitimately do seek liberty should instead be looking to things like anarchism, which is interested in addressing the root causes of all of these problems, such as hierarchies and the state.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Are you referring to text messages that say “The USPS package has arrived…”?

If so, yes. I posted the first one I got to the scams community on lemmy.one, but I’ve received roughly one every day since then.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

People like you is why I don’t and shall never miss using reddit

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I think government only works when it has the power to militarily dominate any competing force.

I’ll take Yikes! for 100, Alex

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

What’s wrong with anarchists? I’ve never seen anarchists defending pedophilia. Anarchism doesn’t mean you just freely cause harm to others; quite the contrary.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

You misunderstand when you say “systems to prevent those things aren’t necessary.” These things are absolutely addressed by anarchists. We’re not foolish enough to rely on the goodness of human nature to carry us through. There is no state, there are no hierarchies, but people causing harm absolutely can experience consequences under anarchism. Diffuse sanctions, for example. At worst, they can be removed from the community or group entirely.

But more than anything else, it’s important to recognize that mutual aid is just as much a part of human nature as things like rape and murder, and the rate at which rape and murder occur are greatly exacerbated by hierarchies. For example, things like masculinity have to go, and we need to stop putting people in positions of power over others and creating such hierarchies.

And this brings me back to the topic at hand. I cannot conceive of an anarchist who would in any way approve of sexually abusing someone young enough to be considered a minor. Above all, anarchists aim to remove hierarchies, and having a grown adult in a relationship with a young teenager – this would create such a power differential that I can’t imagine any anarchist approving of it or hand-waving it away. The anarchists I know very strongly disapprove of such a thing.

The people we colloquially call “libertarians”(1) on the other hand still seem to support the state as well as hierarchies such as those created under capitalism. In fact, most self-described libertarians I know want to do nothing to address the things you mentioned, as well as nothing to address other harmful things such as the social and systemic discrimination against groups like LGBT+ people, BIPOC, women, and others.

(1)yes, a bit of a misnomer since it would make more sense to call anarchists “libertarians,” though no one does, unless we append it with “libertarian left,” though even this seems like a silly term for anarchism

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I was never happy with Steam. It always seemed bloated with unwanted features that had nothing to do with playing a game, constantly wanted to run in the background and update, launched at a snail’s pace.

I’ve found myself liking EGS a lot more because it’s clean and simple.

Both are owned by big gross corporations, so really I’d prefer no launcher at all.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I don’t think this is normalizing it at all. There’s more of a self-deprecating subtext, and it’s not too dissimilar to the humor I hear from other addicts/alcoholics (been sober from alcohol since 2017 myself)

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

If you scroll down, you’ll find the comments to match “doesn’t apply if you’re married or a parent amirite” fuck me what the fuck is happening on Lemmy

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I’m sure it’s much harder to manage a Premium subscription than it is to simply install uBO

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

how much actually ends up in the creators’ pockets

For most, very little. For the big ones, millions of dollars, and I always resent people lecturing me about “morals” because I’m not willing to subsidize a rich person’s hobby.

Regular perople aren’t making anything from YouTube, only the ones who had the capital to invest in their channels upfront. I don’t feel compelled to pay for any of that, and I’d just as soon have their content filtered from my feed if it’s immoral not to want to see ads.

The channel I use most often is Audible Anarchist, and I really don’t think they give a fuck if I use an adblocker or even Piped to watch their videos.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

You’ve definitely saved time by using an adblocker/Revanced, compared to having to watch ads or keep track of a paid subscription.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I’d rather watch non-monetized channels using an adblocker. The entire attraction of YouTube for me was that it was a platform where regular people could share random videos for free. If that’s not what it is, then I’m not interested.

If YouTube had an option to filter all monetized channels from my feed, then that would be the most moral course of action, since I could simply not watch those – quite bluntly, awful – videos.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Revanced is quite the pain to set up, in my opinion, and the Revanced forums aren’t super helpful. The developer refuses to publish a useable guide.

I switched to NewPipe x Sponsorblock, and that one was maybe 20 seconds of downloading and installing, not counting tweaking the settings to my liking. It’s been much more stable for me. Revanced always crashed for me at exactly 3 hours of continuous use, which was a problem since I use those 8-hour ambient sound videos to help me sleep.

There’s also LibreTube, but that one can be a lot more finicky, and you have to manually switch the instance, which becomes a pain in the ass after a while.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

This has been my exact same experience trying to use ReVanced as well. Piped has a much more helpful developer and community, in my opinion.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Are you using Firefox?

Also, you might have to go into filter lists in the uBO dashboard and make sure you’ve checkmarked everything.

I’m not sure what can be done about a fire stick. I’m lucky because I have a mini PC connected to my main TV that runs Linux so I can use that to stream whatever I want. It’s one of the best setups I’ve ever had for entertainment. I just got one of those cheap wireless keyboards with a trackpad for $10 from newegg, and Linux Mint has a setting to make the UI more usable from a distance.

I do use a Roku sometimes when I travel for work, and I just deal with the ads, so if there’s a way to make something like a fire stick or roku work with a custom OS, that would be nice, but I’m not aware of anything.

Edit: Just noticed u/[email protected] has information about smarttubenext. Might look into that.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Sponsorblock itself also works on Piped and Invidious.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Yep, I never let YouTube recommend me content, because it’s all highly-polished monetized garbage. They’ve made it purposely difficult to find videos uploaded by normal people. I used to watch this random lady with a pet squirrel who made videos with her phone, it was so fun to watch. Once it all became monetized, that got buried. It’s to the point that most of what you see on the front page, you could just as well be watching cable TV. It’s so bad.

I feel like an old man saying this, but it seems there are a lot of younger users who got sucked into the YouTube algorithm and see this all as normal or even good. That’s why you get weird accusations of “stealing” content or not supporting “creators,” as if it’s my job to subsidize some rich person’s hobby. The entire reason I liked YouTube is it was a free forum where users could share random videos with each other. If it’s not that anymore, then it can die for all I care – I don’t want it.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I’ve got four accounts, and I use them all for basically the same thing, although I try to post more to native instances with each account

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

The benefit is I don’t have all my content in one instance. Also there are a few communities I like that might not be federated with a specific instance, but are on another. There’s been some talk about beehaw leaving the fediverse, and if it does I’ll follow, but I’ll probably check this account from time to time.

To me, the benefit of the fediverse is no advertising and no monetization or artificial promoting of posts.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I’m sorry. Such a beautiful cat.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I figured out I can send it to myself on Molly, and the metadata will be automatically removed, but surely there’s a better way to do this very basic thing?

Later, I’ll have access to my laptop that runs Linux, so I’ll see if it works there to do it in a more civilized manner.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I’ve downloaded FFmepg in the past, but I’m too dull and non-techy to understand it. I’m bound to royally fuck up anything in command prompt. Is there a setting I can use in Windows to allow me to remove the metadata by right clicking like I can with documents or images?

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Haven’t heard of either one of these, thanks! Musicbrainz Pickard looks pretty intuitive based on the screenshots, and I like that it’s also available for Linux. I’ll try that one first.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I’ll try this, thanks! It’s really surprising though that you can’t just delete the metadata like you can with a normal file. Is there something unusual about mp4 format that disallows this?

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Hi, Thank you so much for your help, but when I double click the .bat file, it just opens it inside Notepad++

I made sure to select “all files” and use the .bat extension, but no dice.

Any idea why?

Here’s what my folder looks like with the mp4 renamed “INPUT.mp4”

Here’s what my .bat document looks like

I’m lost…

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I just used it. It was easy enough to edit/remove metadata, which is all I want to do for now. It reminds me a bit of a Windows 95 era app, which is the time period when I became acclimated to Windows software.

Anyway, it took just a few seconds to do what I want to do. I’m still quite baffled why removing/editing metadata in a mp4 is unsupported in Windows. It seems like such a basic thing.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I totally agree with you about Windows. Even Microsoft’s forums are generally unhelpful if you don’t want to use their OS they way they think you should use it. I’m gradually switching to Linux and will not be using Windows 11. Whatever minor conveniences I may miss out on are worth moving to an OS built with users in mind and with a friendly community of people who are actually helpful.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I too am sorry for the late reply, but thank you so much! I’ll try it again asap.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I finally got around to trying it, and I’ve realized that the “open with” option is absent from the right-click menu for some reason. I’m trying to find out why, but so far no luck. I checked the registry key, and it’s intact and should be giving me the option. I hate Windows.

Edit: So after a lot of searching, I discovered that I must have had Notepad++ set up wrong, because I found a registry entry from Notepad++ in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ .bat

I didn’t want to just delete the value, so I ended up uninstalling Notepad++ from my PC entirely, and the “open with” option returned, and the registry entry disappeared. Notepad++ is a popular app, so I feel like a lot of the people I found by searching who have the same problem might have this app installed with the registry entry to remove “open with” from the .bat file extension specifically. I knew something was up because I tested other files on my PC, and “open with” was still there. So frustrating, but your solution works now! Thanks!

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Thank you!

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

The people you see working the register get dogshit pay and have never seen a bonus

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Which sites work better in Chrome? I’m forced to use the Google suite at work, and I do everything within Firefox. Even sites that insist they only work in Chrome have always worked for me merely by switching the user-agent header

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

While the author describes them as nice and sympathetic, literally every action described and every quote makes them seem like insufferable douchebags. Maybe the author…

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Is this typical? I don’t often read the Verge unless someone links it, but even the first paragraph already made me cringe a bit when they talked about “deciding to buy a plane ticket” or whatever idk the exact words, I’m not going to read that again lol

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

Thanks!

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I’m pretty tolerant of Christmas music. I don’t even hate the Mariah song. But “Christmas Shoes” can fuck right off.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

This is the best kind of justice

LinkOpensChest_wav, 8 months ago

Can they at least leave feedback? It would sure be nice to be warned about sellers like these.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 8 months ago

I think just a neutral review stating “The seller abruptly canceled and refunded without explanation” would do the trick. I might even be inclined to leave negative feedback if the seller refused an adequate explanation. I’m not sure though if it’s possible after a refund. I try to seek out sellers who are individuals casually selling personal items vs. someone whose business is selling on eBay, so I’ve never had this happen yet.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 8 months ago

Same. Think I’ll binge it again once the snow hits.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 7 months ago

I finally got my own modem – the SB8200 – so I finally feel like I’m free of the grasp of that horrible experience. Thanks for your help!