GnuLinuxDude @ GnuLinuxDude @lemmy.ml

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As an entry-level subscription, the new tier won’t offer several benefits in the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription, like downloads, background play, or the ability to watch music videos ad-free.

I wonder how much electricity is wasted on this alone. Probably so many people leaving their screens powered on just to continue listening to something without it stopping.

I've been paying for Mullvad for a while and didn't realize this was even a thing until this announcement.

This is the one program my dad explicitly uses in the Microsoft suite of programs that I thought, "Ok fine we'll keep paying for this shit." Time to start looking into alternatives. Microsoft... Even when I stop using their software they still cause me endless wasted time.

The one thing we can be certain of is if a genuinely progressive candidate arises in the next presidential primary Third Way will be there behind the scenes to fervently work against that person.

I would love decent RISC-V hardware

Third Way’s entire purpose is to find “centrist” (read: conservative) ways of setting policy agenda for democrats. Always punching leftward, of course. It’s just a much less effective clone of the federalist society, staffed by losers

Why can’t we be critical of democrats by being selective in the primaries?

lol even when you try to do this Pelosi will push the thumb on the scale to get Cuellar, one of the shittiest Democrats (and that's really saying something) reelected over challenger Jessica Cisneros. Or you can even win the primary and then the state party will allow you to languish because you're a working class demsoc instead of a trusted middle-manager of capital. The Dems need people like Cuellar, Sinema, and Manchin so that whenever they have a majority they can still sit around and do fucking nothing until the Republicans come in and shift everything further rightward. Dems love this. Ratchet effect is real. Fuck the Democratic Party. At least the Republicans are honest about how much they hate us.

Hell yeah. My favorite shell for almost 5 years, now. It was definitely an adjustment trying to get away from Bash-isms, and everything shell-related online essentially expects Bash. But it's just like their tagline says, it's a shell for the 90s. It's great.

The problem with Markdown is it kind of sucks. CommonMark didn't even defragment the markdown world, since there are numerous incompatible extensions. It seems like gfm is the best among them, or at least the most featureful.

I know there are other options like RST or AsciiDoc, but I don't know which among them is actually "the best."

whoa...

Literally this afternoon I jumped as high as I could to see if I could touch the ceiling. I could not.

Pi-hole is one of my favorite pieces of software. It is the reason I began self-hosting six years ago.

Unfortunately I can't play around with it anymore because I live a thousand miles away from everyone I support who actually uses Jellyfin. My experience with the Android TV app was embedded SRT subtitle support is now 100% good as of late last year, but embedded PGS trips things up so much that I cannot use them.

Sublime never offered lifetime subscriptions. https://web.archive.org/web/20150928064400/http://www.sublimetext.com/sales_faq You can even see as far back as 2014 that if you purchased Sublime Text 2 when Sublime 3 was still in beta:

• Upgrade Policy
  A license is valid for Sublime Text 3, and includes all point updates, as well as access to prior versions (e.g., Sublime Text 2). Future major versions, such as Sublime Text 4, will be a paid upgrade.
• Expiration Date
  Licenses purchased for Sublime Text 3 do not expire, however an upgrade fee will be required for Sublime Text 4.

You can find that disagreeable, but it was not something they hid from us customers.

I don't use it for myself but my experience with Jellyfin is the subtitles UX kind of sucks. It got a lot better on the Android TV app recently (ty to the maintainer!), particularly with improved subtitle support, but because of ExoPlayer it still can't play bitmapped embedded subtitles easily, only .srt subtitles.

The experience on iOS/appletv with Jellyfin/Swiftfin was so bad that I ended up recommending Infuse. Infuse is a great app, but it's not a libre app, which kind of clashes with the rest of Jellyfin in that regard. And, once again, it needs massaging: unless you want to be popped up with a buy Infuse Pro pop-up your video and audio has to be in certain codecs.

As I said, I don't use these things, myself. I don't even have a TV. But every now and again, I will put a file up for some relatives, and I want it to be totally directly playable, because my server is just an old laptop. So I have to spend a lot of manual time making sure the files are juuuuust right. If there comes a day where there's direct playback with embedded PGS or SRT subtitles on all platforms that will be the day the Jellyfin suite of software becomes 10/10 software for me.

Nathan Robinson from Current Affairs had Fetterman pegged from the start. I remember people gave Robinson a lot of shit at the time sounding the warning bell early, but he has been thoroughly vindicated in my opinion.

I would like to believe in John Fetterman. But he needs to take his political cues from Bernie Sanders, who obviously cares about using the power of elected office to try to change lives. I am not convinced from Fetterman’s current campaign that he cares enough about his substantive agenda. If he does, he’s allowing himself to become distracted and bogged down in immature mudslinging. He should stop.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/07/john-fetterman-should-ditch-the-extremely-online-messaging

Chuck Schumer - People Are Aroused.webm

Teachers loved telling you about shit they saw in movies and passing it off as wisdom

The only agreeable thing here is that sautéed garlic and onions are yummy. The rest is some serious 😬

• but if it's
• exclusively bullets
• who can truly say?