Hellfire103 @ hellfire103 @sopuli.xyz

Young humanoid in the UK. Proudly LGBT. Slava Ukraini! | *they/them*

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There are two main alternatives, AFAIK:

• PeerTube is a federated video sharing platform, which is based on WebTorrent and ActivityPub. There aren't too many creators there yet, but here's a list of the channels I follow: https://lt27.de/jAyUHD
• A YouTube frontend will provide YouTube videos with no ads or tracking. Here are a few that I like:
  • Invidious | (Website)
  • Piped | (GitHub)
  • CloudTube | (sourcehut)
  • LightTube | (GitHub)
  • LiteTube
• There are also apps:
  • Android:
    • NewPipe
    • SkyTube
    • LibreTube
  • iOS, macOS, tvOS:
    • Yattee
  • Windows, Mac, Linux:
    • FreeTube

That's just the order in which Mematic gave them to me.

North East England. Around here, it goes like this:

• 4-8 years: First School
• 8-13 years: Middle School
• 13-16 years: High School

then

• 16-18 years: College or Sixth Form
• 18+: University, etc.

You are probably used to the two-tier system, with a primary school and a secondary school. Around here, though, we mainly have a three-tier system.

Yeah, but high school starts at year 9 (age 13-14), so:

(Y9 doesn't exist for a bit)

Y9 --> Y10

Y10 --> Y11

Y11 --> (Either leave school or just take a few extra weeks off)

Y12 --> Y13

Y13 --> (Leave school*)

This is done because, after the exams, the Y11s and Y13s have no content left to learn, so there's no point in keeping them at school.

Also, as I said, my school is strange for doing this. Most, if not all, other British high schools are normal.

*Unless you get held back, stay on for another year, or go to university

TL;DR: Yeah, pretty much

!2meirl4meirl@lemmy.ml

Instead of moving up to the next year (the British term for "grade") in September, we do it after the exams (finals) are over, which is in June.

There are normally config files for GTK at ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.

Qt themes are configured differently. For Qt5 and Qt6, set the environment variable QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE. If you still use Qt4 for anything, config is done in ~/.config/Trolltech.conf. Refer to the ArchWiki for help.

I personally prefer GUIs, though, so I'd recommend the following:

• For GTK 2 & 3: LXAppearance
• For GTK 3 & 4: Gradience
• For Qt: qt5ct, qt6ct, and/or Kvantum

My school moves everyone up after the GCSEs and A-Levels are over, which is in May or June. The holiday starts in July.

As far as I know, we're the only school in Britain that does this.

It might also be good to have a bot that links to Imgin or Rimgo, which are privacy-respecting frontends for Imgur.

Pretty sure that's acid you're talking about.

!2meirl4meirl@lemmy.ml

I don't like Brave as a company. Brendan Eich is an arsehole, Brave Browser has had (minor, but numerous) controversies, their crypto stuff is off-putting, and now they're sticking their new AI into everything.

Same here. I'll go and live in a hut in Greenland before I go back to Google.

Set Firefox as your default browser by going to Settings > Firefox > Default Browser App.

Also, by adding your Gmail to iOS, you can get your Google calendars through the Apple Calendar app.

It will be. However, I would prefer to keep the VPN on.

Lmao

Definitely not. Never mind "out of the frying pan, into the fire"; for me, this is "out of the lake, into the fire".

Using Yandex would involve giving my personal data to Russia. The possibility of my data falling into the wrong hands is the main reason I am looking for a private search engine; I'm certainly not then about to just walk up to the wrong hands and say "here you go". Not to mention the censorship.

Besides, I've blacklisted .ru, .su, and .рф, .москва, and .yandex in NextDNS.

We want search engines. GPT-3.5 has a knowledge cutoff in 2021, so I only really use it for software recommendations and text/code formatting.

There's an English version out there, but some essential features are paid, such as enabling moderate safesearch or adding Mojeek as an engine.