phantomwise @ phantomwise @lemmy.ml

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I remember when computers had no memory and the storage was on punch cards made from mammoth leather that we had to tan ourselves after spending our weekends hunting the mammoth with spears. Also we carved our code by hand on stone tablets. Young people these days have it easy.

Thanks, I feel a lot better about my potato-grade laptop now 😁

Same, go FreeTube! And NewPipe for mobile.

rofi-calc, because it's qalc in rofi. Rofi makes everything better 🙂

If you don't want to bother with a CLI app and specific syntax to follow, there's rofi-calc, it's super fast to load since it's just rofi and it understands natural language. When I stumbled upon it I found the idea of a calculator that understands you when you type "30 feet in mm" or "10 usd in euros" completely mindblowing. Props to qalc for making it possible

GNU Stow, definitely. I can't stress enough how wonderful this app has been for my sanity. I use it to manage my dotfiles and personal data.

I made one dotfiles folder, which contains home, etc and usr subfolders. I put all my configs in it (dotfiles, themes, custom keyboard layouts, etc) in the relevant subfolders, then with Stow I symlink dotfiles/home to /home/username, dotfiles/etc to /etc and dotfiles/usr to /usr, and poof symlinks are created for everything in it. That way all my configs are in one folder, I can sync it to my NAS easily, make it a git repo for version control, and even upload it to github. It's amazing 🥰 I also made a personal folder which contains Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc, all symlinked to /home/username/Documents and such, so I only have one folder to back up for my personal data. Yes I'm very lazy and hate doing backups 😅

Rofi (or here for the X11 version) : It's the best app launcher by miles, even if I used a DE I'd still use rofi. But I also use it for a lot of other stuff that it's much less well known for: the run mode for launching scripts and other executables, the ssh mode for ssh, rofi-calc for a very light and fast calculator that understand natural language, rofi-games as a games launcher, rofi-emoji as emoji selector... Rofi is life, rofi is love, rofi is God.

Libation to liberate audiobooks from Audible. There's tons of apps to download and un-DRM your files from various platforms, but most only work on Windows. This one does work on linux 🥳

Lots of self-hosted apps for my media server, but they are all pretty well known (Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Komga) except maybe Suwayomi Server for manga (it can sync progress to AniList, and there are plugins to enable downloading from online manga reading sites)

ani-cli for watching anime because I'm a crazy person who grew up with MS-DOS and TUI apps make me happy. Also it's often more convenient than having to check ten different websites to find the one anime you want to watch only to discover that half of them have been taken down.

yt-dlp to download videos from YouTube. I use wrapper scripts to make it more convenient to use because I'm lazy, but it's great.

https://neonmodem.com/

Supports Discourse, Lemmy, Lobsters and Hacker News

Also it's a TUI ❤️

Waterfox

How could anyone take him seriously BEFORE?

"about to destroy the web" ???

Where have you been these last 10 years? It's been getting worse for a long time, even before AI. It's just getting worse quicker now.

I had no idea about the second one! I still like having a context menu option, right click + E seems much less of a hassle than selecting the text and copying, but it's nice to know you can select part of a link! How did I never notice that you could in 20 years? 😅

Future uBlock/NewPipe users

Thanks for educating people about the usefulness of adblockers, YouTube ❤️

I think Youtube Anti Translate only works on video titles and descriptions? There's Youtube No Translate which does the same and also keeps the audio track in the original language so you don't get a shitty AI dub

Category "how the hell isn't this included by default" :

• Copy Plain Text: Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the selected text as plain text, without formatting
• Copy Link Text : Adds an option in the right click menu to copy the text of a link
• Markdown Reader: Show formatted markdown. I tried several extensions for this and this is the one I prefer personally. It has an index panel on the left which is sooo useful.

Category "Preserving your mental health online" :

• uBlock Origin: You really need to block those ads
• Consent-O-Matic: Never see a cookie pop-up again in your life (it auto accepts or refuse in your place).
• SponsorBlock: Skips Youtube sponsorships. You can define which ones you want to skip and which you want to watch (paid ads, self promo, etc)
• Return Youtube Dislike: Show the number of dislikes on videos. It's not a real number, it's extrapolated based on how many people with the app have clicked dislike.
• Youtube No Translate: Keeps titles, descriptions and audio tracks in their original language

Category "Usefull" :

• KeePassXC-Browser: To access your password database from your browser
• Whatever fingerprinting protection you can find (Canvas, Fonts, WebGL, etc.. half those I used have been pulled, haven't found a replacement for all of them)

Category "Would be nice if..." :

• A user agent switcher... if you want all websites to block you 😑
• NoScript: Block javascript and create custom rules to allow it only when and where you want. Or the reverse. It was great a few years ago but I've stopped using it because websites require allowing more and more otherwise nothing works and it's hell can we cancel javascript please?
• Dark Reader: Dark mode for all websites. Can make some websites unreadable, but you can turn it off for that website. Makes everything much slower though so I don't use it.

Yes I rewatch it on Youtube from time to time it's a great ending!

What also really marked me in the writing are the characters, and the choices you have not being the binary 1. selflessly good or 2. pointlessly cruel. It was great to play someone who didn't have to be either, for once, not having to decide between the two and being able to just play a character, not an alignment. I accidentally ended up as the practical incarnation mark II 😁

sorry I meant it in a joking way, I should have worded that better 😅

That answer should have been worth a free drink and a taxi home

I thought that was unix time /s

There no need to feel so special, people in Paris are rude to just about everyone. My condolences to anyone who has to work or live there 😬