Wistful

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[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

Name two that aren't Bing or Google and that don't suck ass.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

Mixplorer also adds the option in the share menu to save the file.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

From my experience, in chrome browsers, tap and hold context menu will differ in some cases (I'm not exactly sure depending on what), but sometimes you will have the option copy link address which will copy just the image link, and in other cases you will only have share image option which I personally never use.
It seems like share image option copies the image into the clipboard and if you choose to include the link, it will also paste the link bellow (link to the page where you copied the image from, and not the direct link to the image, it seems like). And that will work (including the link) only if you share the image to a specific app. If you choose copy image option from the share menu, it will only copy the image to clipboard without the link, even if you choose to include the link as well.
So in such cases you would have to long tap on the image, open image in new tab and then copy the link from the url bar, which is how I always done it, but it is pretty stupid that you can't copy only the link from that share menu.
Maybe there is some other way that I don't know of ¯\(ツ)

In firefox browser you will always have the option to copy image location, which will copy just the image link, I'm not sure about other browsers.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 months ago (36 children)

So what would be a good solution to this? What is something simple that bots are bad at but humans are good at it?

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was just messing with the settings and this is what worked for me...

In Heliboard settings:

  • Set the language to your native language.
    You may have to download and add the dictionary for your native language. For my native language it was missing, so it asked me to add it.
  • Turn on the multilingual typing option for English.

In system settings:

Go to Spell Checker settings (you can search that term in system settings, for me it was in Languages & Input > Tools category > Spell Checker)

  • You want to enable the spell checker if it isn't already.
  • Set languages to your native language.
  • Set the default spell checker to Heliboard.
[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I was just reading this issue on Github last night and I really don't see how PeerTube is any better than a traditional server for hosting videos. The peer part of it seems to have such a miniscule impact on the whole thing that it just feels like a gimmick. I've read that the biggest problem for PeerTube instance hosts is storage and not the bandwidth. The only thing that peers can save you is tiny bit of bandwidth from what I understand.

So from what I've gathered, relying on peers only for hosting the video is completely unviable. And that makes sense, especially for old, unpopular videos, there will be no peers to begin with. Even if every video on the site is being "seeded" by viewers, the reliability of connection and bandwidth would be very bad because you can't know if the peer is some guy on the dial up connection. Even in the perfect scenario where everyone had very reliable connection and good bandwidth, the fact that browsers don't support p2p protocol and rely on a hack/workaround to use it, will mean that there will be delays. So starting the video and rewinding would be painfully slow.

Is there something that I'm missing, or is PeerTube really not that much better than a "normal" video hosting server?

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

That's cool, I might try it on the phone myself :D

What actually reminded me of the original, is this game that I accidently stumbled upon while checking out the Steam summer sale today.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

mpv player should be able to do it, if you install the script.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Might be easier/faster to find the video in lower quality to download?

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago

Pro tip: Point the fan so that it blows outside and DO NOT put it directly on the window or right next to it. Instead, move it ~50cm away from the window to take advantage of Bernoulli's principle (push the air out more efficiently by pulling the air surrounding the fan).

You can cool down the room even if the door is closed. You are lowering the pressure inside your room so the outside air is forced to rush in. If you place the fan like I explained, and point it at the lower part of your window and you put your hand next to the upper part of the window, you will feel the cold air coming in.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

Fair enough. It's nice to have something that just works out of the box and doesn't need much configuration, for sure.
And even though most points you have mentioned are actually doable in OBS, they need additional setup/configuration or a plugin. But I personally don't mind that, and in most cases I prefer that, especially granular configuration of video settings.

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why do you find OBS to be suboptimal? I never used OBS on Linux, is it not working well there?

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