"not available in your country" is easily fixed, just turn on your vpn

PipePipe from f-droid is a clone that seems to update more frequently than newpipe, and has the additional benefit of being able to access the Chinese and Japanese video sites bilibili and niconico (worth checking out, it's fascinating even for someone who doesn't speak the languages)

It's always nice to have some motivation from doing things for others. Depending on the service, you can always host for others AND for yourself. It's 10x as much work but you do get positive feedback (sometimes..)

I had to be burned twice before learning this lesson - instances went down and I had to switch.

I can't help it, whenever I see twins I say "Oh, Deja voux" out loud

Yeah the Roblox thing is hard to swallow, it used to work better on Linux than on any other platform for me. Everything else there's alternatives - my local PC shop sells machines at a significant discount "without windows installed", maybe if more did that the market would take care of things and the software vendors would have to support Linux.

As a professional juggler practised early on to do things with either hand - whether it's washing dishes or putting a key in the door.. just paying attention to how you do things. Now can take juggle 3 balls in either hand

As a former Android developer, you can't just do anything in an android app on a modern smartphone. The system is fighting you for resources the whole time. It makes sense to have something like this running as root on a device that you control.

Not that I'm sold on it, just saying..

We don't have bears here, only lions..

Might be a coincidence but MX Linux still supports 32bit x86 CPU's.

I recently installed MX Linux on an old Dell Inspiron 1300 which inexplicably still runs and it's pretty snappy, considering.

I'm my county a high percentage of cars have GPS trackers fitted already - by the owner - because of the high vehicle theft rate.

I imagine if that police here just have to call up the tracking company to achieve the same result - something to think about actually (I don't have one, my car isn't worth much)

Then I think the actual answer is there are none. Although PipePipe can access PeerTube? Also BiliBili and NicoNico. BiliBili is possibly larger than YouTube but of course it's all in Chinese!

I mostly use PipePipe on android, from f-droid store. It's basically New pipe but more reliable and can also view Chinese and Japanese video platforms

On desktop Freetube can't be beat

Digital. I've been reading ebooks for years, starting on my flip phone back in the day. The best part to me is being able to seamlessly switch from reading with my eyes to being read to (tts - I'm used to it now and it's waaaay better than it was).

I do a lot of driving for work so I can get a ton of reading done on the road 😁

I am upvoting this - also moved to Cloudflare from ngrok it's much simpler to use

The apipocalypse same as everyone else. I do miss my niche communities, and my 4000+ internet points, but as an open source enthusiast (I use arch btw) I'm very much at home here 😁

I heard about the avast thing, but how are isp's modifying web pages, that shouldn't be possible with with https, right?

That's the plan.

Thanks, I'm going to look at a rom soon, it's my main device though and I don't have a good track record when it comes to not bricking phones 🤣

Also there is the bit about unlocking the bootloader, I heard it's not straightforward.

Yeah I'm going with they're innocent. Just the UI with the install button and no explanation is not cool.

I was worried about that too but they came back yesterday and the whole troupe skirted the bins and squirter. I'm guessing the ones who got wet told the others it's not worth it. They have plenty of other options in the neighborhood to choose from

Yeah looking at you Roblox 😠. Has anyone hacked that anti cheat nonsense yet? Right now I'm mirroring my android phone on my desktop to be able to see what I'm doing (I'm over 40 but I play with my kids in case you wondering)

AI models get more dishonest if you ask them to respond as if they were a pirate: https://www.circusscientist.com/2023/11/13/i-hired-a-pirate-to-take-orders-for-my-entertainment-business/

Actually now that I think of it - I think I made the last image do a search using only the company name (to avoid same images as others above) so you probably got "Waldo's Weed" there!

I did that on purpose! It's my shop, gocha

Seriously though, the Unsplash search is pretty rubbish. Also, I'm only returning the first image from search (I only have 50/h) , could probably improve the search on my side by checking metadata or something. At least the plant has the right number of leaves, right?

Putting in my vote for Librera reader here. Also on f-droid

Have you tried Minetest? It's pretty good, and not Java based so a lot more lightweight.

The votes are in, it is bad UI! Thanks to those who commented and made suggestions.

I have no idea why, but somehow my site became the target of bots signing up, with legit looking emails but username was random letters. I already check for emails, so a friend suggested putting a hidden trip field for the bots (this is apparently common?) and I thought it might be fun if I made it visible.

The field totally worked though, the bots gave up. Still annoyed though, who was it? I didn't post the links to the site in many places yet it's work in progress, I have like 10 (human) users. I guess I need to add some IP blocking and all sorts of other stuff too in future (eg captcha).

And yes the DDG thing was put there by my browser. It's a handy feature, gave me multiple free trials on ChatGPT for eg, before they stopped the new sign-ups!

I've been told it is bad, I really like it (it's my own site)

ChatGPT is incredibly useful for summarising. The next step is to automate the whisper transcription, and add some tts for the replies. So you can talk to it directly

I'm curious did it not lose the plot at any point? I find after a certain amount of questions it rambles a bit - that's on 3.5 though..

Something similar happened recently here in South Africa, a woman bumped the thief with her car. He didn't die though, and she wasn't prosecuted. People are sick of crime here

Yeah ok but my affiliate links what happens to them?

A friend had the shower drain piped directly to his garden sprinkler at one point. His shower was on the 2nd floor so gravity did the rest.

Probably have a ton of unusual/unique items, being a magician and juggler, but the one that comes to mind is our dedicated BBQ bellows.

This is simply an old re-purposed balloon pump and lives outside next to the fireplace. Best way to get the fire going, portable, cheap.. Beats blowing with your mouth/waving newspaper hands down.

Just dropping a quick vote for Platformio here. It's a bit of a learning curve but they know how to organise code over there. Also VSCode will super power your coding experience. I used Arduino IDE for many years but almost completely switched now.

Still using Arduino though! #include Arduino.h

Fun meme but corporate job listings in my town contradict the premise.

Let them C# I'm sticking to C++ and Python.

I was about 19, a magician friend told me I was good enough at juggling to do busking but I was too shy. Decided to give it a go anyway and remember shaking so hard while lighting the fire torches I was using. Made R30 ($2) so not a lot but I did it. I remember thinking to myself, "I'll never have to work again!"

That was over 20 years ago, and since then - with the exception of that stupid pandemic we had recently - I have made a decent living as a circus performer and magician.

I won't tell you it wasn't a bumpy ride at first, but that first show was the turning point for me I will never forget.

Don't know if anyone remembers but private repo's used to be restricted on GitHub, so I actually use BitBucket for most of my private stuff.

Feels like it wouldn't take much change for me to leave with my own stuff although some presence would always be necessary due to contributions. I don't use any of the "features" of GH though, except for pages and that's for work.

Not to mention the savings on bandwidth, all those ads cost your money!

It's in South Africa. You can't legally buy a TV without showing your TV license here.

Luckily this does not apply to computer monitors although there are some in our government who want it to be an obligatory national tax instead - due to widespread non-compliance. The fees support a bloated and corrupt nationalised public broadcaster.