That’s the bottom line.
JPEG-XL (someone already mentioned it as .jxl below) image files.
There are a ton of other benefits but those are the three I’m most excited about.
I mean…if the movie is good you should support it
What is ‘it’? The movie is a published work, it can’t be financially supported. Who is being supported with the money you pay?
Vote with your wallet.
Unfortunately, consumer boycott (and conversely, support) usually isn’t an effective strategy at this scale you’re talking about. Unless you and all your friends are voting with a few thousand dollars, it’s hardly going to make a dent in the numbers.
Giving money to your enemy is idiotic tho. There is a class war out there and normies are too busy funding their oppressors
Absolutely. At the end of the day, most of the moral ideals being thrown around are, at the end of the day, nice ideas.
Giant corporations exist to get more money and, history shows, media companies will happily brainwash us and buy oppressive politicians just to push their profits up. Furthermore, they serve as a megaphone for the ideas of the owner class, who are historically the core force behind fascism when society is in crisis.
Giving them your resources is fucking suicidal.
It is always morally acceptable?
Morality is, literally, subjective. There is no universal answer to that question.
I personally consider anything being sold by a distributor to be fair game, no questions asked. If I pay for mainstream music, films or games, most of the time, zero of that money goes to the workers who created those artworks. It just makes rich owners richer, because they legally own rights. I would go as far as to say it’s morally wrong to pay for those things, it’s not neutral, it’s supporting a cycle of abuse at your own expense. So that’s my perspective on your ‘giant corporations’ question.
Digital copying isn’t stealing, unfortunately, because those giant companies deserve to have their hoard of capital expropriated.
Now added to my comment :)
Now added to my comment :)
Now added to my comment :)
While I doubt the concept is unique, the script is: a keyboard shortcut will check the clipboard for a YouTube link and then show launcher options for mpv or yt-dlp, including launch arguments for lower quality format and audio only. It launches that in a terminal for easier handling when yt-dlp doesn’t work properly (much more common if using proxies, but also if a video is age-restricted or deleted).
So when I see a yt link here, I can just copy it, keyboard shortcut and then it’s playing in my local video player.
edit: here’s the script. It assumes xsel (clipboard access), rofi (menu creator), gnome-terminal (terminal) and notify-send (system notification on failure) are installed and working, you’ll need to replace any which don’t match your system. My DE just runs it in bash when the shortcut is entered.
#!/bin/bash
ARR=()
ARR+=("mpv full")
ARR+=("mpv medium")
ARR+=("yt-dlp")
NORMAL_URL=`xsel -ob | sed -r "s/.*(v=|\/)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11}).*/https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=\2/"`
CHOICE=$(printf '%s\n' "${ARR[@]}" | rofi -dmenu -p "mpv + yt-dlp from clipboard")
DOWNLOAD="false"
MPV="false"
OPTIONS=""
if [ "$CHOICE" = "mpv full" ]; then
MPV="true"
fi
if [ "$CHOICE" = "mpv medium" ]; then
MPV="true"
OPTIONS+="'--ytdl-format=bv*[height<721]+ba' "
fi
if [ "$CHOICE" = "yt-dlp" ]; then
DOWNLOAD="true"
fi
if [ $MPV == "true" ]; then
COMMAND="mpv $OPTIONS $NORMAL_URL"
gnome-terminal --title "$NORMAL_URL" -- bash -c "echo $COMMAND;$COMMAND;if [ \$? -ne 0 ]; then notify-send 'yt-dlp failed' $NORMAL_URL; bash; fi;"
elif [ $DOWNLOAD == "true" ]; then
COMMAND="yt-dlp $OPTIONS $NORMAL_URL"
gnome-terminal --title "$NORMAL_URL" -- bash -c "echo $COMMAND;$COMMAND;if [ \$? -ne 0 ]; then notify-send 'yt-dlp failed' $NORMAL_URL; bash; fi;"
fi
Spice/spiced could work. But it’s still an allusion, not sure if that defeats the point.
For example, 4chan forcibly invented the use of the ok hand for “white power”, as a collective prank
Which, outside of specific contexts where you’re already confident someone is a WN, was quickly forgotten and never really took off. It’s not a great example of a social shift.
I just run mpv $URL
When was this questionnaire posted? I didn’t see it and get a chance to answer.
Also, I treat servers different to desktops due to different threat models. The server automatically applies security updates and keeps most feature updates sitting for a while for stability, but on desktop I just install everything within a couple of days.
OP asked for specific examples, do you have any you think are worth emphasizing?
Anecdotally: the night Mozilla builds were a godsend when I couldn’t afford decent hardware.
I don’t know much about them, do you happen to know why the nightly builds were better? Did the new features fix a problem?
I used to have to custom compile nginx to get HTTP/3 and brotli working (significant speed benefits), but now it’s possible to get those in packages on my OS. This makes maintenance far easier or even automatic for me, which is great from a security standpoint.
Nah, I’m just bored of pointless sarcastic replies being at the top. It’s bloat!
I felt that way too, but testing it for a few days on one device changed my mind. Their pitch rings true, it has so many basic QoL features that make you wonder why this wasn’t added to bash two decades ago.
For me, the only bash->fish gripe I’ve had was it took me a little while to get used to having to put quotes around URLs with a ? to stop it trying to wildcard, but again, their rationale makes perfect sense and really I admit it was bad for bash to simply accept that string in the first place.
From the name, I expected a Hannah Montana Linux type distro.
Thinking of the projects I work on, I don’t understand the value in categorizing by language, rather than theme (~/Development/Web/, ~/Development/Games/) or just the project folders right there.
My only gripe was that it doesn’t handle (unencoded) spaces in a URL name, which is probably correct behavior but they’re in the titles of torrents on some sites, so I’d have to manually edit them each time. I ended up just using qBT.