My bad for not clarifying, I meant on Newpipe 
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My bad too! I didnāt mean to comment on the newpipe, I was just making a parallel observation. Basically just how assholish youtube behaves. I donāt have a clue on the app version, but Iād bet money they follow the same push push push format.
Iām sure newpipe is a different (better) beast, but that kinda supports my āthe past is new againā argument. Itās the same kind of workaround logic that emerged to deal with some of the 90ās issues.
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Itās pushing the shorts even harder than the the web version, and thereās no way to disable them. Not even temporarilyā¦
They really want you glued to the screen and unlike the long form videos, thereās nothing of value in those shorts.
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Most of the time Iām on youtube, Iām deep diving into some obscure concept. Shorts are the opposite of deep diving, and thus the problem. I canāt get anything from it with that drivel being constantly pushed.
I find it weird-ish to hear people talk about how itās addictive / pulls you in. It has nearly the opposite effect on me. If I accidentally open one, the quick pace of delivery feels good for just the beginning, then I realize itās a nothing burger, and switch to being simultaneously pissed and dissapointed. End of happy train. Iām more likely to leave youtube than to cycle through shorts. Iām most likely to look for a way to kill off shorts so I can get back to what Iām there for.
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I can watch 2-3 āMeme/Funnyā type shorts, but then Iāve had my share for the day. I got a chuckle, Iām done. I either leave the site or move on to something like Jeff Geerlingās newest video or maybe other content I want to look for in particular.
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Exactly
If I wasnāt going through a lot of stuff, dealing with worthless bureaucrats, and wasnāt kinda lonely, itād probably be less addictive.
But shorts donāt fill that gapā¦ Those are an easy distraction, but donāt help in any way and waste a lot of time. Hence why I want to get those out of my life.
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A lot of times ports of entry have full body x-ray scanners.. like real x-rays not the bullshit you walk through to get on the plane. Theyāre looking for swallowed drug packages mostly, but Iām sure it would show implants just as easily. I donāt know of anybody actually having to go through one of those machines, cuz they only put people suspected of it smuggling through them.
I have had to talk about my implants though. I was put through secondary screening once and one of the questions that came up was if I had any implants. They were asking about medical implants of course, but I didnāt want to risk being accused of lying so I said yeah I have 11 of them. Then I proceeded to explain what they were and the company, and by the end they were super interested. They actually looked up dangerous things right there at their terminal.
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Thatās awesome actually.
Walked in to my Motherās house and my phone starts begging to connect to her fridge.
*sigh * One more thing to neuter.
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Those who routinely use chatgpt, how often do you get the choice between two versions. Iāve been pushing hard on it lately in chemistry, metallurgy, geology and assorted trivia, and seeing it alot. Just wndered if itās connected to the contortions Iāve inflicted upon it.
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I get why youād want to get notifications from a washing machine, dryer, or dishwasherā¦ But a fridge?
What functionality can an internet connected fridge offer?
This just seems like expanding the attack surface of your home network for the convenience of knowing that your dinner is still frozenā¦
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I have an Samsung fridge and a problematic family. It does one thing that is helpful and does not do a thing that should be obvious but is not an option.
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I get ādoor openā alerts which I can wire into Amazon and Google smarthome offerings, as well as home assistant. When a child leaves the door open (happens a lot), I can get a notice but I can also kick off home automation routines that literally say āClose the damn door you filthy animalsā.
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What it does not do but I wish did is allow me to use the same smart home tools to lock / unlock the water / ice dispensor. The goddamn thing is connected to the stupid smart screen in the door so it gets a little pop-up when I lock or unlock the dispenser, and I can control the lock through the built-in buttons or through a toggle switch on the smart screen UI.. but no cloud control over that feature. Stupid assholes.
It seems Samsung, LG, and others are way more concerned with gathering data than providing features with all this cloud nonsense. My fridge tries to use a series of internal cameras that point at your food to determine what the hell youāre putting in there and when, and when it might need to be coming up on expiration. It fails in the most laughable ways, so I put tape over all the cameras and physically destroyed the microphone for itās equally laughable ābixbyā voice assistant, which canāt even get simple volume adjustment commands correct when a kid is watching youtube shorts on the built-in screen.
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I agree. The fridges are a long way from being useful. I wish they would invest more into them. I like to be able to look into my fridge when I am at the shopping centre so I know what groceries to buy, but the cameras are so shittyā¦.. maybe in a few years.
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This. As long as this is the motivation service will be shit.
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Not to derail from fridges, but:
Last night I just had to rip a DVD purchased in the last week from a major retailer. The movie is a copy of Howlās Moving Castle by Studio Ghibli.
We have a little media center PC in our bedroom for use as things like a steam link and some occasional web browsing or movie watching that the AndroidTV its connected to just canāt do properly. We got the DVD a bit ago because I simply didnāt feel like hunting for a good torrent of it, and the SO really wanted to watch it. I used this to turn it into a random gift by buying the metal DVD/BluRay box set.
Last night I grabbed my USBā>DVD drive, slapped that on the Pi4, slapped the disk in that, VLC refuses to play it. The OS did recognize the disc.
āThatās weirdā
I go and slap the disc in my main systemās (Linux) proper 5.25in drive bay. Now keep in mind, about a year and a half ago I was using this system to rip all of the DVDs I had that I considered important to back up. It has handbrake and all the silly little decoders I need to do so.
VLC/MPV doesnāt open it. Weird.
āFuck itā
I open up handbrake and spend the next 40 minutes helping my SO open and clean their xbox waiting for the rip to complete (why we didnāt use the xbox to play the BluRay version? Because it hadnāt been turned on in two years and we wanted to make sure there wasnāt anything spilled in the vent. It was the backup option.).
Rip completes, I use a flash drive to move the file to the pi, MPV opens it immediately and plays the entire movie perfectly with a single 2 second stutter in the first 120 seconds. Crystal clear, wonderful colors, just low resolution because of the source. A great experienceā¦
But why, Studio Ghibli, why oā why did I have to rip your movie off of the disc I purchased just to watch it? I would understand if the Pi just lacked some random piece of software, as this is the first time Iāve (tried) to play a DVD from it since installing it, but my main system that Iāve used to watch multiple movies from less than two years ago..? On tech that is well over two decades old now? Why?
Itās very often that you get a worse experience by buying vs piracy. Itās ridiculous.
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Literally the only benefit(s) to purchasing it in this instance:
I have two hard disc copies
I have pretty metal box
I could rip the DVD version in the highest quality H.265 was capable of (well, most of it because diminishing returns.)
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I remember when MPEG2 decoder cards were a thingā¦
And I think that you ran into one of those few instances were VLC canāt play something. WTF!?
Iāve seen cloud connected fridges without the cameras or water dispenser. Although I wasnāt expecting the door open reminder to be a thing.
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What would be the benefit of a smart fridge without those things? Just the integrated android tablet?
Well, i just got waaaay too excited that there is a Python documentary. /nerd
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