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  • Yeah, there’s tonnes of good content on there, but as you allude to, there’s even more shitty or zero effort content… And the algorithm has a way of serving up absolute trash. And the parental controls are pretty much non existent…

    Youtube happily serves up videos to an 8 year old (on a supervised children’s account) that contain topics like abuse, sex, racism, horror, radical religious indoctrination, Chinese propaganda, and human centipede… This isn’t as rampant in the YouTube Kids app… But at least half the stuff on YouTube Kids is ASMR content or unboxing “surprise” toys…

    YouTube allows you to block channels, but will happily continue serving the 9000 other accounts that simply reupload the same exact videos.





  • Fair, that is pretty awesome feature, especially for the tab sprawl in this day and age.

    I (obviously) use Firefox, and I had the same problem, and found the “Tree Style Tab” extension solves the same problem for me, however it does it in a very different way.

    Instead of having your tabs along the top of the window, your tabs are kept in a sidebar, and vertically. Opening new tabs from an already open page makes the new tabs nest under the original tab. You can collapse and expand whole trees of tabs, and move them around should you need to.

    It also integrates nicely with the “Container Tabs” putting a colored band next to the tabs belonging to each container.

    The tabs being vertical also means that you can always read the titles of the tabs, they don’t get “squished”.

    It does cost a chunk of screen real estate, but for me the organization is worth it.

    BTW: The extension doesn’t itself hide the tabbar at the top of the window, but that can be hidden with a relatively easy modification to a file.





  • Sure… Which is why Valve has built Proton, which makes nearly all PC games run on Linux… Sure, the developers of the games themselves should have made the Linux port, but for many developers it’s cost prohibitive to support another platform with very few potential customers.

    But the more players who run Linux (and Steam Deck by extension), the larger the incentive for developers to support Linux natively. And in turn more games will get made for Linux, which will draw in more people to switch to Linux.

    So as long as my game runs, then I don’t care whether it was the original developer, Valve or an open-source developer why wrote the code that made it work. And luckily I’m one of those people that don’t mind having to tinker a bit to make things work (hence why I’m on Linux in the first place)

    If we as gamers stubbornly refuse to switch to Linux until our games are natively ported, then developers might as well just develop their games for Windows, where the players are…








  • Podcast Addict is not quite as streamlined, but has many more features.

    My favorite feature is the “Automatic Rewind” combined with “Incremental rewind”. It adds a rewind everytime you pause and resume an episode that increases the longer the podcast has been paused. It means that if I briefly pause, for example to respond to. Some one in real life talking to me, then it will automatically rewind 5 seconds when I start the podcast again, so I can hear the sentence I was in the middle of in full. But if I leave a podcast alone for a week, then it will rewind 1 minute so I can get fully back into the context of what I was listening to.