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6d ago Tech Talk
@MentORPHEUS sound like a case of someone that would do with an alternative yt player, many of them. Although even watching a yt film on a mobile browser should be in the browser's history as long as it was not embedded on some other website
6d ago Tech Talk
Weird form of censorship and discourse-steering that I've seen happen too many times to dismiss as coincidence.
I like to listen to podcasts while I work, and set them to 1.5-1.75X speed. What keeps happening is, Youtube's mobile browser site (I don't use the app) interprets clicks on the control panel as a "back" button for the entire video. This dumps you back onto the homepage, where the back button takes you to the prior video you watched, and takes the video in question out of your feed, not even to be found in the "continue watching" panel if these are presented during scrolling. You must manually crawl your way back to the video by typing the exact URL text into the browser, or drilling down by going to the channel and menu-ing your way to either the videos or live section because it doesn't show in your feed of that channel's contents either. Tapping the edges of the screen to skip ahead or back, WELL away from the margins of other control icons on the screen, also invokes out of nowhere commands that drop you elsewhere from the video you're trying to watch.
This ONLY ever happens with content that challenges the Party Line. Scores of times i've had it happen, compared to exactly ZERO on mundane general-interest channels and topics!
Read More1mo ago Tech Talk
@MentORPHEUS oh wow, and that dude normally likes all the plant-based imitation meats.
Just how bad was this crap?!
1mo ago Tech Talk
gonna throw my mustard in the food here:
Please consider using linux anyway, even on the main computer as a dual boot especially Arch Linux (I am the incel beta lalala so of course I use a derivative of arch linux)
@woodsmoke Windows 10 is far less a headache than 11.
I bought a new laptop last year that came preloaded with windows 11, didn't like the win11 and switched over to linux mint while the computer was brand new with nothing of mine to lose on it. I already extracted everything I wanted from the last computer and put it on an external hard drive, so it was a good time to experiment with an unfamiliar os. If you get a second or new laptop, that's the best time to do it.
Still couldn't pay me enough to sit behind a desk again.
I honestly don't know how people do it. I don't even know what the hell anyone could be doing on a computer just sitting there for 40+ hours a week.
Thanks, I'll look into those when I have some time.
Probably won't be soon. My current PC works just fine with Win10 and I'm a firm believer in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Possibly the only thing I miss about working in IT was the easy access to "computer guys" whose brains I could pick to get a new rig squared away and solve problems as they popped up.
Still couldn't pay me enough to sit behind a desk again.