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@ Arnox:

Vendor-Lazarus said:
YT finally got around their A/B testing to bring me the new and improved (hah!) GUI. And it's hideous.

There are two nice things about it though. For one, when you pause it, it will now hide the interface if your mouse stops moving, allowing for quick screenshots finally. The second is you can now actually fucking read the video section title on a white background when you move your mouse over the seek bar.

Link Oct 21, 2025

@ Arnox:

Everything else is dumb but at least generally non-intrusive.

Link Oct 21, 2025

@ Vendor-Lazarus:

Fair. It's just so... big. Definitely smartphone-centric.

Link Oct 22, 2025

@ Vendor-Lazarus:

Except the like and dislike thumbs. They're tiny.

Link Oct 22, 2025

@ Arnox:

A significant other of one of my relatives jokingly asked me how I even survive if I don't use ANY popular form of social media. Like not even an account on any popular social media.

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Arnox:

It can quickly get annoying, but it's also pretty nice being a ghost on the internet. Comes with a lot of perks.

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Vendor-Lazarus:

The only major "social media" I use is reddit (niche sub-reddits only). If that even counts as social media. No insta, tiktok, facebook, twitter, whatsapp, snapchat, etc. Surviving is easy. Then again, I've never needed to socialize with other people. Most humans are social creatures though. Sounds exhausting to me, having to focus on annoying and ultimately pointless drama.

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Arnox:

Yeah but it's annoying because it does cut you off from otherwise very easy social access points. One can definitely still get by, but you gotta be at least somewhat socially independent and/or have a good way around that major impediment.

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Arnox:

I walk around town, and sometimes, people get very curious about me. But there's no information about me that is able to be accessed on popular social media, so they have to resort to asking me sometimes awkward questions just to get any information about me.

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Arnox:

"So is your, uh... Family around here? :)"

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Gauche:

#homeless1stworldproblems

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Arnox:

Aight. Kdenlive's all set up for hardware rendering. Just gotta record me shouting about meaningless shit and we're off again.

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Houseman:

I think that's just normal irl conversation. I've only been asked for my socials once in my life, by a much younger person. Has your experience been different?

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Arnox:

Houseman said:
I think that's just normal irl conversation. I've only been asked for my socials once in my life, by a much younger person. Has your experience been different?

It generally is normal conversation, hence why I said sometimes. Other times though, I can tell people people are pretty damn curious about me. And of course, that's not a bad thing at all. I just found it a little funny.

Link Oct 23, 2025

@ Vendor-Lazarus:

Talking about drugs and spirituality stuff, is this you Arnox? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Yd8V0Qt2w ,)

Link Sunday at 7:10 AM

@ Arnox:

Vendor-Lazarus said:
Talking about drugs and spirituality stuff, is this you Arnox? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Yd8V0Qt2w ,)

Well, looks like that happened just after my split from the LDS church, but otherwise, nope. lol

Link Sunday at 10:51 AM

@ Arnox:

"What was the end goal, man?"

Bruh, he's practically out of his mind right now. He probably doesn't even know where he is.

Link Sunday at 11:00 AM

@ Gauche:

MSOffice had some update that changed the UI including desktop icons for their file extensions - feeling violated for it and it isn't even my pc

Link Monday at 3:41 PM

@ Arnox:

Gauche said:
MSOffice had some update that changed the UI including desktop icons for their file extensions - feeling violated for it and it isn't even my pc

It's modern Microsoft. You will feel violated, period.

Link Tuesday at 1:07 AM

@ Vendor-Lazarus:

and google will groom you into thinking it's okay to be violated.

Link Tuesday at 9:08 AM

@ Vendor-Lazarus:

Ya'll know about https://annas-archive.li/ right? I think I remember a thread about Sci-Hub and Z-Lib, but I couldn't find it through search.

Link Today at 10:02 AM

@ Gauche:

Yeah - hate how ebook formats focus on small file size so images/comics get fucked over - only real hope is pdfs - diary of a wimpy kid is a comic posing as a book so it has a shit ton of ebook entries that scrunch the images/cuts them in half between pages due to fucked formatting/or worse, remove the images entirely

Link Today at 10:10 AM

@ Gauche:

Even classic ebooks with +1k downloads have their cover art fucked by the format compression

Link Today at 10:13 AM

@ Houseman:

Vendor-Lazarus said:
Ya'll know about https://annas-archive.li/ right? I think I remember a thread about Sci-Hub and Z-Lib, but I couldn't find it through search.

Perhaps this one? https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?threads/how-to-get-nearly-every-book.1690/

Link 48 minutes ago

@ Houseman:

We should use a thread to track it when it goes up or down. Sometimes we just post a message in the chat, but that gets lost easily

Link 47 minutes ago

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