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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I hate the official YouTube app. I have YouTube Premium but that’s because I use YT Music mostly (have been using on and off since GPM days). But shorts shoved in your face, subscription page jumbled with updates, comments and videos (I only want videos) ; no way to choose a system wide video quality (app only has High or Data Saver option; one needs to manually toggle for each video ; contrary, NewPipe has this basic feature).
There is also the donate button on multiple YouTube videos (Atleast give me the option to remove/customize that button/other buttons on that ribbon). Why are paying users subject to worse UI?
Oh, and these people throttle stuff on Firefox and have probably been doing since times immemorial.
I have been wondering if I should let YT Premium lapse and not renew it. I tried Spotify Premium once and whilst it’s 3rd party support is phenomenal, it has its own bugs (and they are similarly slow despite their forums being full with bug reports as well). Almost like I should hoard my own music from ahem, sources.
- Comment on I made two new communities on lemmings.world, InsanePeopleQuora and ChavLovers 1 week ago:
Reminds me when Quora was very popular and subs were dedicated to filtering weird/funny posts from there. There was one called r/Indianpeoplequora and it was quite active back in the day (Quora got a lot of user base here in India at its peak though honestly that site looks eerily empty now).
- Comment on For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source 1 week ago:
Indian newspapers have launched partially automated YouTube channels, some with AI avatar presenters. Nearly a fifth of Indian readers said they use chatbots like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini (including AI Overviews) weekly to access news. In the U.K., that number was only 3%.
I knew YouTube channels were popular as a news source in my country (with their over the top hysterical style) but didn’t knew that Gemini/GPT was also getting big here.
I still read a digital version of a proper newspaper. I find it slightly more informative and factual. In the good old days, I used to get a physical newspaper because nothing beats the touch of paper.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 week ago:
Whatsapp is popular a lot in many parts of the world. In India, WhatsApp is almost the defacto standard messaging app with Telegram probably flying in a far second. I doubt I know anyone who even uses stuff like Signal or Threema or any of the alternatives.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
Is there support for blocking individual elements of a page in v3 version of uBlock Origin? (I won’t be surprised if it lacked it). I usually block various other elements of page like useless headers/footers/comment sections on some sites I routinely visit on Firefox.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 2 weeks ago:
I have Prime too for shopping mainly. I also can’t use Prime Video because it refuses to go beyond 480p on Firefox for Linux (Atleast last time I tried).
- Comment on In One of the World’s Wealthiest Countries, More People Will Go Hungry 2 weeks ago:
I copy/pasted the article text above. Usually, Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox works (too bad, they yanked it from main add on repo because of ahem, copyright issues).
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 4 weeks ago:
Which Adblock are extension are you using ( Adblock Plus by any chance?)? I just tried on mobile Firefox with uBlock Origin and rendered fine.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 4 weeks ago:
Oddly, I did know some BASIC and I have vague memories of the numeric line starters like 10 with white text on a black background giving it a retro feel.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 4 weeks ago:
Lary Ellison is one of the richest men in the world right and owns some kind of private island or something that he bought basically after showing his shares of Oracle stock?
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 4 weeks ago:
Java was also my first introduction to programming as it was included in Computer Science in final year of school (at college, we did the trusty C).
I think they have replaced Java with Python now in schools because of the latter’s popularity and also because many would argue, Python is slightly easier to learn than Java.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 86 comments
- Comment on Tamil Nadu: 3 Dalit manual scavengers die cleaning septic tank without safety gear 4 weeks ago:
Ooh, my bad. Indeed it did overtake it. Reminds me of the UK overtake where it was a close race for some time (first India went ahead, then UK again raced ahead before India fleecing ahead finally for good).
- Comment on Tamil Nadu: 3 Dalit manual scavengers die cleaning septic tank without safety gear 4 weeks ago:
A technical correction, India is the 5th largest economy measured by GDP as of now. IIRC US, China, Japan and Germany are ahead. Whilst India will overtake the latter 2 soon and become 3rd largest in a matter of time, it will likely stagnate at that position for a long time since China and US are way ahead.
- Submitted 2 months ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
I have Waterfox setup as an alternative browser but it does not have much stuff to differentiate itself from mainstream FF, as you said.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
Firefox can do so too with TST or one of the other extensions in the store. Sometimes(atleast for me), they introduce slightly more lag when opening the browser but otherwise, they can do much of the job. I use Tree Style Tabs even though I might not be a power user of it (read:not actively using every nitty gritty of the extension).
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
I think I remember Opera Mini’s layout though I didn’t much use it. It was a great alternative especially on mobile more than a decade back.
But yes especially after changing ownership, switching browser engines and years down the line; things have changed.
I think I have their desktop variant a try sometime ago but didn’t find it compelling enough. I haven’t even used their Android fork. I keep using a Firefox fork only :p.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
I think 4K is only available on Edge on Windows for Netflix. I never bothered with 4K since that’s above and beyond my device’s native resolution but I didn’t have too positive a experience with Netflix, IMO.
I just want to watch something in full HD without intermittent streaming or buffering. Legal streaming services including Netflix treat one like a criminal by forcing them to watch in a Web browser with constant Internet connectivity forced upon them. I can use keyboard shortcuts to increase playback speed by 0.1x each time in mpv, does Netflix allow me to do the same? No, instead it gives me a dusty experience.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
I gave Vivaldi a try way back in its early days when I was on Windows. IIRC, it was bundled with lots of features even then and I think, for some weird reason, had Philips Hue Lighting support integrated (unless I am really confusing it with something other, this is multiple years old experience of mine).
I used it as my main browser for Atleast couple of months then.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
I am surprised they abandoned it. It was originally launched as a macOS variant only, correct? And Mac users praised it a lot, on the Web. I thought with that level of traction they will keep going.
In contrast, there are projects that have a much lower user base though vocal (read: Pale Moon) and despite struggling with half of the available modern Web pages, those projects still keep going.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
Many sites have become worse. I think stuff like Cnet, PCMag (which still has a digital magazine I think)were much better in the previous era.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
I will give Zen browser a try. As for Netflix, I only used it for a one month since it’s quite expensive in my country and it crawled like anything on Firefox for Linux. I was getting consistent 720p video but not sure about full HD. Eventually I canceled it.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 3 months ago:
Opera also was a good alternative on Symbian phones right or whatever OS Nokia used before they switched to Windows Phone, I think.
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 127 comments
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 4 months ago:
I guess I will give it a try someday. I originally had a Google Play Music subscription back in the day when it had a cleaner UI(and then Google killed it). I recently switched back to YT Music since ReVanced would usually play video variants.
I don’t have much love for YT Premium since the official YouTube app is worse than NewPipe, say. Even after paying, you are shown adverts for purchasing say, merchandise from creators (that counts as an ad in my book).
I will probably give RVX a try once my current subscription ends.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 4 months ago:
RVX Music requires manual compilation, right? Also, does it properly play album version of songs? (YT Music ReVanced plays the video version of songs instead).
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