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Okay, let’s do this then. Show me where in that imaginary tome of “open source ideology” principles that “worthless nonsense” and “low effort content” are cause for dismissal. Who judges what is worthless and low effort, and on what criteria?

It’s fairly obvious that LGBTQIA+ related subjects are controversial, especially from the stink that you and a few others raise reflexively at the sight of a rainbow flag. Frankly, your opinions and bloviating is more worthless and low effort than an app that does nothing except display a flag in the system tray.

Re proper analysis: Intentional or not, you did a homophobia in plain sight. Just eat the humble pie and give the weird conspiracies a rest.

…and as OP just pointed out, it’s an open source project? That’s relevant IMO.

Yeah, but we’re not looking at the root cause here. Their purpose is to train energy glutton, error prone “AI” even if experience teaches us that those ML models fuck up more often than confirmation bias allows.

“AI” is a bourgeoise and Capitalist tool and, same as with cryptocurrency, we cannot dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools. Fuck AI down the drain. Make things with your own minds, your own hands.

It’s also skewing the history lesson to peddle cryptocurrency. Not all information is equal.

I’m with you. 720p unless I can’t find lower than 1080 — for my setup there isn’t much point. The TRaSH guide parameters make my head ache thinking how much I’d be shelling out on bandwidth and storage for no discernible difference on my home theatre.

I’ve had good experience stitching parts together with handbrake. Honestly, it’s much easier than importing to an editing suite (and getting the export settings right 😬).

Oh, like online piracy. Got it! 🤣

Duh, you’re right. I refuse to use it so I’m not exactly up to date…

LOL, fair point!

Chrome but crypto and homophobic CEO

😬 I’m just going to guess Brave?

Right, so engines not browsers/brands. That makes sense 🙂 I guess Edge, Trident or WebKit don’t really figure into that scale?

It’s only a duopoly?! I’m genuinely curious who you see as the top two and what other bloated browsers don’t make your list.

Funny how Bountysource deteriorated at the exact time cryptocurrency got involved.

I use the LibRedirect browser add-on to use Invidious on desktop and NewPipe on Android. Never use youtube.com, problem solved.

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Friends? More like feudal lords picking and choosing which projects they can benefit from supporting.

It’s a …social workspace? It feels a bit icky though, like being teenage peer pressured to go to a mall. Just a little too consumery.

Yeah, there are piracy websites that comply with DMCA notices but, like Youtube in the olden days, it’s basically whack-a-mole on the copyright holders’ part because they have to give individual notices for each pirated copy. So like you say, you can probably find other copies anyway.

Yeah, that’s a George Carlin quote, and I’m well aware of it. It’s no excuse for dumbing down interfaces like a launcher, or filling it with superfluous features (that coincidentally feed into a corporate clickhole).

Rather than the grim idea that everybody gets an interface the lowest common denominator will grasp, I maintain that everybody deserves a functional, no-bullshit launcher like KISS. It absolutely isn’t what you make it out to be.

Yeah, because using the KISS launcher is like going into the CLI and building stuff from source /s

It does the absolute basic of what a launcher should do and then some, doesn’t track you and gets out of your way. Those principles wouldn’t kill Android, but maybe Google’s ad revenue would smart a bit.