I have used ytdlp before but mostly to download music. It’s really powerful though I’m quite lazy about doing the research into all of its features.

Discoverability is still important to me. I should check out invidious, since I’ve never heard of it! Thanks!

Also make sure to use Google Takeout to download all of your data! It’s much easier to grab your old emails this way, plus lots of other data you might not even know Google had on you.

I’m old school. For SW it’s the OG trilogy all the way. For Trek it’s TOS, TNG, and DS9!

Everyone has their breaking points. The enshittification will continue until morale improves (by leaving Google).

The only Google properties I still use are YouTube and Scholar (occasionally).

Yes, though not until I’ve dried my wets!

It’s the rule of 3! For both Star Wars / Trek, I only like 3 movies / series!

Alright, but I’ll skip the bread!

Don’t try this with a bowl of soup (unless your bread is a bread bowl)!

Oh no, I was along before Flash and ActiveX. Before Windows 95 even.

If it gets people to eat less fast food I’m all for it!

Gravity supplies more than enough power to reach dangerous speeds even on unpowered devices. If all the governor did was remove applied power once walking speed was reached, that would be enough to get kids to the top of a hill without effort, and then they’d go rocketing down to their doom.

The danger of these scooters is that they’re scooters: they’re unstable and unsafe at speed. Bicycles are much more stable and thus safer at those same speeds.

To max out their speed you’d need a governor that applies the brakes automatically. This in itself can be very dangerous in many situations, such as when you’re going down a steep hill. I would imagine that’s also the situation children are most likely to get hurt.

If you are getting this, you’re probably applying to the wrong jobs. You want to look for entry level jobs, which still exist though they’re becoming rarer.

Most websites from when I was a kid did not need JavaScript. Heck, they didn’t even have any JavaScript on many of them! No CSS either, just HTML and images (which were very slow to load on dialup).

Niche topics was all I ever used Reddit for, so in my case, Lemmy just doesn’t replace Reddit at all. None of the subreddits I follow have an active equivalent Lemmy community. They go from a few posts a day and dozens of comments on Reddit to “last post: 3 years ago” on Lemmy.

These things are pretty cheap though. I think the trend is towards grabbing different handhelds for different systems, rather than trying to find The One Handheld to Rule Them All.

Happens to me all the time! Infuriating!

You ought to educate yourself on the difference between the general and the universal. A society can have serious ideological, legal, and social problems without those issues reflecting on the people or their culture.

I think this is too sophisticated an argument for someone like you, though, so I won’t waste any further time on you. You think everything in black and white terms, ready to pounce on anyone you think is the other team. Good day!

Capitalism is not doing great, crony corporatism is doing great. Proper libertarians are against corporations which are a construction of government and inherently protectionist and mercantilist by their very existence.

A lot of pro status quo people call themselves libertarian but they’re idiots or shills and know nothing about libertarianism.

Ahhh okay. I’m not sure then. I doubt there’s much meat on the bone there. M&C is hardcore sailing nerd stuff. “Sail ho! 2 points off the larboard bow! … all hands to quarters! Set the topgallants and the royals!” I don’t know how much of those technicalities are in Moby Dick.

I think Trekkies (and any other sci-fi nerds) would take right to M&C if they put in a bit of the work. It’s incredibly visual writing, once you get the hang of it.