EnglishMobster

joined 2 years ago
[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

POV: You don't know what the words "well-regulated" mean

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PeerTube exists (and has for a while). It's a federated alternative to YouTube that uses torrents to share video, rather than centralizing it in one server.

The problem for creators is that they can't make money off of PeerTube - thus there's no incentive outside of making a Patreon.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

PeerTube is a federated video service, and one that's been around longer than Lemmy.

It gets around this problem by using Peer-to-Peer tech. Essentially, when you go on the site it uses your machine to send data to multiple other users, like how torrents work. The server still needs to exist, but load is lessened by offloading it to clients who seed data to others.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

TikTok seems to arbitrarily decide if a video has a seek bar or not.

I'm really not sure why they do that. Revanced has a patch for TikTok that puts the seek bar on every video.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

That is a known bug at the moment. I believe there is a fix in review right now but Codeberg seems to be down.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Cinnamon doesn't work properly across multiple monitors. Your task manager thing doesn't stay in sync. The one that says it works with multiple monitors just... doesn't.

Plasma hasn't given me any issues, but Mint doesn't have a KDE distribution. So I've been on KDE Neon.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

But with Arch you have to pay attention whenever you update or else you brick your whole system. Ask me how I know.

I've decided it's not worth my time trying to figure it out. I just use KDE Neon and press the "check for updates" button. Don't get me wrong - I know my way around a terminal - but honestly it's just not worth my time anymore. Just give me a thing that works without me needing to think about it.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Search for a community just like you would elsewhere.

This place would be @fediverse@kbin.social, so you'd search that to find this place on the fediverse. Lemmy communities use the same format.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Lemmy doesn't have the functionality like Kbin does. It's one reason why Kbin exists.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Woot woot! You're the champion! Thank you so much!

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I dislike GBoard because it will frequently autocorrect words which are already correct.

It drives me absolutely insane. Like "it's" is a contraction for "it is", but "its" is a possessive. Yet whenever I want to use possessive "its", autowrong "corrects" it into "it's".

No, that's not what I wanted to say - if I wanted to say that, I would've typed that. You recognize both words as "real" words, yet you insist on changing the correct thing to the incorrect thing.

I love GBoard otherwise, but that drives me positively up the wall. It's a relatively recent behavior, too - it hasn't always done that.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's funny - I used it for such a long time. Then YouTube didn't support it properly (of all things) and it drove me nuts so I went back to 3 buttons.

The 3 buttons felt so familiar. It was like coming home after being away for a long time.

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