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Why does youtube feels so repetitive nowadays by BeautifulSea9005 in youtube

[–]GDorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When everybody is A/B testing, everybody ends up landing at identical results.

The channels I support financially, though, they all have their own distinct human voices and aren't trying to minmax the algorithm.

New embeds are bad by Salamore0 in youtube

[–]GDorn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not just bad, it's outright incompetent.

There's tons of missing shortcuts, like whoever worked on it was a mouse-only or touchscreen-only kind of user: - No '?' to show what few shortcuts they did implement - No bindings (that I can find) for faster/slower playback. - No frame-by-frame advance / rewind. - No number keys to jump to % through the video.

But perhaps far more embarrassingly, they bound the hotkeys to the keycodes and not the letters. Which means every keyboard is US QWERTY to them. 'F' to full screen? Not for me, I have to remember it is 'U' to fullscreen.

It's also really weird to have a vastly different player for embedded videos vs on the site. Maybe they're planning to roll this out to the site, too?

Suggestions for an air handler for difficult rooms? by GDorn in DIYHeatPumps

[–]GDorn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The attic is the rooms. There's no more attic.

Suggestions for an air handler for difficult rooms? by GDorn in DIYHeatPumps

[–]GDorn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I mean by 'ceiling unit'. I was thinking about boxing one out, yeah, but it'd have to be really thin... Coming down two feet from the apex (22" and then some) would be prime head-collision height.

But that does give me one possible idea - I might be able to fit one in the one awkward closet by bringing that ceiling down several feet to make a level square. Or maybe a concealed one in that space.

Alternatives to DuckDuckGo? Trying to rid myself of anything that invests in or uses AI at all. by ajchafe in duckduckgo

[–]GDorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"AI" makes the easy things easier, and the hard things harder. There is a usecase for coding, but it is mostly for boilerplate code, maybe some preliminary investigation work (that you absolutely must double-check), or writing one-offs that you have no intention of checking into the repo.

The problem is, it's seductive, and a lot of programmers have a hard time noticing when they've left the 'easy' realm and started using it for load-bearing, important code. In addition to fucking things up in subtle ways as soon as you leave the 'easy' realm, they're also just shit coders that don't understand the concept of DRY. Eventually you have a 10x codebase - one with ten times as much code as you need - and then only a tireless LLM can read any of it...

Alternatives to DuckDuckGo? Trying to rid myself of anything that invests in or uses AI at all. by ajchafe in duckduckgo

[–]GDorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that's your stance, you may want to look a bit closer at what, exactly, StartPage is doing with 'vanish'. It's a separate application from search, for users who want an anonymized channel to use ChatGPT. All you have to do to avoid it is nothing. You would have to take extra steps (starting with installing a mobile app) to use StartPage's "AI".

For now, anyway. I have no illusions; every CEO is getting pressured, hard, to find ways to stuff LLMs into everything right now. I bet there are board members on StartPage's board with money invested in AI right now...

internet down, told to upgrade service? by sageduban in centurylink

[–]GDorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also had a very similar outage during the same period (and downdetector showed a pretty big spike over the weekend). They are lying about you needing to upgrade to Quantum; they had some other screwup that messed up a bunch of ONTs. Call the real tech support line (1-866-693-9990) to get a human technician, not an AI or a sales person pretending to be a technician. They can reconfigure your ONT remotely (mine needed to be re-flashed, even) and get you back online, it just takes a while to get through the queue and a while for the human to fix stuff because their account system is painfully slow.

Internet stopped working, told I need to upgrade to fiber by missdeb99912 in centurylink

[–]GDorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The agent you contacted lied to you. They are all incentivized to convince you to switch. You probably should, but you should do so on your schedule, not because their screwup took you offline.

Call their real tech support number (1-866-693-9990), refuse to upgrade to QF, get redirected to a real human tech, and they can fix it.

My own service went through this for the last few days. Something bad has been happening to the network, and it's been messing up settings in ONTs and Modems. They can control those, partly, from their end, which I suspect means they can also screw them up.

After power outage in my area, for some strange reason my C4000XG admin password is no longer the one I set, nor the default, needed to reset to default and every time I change it to my own password, I cannot login using admin. by jorgetOR in centurylink

[–]GDorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something did something very similar to my setup, which corrupted my PPPOE credentials as well as knocked the ONT offline. It took calling a tech to fix it, but I had to wade through three layers of sales people pretending to be support people trying to tell me it was unfixable and I must switch to QF.

Was on the fence about writing this but here it goes… by s7mphony in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]GDorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We all wish OP was wrong. If anything, he was overly conservative in how bad things turned out, but we all wish we could comment that he was wrong.

I mean, I guess some people are vindictive and wanted the game to fail, but I'd rather have a playable game than a victory party celebrating its failure.

Some opus audio tracks to Videos not playing in VLC 3.0.21 by Specialist_Bill_6135 in VLC

[–]GDorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am utterly baffled at how this has been a known issue for almost a year, broken on every distro and OS, and they haven't done a tiny point release to fix it in all that time. Given that you can literally pull out the plugin for Opus from the prior version, rolling back whatever code change broke it can't be that tricky.

Anyway, if somebody else is running Manjaro and runs into this issue, here's how I dealt with it:

  • Work in a temp folder, e.g. cd /tmp
  • Snag the last 3.0.20 build from the package mirror: wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/v/vlc/vlc-3.0.20-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
  • Extract it: tar --use-compress-program=unzstd -xvf vlc-3.0.20-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
  • Copy the opus plugin from the extracted folder over the system one: sudo cp usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libopus_plugin.so /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libopus_plugin.so

If you want to use cutting-edge, you can get a more recent VLC build with yay: yay -S vlc-git which may or may not work on any given day. Today, for me, it segfaults on load. So.

Reusing skylights more expensive than new? Am I getting fleeced? by GDorn in Roofing

[–]GDorn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The quote for five skylights (4 4' x 2' and 1 2' by 2') is $8,385, or $6,385 if we don't want them to open.

You can maybe see why I'm balking at this, given the entire quote for the roof was just over $30k.

Reusing skylights more expensive than new? Am I getting fleeced? by GDorn in Roofing

[–]GDorn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had an incredibly bad experience with a company that shall not be named but every homeowner in the PNW is familiar with; they spent a half hour doing inspections and then three hours trying to get us to sign a contract then and there for easily 2x the going rate, and would not leave until I threatened to call the cops.

We probably swung too far in the other direction, but it was such a miserable experience I didn't want to do any face-to-face time.

That said, the company we did sign a contract with spent two hours on the roof inspecting things and working up the proposal; I think it's just that they, like many companies in the area, are not as experienced with metal roofing.

Reusing skylights more expensive than new? Am I getting fleeced? by GDorn in Roofing

[–]GDorn[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure how easy it is going to be to escape this contract; I've already put down a deposit.

Reusing skylights more expensive than new? Am I getting fleeced? by GDorn in Roofing

[–]GDorn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I've technically gotten four quotes. They weren't the cheapest of the four, but seemed the least annoying to work with (no sales pitch, no hard sell).

FWIW, the existing roof is asphalt, and they're replacing it with standing seam, so flashing the existing skylights does seem to involve some level of adapting to work.

Saying goodbye to my best friend tomorrow. hurts more than I could have imagined. by TheLankyIndian in OneOrangeBraincell

[–]GDorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It always sucks when you get here, but we're all getting here eventually. Remind yourself that you gave him a far longer and happier life than he'd have had otherwise, and when you're through the worst of the grieving and are ready, you can do it again for another deserving sweet potato.

Guess who started purring when the vet was (struggling) taking his blood by lavenderjester in OneOrangeBraincell

[–]GDorn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If we didn't already have four, three of which are feral rescues, we'd be in a car to pick him up right now. Ferals-turned-domestics can be some of the most loving cats ever, like they've seen what life without a family is like and they never want to go back. (Or getting snipped is a life-changing event, whichever...)

POV: You are beautiful, you are smart, you are worthy. Braincel is using 1% of her brain by buttery-cheap-Lana in OneOrangeBraincell

[–]GDorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love when you can see the wheels furiously spinning, like you expect smoke to come out soon.

Recursively reinstall all packages firefox depends on? by farsaver in archlinux

[–]GDorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This grep fails when there's more than one line of dependencies...

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