Corgana

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Healthy for Lemmy, totally catastrophic for Pixelfed.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know this comment is satire (well done... I think) but I want you to it hurt me deep in my bones.

Cheers

I'm clearly not paying enough for a therapist.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Then moderators make many stupid rules to try to increase quality and overmoderation takes hold

This is so true. One of the best decisions I made during my tenure as mod of /r/StarTrek was changing the rules to be spirt-based instead of language-based. People will literally try to lawyer their way around the language of any rule, and it leads to mod burnout when they are getting drawn into rules-debates when it's obvious the person is just trying to get around the spirit of the community's purpose.

For example we had a rule that was literally just "be nice". There's no wriggling around that because it's not some legal text. If someone is ""concerned"" about a request to "be nice" or "be honest", they are not someone we wanted to be around anyway. These are discussion communities, not civil society, not everyone has a right to participate in every single one of them.

As you said the beauty of the fediverse is that each instance can have it's own preferred method of discussion.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Urban dictionary says it's a term that refers to when an undercover government agent fails to blend in with whoever they're trying to blend in with.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Absolutely, if you're seeing propaganda, it's because it's allowed on that instance. But the presence of propaganda has nothing to do if an account is an LLM or not.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Moderation on the Feviderse is different than on commercial platforms because it's context-dependent instead of rules-dependent. That means that a user accout (bot or otherwise) that does not contribute to the spirit of a community will not be welcomed.

There is largely no incentive to run an LLM that is a constructive member of a community, bots are built to push an agenda, product, or exhibit generally disruptive behavior. Those things are unwelcome in spaces built for discussion. So mods/admins don't need to know "how to identify a bot", they need to know "how to identify unwanted behavior".

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not true anymore actually, the AI Max 395 is basically on par with a 4060.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

I wish they had gone with an even smaller Mini-STX format like the AsRock DeskMinis but it's still cool.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Good point but I will say even with immutable distros users are given a lot more control than Windows or Mac.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

In Bazzite, installing software, for example, works differently than under a typical distribution.

This is true, but it's also on the whole a lot more familiar to a non-Linux user (open app store, search, download).

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Zorin is another distro that (very successfully imo) does a windows-style taskbar with GNOME and is parent friendly, though like I said before, I think today I would go with something immutable for a non-techie because they're very hard to break.

 

I think this is a good incentive for Journalists to be more active on the fediverse.

 

I am a "messy desk" person and like to have a big open visual space for all the pseudo-temporary files belonging to whatever project I'm working on at a given time. It would be nice to have a workspace specifically dedicated for "work" and still be able to create a fresh one when needed, without having to "put all the work stuff away" first. I've found GNOME extensions that allow different wallpapers, which is great, but I would love to have an actual separate desktop, not just windows.

Bonus points if I could change the dock applications and GTK theme too.

Running Ubuntu 22.04, btw.

 

I'm trying to be more mindful about my YouTube consumption, there are a lot of quality channels out there, but sticking to "subscriptions" is difficult when the YouTube app on my TV has so much distracting recommended content and shorts thrown at you, so I'd like to have a way to auto-download the content from specific channels to play later via Plex. I actually have YT Premium but plan on putting the money into the Patreons of my most-watched creators instead.

Features I'm looking for:

  • Automated downloading of new videos from specific channels
  • Ability to ignore/skip shorts
  • SponsorBlock if possible
  • Vimeo (and others) integration would be a huge plus too.
  • A way to easily add videos to a download queue manually (browser extension or something) for when I come across an interesting video in the wild" by someone I'm not subscribed to/don't want to subscribe to.

Things I've looked into:

  • TubeSync - returns 500 errors anytime it's indexing, which it does every day, meaning setup is very tedious. It's also frustrating to configure for every single channel independently, but (ostensibly) does what I'm looking for? I think?
  • TubeArchivist - Try as I might I just cannot get this up and running on CasaOS/Docker. Seems nice, but also looks like overkill for my use case.
  • YoutubeDL-Material - Struggling to get this installed too, but it also doesn't seem to have additional features like SponsorBlock.

Anything I'm missing or are these basically the main options for now? Would love something as simple as Sonarr.

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