potemkinhr

joined 2 years ago
[–] potemkinhr@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

Yep, used Skygrabber, you could filter out files depending on extensions, filenames etc and could narrow out what you wanted. Still had no real way of knowing what you'd end up with as you were effectively just passively listening on the satellite traffic. It was wild as you could fill out a 40 gig drive overnight without issues in the era where people were downloading a MP3 album for hours.

[–] potemkinhr@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you had real shitty internet back in the day (read 56k modem) and you liked to play russian roulette you would dump satellite traffic with a skystar2 DVB-S card. You never knew what you'd get realistically, found some true gems underneath mountains of coal in the day of (still) unfiltered internet.

[–] potemkinhr@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just switched to Bazzite yesterday and it's insane how far linux has come. Next-next and everything works, even on a nightmare combination of hardware (Lenovo Legion half assed uefi, amd apu+ nvidia gpu).

[–] potemkinhr@lemmy.ml 27 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Care to ELI5 for us casuals who did not catch and are missing the obvious?

[–] potemkinhr@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

Maybe yt-dlp might be for the job?
Just a few days ago I downloaded some videos from Vimeo without issues which required sign in to even view

[–] potemkinhr@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ubisoft won't own my money too!

[–] potemkinhr@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Right off the bat it sit right, thank you

[–] potemkinhr@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

In the same boat, I miss it still, other ones have a worse UI for me and hate the ad slots in the app although I have DNS ad blocking but its still annoying. Do update me if you find a good replacement as we're looking for the same thing