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@ kixik @lemmy.ml

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8mo ago

How to keep avoiding Google when it hamstrings Freetube [Linux]
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kixik @lemmy.ml 8mo ago
Hmm, youtube-dl? I believe it's no longer the one to use, it's yt-dlp, and mpv has support yt-dlp for quite some time, but it could be any player as long as it supports yt-dlp. What I've noticed is that nothing gets as fast to fix these YT issues than yt-dlp. It's working fine for me on Artix for quite some time. And unless wanting ton use a browser, that's what freetube has been documenting every time receiving related bugs. See for example:
https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/8083#issuecomment-3326565693

8mo ago

OSS PDF editor/markup software recommendations

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kixik @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Papers or Zathura (+ required plugin)

8mo ago

How to keep avoiding Google when it hamstrings Freetube [Linux]

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kixik @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Just so you know, if you like freetube, you can configure the external player to mpv, which underneath uses yt-dlp when streaming, and use the button to load the external player. Of course one can also launch smplayer, which underneath is using mpv, which underneath...

But the thing is content creators don't move out of YT cause they're there to monetize in the first place. So this thing seems never ending no matter alternatives like peertube exist.

8mo ago

What's a good private YT Music client for Android and Web (PWA)

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kixik @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Besides outertune there's harmonymusic as well

None protect your IP if not using a non self hosted frontend like invidio or piped, cause if self hosted then you're providing your IP any ways. So now a days actually private is kind of hard. But these applications for sure help a lot.

8mo ago

What's a good private YT Music client for Android and Web (PWA)

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kixik @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

2025.09.26 can still do it without deno. Besides, when the change happens, node and bun (never heard about bun before) will be supported as well, not just deno, but they will require extra arguments passed to yt-dlp. If using yt-dlp directly, and already having node or bun installed, no need for deno then.

10mo ago

Can i customize LibreWolf like this?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

This is Librewolf, a fork on FF, whatever layout related you can do on FF you can on Librewolf. On More tools -> Customize toolbar you can set up that layout AFAIK.

10mo ago

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kixik @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

apkupdater installing from apkpure?

10mo ago

A letter to the CalyxOS community

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kixik @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

I'm wondering about LOS re-locking on particular devices. DivestOS used to allow that, not sure if only on pixels, but if divestOS which was based on LOS could, I don't see how that code can not be ported over upstream LOS. Have anyone seen an effort similar to divestOS in this regard?

10mo ago

Desktop app for Lemmy?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

if someone is up to the challenge to take lemoa over, a gtk app, the original author seems to be open for that.

10mo ago

Desktop app for Lemmy?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

neonmodem

10mo ago

Desktop app for Lemmy?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

There's this apps doc. From there I see in addition to others' comments:

Both being Go based apps. but the neonmodem looks more interesting to me.

Another option is a hybrid one, to add the rss feeds from the lemmy communities your're interested in, or the rss feed from all of them together into your feed reader (even better if newsraft), but those feeds don't show full lemmy conversations and one has to show them in the browser, and also if in need to comment or post one still need to use the browser.

apps doc is constantly evolving, so it's good to keep an eye on it periodically, :)

10mo ago

[i3] Feels like autumn already

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kixik @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

second this question, :) Intrigued about them

Edit: Had to see reddit

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits

11mo ago

Open TV, the fast and open-source IPTV player for Linux, launches on Android and iOS today!

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kixik @lemmy.ml 11mo ago

There's an AUR open-tv package for Arch/Artix/..., and there's even an AUR open-tv-bin version, but I prefer looking at the build recipes if available, and if not using Arch/Artix/... one can read through the PKGBUILD and see how it builds.

11mo ago

Open TV, the fast and open-source IPTV player for Linux, launches on Android and iOS today!

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kixik @lemmy.ml 11mo ago

available on AUR for Arch and derivatires

11mo ago

De-Shittify your YouTube Experience with FreeTube

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kixik @lemmy.ml 11mo ago

I've been a long term freetube user, but lately I'm finding pipeline built locally through AUR, formerly known as feetuber, a much better experience at least for me. I've set it up to use ytdlp and mpv all the time, so I don't care about Piped sites. It supports Peertube already, and it's way light, at least with mpv playing it is

11mo ago

GNOME 49 Will Require Deeper systemd Integration

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kixik @lemmy.ml 11mo ago

There are a bunch of non bloated alternatives with whether wayland compositors and also X11 window managers, and there's also kde/plasma, xfce and mate if still wanting full DE, plus a hybrid lxde-gtk3/lxqt (lxqt supports both X11 and wayland I believe).

If going the non bloated ways, distributions can offer some modifications on the system configurations files, so that users can start with working software out of the box, and can even offer installation meta packages for a complete set of i3/sway packages to have an equivalent DE experience. What would be left to users is custom settings to get more appealing aesthetics depending on the user, if not i3/sway, then openbox/labwc, and so on. For a DE experience including into the meta package a toolbar like yambar (works on X11 and wayland), dunst/mako, udiskie, redshift/wlsunset and so on. The missing part on non bloated alternatives is easy of configuring through buttons and widgets, and even so lxqt made an easy of configure software component for openbox, and there might be something similar for labwc.

So non systemd distributions are far from dying because of gnome's hostility.

And if I recall correctly, several gnome users (not its huge base of course) are moving away from gnome any ways unhappy with its plugin support, given gnome is known to leave plugins unsupported on its releases and not caring about them.

12mo ago

ASCII Diagram, offline, Linux, FLOSS

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kixik @lemmy.ml 12mo ago

The AUR PKGBUILD shows a pretty simple recipe:

    
build() {
  arch-meson "${pkgname}-${pkgver//+/-}" build
  meson compile -C build
}

package() {
  meson install -C build --destdir "${pkgdir}"
  # permission fix
  chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ascii-draw"
}

I've been seeing arch-meson often used, but haven't explored what it does. Some day...

Though it's way more fun to use text specification, like the one referenced by @fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org

12mo ago

Flutter is kinda good

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kixik @lemmy.ml 12mo ago

My only experience with it was with harmony-music built/installed from AUR on artix, and I couldn't keep using it, it was consuming too munch CPU, making the fans run nuts. Not sure if it was harmony-music itself, or flutter. Apparently not the same OP experience.

12mo ago

Is Hyprland a good WM choice if I can make stacking / floating workflow work?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 12mo ago

maybe, he mentioned stacked mode on a tiling compositor, which is valid, but that's not a thing on stacking compositors... BTW, the stack mode on sway doesn't mean it turns into a stacking compositor, rather it means tabbed mode with the tabs stacked vertically. But the OP knows better.

12mo ago

Is Hyprland a good WM choice if I can make stacking / floating workflow work?

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kixik @lemmy.ml 12mo ago

You might try tabbed mode instead of stacking mode. It's great, as mentioned in some comment I made, I'm not a tiling guide, but the tabbed mode on sway is great. I would guess it's available on hyprland since it borrows some concepts from sway. However if you find a lot of trouble on hyprland enabling it (I guess you shouldn't) you might try sway. Beware you need exceptions because otherwise everything shows up maximized, but that's not hard byt reading the man pages, compositor documentation, and looking around on the web. BTW, on sway this global config gives tabbed mode on all workspaces: workspace_layout tabbed and of course you can chenge it to stacking, or tiling whenever you want on any workspace...