Readit Newsedgartaor commented on uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts github.com/i5heu/ublock-h... · Posted by u/i5heu
A Tapermonkey script which redirects a short to the classic YT experience is somewhat more helpful, because sometimes there are interesting snippets in the Shorts. This lets you see the video but breaks you out of doomscrolling.
"Enhancer for YouTube" have that 'convert Shorts' option or hide them entirely.
“...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop--and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.
You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.
That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.
And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. what's more, you aren't out of breath. That's important, too...” ― Michael Ende, Momo
I love that book. Is full of lessons that seam aimed to kids but are even more important for adults to be remembered from time to time.
edgartaor commented on Divorce: The Arcade Machine (~2014) timhunkin.com/a205_divorc... · Posted by u/edgartaor
Having a slow day, I found myself dumbscrolling Youtube Shorts and found something actually interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KFs-sIMp89s
That was an unusual mechanical game! I have to know more. I quickly found the original creator Tim Hunkin and his Youtube channel, a hidden gem by itself.
https://www.youtube.com/@timhunkin1/videos
Featured his own video of the Divorce arcade machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUe5FGIcYq8
with a blog post about the making of the machine, way more interesting than just play the game.
And some 'grisly themed' (as he said) machines like the PET OR MEAT machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OGzD8PiO7k
https://www.timhunkin.com/a169_petormeat-writing.htm
Apparently inspired in some very old machines depicting executions for a coin. I'm still getting into this rabbit hole.
edgartaor commented on Fixing annoying blue standby lights fullcircuit.com/blog/fixi... · Posted by u/ghr
Technology Connections rants about this too. I agree.