rozenglass (u/rozenglass)

rozenglass commented on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox old.reddit.com/r/youtube/... · Posted by u/csvm

sammy2255 · 2 years ago

I think you’re missing the point. How can I browse Youtube in mpv?

rozenglass · 2 years ago

In addition to Piped, and Invidious, mentioned by sibling comments, which allow you to subscribe, search, and provide recommendations, you can use a complete CLI workflow with something like ytfzf[0], or, you can use the search commands on yt-dlp[1], which are also accessibly through mpv using the ytdl:// prefix.

Getting familiar with such tools not only replaces the terrible UXes you have to be subjected to, but also gives you the power and freedom to be creative with how you use Youtube and other online streaming sites.

I wrote various tiny scripts to replace all my needs for Youtube search, using any highlighted text, with a shortcut, Youtube Music, with a synced plain text file of song titles and a shuffle-on-read script, and more curiously, a script to help me slowly go through all thousands of my partner's favorite songs, and then, using shortcuts, add them to my own favorites, decide on them later, add them to the "what the heck do you listen to" friendly banter list, or the "my ears bleeding" list, etc. Much better UX then anything the slow web UIs can offer, and with minimum hacking.

[0]: https://ytfzf.github.io/

[1]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

rozenglass commented on Fedora Workstation 39 fedoraproject.org/worksta... · Posted by u/belter

vitorgrs · 2 years ago

I've tried, and honestly, on my low end hardware, only Arch seems to be the smoothest. I'm running EndeavourOS, which is working amazing smooth here. Fedora always freezes for minutes when the RAM is full. I'm thinking maybe it's ZRAM fault here? And yes, I even tried creating a SWAP file together with ZRAM and no luck.

On Arch it uses zswap....

I wanted to use Debian, but too old packages for me... is Debian testing stable enough?

rozenglass · 2 years ago

It is less zram, and more block I/O scheduling congestion on Linux in general[1]. The machine thrashes and becomes unresponsive under memory pressure as I/O requests flood the disks, whether it is for swap, or unpaging and re-paging file-backed storage (open shared libraries, etc.), or simply evicting frequently accessed files from the file page cache.

I run my personal workstations and laptops without swap, and with earlyoom[2], which results in applications getting killed before the machine reaches unresponsive state. I can only afford that because I trust my tools (vim, emacs, firefox, but most likely firefox) would not lose my session if they shutdown unexpectedly. I turn earlyoom off when I play games where I know memory usage will grow suddenly, but the game won't reach the limits of my machine. You can also whitelist specific applications in earlyoom, if I recall correctly.

Some people claim success configuring the kernel to use different I/O schedulers, but I haven't tried that yet.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/682582/

[2]: https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom

rozenglass commented on Fedora Workstation 39 fedoraproject.org/worksta... · Posted by u/belter

csdvrx · 2 years ago

> and First

Isn't that arch?

> mainstream radical new features like Wayland

Even if you qualify "First" with "mainstream", I think there might be more Steam Decks (running an arch variant) than Fedora installs :)

rozenglass · 2 years ago

Arch focuses on fast packageing of the latest versions of existing applications, but leaves all but the most fundamental architectural decisions to the user. Fedora focuses on implemenring new experimental systems at the architectural level, integrating them with the distro, to make them, hopefully, easy to use out of the box.

rozenglass commented on Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end github.com/TeamPiped/Pipe... · Posted by u/e2le

chiefalchemist · 2 years ago

If this is too off-topic please just ignore it (and don't DV).

I want to embed YT videos on a website, but we would like them to be as private as possible. For example, DDG has a player which shields the watcher from YT's data hoovering.

Any suggestions? Perhaps the search terms I'm using are wrong?

rozenglass · 2 years ago

You can embed videos from an Invidious instance instead; on a video's page[1] there's an "embed video" link[2] you can use. The instance can be one hosted by you if you don't trust public ones, and you probably want to enable proxying by default if you don't want your clients to stream the video directly from Google's servers. You can also use a browser extension like libredirect[3] to automatically replace YouTube embeds with Invidious ones while browsing the web.

[1]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xzTH_ZqaFKI

[2]: https://yewtu.be/embed/xzTH_ZqaFKI

[3]: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

rozenglass commented on Remote Work Report about.gitlab.com/remote-w... · Posted by u/kaeruct

jmilloy · 5 years ago

You claim that you can't work remote because working from home doesn't work for you. When it becomes clear that working remote doesn't mean working from home, you clain that you actually can't work remote for another reason.

This is a common phenomenom, though I don't know a name for it. You seem to be finding justifications for your preference (in this case, to work at a company office), but my experience think there is some other real reason. What is it?

I would note that working closely with co-workers can be achieved with text, voice, video, and shared whiteboards/screens. It is probably less efficient, but are you going in to work because you truly can't afford that loss of efficiency? Do you have an quantitative estimate of those losses, and a quantitative estimate of other efficiency gains/losses due to working remote? Do they take into account that it takes a while to readjust? If not, you just have a preference, and it doesn't need to be justified or defended.

rozenglass · 5 years ago

> You seem to be finding justifications for your [ ... ] but my experience think there is some other real reason. What is it?

People _can_ have multiple deal-breakers, multiple reasons for not liking something, when you try to ask why, they usually give you _one_ of those reasons, instead of writing an essay with multiple bullet-points on why they don't like it. This is most likely just in the interest of saving time, and not to hide or avoid the _real_ reason. Also, sometimes, people take position by an intuitive feeling, hard to put into words, an understanding built by absorbing evidence and confirming hypotheses in the background over a long period of time. This, probably, is especially prone to confirmation bias if one's not careful.

> I would note that working closely with co-workers can be achieved with text, voice, video, and shared whiteboards/screens. It is probably less efficient, but are you going in to work because you truly can't afford that loss of efficiency?

For many people, this is about maintaining a healthy psychological state, for which, social interactions _are_ essential. It is _not_ about measuring efficiency. Productivity is hard to quantitatively measure in a lot of contexts, but it is easy to notice when your mental state is deteriorating in loneliness. Also, in general, worse mental state will likely mean lower performance.

Communication using video and audio and text can get you far, but for some reason it is not a substitute for the subtleties of face-to-face interaction. The communication bandwidth is just not there, a real life office is just much more immersive. Not to mention that online interactions tend to be more limited in duration. You'd be around people for an hour, and alone for seven. While in an office, you're around people _the whole time_.

> you just have a preference

Yes this is true. People are different, and prefer different environments. People vary in background, temperament, responsibilities. Some are more extroverted, some prefer longer periods of alone time. Some are mentally stable and resilient, some tend to easily spiral into depression. And some jobs just lend themselves better to remote work. Between an active extroverted salesman, and an easy-going introverted software developer, you know who's more likely to prefer working remotely.

> and it doesn't need to be justified or defended.

but we can try anyway :P