There are yt-dlp GUIs with SponsorBlock built-in.

Warning: after using SponsorBlock and uBlock Origin for a while, using YouTube or Invidious without them is horrific.

over 3 decades until I’m gonna touch that money

Say hello to Anthropogenic climate tipping-points.

“But the reason it was not crazy for me was that I actually don’t have any system running PHP myself.” - Ondřej Surý

that it should only change anything when explicitly asked to.

Does that work?

I don’t use Plasma, but in Mint Xfce, you click:

• the whisker menu (aka Start),
• System Information,
• Copy,

which includes all this and USB and Repos sections.

If your mouse/touchpad is broken, then doing it with a keyboard only may be a bit tricky for a newbie, because you have the Shift+Tab to get to the Copy button:

• Super (aka the Windows key),
• arrow down to System Information,
• Enter,
• Shift+Tab 4 times,
• Enter.

While CLI is superior in many ways, sometimes even for newbies, I’ve found that for them GUIs are usually much easier and safer. I recently struggled to get someone to type spaces in the correct places in a terminal, over the phone.

Trolls, who like to corrupt people’s data, exist. A GUI procedure is almost always safer.

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ is even better, unless you want images or other slop categories.

the two party system

The UK has a first-past-the-post system, yet the 2 parties that have won for decades (Labour and the Tories) are polling behind other parties like the horrible Reform and (in Feb and March) the ethical Greens.

People can choose to vote for Greens if they want, but most choose not to. The billions who fly and drive can stop, since there already are billions who don’t fly or drive (tho for the latter it’s mostly because they’re poor, not because they don’t want to be complicit in a mass-extinction event).

Is it also not the fault of the 99% who vote for non-Green parties who then make the laws causing your bullet points?

Waaaaaaaay less than the people who have used their power to corrupt said system.

In the 2024-11-05 US House election there were 149.5 million votes (I don’t know how many eligible total), and 0.2 million voted Green.

In the 2024-11-05 US presidential election there were 155 million votes (only a 64.3% turnout), and 0.8 million voted Green.

In the 2024-07-04 UK election there were 48 million eligible voters, and 1.9 million voted Green. However, polling shows that despite the UK’s first-past-the-post system, the Greens (in Feb and March) regularly polled ahead of both Labour and the Tories.

Is it also not the fault of the 99% who vote for non-Green parties who then make the laws causing your bullet points?

How dare you question the orphan-crushing economy!

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The Xfce file manager, Thunar (4.18 with en-US as language), also has “Create Folder…” under the File menu, and in some contexts in the right-click menu.

Under Preferences, Behavior, it has both “directory” and “folders”.

man ls uses “directory” only tho, and of course mkdir.

If plus was ⤚ (U+291A RIGHTWARDS ARROW-TAIL) meaning 2 lines coming together and then being 1 line that’s twice as long [or twice as thick], that would be intuitive to me for adding.

I can’t think of an intuitive sign for minus, maybe something with empty space in it?

It makes so much sense, 2 equal length lines, parallel so you can see they’re equal. I’d never thought about it before.

I don’t get + - × tho, but ÷ / % kind of makes sense if 2 values on opposite sides of a line already meant division.

Remove and prevent 4 GB Gemini nano install into Chrome, on Windows 11:

1. Start
2. regedit
3. Backup registry by exporting it
4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
5. right-click Policies, New, Key
6. Google
7. right-click Google, New, Key
8. Chrome
9. right-click Chrome, New, DWORD (32-bit) Value
10. GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings
11. right-click newly created key, Modify
12. set value to 1
13. OK
14. Restart computer. https://pureinfotech.com/stop-chrome-gemini-nano-download-windows-11/

Or, you know don’t install software from companies owned and operated by psychopaths, like Google and Microsoft.

The English articles would be so much easier to use with

• bullets
• sortable tables
• numerals (1, 2, 3rd, 4th)

instead of paragraphs of wasteful and hard-to-scan prose, and the spelling-out of numbers 0-9. Unfortunately old publishing manuals-of-style rules are mostly used.

At least sentence-case headings and sometimes logical quotation’s used. I’d prefer Wikipiedia use Wiktionary’s lowercase article names for non-proper-nouns.