Shoutouts to the water bottle acting as an iPad stand.
DIY MacBook Stand
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Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. It's not legal (see ToS). 2. Google can block it any moment, or inject ads. 3. You don't get the original data, but a transcoded version. And/or a watermarked version. In contrast, GitHub is intended to download data from, so above points will never apply.
1 and 3 are incorrect. I'm talking about Google.com/takeout not YouTube-dl.
You said:
> to get one's data (or someone else's!) out
Google/takeout does not apply to someone else's data.
Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#113I remember building one of these 10 years ago.
Nice to see the resurgence
Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
And the point of that argument is that youtube-dl only works because Google doesn't care, and the need to patch it regularly is only caused by the incidental changes in the service. When Google starts caring for some reason, it'll be a difficult battle.
I haven’t updated mine in ages and it still works...
I have to update every time I use it.
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#115I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people. As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c9/a0/c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71... (can't find the original post sry)
100 years from now maybe github will be the new geosites. Or maybe my great great grandkids can review that PR I made today.
The difference being that you can clone the exact contents of a repo with one press of a button. That's just the code though, I wish Github also stored wiki, issues, images, and all other "meta" data into the repository as well.
That way, it would be easy for archive.org and other parties to build a scraper that just takes snapshots of all repos every once in a while, for posterity.
Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#116Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#117That looks kinda flimsy... I'd be a little scared of putting my (employer's) $3000 Macbook on that.
Looks fine to me. I've dropped my Air from over 4 feet with not a scratch, granted it landed on a wood floor. Even if this somehow broke, it would only break in one direction, causing it to tilt and fall meaning the speed on the vertical would not be so huge.
Yeah, they're really tough - a drop of a few feet is fine.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
And the point of that argument is that youtube-dl only works because Google doesn't care, and the need to patch it regularly is only caused by the incidental changes in the service. When Google starts caring for some reason, it'll be a difficult battle.
I haven’t updated mine in ages and it still works...
I've had to update several times in the last couple years due to some YT links not working. Updating always helps.
Re: DIY MacBook Stand
#119I just love how github ends up being blog, forum, wiki, disqus-clone etc. for us tech people. As for the stand I used this cheap ikea-hack: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c7/c9/a0/c7c9a072c328a3596186e1b71... (can't find the original post sry)
Just needs swipe left/swipe right on the Issues tab...
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought it was to bring the monitor to eye level.
I'm puzzled by this too, can't people just look down?
I had all kinds of neck problems staring down at a 13" laptop on my desk all day. Once I moved the screen up so I was looking straight, the neck problems went away.
It's one of those things where you don't notice it until you do. When you do, it's a big problem.