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Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by AyyEye »

happyopossum wrote: post #5
ryandrake wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally agree. The idea of running a server application in Docker and then firing up a browser for something like this just seems so... round-about and alien to me! Is this the direction software development is really going?

For a large group of people, the vast majority of their computing and consumption is done apart from a desktop or laptop. Something like this makes perfect sense in a mobile-first world.

Those people don't have servers, docker, and hosting.

Besides that, Invidious has a download button for audio and video.

As far as apps there's very simple mobile apps: Tubular and newpipe both support downloading, and ytdlnis and seal are explicitly for downloading. I'm sure there's a dozen more in F-Droid.

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Post by theadultnerd »

pdntspa wrote: post #3

"Self-hosted" ... on something that very much used to be a fairly simple desktop app... JDownloader anyone? Or yt-dlp ????

I'd be excited to have this on a NAS. Something in a container makes it easy and I can direct it to save in a directory that has Plex or something like that.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by TechDebtDevin »

meroes wrote: post #10
pdntspa wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My generation dropped the ball on teaching computer literacy

Curious if this is at millennials for not teaching the next generation(s) or at genz/alpha for not teaching themselves.

Ive encountered a shocking amount of 30yr olds that don't own a computer or know how to properly type. I'd say GenZ and Alpha have plenty of computer literacy as laptops were better integrated into education by time they got or will get to high school.

Outside of some AP classes that had their own computer labs most kids in my age group (early 30s) took one computer class in their entire secondary education. I knew one other person in my entire high school that coded.

Hell you can code Python on ti-84s now.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

ryandrake wrote: post #4
pdntspa wrote: post #3

"Self-hosted" ... on something that very much used to be a fairly simple desktop app... JDownloader anyone? Or yt-dlp ????

I totally agree. The idea of running a server application in Docker and then firing up a browser for something like this just seems so... round-about and alien to me! Is this the direction software development is really going?

I normally would agree, but there are some use cases I was not aware of until more recently. Unraid server may be a good example here. In that case, docker for a self-hosted instance works well for most purposes AND can be accessed by less technically minded family members depending on what you actually use.

FWIW, I agree with you that it probably should not be the default.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by entropicdrifter »

meroes wrote: post #10
pdntspa wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My generation dropped the ball on teaching computer literacy

Curious if this is at millennials for not teaching the next generation(s) or at genz/alpha for not teaching themselves.

As a millenial, I don't think it's either of our generations. IMO, the issue is just due to the general culture shift from generalized computers being used in the average person's daily life to smartphones becoming sufficient for most people's computing/socializing/shopping needs.

Well, also Chromebooks, which basically take away the opportunity to learn how to really use a computer in favor of only teaching you how to use a laptop to open Chrome.

When everything just works, you don't sit around half a day troubleshooting and having to do so feels exceptionally bad when you didn't spend half your childhood doing it to get your brand new game/graphics card/weird controller to work.

Most of my computer skills were self taught because I wanted to figure out how to do stuff with my computer as a kid without spending money, or how to upgrade my PC while spending as little as possible.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

ryandrake wrote: post #4
pdntspa wrote: post #3

"Self-hosted" ... on something that very much used to be a fairly simple desktop app... JDownloader anyone? Or yt-dlp ????

I totally agree. The idea of running a server application in Docker and then firing up a browser for something like this just seems so... round-about and alien to me! Is this the direction software development is really going?

Kinda sucks but freetube doesn’t work well with wayland or touchscreen, so I may give this a go in desperation.
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