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Re: Grayjay Desktop App

#131

FYI: I accidentally logged into my wrong patreon account and expected "logout then login" to prompt me to login again. It doesn't. It just logs me back in with the same user.

Grayjay dev here, that's a bug, I wrote it down. You can probably work around it for now by logging out -> restart app -> log back in.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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As someone not very familiar, is there any legitimate reason why they say "Our Apple signing/notarization is not entirely done yet"? It feels extremely suspicious, given that I download lots of other popular utility software from independent devs and I've never had to do that before.

There are a couple of legitimate reasons, namely the expense/KYC process of an Apple Developer Program membership and/or the complexity of integrating signing + notarization into existing build pipelines (but XCode does makes it pretty straightforward to cut an ad-hoc release that is signed and notarized). In my opinion at least, the most likely reason is that Apple is refusing to notarize the software. If this is th…

Once you buy a Mac, Apple doesn't own it anymore, so them not wanting you to run a piece of software isn't a good reason why you shouldn't.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Weird that it disables the use of right click, paste and seemingly your password manager when trying to login to services via the app.

Grayjay dev here, good point, will add right click, paste.

Why wasn't it supported all along? Doesn't basically every text field support it by default?

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

#136
post #28

We always been missing good 3rd party search/trending for online videos. I've been using a youtube frontend called pockettube, where I could make lists(channels) for content I like, without youtube forcing me what to watch. Example. I have an Art and Food channels with my favorite content creators, I get to see the list in order of newest videos first, totally bypassing youtubes forced interface. In fact, if people s…

Finding content is so hard. All YouTube wants me to watch are "OMG YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT THIS COP DID" content. I have no idea why they want me to watch those videos, I never do and I block the videos and the channels from recommendations but they keep coming ... All I get are ads for weird suspect drugs and products, just going on these platforms is such a bad vibe.

Look into DeArrow https://dearrow.ajay.app/

Cuts down a ton of crap and shows you thumbnails and titles of things for what they really are.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

#137

Please remove "Also available on FDroid" from the page. This app is not available on F-Droid and isn't allowed to be added to it since it isn't open source.

Indeed, it is "Source First" license, dev(s) reasoning here: https://futo.org/about/futo-statement-on-opensource/

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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post #28

We always been missing good 3rd party search/trending for online videos. I've been using a youtube frontend called pockettube, where I could make lists(channels) for content I like, without youtube forcing me what to watch. Example. I have an Art and Food channels with my favorite content creators, I get to see the list in order of newest videos first, totally bypassing youtubes forced interface. In fact, if people s…

Finding content is so hard. All YouTube wants me to watch are "OMG YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT THIS COP DID" content. I have no idea why they want me to watch those videos, I never do and I block the videos and the channels from recommendations but they keep coming ... All I get are ads for weird suspect drugs and products, just going on these platforms is such a bad vibe.

I've been using DeArrow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36273890 it calms down the thumbnail clickbait on YouTube, I feel like I enjoy YouTube more by watching less.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

#139

Please remove "Also available on FDroid" from the page. This app is not available on F-Droid and isn't allowed to be added to it since it isn't open source.

I agree that is misleading. It has its own F-droid compatible repo so you can use an F-Droid client. When I hear "available on F-Droid" I assume it means its in the F-Droid repo.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Grayjay dev here. If you want it to use your user directory like other apps, just remove the file called "Portable". Keep in mind that it just uses your working directory to write files otherwise.

That's a windows-ism, we don't like that kind of stuff. Not on any other OS we don't.

Parent is not wrong, but definitely could have some improved manners and tact.

As a linux user I wanted to make sure to say thank you for supporting and thinking about linux!

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