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Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by ryandrake »

redwall_hp wrote: post #26
TechDebtDevin wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 o…

They're all issued Chromebooks and live in a glorified browser and GSuite. There's something of an epidemic of students landing in college CS programs and not knowing how to manage files outside of Google Drive. Millennials got to use real computers growing up. Gens Z and Alpha got locked down Google appliances tightly monitored by schools.

My kid still cannot really grasp the concept of "things being stored locally on the computer or on the phone vs. things being on the Internet". She doesn't understand why some apps require Internet and others don't. No concept of the boundary between local and network. "What do you mean 'it's stored on the phone'? YouTube is stored on the phone, right?"

I think a lot of this is developers intentionally blurring the line between local and cloud storage. If you were a layman iPhone user, would you be able to confidently tell me which of your photos are stored in iCloud and which are stored on your device? Apple is deliberately obfuscating it.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by joseda-hg »

ryandrake wrote: post #30
rqtwteye wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Computers have become generally good enough to be used without much knowledge. Same happened with cars. 30 years ago it was very beneficial to know how your car works. These days you can own and a car without knowing much about it and you will most likely be ok.

> These days you can own and a car without knowing much about it and you will most likely be ok. It's a pretty expensive way to own a car, though: having to take it to a mechanic in order to maintain or fix things. But you're absolutely right that it's an option today that wasn't really an option 30+ years ago.

Or have a family member (Or trusted person) with enough knowledge to keep you trucking on when things go south, seems to work with both cars and tech

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos »

rqtwteye wrote: post #23
pdntspa wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My generation dropped the ball on teaching computer literacy

Computers have become generally good enough to be used without much knowledge. Same happened with cars. 30 years ago it was very beneficial to know how your car works. These days you can own and a car without knowing much about it and you will most likely be ok.

What a mistake!

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by turtlebits »

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?

It's not the most elegant, but for cross platform, a web app and container are the easiest UI and deployment methods.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by IncreasePosts »

pdntspa wrote: post #3

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

Could I use this hypothetical desktop app from my desktop, my other desktop, my mobile phone, my wife's mobile phone, and the Chromecast on my media center?

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by siddheshgunjal »

I don't understand one thing...why do you need to host it on a server? It can be just a standalone app on windows/Linux/mac. I recently just started using yt-dlp and have thought of making a simple app. Should I though? Are there any alternatives in existence of this kind?

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

siddheshgunjal wrote: post #36

I don't understand one thing...why do you need to host it on a server? It can be just a standalone app on windows/Linux/mac. I recently just started using yt-dlp and have thought of making a simple app. Should I though? Are there any alternatives in existence of this kind?

What, like Stacher?

https://stacher.io/

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by sva_ »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #39
siddheshgunjal wrote: post #36

I don't understand one thing...why do you need to host it on a server? It can be just a standalone app on windows/Linux/mac. I recently just started using yt-dlp and have thought of making a simple app. Should I though? Are there any alternatives in existence of this kind?

What, like Stacher? https://stacher.io/

Or Seal for Android: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.junkfood.seal/
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