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Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Post by ddingus »

quotemstr wrote: post #275
ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not really. If you show hidden files there is a ton of junk folders above your non hidden folders. along with more junk like folders generated by the system. I can't be arsed to go look up ways to keep them from returning or manage when I can just have my stuff reside in my own organization. Windows user folder isn't better and Microsoft also adds tons of junk folders (3D Objects, Contacts, Links, Favorites, Se…

> It is not really. Yes, it is. It takes only a few minutes to comply with the XDG spec. If an author can't be bothered to do that, he probably hasn't bothered to make his program secure, stable, or extensible either. XDG non-adherence is a strong negative quality signal.

Unless they simply are unaware, or hold a different opinion.

Frankly, I expect when something needs to create data without prompting the user, that data ends up in $HOME. I know where to look, and bonus points for an easy to manage folder with that data in it.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Post by ddingus »

atoav wrote: post #166
koen31 wrote: post #124

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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.

Please just adhere to the XDG-standards. Although my co-poster here didn't use the most diplomatic way of phrasing their grievance Grayjay is better off if it sticks to well established standards. You would probably look weird at an software that installs itself in C:\MYAWESOMEAPPLICATION instead of using the Windows program folder like literally every other piece of software (except for legacy stuff like LTSpice). C…

Though I do not mind folder create in $HOME at all, I second this recommendation.

I just glanced through that spec and find it agreeable..

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Post by mary-ext »

ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #274
quotemstr wrote: post #256

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It's a "green m&ms" thing. If the developers can't be bothered to adhere to something as basic as XDG, they're getting a ton of other things wrong, and my life is too short to spend on buggy slop.

It is not really. If you show hidden files there is a ton of junk folders above your non hidden folders. along with more junk like folders generated by the system. I can't be arsed to go look up ways to keep them from returning or manage when I can just have my stuff reside in my own organization. Windows user folder isn't better and Microsoft also adds tons of junk folders (3D Objects, Contacts, Links, Favorites, Se…

Just because there is already junk doesn't mean there should be more.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Post by pxoe »

cxr wrote: post #319
pxoe wrote: post #287

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If anything, i'd say that your interpretations and subsequent tangents are incoherent. It's really very simple. Get better at understanding.

I implore you to (a) point to a single tangent that is not a direct response to your remarks and (b) explain how your decision to rant, apropos of nothing, against this video player app's creators is anything other than a bizarre non-sequitur

It's a yet another frontend that blocks ads (ads are a form of monetization), and so there's the question of 'do people deserve to be paid'. It's also talking about "taking ownership" over "your content" on its homepage, so there's the point about the content literally not being "yours".

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Post by [deleted] »

pxoe wrote: post #324
cxr wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I implore you to (a) point to a single tangent that is not a direct response to your remarks and (b) explain how your decision to rant, apropos of nothing, against this video player app's creators is anything other than a bizarre non-sequitur

It's a yet another frontend that blocks ads (ads are a form of monetization), and so there's the question of 'do people deserve to be paid'. It's also talking about "taking ownership" over "your content" on its homepage, so there's the point about the content literally not being "yours".

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Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Post by c54 »

I'm interested in trying this out and started to go through the login flow for youtube, for some reason it opens in a tab within the Grayjay app which then means I can't use Google's passkey auth, and something is even preventing me from copy/pasting my Google password in from my password manager (it's too long for me to want to type out just to try the app.)

Gentle feedback to open the auth flow in the default browser, might make things easier.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Post by ElCapitanMarkla »

DavideNL wrote: post #294
Arnavion wrote: post #144

For anyone who wants a lo-fi solution to subscribing to a youtube channel without having to deal with the youtube.com website, every channel has a built-in Atom feed that contains an entry for each video. My pipeline for watching subscribed channels is to just run a feed reader in one terminal (newsboat) and then copy-paste new videos from that into an adjacent terminal running a loop that runs `yt-dlp` on each paste…

Fyi, an automated alternative: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

This looks like a great way to allow the kids to watch a “locked down” Version of YouTube. I want a way to limit what my kids watch on there by locking them down to certain channels.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Post by DavideNL »

ElCapitanMarkla wrote: post #327
DavideNL wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fyi, an automated alternative: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub

This looks like a great way to allow the kids to watch a “locked down” Version of YouTube. I want a way to limit what my kids watch on there by locking them down to certain channels.

Yea, it's been working great for me. And you can even use SponsorBlock...

Setup was quite a bit of work though, so you need _some_ technical knowledge.

Re: Grayjay Desktop App

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Post by voitsykh »

Arnavion wrote: post #211
harryvederci wrote: post #210

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You can use yt-dlp to get: - the channel id by youtube channel url - the duration + aspect ratio ( - whether or not it's a live / future video

Yes, I do do that. I meant that there's no way to filter them out of the feed directly, eg via some URL query parameters.

https://youtube.com/@handle/videos

Handle is usually channel name without spaces, and is displayed under it on the website. So for Louis Rossmann that would be: https://youtube.com/@rossmanngroup/videos

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