Yup, DVD players suffered from the bad caps a lot back then as well, it was always one or two specific electrolytics in the power supply.

I had not heard of Jackett and to be honest haven’t really looked into aggregators. Will look into it, thank you.

1337x.to has good torrents/magnets in my experience, but def. use ad blocking. On mobile clicking almost anything tries to redirect or pop something up.

First let’s cut the biggest energy wasters – crypto mining and ‘AI’.

Well I would seriously consider paying money to a team that keeps it there, if Chromium actually removes the code. I hope others will consider it as well. We need to fight this, even if it means paying some money to a foundation to do so.

There’s the futile hope I suppose that antitrust cases going on against Alphabet might force Google to divest Chrome from its advertising arm, so that there’s no pressure to make this whole thing worse. Hah, in my dreams.

I really hope some team has been following the changes in Chrome/Chromium by Google to remove Manifest v2, and has been keeping a patchset that will undo the damage? Time to make a hard fork and get some funding to try to keep it going?

There’s a way to save your already-installed extension, in “Manage Extensions…” Enable dev mode, then Pack Extension.

However the browser will probably just refuse to run it soon.

Vivaldi, for what it’s worth, seems to still run uBlock Origin just fine. I am afraid to uninstall it now to test if it’ll re-install properly.

My version: 7.1.3570.39 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

Might be time to finally move to Firefox though, if Vivaldi doesn’t keep Manifest V2 support.

I have heard of it yeah! Definitely want to try it out… just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Do you find the voice recognition is decent?

The Assistan/Nest devices have gone to shit as well. When I first bought one about 5 years ago, it could:

• play many games (voice-controlled text adventures, multi-player gameshow-style trivia and party games, etc.);
• play music from my Google Music Library library with no commercials;
• play podcasts from 3rd party podcast providers;
• play almost any radio station that also had livestream feeds

Now all the games are gone, and ‘podcasts’ are just the small subset of podcasters who also upload their episodes to Youtube (whatever feed they used to use had almost every podcaster there was, even obscure ones); asking for specific episodes by episode number or date is totally broken. Playing radio stations is hit or miss, the voice recognition often picks a stream completely unrelated to the one I ask for; it is waaay worse at matching the callsign/city I ask for.

Playing music is intolerable. There’s a stupid commercial for Youtube Music Premium after nearly every track. NO, I will not upgrade to your freaking Youtube Premium.

Enshittification, thy name is Google.

Dunno about docker setup, but I mirror github repos I worry may disappear automatically using my self-hosted gogs instance. (Gitea/Forgejo likely also can do it). It’s point-and-click, you just specify the github URL and check a box “this is a mirror”.

… but not rethinking it due to the insanely illegal and unethical crime against humanity that it is. OK.

So they’ll just make their concentration camps reside within U.S. borders.

I think AI is generating negative value … the huge power usage is akin to speculative blockchain currencies. Barring some biochemistry and other very, very specialized uses it hasn’t given anything other than, as you’ve said, plain-language search (with bonus hallucination bullshit, yay!) … snake oil, indeed.

Even Fox “news” reported the Orange fascist didn’t place his hand on any book during the 2025 inauguration. Apparently as with so many things Americans assumed were requirements for their ‘democracy’, this was just a “norm”. Not that I think this particular detail is worthy of concern as much as the other hugely evil things this admin is doing. But it is telling. He’d never feel found by any ‘oath’ anyway, and certainly doesn’t feel bound by any morals found in any religious book, so it would not have made any difference.

Ah, so they’re definitely planning to blame all of the upcoming outbreaks of preventable diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, polio on immigrants. Instead of their own gutting of HHS, CDC and appointing an anti-vax nutbar to run what’s left.

Vivaldi on Linux and Windows is still good in my experience, and so far uBlock Origin for manifest v2 still works. I hope they keep v2 support forever, forking completely if they must.

So… when does Congress decide it wants to you know, actually keep some of its checks and balances? I’m guessing never?

Every single GOP member who isn’t acting against this is officially a Quisling. Never forget how they handed the reigns of power to fascists on a platter.

…and for those on Linux there is ‘DeGouru’, a tool for de-DRMing internet archive books that are lending-restricted.

A bit annoying in that it is somewhat sensitive to the Python version one has installed but there are ways to manage that which I am not qualified to advise on.

Neat, will try it out.

Has anyone written an android desktop search widget for it? A quick search only foumd one veeery old experimental project.