Not for me, but then again I have residual nerve damage in my pinky fingers from a case of meningitis back in 2004.

However, I do still use my left pinky for the left shift key, and my right pinky for the enter key. At least those keys are big enough that the mild numbness doesn’t cause me to miss those keys.

As true as that may be, what’s the deal with all the times I’ve read stories of people setting up and configuring everything the way they want, and then after installing whatever particular updates manually, then MS reverts a bunch of settings back the way they want?

I dunno, but when I got my HP laptop that shipped with Windows 10, I got to an initial setup screen that asked me something like what’s my mother’s middle name or maiden name or something like that, for sake of password recovery I believe.

Even though I’m sure I could have entered in any random nonsense that I’d remember, I was like what effing business is it of the OS to ask such private details?

I didn’t even finish the setup and first boot, I shut it down right then and formatted and installer Linux Mint MATE 20, and I couldn’t be happier.

Isn’t it just wonderful how M$ can just screw you without your consent? To hell with Windows!

Welcome fellow penguin 🐧

Late? I was early in the PC game controller community, around 2003 or so. Not only did I master game controllers, I heavily modified them as well.

Edit: Try playing Descent, then you might see why I modded my game controllers.

Ouch. Good luck with that 🤞

Not exactly the answer you’re looking for, but here’s some info about Reverse Polish Notation…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

All they gotta do is change their company name to avoid lawsuits. Anyone got any ideas for a new name for them?.. 🤔

ClusterFuck comes to mind…

I can’t find this ‘bravenewtube’ app you speak of, but I must admit I am not far from bedtime…

There’s a difference between YouTube alternatives and Grayjay. Grayjay connects content creators across numerous platforms under a single app.

Edit: I just woke up and realized I typed ‘bravenewtube’ instead of bravenewpipe LMFAO. Oopsie, I did say I was tired haha!

They don’t use cloud services, so stuff is processed and stored locally.

Interesting to learn some finer grained details of the scene.

I do actually have my own graphics software projects like halfway open source, but I could only bring myself to share the backend color coding algorithms.

I can’t bring myself to share the frontend GUI code, as it has to work around many bugs of the language its coded in (RapidQ), and I really ain’t got time to try to explain all the weird fixes to make it work mostly right.

Anyways, the last version of my project was Color Painter 1.5B

https://tinyurl.com/colorpainter15b

I have my own simple license that basically says have fun, do whatever you want, but only for free private personal usage.

But that was back in 2017, I had no idea that AI systems were about to take over the scene.

So now I’m like fuckit.

I just don’t share the GUI code because I had to pull so many jankery tricks that nobody would really understand, partly to fix bugs in the language and partly to remap keyboard shortcuts.

These days, it hardly matters. If you’re interested in my old project, just hit me up.

I’m all about free software, but I have my reasons for not tending to share all my code to everyone. It’s rather confusing.

I’m just gonna drop this link here, make of it and FUTO in general whatever you will. They actually are privacy centric…

https://youtube.com/live/OJPmbcU-Vzo

Oh bitch bitch. So what? Is your only interest in taking their code and trying to profit from it?

Fucking hell, folks told me it would never show up on F-Droid for such nitpicky terms, but they got their own repository now.

Their source code is available online silly. You can recompile it however you want, you just can’t redistribute it.

https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android

Edit: They also now have an F-Droid repository.

Hey, it’s a damn fine app, but at the same time don’t take my word on it…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KaoKSvd2mYo

Yo! Grayjay still works!

https://grayjay.app/

Edit: I didn’t realize people were so sensitive about alternative options. I’m not a NewPipe developer, so I can’t fix it, but I have confirmed that as of right now it isn’t working.

Use whatever app works for you, IDGAF

Damn, same here. I copied the error report, YouTube is apparently being fucky again…

Exception

• User Action: play stream
• Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.27.0
• OS: Linux motorola/lake_revvl_n/lake_n:10/QPW30.142-Q3-28-25/4cbcf:user/release-keys 10 - 29 <details><summary><b>Crash log </b></summary><p>

com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:241)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
	at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)

</details> <hr>

Plot twist: The entire world is destroyed in the future, so there’s no real goal, except maybe kill all the other players and just hope there’s a woman around somewhere to reproduce…

Meh, depends on which device I’m using. Not looking to use my devices in such a way, unless they break, but I have a phone and a tablet that meet all those qualifications.

Granted, not very common, but they do exist.

Then maybe you should check this…

The INSANE Evolution of Click Farms: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-CoEHDHb0lE

There are ways to bypass that though, especially on mildly older phones before battery management chips went all digital.

On slightly older phones (you know, ones that don’t have the battery glued in), you can usually power them up with like 4.2 volts, and use an appropriate jumper resistor to the thermal sensor battery pin.

Easy peasy, except for these newest anti-repair phones.