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Skip about one minute in to save a bit of time, and watch for like 2 or 3 minutes to see the part I'm referencing.

This is actually, a similar sentiment, to what I've said in here. Probably a bit more palatable than how I've said things.

It's also sort of why I dislike the atomic distros. Along with just a dislike of the way they actually work.
 
Why the fuck is there not one good youtube tui? Decided to ditch electron apps for good only to get struck with 4 years old application or rust tranny shit that doesnt work half the time.

My favorite one is youtube-tui, which has pretty much broken itself for all but one of the 5 clearweb invidious instance since it updated two weeks ago due to changing the API since:

1 using the actual standard for invidious (is broken half the time with error messages even on the website)
3 are broken due to modified source code (probably)
1 is 2 months outdated so it uses the old API link

I know I could just use a RSS feed reader to "subscribe" to channels and pipe it into mpv but dear god i would have expected someone to come up with a more unified experience that's not an electron app taking up 2 gigabytes of ram.
 
i can't believe in an interview he said that he needs "a few more programmers". i hate how he talks about monopolies that other companies hold (which is fair, most games you can't get literally anywhere but steam), but he doesn't care to bring up linux for some competition in this space.

i want to really like epic, especially since i've used their store through heroic games to get drm free copies of some new games. but they see me as an enemy, even if i've spent more on their platform than most of their users.

while i am more familiar with directly using dd or just loading a flash drive up with ventoy, are there issues with etcher? my friends have used it for years.
What you gotta realize here is Tim Epicmegagames is and has always been a simp for Microsoft especially after they funded Gears of War as an Xbox 360 and UE3 showpiece that put UE over the top as the second most whored out engine behind Unity. Valve pushes against Microsoft and runs a successful storefront so therefore they are the enemy, hence all the spite moves disguised as necessary for Unreal/EGS like yanking Rocket League from purchase by Steam players or buying out EAC just as Linux support was running.
 
I would think it's just a gui front end for the command.

Sudo dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/whatever
If it were that simple there would be no need for software like Rufus or Universal USB Installer where it sets up an EFI boot partition on the stick, sets the right partitioning scheme and whatnot.
Also with Rufus you can customize the Windows 10 or 11 iso (remove some of the telemetry, bypass the online requirement, etc.).
Yeah those are good to just make Win10/11 install without a fuss on any hardware and skip the annoying OOBE. There's also MicroWin from Chris Titus' WinUtil that does more than that, but AFAIK it's still WIP and YMMV with how well it does it's job. It can either send you off to a clean, working install, or a botched install, or it'll fail due to missing drivers or w/e.

By the way, I remember there being some FUD about Ventoy having binary blobs, but I didn't check up on that story. Technically it's easy to verify if those binary blobs actually compromise the OS you install from it, but as it usually goes with FUD like this, people act like when something is a closed source compiled binary then it is 100% malicious and there are zero ways to see what this black box does. If that were the case then Sysinternals wouldn't be a thing and Mark Russinovich wouldn't release a book that tells you exactly how Windows works.
Why the fuck is there not one good youtube tui?
Because the terminal was never meant for video viewing and YouTube constantly fucks with any form of third-party access? You can always write a script to download a video via yt-dlp in a format that allows partial playback, and then deletes it after you're done. It would still be janky but it would probably work better than some Electron app. However if you insist on using a YouTube proxy then you're SOL since Neal Mohan has successfully fucked them over to the point where you'll need to pull browser cookies for yt-dlp to be able to download some videos. Just be glad they haven't stooped to going militant against VPN's so you can DL shit through that and use prepaid burners to make accounts for yt-dlp downloading to not give them any data.

Alternatively, consider a different past time if your way of consuming YouTube content ends up being more effort than what you're ultimately getting. Not that I'm saying I'm better than that and that I don't do it, but let's be honest, most of the time we watch time wasting, low brow entertainment trash on YouTube and we'd be better off wasting that time on PySolFC playing Solitaire or Mahjong.
What you gotta realize here is Tim Epicmegagames is and has always been a simp for Microsoft especially after they funded Gears of War as an Xbox 360 and UE3 showpiece that put UE over the top as the second most whored out engine behind Unity. Valve pushes against Microsoft and runs a successful storefront so therefore they are the enemy, hence all the spite moves disguised as necessary for Unreal/EGS like yanking Rocket League from purchase by Steam players or buying out EAC just as Linux support was running.
The funniest part about Timmy is that he flip-flopped on the PC bandwagon depending on how the tide wave was going. When PC's weren't as popular as consoles, he went around declaring that PC as a platform is dead. When PC's ended up being more popular than consoles that became locked down PC's, he suddenly embraced the platform with open arms as if he hasn't renounced his old stomping ground from which he built his empire. He is such a spineless little shitbag it's hilarious, always dancing and prancing around in the way that'll get him the most dosh at any given moment.
 
The funniest part about Timmy is that he flip-flopped on the PC bandwagon depending on how the tide wave was going. When PC's weren't as popular as consoles, he went around declaring that PC as a platform is dead. When PC's ended up being more popular than consoles that became locked down PC's, he suddenly embraced the platform with open arms as if he hasn't renounced his old stomping ground from which he built his empire. He is such a spineless little shitbag it's hilarious, always dancing and prancing around in the way that'll get him the most dosh at any given moment.
Epic Games also made Linux games back in the early 2000's, off the top of my head I remember Unreal Tournament 2004 getting one, so Epic Games total rejection of the Linux platform these days makes even less sense.
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Epic have shown themselves to be absolute fuckheads in every way these days.
 
Epic Games also made Linux games back in the early 2000's, off the top of my head I remember Unreal Tournament 2004 getting one, so Epic Games total rejection of the Linux platform these days makes even less sense.
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That was a port done by Ryan C. Gordon who ported many games to Linux, macOS and 64-bit Windows. Contract work, not direct in-house involvement. It's more of a technicality nitpick though.
 
Guy who switched to Linux after using Windows for 20 years
Why the fuck is there not one good youtube tui? Decided to ditch electron apps for good only to get struck with 4 years old application or rust tranny shit that doesnt work half the time.
You can use yt-dlp to search yt (sorta)
yt-dlp --no-download --print "before_dl:%(id)s # [Duration (H.M.S): %(duration>%H.%M.%S)s] %(title)s" --default-search "ytsearch10:" ""
 
That was a port done by Ryan C. Gordon who ported many games to Linux, macOS and 64-bit Windows. Contract work, not direct in-house involvement. It's more of a technicality nitpick though.
Point still stands, if Epic cared about Linux enough to make ports of their games in the early 2000's when it was just basement dwelling nerds using it, no excuse as to why they simply refuse to do it now.
 

Skip about one minute in to save a bit of time, and watch for like 2 or 3 minutes to see the part I'm referencing.

This is actually, a similar sentiment, to what I've said in here. Probably a bit more palatable than how I've said things.

It's also sort of why I dislike the atomic distros. Along with just a dislike of the way they actually work.
lol at him talking about how Google fucked search results by trying to censor things and Youtube immediately proving the point by censoring him saying Pizzagate.
 
It's super obscure shit like this that really nails home that some people are different in ways I could have never imagined.
Its not really like i want a tui, just a youtube frontend that isn't fucking electron based. GrayJay uses 1.5GB of ram on startup which ig could be excused as alpha software fuckery, but even freetube uses 500-600mb of ram.

I just want a basic application that can aggregate youtube videos that i can pipe into mpv.

Alternatively, consider a different past time if your way of consuming YouTube content ends up being more effort than what you're ultimately getting.
Im already building up a library of old videos on youtube i still care about.

Anyways, I just remembered mpv allows you to force a certain resolution for yt-dlp so I guess I will just use a rss feed app and copy the video urls to watch in mpv. Just wish there was a easier unified way.
 
Just wish there was a easier unified way.
Scripting maybe? A TUI RSS client from which you could parse the URL's of what you want to view and pass it all to mpv? Not necessarily easier but definitely more streamlined. I know that I ended up writing a TUI for yt-dlp after being dissatisfied with all sorts of GUI solutions. Mnemonically hitting a few keys is way faster than navigating a GUI with a mouse and keyboard.
 
lol at him talking about how Google fucked search results by trying to censor things and Youtube immediately proving the point by censoring him saying Pizzagate.
Also if you say "pizzagate" or any other conspiracy theory in a video, Youtube adds a text under the video with a link to a Wikipedia article deboonking it.
I believe it started with Covid, it pushed content creators to use other words like "coof".
 
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I would think it's just a gui front end for the command.

Sudo dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/whatever
I rated optimistic because there are UEFI bios that don't understand iso9660 or udf.
Usually I prefer formatting to fat32 and dumping the contents of the ISO into the partition, watch out for that 4GB limits though, thanks Microsoft WIM.
 
Why the fuck is there not one good youtube tui?
Idk which you have tried. But I think it's called yt-x. Is one I've used and it actually has worked pretty well for me. It uses yt-dlp for some stuff, and I think either mpv or ffmpeg, and some other stuff. If you haven't tried that one. See if it does what you are looking for.
If it were that simple there would be no need for software like Rufus or Universal USB Installer where it sets up an EFI boot partition on the stick, sets the right partitioning scheme and whatnot.
That is literally the command I use to "burn" all my iso's to a USB. I run

sudo dd if=HannahMontanaLinux.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress

And that's that I don't have to do any formatting. Any partitioning. I haven't had any that haven't worked either. Just FYI the bs=1M helps speed it up a bit it's just setting bit size. And status=progress tells it to give the the progress while it's copying.
 
I would think it's just a gui front end for the command.

Sudo dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/whatever
That is literally the command I use to "burn" all my iso's to a USB. I run

sudo dd if=HannahMontanaLinux.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress
The belief in dd as the way™ to copy raw disk images is pure superstition. You can literally almost always just use cat or cp.

See articles:

Useless Use Of dd

The Cult of DD
 
Its not really like i want a tui, just a youtube frontend that isn't fucking electron based. GrayJay uses 1.5GB of ram on startup which ig could be excused as alpha software fuckery, but even freetube uses 500-600mb of ram.

I just want a basic application that can aggregate youtube videos that i can pipe into mpv.


Im already building up a library of old videos on youtube i still care about.

Anyways, I just remembered mpv allows you to force a certain resolution for yt-dlp so I guess I will just use a rss feed app and copy the video urls to watch in mpv. Just wish there was a easier unified way.
You can use my software for that: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/quickmedia it's written in c, c++ and x11 with opengl. So there is no javascript/web tech shit.Screenshot_2025-05-25_10-26-39.webp
 
The notion of "burning an ISO to a USB" is insane and I wish it would die.
It's a metaphor. Same as windows, directories, files, icons, folders, and all the other metaphors we use to describe moving bits in and out of registers.

The belief in dd as the way™ to copy raw disk images is pure superstition. You can literally almost always just use cat or cp.
To state the obvious: The true value of "everything is a file" is that everything can be manipulated like a file, because everything is a file.
 
Epic Games also made Linux games back in the early 2000's, off the top of my head I remember Unreal Tournament 2004 getting one, so Epic Games total rejection of the Linux platform these days makes even less sense.
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Epic have shown themselves to be absolute fuckheads in every way these days.
I had the original UT2004 CD drive with Linux version on it however i have lost it and despite searching for it on the interwebs the only thing that i could find were windows versions that you got to run through wine, which is bit sad as i distinctly remember it working without issues on modern Linuxes.
 
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