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YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
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.
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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
Rust Troony said:
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.
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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:" ""
 
Slav Power said:
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.
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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.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:

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.
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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.
 
Betonhaus said:
It's super obscure shit like this that really nails home that some people are different in ways I could have never imagined.
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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.

Slav Power said:
Alternatively, consider a different past time if your way of consuming YouTube content ends up being more effort than what you're ultimately getting.
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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.
 
Rust Troony said:
Just wish there was a easier unified way.
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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.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
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.
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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".
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
I would think it's just a gui front end for the command.

Sudo dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/whatever
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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.
 
Rust Troony said:
Why the fuck is there not one good youtube tui?
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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.
Slav Power said:
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.
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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.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
I would think it's just a gui front end for the command.

Sudo dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/whatever
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prollyanotherlurker said:
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
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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
 
Rust Troony said:
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.
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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
 
El Goblina said:
The notion of "burning an ISO to a USB" is insane and I wish it would die.
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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.

WhiteNight said:
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.
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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.
 
YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
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.
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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.
 
WhiteNight said:
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
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The true value of dd is the block size, especially if you combine it with oflag=sync, because flash cells like big writes, but shitty Chinese USB drives somehow die randomly and can never seem to completely write out the buffer when dd seems to have completed. I've also dealt with pajeets that killed NVME drives because they're retarded and don't know about block sizes, with each 512 byte write to the flash cell causes a read/update/write cycle, burning it out.
Bonus tip: use mbuffer instead of dd if you deal with tape drives, they really don't like random read/write speed varying.
 
after trying to use piper for weeks i give up. I booted to windows and manually adjusted my mouse with logitech's OMM software then booted into linux. It is a shame OMM doesnt even work through wine. Piper is just a buggy mess and keeps changing things without my permission.
 
Betonhaus said:
I just use Balena Etcher when needed for Windows, and that iso to usb utility mint comes with for Linux. Or I just use Ventoy because nobody makes 4gb usb stick and using a 128gb one to install ubuntu server is ridiculous.
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I have a 3 pack of 32gb USB-3.2, USB sticks. And I use those ones for iso's usually. I have a bigger one with ventoy. But I don't actually use it much. And only really makes sense for distros that don't update often. Because I would need to move new iso's to the ventoy pretty regularly and delete the old ones, to actually have updated iso's.

But the real reason I don't use ventoy much. Is because sometimes I have issues when booting from ventoy, that I don't run into with the old way of doing it.


Holy shit 🤣🤣. I spoke too soon I guess with my earlier post. He literally just posted this and says tranny.
 
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