Victor

I agree with everything you said, to some degree. I’m just saying that shorts on my account are great, because I’ve honed my algorithm over many years so that it only gives me relevant stuff. I never see anything I don’t want to see, basically. My Watch Later list overfloweth. 😅

the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video.

Have to disagree with the notion that this is a fact. I watch informative and interesting shorts all the time. Plenty out there if you have the right subscriptions and are careful with how you use the service.

E.g. you must never scroll shorts. Watch the ones you want to see, then back out, so you never see anything that pollutes your account history.

If you see something you don’t like, put a negative vote on it, maybe even click “don’t see this account again” or whatever it’s called. And vice versa, upvote and subscribe to stuff you like.

It requires some effort but for me it’s worth the interesting content.

This is the key. I never scroll shorts. I only click deliberately on the ones I know I want to see. Then back out. This way there is little to no pollution.

People seem to like to call people transphobic nowadays I guess. I had some nut job here on Lemmy calling me transphobic despite no evidence of it. They followed me around on my previous comments calling me a transphobe. I asked them to post screenshots for everyone to see the evidence. Multiple times. I said I would apologize for anything that could be misconstrued as transphobic, and try to make it clearer what I actually meant to say. No reply.

People are just weird sometimes. Maybe they don’t know what the words mean that they use. Ignore it, is my advice.

I like my wife to be smooth on her legs, and semi smooth downstairs. She likes herself fully smooth though.

I even like myself smooth, but my wife doesn’t want me fully smooth.

It’s all just preference. 🤷‍♂️ Nothing to do with gender at all, in our case.

Huh. I love shorts. I have a curated YouTube account that shows me very interesting shorts about science, music, gaming, comedy, PC building, web development, tech news, etc etc. I wonder why people don’t like shorts. Using YouTube without being logged in?

I don’t remember seeing any banners before GDPR?

It’s not about making users hate them. It’s about collecting data,

Making users hate GDPR and revolting against it is a means to that end though, of collecting data.

I mean, I agree completely. I chose i3 back in the day to get tiling windows, but also specifically to get my system as lean as possible to only run the things I needed. So I definitely made a conscious choice. As I did with Niri recently.

I just feel like it should be easier. Like you start the dbus daemon or whatever, and then that’s it. That should be it. There shouldn’t be anything left to do after that IMO. 😅

But I mean, I know how to search shit on the Internet, and read docs. I made it work. Others might struggle though, coming from Windows e.g. like I did decades ago. I have a big headstart.

Would be neat if it wasn’t necessary to do that though, of course. 👍 I didn’t need to do that with i3 for some reason, e.g. Feels inconsistent.

Whatever it does, it’s something that must be added manually in your compositor’s startup commands, or in your shell’s init file.

I don’t need support for RAID at all to begin with I think. I just need to make my existing drives network-accessible. 😁

I do not have backups at all. This is just… warez. Nothing too important to backup, really. It would just be annoying to download again.

It’s very annoying also that you need some weird systemd command incantations to make it detectable by environment variables when using Wayland compositors or X11 window managers that aren’t full desktop environments, in combination with XDG portals.

I struggled so much getting dark mode running well with darkman. And screen sharing with Niri. Hhhrg.

Also any year that someone switches their main desktop to linux is the year of the linux desktop for them personally.

Agreed. I’ve made the same argument myself, fully on board. I had my year of the Linux Desktop two decades ago. 😄

I just… As long as we don’t actually take it seriously that “this might be the year of the Linux Desktop” and get disappointed that it isn’t — by some unknown metric (seriously, what’s even the definition of the “year of the Linux Desktop”?) — then it’s fine. 😊👍

I love the enthusiasm but I think we should honestly stop chasing “The Year Of The Linux Desktop™️”. I think it only serves as a depressant.

Let’s just keep focusing on making Linux great for experienced and new users alike. 👀

Really. I moved away from Ubuntu when they forced Unity on us. 😅

Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance.

Alright, cool, thanks for the heads-up regarding wiping with Synology!

Yeah, I mean, my special case is basically only that I have a lot of data and I don’t really have anywhere to store it temporarily before installing it in a NAS. 😅 So that’s why I want to just plop them in there… But I don’t know what the best way forward would be to turn my drives into network drives. Just a small drive bay maybe.

Yeesh, okay, I see.

Then maybe some kind of compact drive bay would suit my needs better for now, that I would just connect to a mini PC of some sort.

Thanks for all the info!

Thanks for the notes on network storage access protocols!

A big point of a NAS in my mind is to run some sort of redundancy, which means you will want to setup a RAID on the drives in the NAS

Cool, thank you for that as well, and I was aware of that so I thought I would mention that in my previous comment. But I was specifically wondering if I could in fact just chuck them in as-is and it would be able to access the drives? Because like, they’re separate drives, right? How would that work in a non-RAID setup when accessing from another computer? Would they show up as separate drives? Is it at all possible?

Well that’s comforting. 🙂👍