@curtispf I typeset it: https://codeberg.org/oneirophage/practice-guide-for-computer/src/branch/main
words came from a picture of a printout tho

I think there is a perception among tech folks that the "best" way to watch pirated content is via jellyfin/plex and the *arr stack. I have set this up (with a seedbox, even!) and it has been a huge headache. Seeking in the media makes it freeze, subtitles are often fucked, I have to think about fucking GPU drivers, etc etc.

Some non-tech friends of mine have a solution that works much better, and is documented decently here: https://medium.com/@divitia/stream-smarter-not-harder-a-guide-to-using-stremio-torrentio-and-real-debrid-9e7a3ecc0309

The cost is $3/mo and if you already have an androidish tv box it will run on that hardware. Or you can buy a cheap xiaomi one. It plays media immediately, instead of having to wait for the entire file to download (https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-is-there-a-way-to-play-media-while-its-still-downloading), it's much easier than setting up a server, anyone who's using your TV can make it work instead of depending on you, and it's got pretty good coverage in terms of what shows/movies it has.

I don't have a TV, but I set this up for my reflection the other week because I was tired of seeing ads during Hackers (1995). It took less than an hour. I can highly recommend looking into this solution if you haven't seen it before.

@taq ive been going with "being" as a catch-all term to refer to my friends ("people and people shaped entities")
would this be incorrect for y'all?

@antlers I use ☿, which I have not seen elsewhere

@mycobee hell yeah!! can I see ur tats 👀

okay y'all have fun with that see you in 1-4 weeks

@apophis cute

oh boy whats going on here today

@0x4d6165 i've used it to argue that jest should support machines with `sl` installed

@Lunaphied thank u ♥️

@Lunaphied yaaa carpool style
prolly gonna go w/ at least one other friend, Scarlet if u know her
will send details in a bit

@jyn u did not, this is so sick

@jyn tyyyy :)))

@Lunaphied alr yeah come to the next one it's a renegade show in like a field somewhere this Saturday
don't think my friend is VJing this one tho
i had to dm someone and they sent me coordinates lol

@asterism i'm reminded of the buttplug.io empathy for users thing where u really gotta think about what the possible use cases are and what that looks like, how it fails, what they need, etc

this is a scenario that really would've been helped by adding 3-5 of the _most common_ uses of the tool at the top of the README.

instead I had to find "video format options" (format, mind you, not resolution - when I saw this I thought it was like, mp4 vs webm) and then go to another section, then read through a bunch of weird examples to get to two different "download this but smaller" commands.

(the --help wasn't any better; it's pages of options and then it links to the README anyways)

this is a lot of words for me! do I want res or height? smallest dimension? best but no better else or if largest smallest AUGH

I go to youtube and there is a selector that says 720p, I want THAT.

I pick res even though it comes later (so I would expect to be more specialized) and it works! great! but since I couldn't find it earlier, I have like 4/8 videos downloaded, so I can't pass the playlist link and I have to manually type commands for the rest.

# Download the best video available with the largest height but no better than 480p,
# or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
$ yt-dlp -S "height:480"

# Download the best video available with the largest resolution but no better than 480p,
# or the best video with the smallest resolution if there is no video under 480p
# Resolution is determined by using the smallest dimension.
# So this works correctly for vertical videos as well
$ yt-dlp -S "res:480"

the next screen has such oddities as this:
`$ yt-dlp -f "bv*[height<=480]+ba/b[height<=480] / wv*+ba/w"`

after attempting and failing to parse this DSL I read on a bit further:

again, the ENTIRE FIRST SCREEN is useless. and I have to keep scrolling back and forth on my little phone screen with the flashing lights and loud music and also tabbing back and forth to manage the ongoing downloads.

these options, I will save you the reading, are all about different ways to download the best video. one for the worst video but I don't want that either!