It just downloads the audio file for the video, so if there is that crap, you get it. I haven’t had many issues with extra stuff though. I send it a link like https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbNzvRx9lF_Tw6oi-I8iYbhBWNf775kwR and I get a good-enough-for-me bunch of mp3s.

Just a little FYI for anyone wanting to download a playlist to listen to offline. Use yt-dlp. Load up the playlist, copy the URL, and then just run

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list<the playlist>

I don’t know if I’m alone on this, but I just bought the biggest 5400rpm HDD that was in my price range when I set up. Might notice the slower speed when doing a big data dump, but for streaming purposes you can run many 4k streams concurrently and the bottleneck would probably be your network speed before you hit a drive read bottleneck.

(1/3) +(1/2)(1/3) = 1/2

Math checks out from this end.

Thanks for the link update.

Russia, China, and Iran. Just doing their normal shitty stuff.

The history of that Island, the stark differences between Haiti and the DR, is just painful.

I always hear people bitching about the “no choice” of voting, but they never seem to be around during the primaries, when they could make a difference.

I hate a lot of things for stupid reasons

I had to check to see if I was about to reply to myself.

Mutually assured destruction was supposed to be a deterrent to anyone using nukes. Not to enable an aggressor force to do what they want without repercussions out of fear that they would use nukes. If they use nukes, at a minimum they’ll no longer exist. Probably along with the rest of us.

Turkey should just drop out of NATO if they want to support Russia. Or be kicked out.

$40.50

16 hour shifts are bullshit. 12 hour shifts are bullshit. I did those hours when I was in my 20s, but I don’t think I got anything out of it but resentment towards society. I certainly couldn’t pull those hours when I got older, and add a family on top of it. Jesus. It’s not like firefighters who work crazy shifts, but sleep and work out for a majority of their “shift”.

It just uses nitrogen. You can order a bottle of nitrogen from Amazon. That, a plastic bag, and some tape, you’re good to go. When I learned that, I felt way more secure about my choice to kill myself, hopefully years and years from now. As long as something doesn’t happen sooner to take the choice out of my hands.

When I looked it up here, it looks like it already only takes about 8 hours, granted with a transfer. And surprisingly inexpensive.

I just use Telegram with friends and family as an alternative to sms. I’ll have to ask if any of them are selling drugs, because it would be handy to have a connection.

Uh-oh. I don’t think taking away their main supporter will make magats very happy.

I’ve thought that since Russia first invaded. Really feels like the US is just trying to bleed Russia for as long as possible.

I think it was Neal Stephenson’s book The Diamond Age that had clouds of nanomachines constantly at war with each other creating a fog of dead and dying machines that people would just walk through pretty much ignoring it. I read that a long freaking time ago, so I’m sure that memory is, to some degree, degraded.

Because the drones are made in China and China wants Russia to genocide so that they can get away with their genocides. It would be nice if we started manufacturing again, but we seem to have trouble getting anything done.