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Tubular is Newpipe, but with Sponsorblock and ReturnUA-camDislike built in. That's pretty much it as far as changes go to be honest!

@@alexwr Even dislike button in most of these days are hidden..

Thank you so much! That's what I'm aiming for, so I'm glad it's coming across!

When I released my EPs through DistroKid I was able to set my channel to be an official artist channel... Can't remember the exact process I'm afraid as it was ages ago, but yeah... I should probably remove it depending on how much music is going to be a part of the channel going forward...

I agree with this comment even harder.

Which is why I mostly use it on my tablet. On the phone it does come in handy for downloading music tracks though! I've got no problems watching YT videos on a small device. For some people, this is the only device they have, so it's nice to have the option!

@alexwr I rather lean back and watch videos on my TV. I do not like tablets because they are like micro tvs.

@ That's fair enough, you do you! For me though, a tablet is perfect, I am not far-sighted; my near vision is fine, so I can get the same experience as a 50inch TV on my lap with a better, OLED screen. It also lets me watch whatever I want without disturbing the other people around me. That said, I had a quick look, and the supported open source alternatives to YT are seriously lacking or basically non-existent on Android TV devices, so yeah...

@alexwr I am not farsighted. I just do not find it relaxing to hold something in my hand or have something lying on my knees where I have to look at. It is much more relaxing to sit on my chair lean back and watch the video on my TV screen.

Don't worry, I wasn't suggesting that you were, it just works fine for me it all. I think I'd have to connect a PC up to a TV because I really hate TV interfaces and remotes. Also a desktop YT app would work amazingly on a huge screen!

Sorry, I'm not sure I totally understand your comment... What about gig work means that you can't use open apps, and what gig work specifically are you talking about?

What other sorts of videos would you be interested in?

I've only got Debian on a crappy old 11" Lenovo laptop, so I don't really use it regularly I'm afraid! Most of what I do is music and video editing stuff on my laptop and I find the totally FOSS apps are seriously lacking. I couldn't get my old interface to work right either... I recently bought a new audio interface, so I'll do some tests and see what I can do!

Fraid I'm not great on tech support! What phone/Android version are you on?

They are just plain better than most of the competition!

Mostly just browsing f-droid! There is a website: alternativeto.com for finding open source options alternatives.

@@alexwr Great.

That's a tough set of things to find in a free app! I'll see if I can find one though! Have you tried looking on alternativeto.net?

On a very quick, cursory check, the only app that does anything close that I can see is Eleven Reader, at least as a mobile app. It is free, but not open source, so you're paying for it with your data. They do share data with third parties so if it's sensitive or confidential documents, I wouldn't use this app.

Still using my Mi Mix 3 from 2018!

@alexwr That's cool, are you using a custom ROM at this stage of its life.

@@sclint962 nah... I probably should tbh, but most f-droid apps work fine on Android 10, so no problems with app compatibility.

Thanks for the feedback! Being the absolute dumbass that I am, I forgot that not everyone watches on a large screen... Definitely things I'll work on for next time!

Yeah, I keep switching between Tubular, Newpipe and Grayjay, but the Tubular interface and additions are my favourite, especially on a tablet... I use both AntennaPod and LocalSend, both are fantastic! I gave up with most social media except for UA-cam ages ago. Reddit just drains me, personally!

@@alexwr Yeah I get that, I use it very sparingly and only for a couple of specific subs for my own sanity. Redreader is the closest I've found to using old.reddit and it blocks all the ads by default.

Thanks for the support! Really appreciate it :)

As safe as any app can be! I've been fine using if for ages now. Everyone can see the source code, so if you're technically minded you can inspect the voice yourself and check for anything malicious. Like with any app, it has the possibility for bugs, but nothing deliberately harmful :)

Yeah, 300+MB is no joke, but that's what happens when you build an app for a host of different services and don't rely on Google's API.

It's not like I've got much on my phone anyway! I can spare 300MB....

Is Grayjay universal, safe app to install or it is harmful?

As safe as any app can be!

I'll see what I can do! There's only so many app videos I can do :P If I'm going to make more, I want to make sure they're actually apps I've used regularly! Thanks for checking it out though!

Thanks for your perspective! I hate that we have somehow decided that personalised ads were a good system in the first place... It's bizarre to me that this is where we're at in our digital lives. And you're absolutely right, we are so totally overstimulated and swamped with nonsense, even before AI went mainstream. It really shows that we really need quality, even if it's not immediate. I may have to steal Artificial Incompetence... I like that...

What sort of apps are you after? I'll use Grayjay more for the moment because Tubular is broken for now and it works better in landscape/tablets than it used to!

@@alexwr more apps :)

​@@alexwrWhy not revanced extended

Which one is yours ?

Which one is yours? :)

@@alexwr Droid-ify 😄

@@Iamlooker ah, of course! I was just looking though all my installed apps trying to find your username.

@@alexwr hehe. Great work on curating such obsure apps, 🫡

??? Eh?

A good tuner app is harder to find than I though on the Play Store, and this one covers all the bases and more! Thought it needed a mention! Grayjay has a long way to go, but at least Google can't block it (legally at least) because it doesn't use their APIs at all. They just released a desktop version which is very VERY Alpha, but it still works at least! I did use Quillnote for a bit, but from what I can tell, Notally was forked from Quillnote when it stopped receiving updates, and NotallyX from Notally for the same reason. I use Obsidian as well for longer notes, I did mention them in my original script, but decided to cut it out of the video because it was a little off-topic as it isn't open source. Obsidian is by far the best (desktop) note-taking app I have found though.

It's a great app, but currently broken, for me at least! Fortunately we have options, like Grayjay and hey, these things happen when Google has an active interest in trying to block these apps from working.

It hasn't been updated in months and is now way behind newpipe

Just recently got an update, so all us up and running again in Tubularland!

I personally use modified UA-cam revanced extended instead)

Thanks! Links have been added to the description. For apps like Tubular and FUTO apps, you'll have to add their own respective repos to F-Droid: - IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repo - FUTO F-Droid repo Hope this helps!

Cheers buddy!

I mean, I could change the wallpaper if I wanted to, but I quite like the solid colour. I do the same on all my devices.

@alexwr okay man

That's fair! In the end, I can only put the onus on myself, and I tried to get that across as much as possible :) in the end, it's me. I don't have to watch it of I don't want to. And I don't think there are many who are actively producing (more or less) the same videos over and over again, but they do exist! I might go into content curation at a later point, but you really start to notice the repetition if you only follow 40-60 people on YT and remove the algorithmic elements entirely.

That's just one of the standard settings in MacOS. "Tiled windows have margins" in system settings should find it!

@@alexwr thank u, i didn't know thats built in setting 😅

My pleasure!

freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/ It's not on the app store. Most apps worth using aren't!

At least I can just not download them, so they're easily avoided. Yes, they definitely count as slop! I think that's a topic for another day, but smartphone are not really built for anything other than simple, mindless entertainment.

Elon had a very recognisable brand identity handed to him on a platter, and he changed it to X. X? Really? A letter of the alphabet? I don't use Twitter (X), Bluesky, or Mastodon because I've got better things to waste my time on.

Probably better said as "...fed but not not well nourished." Let's be real. Slop content is just the junk food of the internet. High calorie, low nutrients.

Anti-generative AI, for the most part. There are other uses for neural networks beyond stealing artists work and puking out the leftovers. You're right, all these things are tools. But AI is more than a tool because it is intended to replace humans. LLMs replace human conversation. Generative AI replaces artists. Each generation of tech has removed more meaningful jobs from the public sphere, but we've never had a technology that tries replaces so much in one fell swoop. Not just mindless jobs, but artistic endeavours too. One could say that my video is slop. They would be wrong. There's nothing lazy about writing, filming, colour grading and editing a video, trying to keep it as concise as possible so as to try not to waste people's time. Criticising something that other people have already criticised doesn't make it 'slop' or pointless. It means there are probably issues that people should be paying attention to with this tech because enough people are speaking out about it. Damn right I hope it doesn't advance anything. I hope it encourages less advancement. We need to have serious conversation about the way we are moving forward as a society if this is what we are doing with the resources we have available.

@@alexwr If you believe AI is "stealing" artists' work then you need to do some more study on how AI works. It's sad that your video is just the usual Luddite diatribe with nothing useful to add. Best of luck to you - I hope that one day you can join the large number of artists who are already using AI to their advantage. Merry Christmas.

At least Daily Dose condenses it all in one place! And yeah, I can't stand the vast majority of shorts content. Made exclusively for views, not for entertainment or information.

Maybe AI could work for dream sequences specifically because it looks so uncanny... I'm certainly not denying that you have worked and put effort into your video. The shot choice is very good, and the pacing is great! It would have been even cooler to see a non-AI version, at least for the Peterson talking sections. You can't exactly compare the two videos in any meaningful sense. One is an experimental narrative about Kermit Peterson having a nightmare, and the other is a simple commentary video. I still had to write a script, film it, edit out the fluff, colour correct and grade. Obviously a commentary video, at least on the filming style is lower effort than a narrative because there's so many more choices to consider with narrative filmmaking. I'd like to see you develop your skills further because you've clearly got talent! You and I both need to start properly filming narrative stuff because it's good fun!

⁠I just want to ask a question… because you’re kind of coming off a certain way, and I want to make sure that you’re intending to come off this way… and that it’s not something that’s just unintentional… Are you saying that people who don’t have the time or the resources to do things the “right way” are just putting out “slop”? Because it is very very common for this particular type of conversation to start out as “oh just typing in a few quick prompts and then pasting it online to try to get a bunch of views and then doing that a bunch of times to hope your channel can grow so you can make money is probably not the best way to do things”. And then, eventually if not rather immediately, it devolves into “anyone that uses any of these tools is cheating and uninspired and undisciplined and taking shortcuts and compromising artistic expression and should do everything the way it was originally done, otherwise they are thieves and plagiarists”. That is an age old gatekeeping attitude and behavior that has prevented many individuals over the course of history from feeling confident in expressing themselves for fear of ridicule for not living up to the standards of the people who police the communities of self expression. I think everyone agrees that if you’re just clicking a button and then posting what comes out, you’re not really having any creative input on what’s being generated. The only purpose someone serves in that scenario is merely to initiate the process by which some new piece of content comes into existence, which plausibly fails to meet the basic criteria for expression or creation. But the second a person starts curating what gets put out, and refining it to get something that is more like what they are trying to say, then they are already transitioning from a passive initiator to that of a creator using technology as a means to express him or herself. I agree that people should become fluent, as much as is within their resources and opportunities to do so, in all the different types of tools and tactics for self expression, but that is ultimately a personal choice, and it doesn’t inherently handicap or degrade that person’s potential output. In fact, there are a great many examples of timeless and distinctive art that existed within its own bubble or vacuum, outside of the perspective or the culture or knowledge of conventions considered to be basic disciplines or procedures to bring that art about. Often the most distinctive art can be made by those who are ignorant of its rules and culture. And part of that unconventionality includes new ways to automate the process itself. I believe it does have value to gain the perspective of learning about the more primitive methods of how a task has been accomplished in the past, regardless of whether someone actually has the time or the resources, or the inclination, to try the old-fashioned way themselves, but they also have the right to make the choice to cut that part of the process out and focus more on the parts of the process that give them the most inspiration, or that give them the best opportunity to express themselves as fully as they can within the bounds of whatever their limitations are( be they monetary, physical, social or temporal…) without fear of reprisal and humiliation rituals. This is the most frustrating aspect of this debate, and it really bothers me, because I don’t disagree that there’s a glut of lazy quick clip and paste content (and AI is streamlining that) but I genuinely believe that most people, especially as they get older than like five or six, will start to gravitate towards the content that actually has something significant to say, and then the only real difference is that we all have different sensibilities. Endlessly generating effortless and meaningless content is unfulfilling. It’s sort of self regulating. The gatekeeping comes in with determining for yourself (and by the natural extension of your level of clout or respect in a given community for a much larger group of people) what is and what is not acceptable. Some of us like basic or simple or silly content, some of us like complex or analytical or provocative content…some of us are introspective, some of us are plain spoken, but that doesn’t mean that any of it is bad or wrong, which is why I really don’t like the concept of nourishment in regards to art. Patrick Stewart loves dirty limericks. He loves Beavis and Butthead. Other people will look at that type of art and say “oh I don’t know how anyone with a working mind could like something like that. It’s just complete junk. Honestly, it shouldn’t even exist. It’s not real art.” This will always bother me. Because art is subjective, it is always in the eyes and the ears and in the perception of the beholder…as is the value or merit or what you would call nourishment. The human body has certain basic material and chemical needs that it cannot function without, but the human mind is far less limited in that capacity. That’s part of the reason that the world can be kind of scary sometimes, because what one person finds inspirational another might find maniacal. Just my two cents. Sorry for the novel. TL:DR Gatekeeping=bad, the value of expression is subjective.

Some of it looks great from a purely aesthetic perspective. I would argue it still contributes to the overall decline though. For certain things, I think AI can make sense: - Sky replacements and object removal in photo/video. - Speech recognition. Really useful for live translation and accessibility. - Better text to speech. Again for accessibility. Small, localised and highly specialised AI tools seem to be the best ones out there. All these things can potentially be used for good or bad, but human nature is the path of least resistance. If an AI will get the job done, even if not well, then we will keep relying on them more heavily and neglect ourselves and our own development.

I always worry that I always sound sarcastic, but I think that's just my accent and low energy :P Yeah, there's definitely a fear of being sincere, especially on the internet...