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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Games, movies, TV shows, doesn't matter. I just love pirating!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You left out the second part of my initial comment, not surprising since it expresses what I said in my expanded response. "...but just believe it anyways." and then you left out that same sentiment in my second response.

You didn't address my point about my comment being a structual critique probably because you were more concerned with comparing the differences in my wording vs extracting the meaning and arguments from those words.

Actually, there is data to support your trust in walking down the sidewalk safely. Sidewalks are built by crews of concrete workers, and that process at every level is overseen by trained individuals who conform to clear standards for concrete strength, safe construction practices, etc. So no, your act of walking on a sidewalk doesn't require blind faith.

Plus, it doesn't matter, you're trying to make a point about epistemic warrant and I'm trying to make a point about structual inequality in corporate America. Plus, even if you didn't have any good reasons to think sidewalks were safe to walk on, that's still not equivalent to my argument because in that example, you aren't trying to impose your personal view on others. Religious fundies are almost never content just believing their doctrine in a vaccum, they attempt to impose it onto other people who don't share their views.

Your whole last point misses what I said. I never claimed that WFH is universally better for employees, I said that it should be up to the employees and their teams to decide what works best for them. There are reasons other than general productivity why WFH is better for some workers, like the example I gave of folks who have extremely long commutes.

But because of the structural inequality within the corporate world, those considerations are thrown into the trash by executives that get to impose their will on those workers just because vibes. (I actually think in many cases it's far more nafarious than that, but I'm being charitable in my assumptions here.)

And finally, I never claimed there are no benefits to working in the office, I literally said that I was a person who enjoys a hybrid situation. I'm arguing for more workplace democracy, instead of an authoritarian environment where the high-ups get to impose their will on everybody else based on nothing more than their feelings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Nice try, but maybe practice in the garage next time before stepping up for a debate.

  1. What do you call somebody who admits they have no data or evidence to back up what they believe but still insists that they are right and you have to agree with them? Yeah, a religious fundamentalist is a good example. His claim was all anecdotal, he just "feels" like people work better in person based on his own subjective experience.

Now that might be fine when it comes to some things, live and let live, etc. The difference here is that he and other upper management get to just force the rest of the workers to conform to their viewpoint without any evidence. It's a structural problem.

  1. I never claimed that WFH is universally better than in-office work, so strike two on that one. I'm merely critiquing his approach of forcing workers to conform to a policy that he believes in, based on no supporting evidence, just vibes. I was making a structural critique.

  2. If you want my actual viewpoint, I think that WFH should be up to the employee. Some people work better in person, some people work better from home, and some (like me) enjoy hybrid because of the flexibility it offers. Also, some people are brutally punished by mandated in-office work. A person who has a 90 minute commute both ways (who typically isn't compensated for commute time,) is a perfect candidate for WFH. But because this guy "feels like" WFH is bad, he gets to just dictate that from on high instead of workers being able to figure out what works best for them and their teams.

In other words, nuance is important, unless you are a fundie who builds their beliefs off vibes and anecdotes and then imposes them on other people regardless of their views, desires, situations, or objective data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I love my Steam Deck. The fact that Valve made it so easy to upgrade, mod, repair, and running a full Linux distro so I can install anything on it is just awesome.

I've convinced 2 friends so far to buy one, so Valve is getting hella value from me on that front lol.

It's so nice that it just works with any controllers, any hardware, can be fully customized internally and externally.

I use it to watch TV and movies, stream my Jellyfin music, couch co-op, play my emulated GBA games, play FOSS games like Battle for Wesnoth and Super Tux Kart, and of course a bunch of my Steam games.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Straight up fundamentalist religious thinking right there.

"There isn't any reason for you to believe what I'm saying, but just believe it anyways."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Possible maybe, but at that point if YT bascially becomes paywalled I will just stop using it entirely like I did with Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I thought All three of the ones I listed weren't reliant on YT APIs and instead scraped their content.

Edit: Just confirmed both NewPipe and Freetube do not use YouTube's api. I'm not sure about GrayJay though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For android, the stock newpipe from the fdroid repositories was just download and play for me. Easy and simple interface.

For Grayjay, I use the direct download .apk from their website. It's been a little more buggy because it's still new, but all in all quite stable. Less features right now, but does all the basics and has device casting to TV which Newpipe doesn't.

For my PC, Freetube. I just use the Flatpak version for Linux. I'm on Nobara for my distro currently and it's worked fine.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Loving Freetube, Newpipe, and Grayjay more and more every day!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Pay for things that respect you as a user, not this garbage.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Man, Elon speedrunning corporate bankruptcy for Twitter lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Very true, it people's experiences will vary. It is a tradeoff for what you are willing to put up with for the FOSS change in workflow.

I find that at work, I am often forced into and fully MS framework anyways. Not able to install any software I want, forced to use their garbage. It's really frustrating, but such is the state of things at most workplaces.

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