I thought had this bud nipped, but enshittification is everywhere and ruins everything in time. I had a mere six months with my RSS feeds free from the scourge of Shorts, so imagine my surprise and anger when they started showing up again. This time, however, I'm not sure there's a way out.
Category: Tech
Bring back the old YouTube video end-screen wall/grid
The new thing, the one with just three videos running across the middle, is kinda lame, ain't it? We had a whole wall of videos, it was good, and it was taken from us. Let's bring it back!
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Windows 10 is dead; long live Windows 10
As of Tuesday Microsoft officially pulled the plug on Windows 10. Its successor was released four years ago, and by now you (and I) should have made our way to it. Windows 10 is, after all, a decade old, so it's ancient technology at this point. I haven't updated, though, and I don't plan to until I build myself a new PC, and that's whomst knows how far away.
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Save $20 or more by editing PDFs with LibreOffice
Every so often I need to edit a PDF I get from another source, and then I go on this needless and mostly-fruitless endeavor to find a place on the internet to make those edits ⸺ forgetting that I already know of and have a place to do it.
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When overzealous uBlock Origin rules break sites
I'm used to my internet-browsing combination of choice, Firefox and uBlock Origin (uBO), breaking sites. Everyone codes their sites with Chromium in mind, and that's just fine because it covers nearly all browser usage thanks to Google's technically-not-a-monopoly monopoly. In any case, sites not working for me isn't nearly as common as it once was, but it still happens from time to time.
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Dulling bright colors in Gmail
One thing I don't need first thing in the morning or last thing at night is to be visually accosted by emails that include absurdly-colored elements. A couple of the newsletters I subscribe to use ridiculous shades of red-orange, and with my gaming PC and its contrasty gaming monitor and some slightly boosted digital vibrance to make colors pop a bit, scrolling through these newsletters can physically hurt.
Open-source comment moderation
It seems my crappy little unadvertised blog here has finally garnered enough attention from bots to start getting hit with spam. My first step toward world domination has been taken.
Remove Shorts from YouTube RSS feeds
RSS ain't dead yet, and some of us weirdos use it to keep track of our favorite YouTube channels. Unfortunately, the default RSS feed is full of junk: littered with Shorts and livestreams (active or past), making it quite annoying to sift through to find the proper videos for which we wanted to "subscribe" in the first place.
Firefox finally supports custom search engines
It's wild that it's taken this long, and it still requires some fussing around by the user to enable the feature (for now), but at least it's here. And with it we can make the smoothest Google declutterer of all! Previous iterations here:
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Get a damned dashcam already!
You ever come across a traffic jam caused by people who were in a small accident and then left their rides in the road? They're endangering themselves and others and causing traffic issues by blocking a lane or three. What are they even doing?