Enshittification aside, any new technologies you find yourself relying on/using regularly?
This can be anywhere from hardware or software/apps.
I recently started up a CalDav/CardDav service (radicale, think like your own private Google Calendar and Google Tasks that can also be synced on multiple devices) on a VPS. One step closer to degoogling myself.
Well, fuck. Just at this exact second you’ve taught me that I’ve been doing that the hard way for ages, by actually going to the project’s github page.
Anyway, another shout out for yt-dlp regardless. I get a giggle every time I see one of those sporadic news articles involving the music recording industry still whinging about piracy. Er, the record labels themselves pathologically post every single track ever recorded to Youtube to rake in that ad revenue, and it’s all free for the taking. If you decide you’d like to be proud owner of any of them forever you can just hit it with the ol’
yt-dlp -x.I am continually amazed at the number of non-Youtube sources that yt-dlp Just Works with as well. It seems any video content posted online that you’d like to gaff can be handily vacuumed up with it, regardless of the site operator’s desperate attempts to prevent you from doing so.
How did I not know about the -x param? I’ve been doing --list-formats and then choosing the high quality audio only. This will save me a step. Thank you.
Same way I didn’t know about the -U update parameter, I’ll bet you. You ask yt-dlp to list its flags and arguments and it spits out a listing into your console that’s about nineteen miles long because apparently it can do anything.
The only command line tool I use regularly that’s comparably capable and even more byzantine is ImageMagick.