It certainly would be but looking at the options tells me that they're hooking into MacOS's widget libs and on Linux there's just so many. What I get by with to go mouseless is Tridactyl for Firefox, warpd for when I need a pointer, and when I absolutely, positively need a mouse, mouse emulation on QMK keyboards never fails me. I only need it these days for dealing with MacOS outside of my Linux VM. I also use keyd in order to remap keyboard shortcuts.
On linux, you can just install one of the DEs that are keyboard driven. Rat poison is one. I used that with Conkeror (a fully keyboard driven browser with emacs keys) for a long time.
Yea, sandboxing is great. Sure.
Having bought a pixel 6 one year ago; first, I felt constricted by the on-product policy of "enforced" android 13 upgrade [1] then, this appealing beta, that would be hard to pass if proposed. It's mental considering how few devices are in Europe.
Is this this the future? Yes, conveniently then, let's get paid for that. There no shame in selling digital property. It's data.
Still, can't see how that could be the right approach to take, but curiously the current prospect depicted in this article are closely not optional. So, let's embrace it.
[1] android 13 is definitely the way to go, even if you didn't had to choose. It's a first in a while kind of platform that allows virtualization of multiple server OSs on-board the device. It's portable since tou have a windows 10 personal computer if necessary in you pocket.
> this appealing beta, that would be hard to pass if proposed. It's mental considering how few devices are in Europe.
Maybe pixels, but not android phones.
Also its not only Europe doing this, after the GDPR, many countries realized that's its actually possible to legally force companies to be more private, and save data locally in the country.
> [1] android 13 is definitely the way to go, even if you didn't had to choose. It's a first in a while kind of platform that allows virtualization of multiple server OSs on-board the device. It's portable since tou have a windows 10 personal computer if necessary in you pocket.
Do you have more details about this? I may turn an old phone into a docker server if that's actually possible.
Also I think android 13 was forced because android 12 was a disaster on the pixel 6 series.
This is really interesting machine. It mekes me think about the "culte des livres" (French translation from Spanish) written by Luis Borges. The closest mechanical sculpture I remember was exposed at the Reina Sofia museum and was a glorified infinite monkey theorem sculpture (can't remember the name).
I enjoined the ending paragraph tone. Alien like remark on the desktop app emergence and rising popularity after 2000.
On my end: being born two years before 2000, makes me a desktop apps powered man and frankly I've been moving away from them. I'm seeking order and density so I've moved to the dark side of the spectrum, towards clis.
There's hope in TUI like apps: like cashiers softwares terminals which displays some of both extremes.
Until GUI are able to visually convoy meaningful symbols without ever using explicitly written characters, there's little gain in using them more the a solely characters driven interface.
Thise are personal considerations,
Hopefully I'm just a maniac that enjoy that intimate vibe interacting with a machine rather than clicking it.
> ... so I've moved to the dark side of the spectrum, towards clis
Do you mean the best side? CLIs are were the power is at, because it's the only place you can convert human thought into instructions the computer can understand. It's the only place raw desire can be converted into a string of demands that the computer can meet. GUIs offer a static sub-set of this functionality in exchange for accessibility of the masses (which is fine... Instagram doesn't need to be a CLI tool.)
> There's hope in TUI like apps: like cashiers softwares terminals
When I worked in a Vodafone call centre many, many moons ago, we had a system actually like this. The F1-F12 function keys were critical and the entire thing was insanely fast. They eventually switched to a web based solution and it was terrible.
Modern technologies favour the technologist, not the end user... they just happen to like it because they have no choice. GUIs, the shite they're built on, hold a monopoly.
I got inspired after watching it. There is a clever piece of script behind it.
I've planned a full coding session today in order to implement it.
Cooking recipes, philosophy quotes, Wikipedia articles (?) and daily news headlines. Still looking for more content.
I'm also thinking about TTS functions like the one used in Sir Reddit YT channel.
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No hate, no join. I doubt this is going anywhere. You seem to be in a stage of fishing for things to do[1] which is a great place to learn new skills but not that great to actually get anything done. Been there, done that.. a few times!
Personally I'd pick something easier to do if you're after cash rather than skills, get yourself eased into making stuff. Spam the hell out of YouTube or whatever later, haha
You gotta keep in mind this is just one channel that got successful at spamming YouTube in this way, of probably thousands of channels trying, and managed a channel best of 79k views on a video. What's that in 2022 YouTube CPM? $60-100 or so, depending on which bucket of ads you get put into? That's like 10x less than making a decent 10 minute tech tutorial.
Much less effort once the code is written, sure, not much more reward. That's not factoring in your script randomly breaking and needing maintenance.
Back to Van de Paar - there's only a few videos with that level of viewcount, the rest topping out around 20k or so. I imagine the channel has some terrible watch time stats too as people will be jumping past his little piece to camera to get the answer they were searching, then dipping as soon as they got the answer or realised the video was guff. That probably wont do you any favours long term.
To also note that the high view counts are videos that have all been up for over a year. Don't be thinking this is quick money!
It's true you have a greater chance of hitting a lottery video by spamming 2 million videos into the void but even that's not guaranteed if nobody ever watches the video in the first place! Focus your brain cycles on video titles and the thumbnail once you've got the code bit down. If nobody clicks the video, nobody watches, algorithm doesn't care about the video, nobody is suggested the video, nobody clicks the video, nobody watches, etc.
You're in high likelihood only going to learn how to play with ffmpeg and improve your code skills off the back of this. Good luck with that bit, it should be fun! I love tinkering with ffmpeg :)
If you do go for it I'd love to know how the end result pans out time and tech wise! Was the juice worth the squeeze? If you'd done minimum wage somewhere else would it have turned out better financially? I bet that article would get some front page HN attention! :)
E: Oh man don't even get me started on the admin side of things if you find yourself on YouTube's radar. Did you know if your Adsense account gets banned.. that's it? You can't re-register, can't appeal, you're just done now. Can't ever use Google ads as yourself again. Not on YouTube, not on your website. You gotta register a new legal entity (LLC etc) if you ever need them again.
