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To you know any extension to get more than 4 videos per screenful on my 27" monitor?

I just use this ublock origin filter:

    www.youtube.com##ytd-rich-item-renderer:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 6)

YouTube Row Fixer

Automatically translated titles are often just wrong and misleading, and there is no way to turn this "feature" off.

If you understand more than one language, you'll get half of the videos sloppily translated for no reason. There is no way to tell YouTube not to do this for specific languages.

It is beyond annoying.


Completely agree. I find it crazy that this is encouraged in the very first example in the official tutorial [1].

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch02-00-guessing-game-tutoria...


Two weeks of clothes in a 40x30x15 backpack? Do you change once a week or what?

You know other countries have laundries too, right?

But then I would not call it "2 weeks of clothes". Otherwise 2 pieces of everything would "clothes for the rest of your life", but this is not what people mean with "clothes for x days".

There is no way more than 1 day worth of clothes fit in a backpack, and this does not include accessories. Am I just supposed to buy clothes at the destination country?

Not sure what your definition of a backpack is but I was just traveling for over a week with this one and it was no problem to fit over a weeks worth of clothes, toiletries etc there

https://www.tomtoc.com/products/40l-travel-backpack-carry-on


Can it fit 5-7 underwear, 5 shirts, and 3 sweatpants, a couple of sweatshirts or hoodies and 1 jacket (might be cold where I am going), maybe 1 jeans, 2 different shoes (in a box)? I highly doubt it. On the photos of your backpack, seems like only 3 jeans fit, that is maybe 2-3 hoodies. This does not include toiletries.

How many and what kind of clothes did you carry and what was your folding method (if you can explain)? I can't believe "weeks worth".


It really depends on your personality doesn't it? If I was travelling for a week I would take one pair of trousers, the ones I am wearing on the plane. One pair of shoes, maybe two outers, one shirt/pants/socks per day. If you need more then a backpack isn't going to work.

Can take even less if you do laundry once at the half way point.


It sure does. :)

It also depends on where we are going. If I am going to the Middle East, I will not need much besides two robes. :D

Alaska? Yeah, gotta pack up.


I had something like 9 pairs of t-shirts, underwear and socks, 1 or 2 (don't remember) extra long sleeved cotton shirt and 1 extra pair of jeans plus shampoos, moisturizer, toothbrush and paste, shaving stuff, 10 inch tablet, chargers, headphones, passport etc. Yes they fit quite nicely believe or not. This was scotland about a month ago.

My folding method was: get some cheap packing cubes, one large with shirts (just flat), one smaller with underwear and socks (just put there) and one with toiletries, nothing special at all. You can stuff lot more than you think into 40 liters. Jeans and sometimes jacket I just stuffed there.

btw I was able to sneak that backpack to ryanair flight even :-D


Sounds interesting if you could fit all that in the backpack you linked. I might give it a try.

More than 1 day is easy.

You can wear shorts/jeans multiple days, so just need multiple underwear and socks. Pack some light t-shirts and shirts rolled up.

Merino wool t-shirts and some other natural materials can be worn multiple days.

Also depends on weather, if it's winter and not sweating and humid you could wear the same top multiple days too.


If it is winter, you will need sweatshirts/hoodies and a jacket, too, though, and they can take up a lot of space.

As per hiking.

Base layer (thin material), mid (fleece) and waterproof/windproof shell (light).


I would rather see them ban the dark patterns that nudge you to buy a "premium" ticket when you just want to add a luggage item and couldn't care less about priority boarding and whatnot. I am a fairly experienced traveller but I still get scammed by this from time to time. Now I'll instead have to pay for cabin luggage even when I want to travel with backpack only.

I'm all against dark patterns, but how can you ban them?

Even after EU explicitly trying to curb dark patterns for website cookies, I can't recall having ever seen the "only functional cookies" option displayed in the same UI language as the "all cookies" option. The latter will always the one that is prominently highlighted.


They can easily solve non-compliant cookie consent flows if they chose to actually enforce the astronomical fines everyone has been fear-mongering about. But they don't - the process of actually going from complaint to fine is convoluted, lengthy and the data protection agencies clearly don't appear to want to be investigating or fining anyone.

It can be a special purpose device, it does not have to be a smartphone.

The problem is they usually allow 2FA through their app. I am not sure if this is the case for OP, but it is for most online banks. Luckily my bank still provides a physical authentication device.

Banks and NFC have been a major obstacle for me to degoogle. Even when I rooted my phone, i could not pay with NFC. Apparently it's a common problem:

https://www.reddit.com/r/foss/s/5myzcPg2rw


I'm always amazed how all the banks I've used in Australia require either their own proprietary app or some bizarre closed source unvetted 3rd party TOTP implementation instead of just allowing TOTP.

That is IMO a huge problem with these "apps". Every service that claims to be a bank should be accessible without forcing you into the Apple / Google duopoly.

Weird that you can even say "no". Usually the options are "yes" and "keep asking this until I click yes by accident".

They might change the "no" to "maybe later" later.

It’s assault by Google, as usual.

Some engineer probably finally got a little too much mace on a date and had to accept a “no” for once.


Its not engineers deciding these things.

Am I the only one who actually dislikes the recent trend of putting emojis everywhere in CLI tools? I am ok with red and yellow text for errors and warning, and I can stand green for success (though I find it useless), but emoji's are just distracting.


I also find fully rendered/colored emojis distracting even in repo readmes because I feel they give off a casual chat messaging vibe, since before colored emojis became part of Unicode proper they were exclusively used for chat messengers.

There's a Unicode sequence that tries to use a monochrome glyph instead if it's supported which I prefer as it's more in keeping with the rest of the text (though an issue with some of those variants is legibility at small sizes/PPI).


I really hate that Unicode retroactively made some pre-existing smileys into colored-by-default emojis.


> I feel they give off a casual chat messaging vibe, since before colored emojis became part of Unicode proper they were exclusively used for chat messengers.

This is mostly cultural, though. Some people are used to this.


Noto Emoji has all emoji as monochrome outlines.


I’m the same. I hate emojis anywhere that is intended to be informative reading. Whether it is terminal output, markdown documents (even titles), git commit messages, etc.

I get they bring people a little bit of joy, but as a dyslexic who likely also has ADHD, they bring me unnecessary distractions and visual clutter.

The only time I like emojis in a formal setting is when used in Slack to denote a thread (the thread/sewing emoji).


I dislike emojis in general when combined with running text. Especially in terminals or character-based interfaces with fixed-width fonts.

On top of that, there are only very few emojis that can be read properly at the same size of the current line height. It works for a few simplified faces and symbols, but that's it.

The fact that emoji fonts override the font color rendering is an aggravating factor. I don't want text to change color behind my choice (it SUCKS with customized color themes).

They feel like a punch in the face to me when I'm reading documentation or even worse when reading code.

Sadly, it's really hard to avoid them nowdays. I'm using a few lisp scripts with emacs to translate the common ones back to ascii for rendering.

I can point out that "Noto Emoji" is a b/w version of Noto Color Emoji, which contains a MUCH more suitable version of emojis that can be used in running text. As noted before, it's only a partial solution as I find most emojis are still not readable when scaled at the same size as the text and when simplified sometimes they also lose the original meaning (just use the damn word dammit!). But at least they don't override the color. On linux, you can force a font substitution with fontconfig to force the b/w version whenever color-emoji is used and can't be customized.


Emojis do not belong in the CLI, ever. Hell, I personally think they shouldn't be in Unicode at all (as they are not text), but that ship has long since sailed unfortunately.


I'm fine with them used sparingly in documentation, but in actual terminal output they mostly don't get rendered properly so I'd stick to nerd fonts if I want "icons" of any kind.


The argument for emojis in Unicode was that existing chat protocols had them. But I don't buy that argument since many chat protocols also supported custom smileys which Unicode doesn't. Trying to standardize creative expression is a mistake IMO.


No, the argument was that existing character sets used in Japanese feature phones had them. Because Japanese characters are wider than Western characters, those platforms could be more creative with pictographic characters as well, and could easily add color due to the proprietary phone OS. Unicode added them because Unicode's goal is to provide round-trip compatability with existing character sets.

https://blog.emojipedia.org/correcting-the-record-on-the-fir...


It's dumb because a font a allowed to re-interpret the actual image, but in doing so you also frequently change the meaning of the symbol. This is not a problem for text, but for images just changing the color of the fill might completely change the meaning of the sentence.

See the old apple gun vs squirt gun. The same is true also when using stuff like whatsapp on android, where the os keyboard shows you one image from the system theme, but the one which you see inserted in the text is not what you selected, but at least is partially better than sending something without knowing how it will be rendered, which is what most chat messages have realized after trying to simply using the system font.

So at that point, you have to switch to a different custom font just for the emoji block, and you're still limited to what unicode allows instead of just bundling whatever image you want (which is a great excuse to sell new phones with "new emojis" I guess).


> and you're still limited to what unicode allows instead of just bundling whatever image you want (which is a great excuse to sell new phones with "new emojis" I guess).

Except that every chat client now supports stickers, which are nothing but custom images that are guaranteed to render the same way for the recipient that they do for you. The recipient does not need to have them installed.

But stickers have to be their own full message in the clients I know of. Once they start to be integrated into textual messages, clients will have developed all the way to where MSN messenger was in 2003.


I like them when they're used as bullet points in lists for instance. Just like we've always used small icons of phones and envelopes in contact information boxes/business cards to identify the fields at a glance.


I'm sorry, I really like it. When used in titles & subtitles, I find it makes it a lot more pleasant to read for me.


I’m not sure why you got downvoted for this. Is HN turning into reddit where downvote means “I have a different opinion”?


This has always been the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36674260

Please also see the very last guideline here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Without activist moderation, that would appear to be the default outcome. Most humans seem to have an urge to stamp on dissonant opinions. Unfortunately.


> Am I the only one who actually dislikes the recent trend of putting emojis everywhere in CLI tools?

No.


I think they are overused everywhere. Most annoyingly as a workaround to put pictures in what should be text - email subject lines for example.

I like coloured text, and I like TUIs. To be fair, nothing I use has noticeable emojis. I am not really bothered about enhanced terminals - I would rather keep terminals simple and use a GUI if I need more complex presentation.


It was cute before it was everywhere thanks to LLMs.


It was already annoying before LLMs got popular. Now it’s gotten out of hand <rocket emoji>

Emojis in repos and CLI tools is the textual counterpart to the soulless Alegria art style: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis


You are never the only one.


You are the only one who doesn't understand that not all questions are meant literally though.


I don’t think he's the only one.


Unless the emoji is serving the purpose of a button or icon, then at the CLI (and TUI) I prefer not to see them. A good example (IMO) of their proper use would be as a traffic light indicator for something. Always consider the output of your program may be used as the input for another program to paraphrase klt.


I dislike putting ASCII characters in CLI tools and logs and think they should be PURE EMOJI! [ wink emoji ;) ]


Agreed. Emojis are even more prominent than colors, so they should be very sparingly used. I'm not against the use of emojis in terminals per se (regardless of my opinion of the very introduction to emojis in Unicode), but they are now too many to be visually ignored.


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