Victor

So… not on my TV then?

Nah, Pi-Hole has never been able to block YT ads.

Thanks for the correction!

Yes, Pihole can solve that. “Normal” people don’t have Piholes though. And “normal” people really do purchase televisions, and install the YouTube app and watch videos with it.

Even better, yeah. So this solution shouldn’t feel necessary unless as a last ditch effort, definitely.

Would that allow me to log in to my YouTube account, watch my curated recommendations, thousands-of-items Watch Later list, watch shorts, etc, just without ads?

Big no thank you to anything Nvidia. Plasma Bigscreen doesn’t seem production-ready yet, by the looks of its web site. Either way, that would require me to get a PC and run its output to my TV, right? I’m unfortunately not considering that option right now.

CachyOS, Steam Machine, I already have a beast Arch Linux PC that I game on, so that’s not necessary. But what about that Waydroid business? Would I flash that on to my LG TV and run that as its OS or what is that about? All of these github projects that people link to do such a terrible job of explaining what it is exactly that they offer, and what to do with them.

Thanks for the recommendations.

Anything for WebOS (LG TVs)?

This should only become a necessary solution if YouTube invents a way to inject ads directly into the video stream of the video you’re watching, like old school broadcasting.

Is that available for TVs?

Is that available for TVs?

If you just click into the article you are absolutely blasted with statement after statement that this is only for TVs. Obviously if you have an ad blocker you wouldn’t see ads. 🙂

Beautiful. That’s the great thing about this, isn’t it. We can just do whatever fits us best, personally. Not bound by the operating system or keyboard vendor. Free to continually modify.

Enjoy!

I ended up not using Colemak on mobile because it isn’t available for all languages I type, and it messes with the muscle memory too much. So swiping is QWERTY in the end, and typing is Colemak-DH. Pretty okay compromise.

All I really know I like is alternation (thank you dvorak) and outward rolls oddly enough. Also typing ls ~/ was awful in dvorak, so less right pinky. SFBs can be deceptively packed too, even trigrams. Other than that, the j/k positions didn’t sit right with me in layouts like Colemak, which is what Gallium showed me.

The beautiful thing about custom keyboards where you can change the layout and add layers is that you can add a layer where you have arrow keys basically exactly where you are used to having the hjkl keys. So you just hold a layer, hit the key you want, then it’s back to Colemak-DH again.

What this does is also that it makes you think about using numbers, so you might hit 10j instead of smashing j or down arrow 10 times. Or maybe use search, or symbol jumping. It’s what those features are there for, after all, for when the tiny motions are too small. 😅 If I use 10j, I might not even switch layers, because I only have to hit j once, and switching layers is more work than finding j.

Yeah, Tuta has only permanent aliases, so once you’ve created one of your 15 aliases or whatever, that’s a permanent reduction of available aliases. And Tuta has no email masks, like others have.

And the searching is quite annoying, because they have zero knowledge of your data, so the searching needs to happen locally on the client. A consequence of the full encryption.

Personally, I’m okay with less encryption in order to make the searching a more smooth experience. But they will never change that.

Yeah that’s way expensive for the same amount of storage as Tuta at half the price.

Quite expensive, but the price per GB is better. On the other hand, I also don’t need that much space.

There’s also this.

https://gram.liten.app/terms/

As with anything, breaking muscle memory takes a lot of will power, as well as time. 😅

Take it from someone who went from regular QWERTY row-staggered keyboards to a split column-staggered keyboard with Colemak-DH. Went from 117 words per minute, to 20. It was brutal. Took me a few minutes to reply with simple sentences at work. Still not up to full speed a year later. But the ergonomics are worth it.

Same with Helix IMO. It includes the kitchen sink, and the Selection Editing paradigm makes so much more sense to me compared to macros in *vim. Because it clicked immediately with me, it didn’t take long to get used to it. Been using it professionally and at home for about 2 years.

Helix, just as Kakoune before it, supports multiple cursor selections, even off-screen. 👍 Mouse selections are also not a problem. NeoVim also has support for mouse selection.

Feel free to try it out! Setting up LSPs requires some setup work, but if you just want to try out the editing paradigm, you can just try to edit a plain text file to get a feel for it.

Oh. Ouch. Then I wish you good luck in finding a better alternative than VS Code! 🖖