That’s honestly probably the play.

There is a kinda kludge of a workaround with a plugin, but then there’s no way to get plugins to auto-load whenever a video is first loaded, so you still have to go through the menus to create “automatic” folder playlist. And that’s nearly the same amount of friction as making a playlist.

Ugh. As much as I like vlc, I have to agree. Mini rant time.

It absolutely boggles my mind that the vlc devs refuse to implement automatic loading of prev/next tracks in the same folder, a basic feature that pretty much every other major player has, because it’s not their intended use pattern.

This is a convenience feature to save the user selecting tracks and making a playlist every time they want to watch a few sequential videos (i.e. episodes) in a row.

While I do think it’s unreasonable to ask devs to implement a feature in their own software that they don’t want, it’s also bull-headed decisions like that that hold back mainstream adoption.

While I pretty much agree, I can definitely think of a few sporadic times doing sysadmin where things have gone so significantly wrong that an enforced sanity-check on every sudo command would have been appreciated.

They have to keep the starting civs far apart for balance reasons.

The problem is that performant screenshare (to multiple users) more or less requires infrastructure. That requires money, and it’s impossible to compete on price with services that have the VC-enshitification model.

You can get around this in a few ways, but they’re all tradeoffs that are in some way or other worse than discord.

• P2P - sacrifice latency, reliability
• direct multi-stream - sacrifice PC performance and/or bitrate
• paid infrastructure - sacrifice money

If I had to pick just one, which one would you suggest?

I kinda find modern isekai are very formulaic. If you just want some fan service and an OP power fantasy protag who doesn’t struggle at anything, then they look nice enough, but are still kinda trash.

I’d recommend watching some of the early ones when the genre wasn’t so well defined:

• Now and Then, Here and There
• Twelve Kingdoms
• El Hazard
• Vision of Edcaflowne

Is he trying to neg us by threatening our sovereignty and then asking for a favour??? Most high schoolers know better than to fall for that. Like, get real.

Edit: Oh, OP basically already said the same thing.

I think it really depends on the website and even where you are on the website. For example, if you’re on YT, the watch?v=<b64_id> is probably not something you want to throw away. If you’re on a news site like imaginarynews.com/.../the-article-title/?tracking-garbage=<...> then you probably do. It’s just a matter of having “sane” defaults that work as most people would expect.

This classic Lemmy repost keeps bouncing back.

N… not really…

That’d be cool. Whenever I’m sharing a YT link, I’m always a bit suspicious of what info the youtu.be URL is hiding, so I paste it into a browser to get a clean URL.

Maybe this is silly, but I’d be cool to do that automatically.

That poster is absolutely sick, but the trailer didn’t quite quite captivate me. I’m not sure I want that much magic battle in my sci-fi.

I’ll definitely keep an eye on this though.

*pushes up glasses*

I think you mean… reasobale.

N… Not because I like you, or anything… Baka!

My short list (most memorable, but not necessarily because I like them) is PugJesus, Yogsoth, return2ozma, and yourself. I’d add db0, but it feels like cheating since it’s the instance name as well.

Glueless, 7 radial folds, then fold the flaps up inside?

There are other explanations, ofc. Maybe there’s a galactic moratorium on contacting new space faring civilisations.

If you’re willing to discard the conclusion that we’re an early civilisation, then it’s reasonable to think that old civilisations have had plenty of time to decide whether or not to contact us.

There are quite a few different takeaways you could draw from that. My personal favourite is that they want to recreate the “early universe” experience for us because it’s an important process for civilisations to go through.

It would be interesting if the answer to the Fermi paradox was that every advanced lifeform accidentally blows themselves up.

This reminds me of the behaviour in young siblings where one will initiate, and when the anticipated response comes, they launch in to “Mom, they’re touching me!”

You clearly do want to argue, you just don’t want to be argued back with. Either that, or you’re just trying to provoke a response.