• Activity
  • Votes
  • Comments
  • New
  • All activity
  • Showing only topics in ~tech with the tag "digital". Back to normal view / Search all groups
    1. Does anyone have experience with tools for locally archiving the web, like Archivebox for example?

      I found myself on the Archivebox website earlier today. After reading some of it, that's the kind of program I could use. The ephemerous nature of the web is bothersome, so much content is lost...

      I found myself on the Archivebox website earlier today. After reading some of it, that's the kind of program I could use. The ephemerous nature of the web is bothersome, so much content is lost for one reason or another. Archivebox seems to be one of the most popular tools, and it can automatically mirror my locally downloaded website to archive.org, which is great. It seems complex though, maybe more complex than I usually tolerate these days. Which is why I am asking if anyone has personal experience with Archivebox or other similar programs. Do you find them useful and reliable? Have you ever found in your local storage a webpage that you really liked, which was gone from the web? How's your setup?

      Thank ;)

      19 votes
    2. Recommend me a digital clock?

      I have been having a lot of trouble finding a digital clock. I don't even know where to ask for recs, I tried a couple subreddits but there is no /r/digitalclocks so I'm trying a more general...

      I have been having a lot of trouble finding a digital clock. I don't even know where to ask for recs, I tried a couple subreddits but there is no /r/digitalclocks so I'm trying a more general place here and maybe someone can help?

      My requirements (I'm in the USA so that's where the time finding needs to happen):

      1. It autosets the time based on the radio signal
      2. It automatically detects DST
      3. Backup battery so if I get a power failure it doesn't lose the time
      4. The time is the only thing on the display. (Although, this seems to be the hardest one to find, so, if it also shows the temperature or something, that's ok, as long as the time is a lot bigger than anything else)
      5. Not willing to spend more than $50 on a clock
      6. Needs to be LED not LCD, i.e. I want to be able to see the time in a dark room without pressing a light-up button or anything

      Additional bonuses:

      1. If it has a rainbow display
      2. If it has a USB charging port
      3. Big numbers, like at least 1.5" tall

      I don't care about the alarm or any overhead projection features.

      If you have a digital clock that you love that meets these requirements (or at least mostly does) I would like to hear about it!! Thanks!!

      11 votes
    3. YouTube without a working ad blocker

      I liked ( past tense ) watching YouTube with the latest Firefox on my Mint Linux box. No more. The ad blocker I use ( latest version ) has stopped working for removing YouTube commercials. The...

      I liked ( past tense ) watching YouTube with the latest Firefox on my Mint Linux box.

      No more.

      The ad blocker I use ( latest version ) has stopped working for removing YouTube commercials.

      The commercials are obnoxious.

      I think I will quit until the ad blocker I use updates again with a fix.

      Sorry YouTube, you are far from being worth $14.00 USD a month.


      Edit:


      Mint Linux 21.2

      Cinnamon 5.8

      Firefox 128.0.3

      Ublock Origin 1.59.0

      • I completely removed UBlock Origin
      • I completely emptied my Firefox cache and other data
      • I signed out of Google completely
      • I reinstalled UBlock Origin
      • I signed back into Google
      • I tried using YouTube with my VPN turned on.

      No joy.

      I can watch YouTube ad free via a private window in Firefox.

      I can watch YouTube ad free if I log out of my Google/YouTube account

      My add blocker works in other browsers when I am not logged into my Google/YouTube account.


      49 votes
    4. Is fandom.com actually getting worse?

      I have been a frequent visitor of the various websites that are now under the Fandom.com umbrella, going back to when it was called Wikia. And if there's one thing that's been a consistent...

      I have been a frequent visitor of the various websites that are now under the Fandom.com umbrella, going back to when it was called Wikia. And if there's one thing that's been a consistent irritation with the platform, it's just how intrusive and annoying the advertising is. (For a sense of how long this has been a problem, see here.)

      But worse than the intrusiveness of the sites' ads, their biggest problem is their performance. They can bring Firefox to a crawl.

      For a while, it seemed like Fandom had been making some improvements. I could visit, say, Memory Alpha without the CPU on my computer spiking like crazy. But I just tried to look something up on the Forgotten Realms Wiki and, good god, it was terrible.

      (And before anyone says anything, no, I have no intention of using an ad blocker to deal with it.)

      Am I imagining it or is the platform actually getting worse again?

      57 votes