I have a flask app with a bunch of home utilities I’ve written and one of them is a wrapper around yt-dlp that takes a URL and saves it to a Plex library location.

Then there’s a bookmarklet I use from desktop Firefox when I’m on a youtube (or other) video page that sends the current URL to that endpoint.

Also I can “share” any video URL on my phone to this web service, and I use that all the time from Newpipe when I want to watch something on my TV instead of on the phone.

Why are frequent restarts healthy? Do you mean at a hardware level or for the OS?

Why would you need a home server in addition to your day to day desktop computer? I leave my desktop on at all times because it’s a Plex/ErsatzTV server, HomeAssistant server, web server for various utilities I’ve written, etc. It works great.

Postgres is a more robust and better designed and developed product, also it’s not owned by fucking Oracle.

can’t even safely walk alone in public during the night or safely send your kid to school

This isn’t true, the media just makes it look that way. The instances of school shooting are very dramatic, but statistically, your kid is in more danger on the drive to school than from a school shooting.

It’s simpler code to re-download the file than retrieve what cached version may or may not exist in memory or on disk. Developers often like to keep code simple at the expense of some kinds of efficiency, like this.

An image is usually small enough to be downloaded in no time on a fast connection, which is what developers usually have and don’t stop to think that others might not have.

A video is probably being streamed so earlier segments may no longer be present locally.

Thanks to all who answered, I will go for it because my body is mostly microplastics at this point anyway.

It’s not a coherent argument, people just don’t like paying rent so they lash out in frustration. If you can’t own you have to rent, if you have to rent you have to rent from someone. It’s just a fact of life. Just like food is also a requirement to live and you need to pay someone for that too if you’re not self sufficient. There’s good people selling food and bad people selling food. It would be dumb to consider all food merchants evil in principle just as it’s dumb to consider all landlords evil in principle.

It was 13 years ago but I still can’t forget the typo.

A friend posted a link to something and mentioned me saying “you’re hyper literal brain will like this” and when I got done being annoyed about the typo I realized for the first time I am excessively literal.

Another time at lunch with a friend she mentioned in an offhand way that I have anxiety and that was when I first realized what anxiety is and that it’s not normal to feel the way I do all the time.

Election Day is traditionally the day to vote, campaigns are still running before that point. Anyone who votes earlier does so with less information than later voters. Trump could say something stupid between now and Election Day, and wouldn’t you feel bad if you’d already voted for him and couldn’t take it back?

Same reason morning is earlier in the day than night. This is just how linear time works.

Because they get away with their crimes for decades and then they’re old by the time there’s an attempt at accountability.

At its core religion is based on fearing people who are different, and modern right wing politics is based on fearing people who are different.

There’s more bad content on reddit than good. Downvotes are the expected consequence of that.

Check out this part of the docs

I have a bookmarklet that I use on youtube to send the url to a flask app I wrote that runs it through yt-dlp and saves it to my plex server.

The Saturday Night Live channel has over 6000 videos. I downloaded its metadata and loaded it into a database and wrote another simple web app to browse it quickly and choose the videos I want to download. I have a plex library for SNL alone with about 700 sketches. I should generalize this for other channels but it was mostly a one time thing with throwaway code.

Lately I’ve been trying to automate ersatztv channel setup but it doesn’t have an API so I’m writing to its sqlite database and hoping that will work.

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