Darren @ DJDarren @sopuli.xyz

Just a guy standing in front of the internet asking it to please not

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Tip-to-tip efficiency

"I went over to France for a blowjob. Your mother was working the bon bon concession at the Eiffel Tower"

I do the same with yt-dlp, though mine is still a little more manual. I have my subscriptions in FreeTube, which I use to select what I want to watch. Copy the link, run my script, then trundle to the lounge where I can watch them on my big TV.

There's a mindfulness to that process that's helpful to me. A conscious decision, as opposed to mindlessly absorbing content.

There's a lot to be said for stepping back from online debates and asking whether your voice is actually valuable, or whether you're just yelling into the void and getting yourself all pissy.

For me, I try to take the view that there's already enough negativity, so I try to be as positive as I can in my online interactions. If someone gets needlessly arsey with me, I'll try to sympathise with them. If they don't react well to that, I'll leave the thread. I'm not changing anyone's mind, not even yours.

NJB is the shit.

I will never, never visit Fake London.

I don't use iOS any more, but I found that a combination of Safari + adblocker + Vinegar was the golden setup. No ads, and you get to use the default iOS video player.

Thing with Vegemíté is that it's like Marmite, but not fucking awful.

Vegemíté, as pronounced by Gloria in Modern Family.

Every time I open the cupboard that has a jar, it brings me joy.

I lay completely still. Properly, completely still. I focus all my energy on not moving a single muscle besides what I need to breathe.

Then, while doing that, I try to conjure up elaborate fantasy scenes in my mind.

9 times out of 10 I'm gone within five minutes.

If YT had a simple ad-free tier that was £10 a month for a family, I would gladly pay for it. But as it stands, they want £20+ just so my wife and I can watch videos on Apple TV without having to tolerate a ridiculous amount of adverts.

So fuck 'em. She watches on her PC with a bunch of adblockers, and I download what I want to watch into my Plex folder. And they get sweet fuck all out of me instead.

My preferred method is a python script that takes a YouTube video in my clipboard and uses yt-dlp to download it to a folder that my Plex server watches.

There are easier ways to achive this, but I like the manual approach. It means I don't vegetate on the sofa, scrolling through everything. Also, it means my hard drive doesn't fill up with videos I'll never get around to watching.

10/10 no notes.

First time I DJd, I cleared the floor because I really wanted to hear Angel on big, club speakers.

No ragerts.

65daysofstatic - Wild Light

But the FLAC version I have, obviously.

That album is a masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned. I will never tire of it, and it really gives my speakers a workout.

Perhaps most women wouldn't, but Bill Cosby might.

LEAVE ME ALONE

I for one am shocked by this revelation. Shocked.

Meanwhile, my supplier, Southern Water, lose tens of millions of litres of water every day through leaks they 'don't have the money to repair', while happily throwing out enormous bonuses.

So you'll forgive me if I tell them to stuff it up their arseholes, so I can continue having nice flowers in my garden, in a world where everything else feels like it's falling to shit.

Duct tape the Thinkpad to the gennie and you've got a lovely, portable all-in-one.

Perhaps it's because I'm old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.