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Is there a (non-subscription) app of choice for sending commands from an iPad or iPhone to a Windows PC? Kind of like a software equivalent to a Stream Deck. Thought it might be handy for triggering a bunch of annoying soundboards on voice chat set up with keyboard shortcuts on my PC that I can pass through via buttons on my iPad, or as a way to trigger common actions in Photoshop or something.
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I asked if anyone had a suggestion to stop the embedded YouTube player starting playback when my thumb went anywhere near the preview image. If anyone else gets as annoyed at that as I do, the Vinegar extension for Safari is $2 and replaces YouTube’s custom player with a standard HTML5 one: https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229 Not only does this make it less obnoxious when scrolling, it also enables picture-in-picture mode, stops any ads appearing, allows casting via Airplay and keeps videos playing in the background. Instant buy.
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Nov 27, 2021 21:32
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Neurophonic posted:I asked if anyone had a suggestion to stop the embedded YouTube player starting playback when my thumb went anywhere near the preview image. Whoa do you use that and the YouTube site instead of the app and get no ads and it sucks less in general? That rules.
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Nov 27, 2021 21:34
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priznat posted:Whoa do you use that and the YouTube site instead of the app and get no ads and it sucks less in general? That rules. Well I actually have YouTube Premium via an Indian address which is a buck a month, but that doesn’t stop the annoyance of the instant play while scrolling. But yes, this basically gives you the premium feature set for a one time small fee. In fact, I still don’t have PiP in the app so it’s better…
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Nov 28, 2021 15:28
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Musi is also pretty cool for playing YouTube in the background and removing ads, the free version is worth trying.
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Nov 28, 2021 18:10
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Neurophonic posted:Well I actually have YouTube Premium via an Indian address which is a buck a month, but that doesn’t stop the annoyance of the instant play while scrolling. But yes, this basically gives you the premium feature set for a one time small fee. Chances seem high that Google would shut this down though right? I’m doing the same but using ad block and running YT in a Desktop browser window. It’s OK but quite fiddly. I also can’t often get the resolution to go higher than 720p which is annoying.
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Nov 28, 2021 18:51
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That's normal, YouTube limits to 720p when outside their app. There's ways around it but it depends on the tool you're using.
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Nov 28, 2021 19:05
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There are a million MPD clients out there, any opinions on the best one?
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Nov 29, 2021 15:31
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Question Mark Mound posted:Is there a (non-subscription) app of choice for sending commands from an iPad or iPhone to a Windows PC? Kind of like a software equivalent to a Stream Deck. Thought it might be handy for triggering a bunch of annoying soundboards on voice chat set up with keyboard shortcuts on my PC that I can pass through via buttons on my iPad, or as a way to trigger common actions in Photoshop or something. there are plenty of ways to connect from an ios device into a windows device, but it sounds like this is going to depend on what you are trying to do and what you want the UI to look like. for example, microsoft makes an official Remote Desktop app, and there are tons of terminal apps out there, but I don't know if that's what you're looking for
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Nov 29, 2021 20:27
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Red_Fred posted:Chances seem high that Google would shut this down though right? It happens client side so worst case the app gets taken off the store, but it’ll stay on your device if you have it already. The YouTube player loads but is immediately replaced with the standard player. I haven’t explicitly checked the resolution, but the YT embedded player would hit 1080p from memory, and this is the same source file. The old YouTube5 desktop Safari extension got a cease and desist but it worked just fine for years afterward if you already had it. The only reason it stopped was their swap to an unsupported codec.
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Nov 29, 2021 22:29
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Lutha Mahtin posted:there are plenty of ways to connect from an ios device into a windows device, but it sounds like this is going to depend on what you are trying to do and what you want the UI to look like. for example, microsoft makes an official Remote Desktop app, and there are tons of terminal apps out there, but I don't know if that's what you're looking for I've found an app called Touch Portal (https://www.touch-portal.com/) which seems to do what I want so I'll need to try that out soon! There used to be a great one I bought ages ago called "Actions for iPad" but, like so many great apps, it just kinda never got updated for 64-bit and disappeared forever.
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Nov 29, 2021 23:53
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Neurophonic posted:It happens client side so worst case the app gets taken off the store, but it’ll stay on your device if you have it already. The YouTube player loads but is immediately replaced with the standard player. Ok I bought it. 720 still seems to be the max option. But just so I’m not being dumb I’m running YT mobile in Firefox on my phone, is that right? I get all the other features and no ads it seems but the highest option is 720 still. Even if that’s the case this is still better as the desktop site was fiddly and you couldn’t easily choose the res.
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Nov 30, 2021 06:05
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Red_Fred posted:But just so I’m not being dumb I’m running YT mobile in Firefox on my phone, is that right? Isn't it a Safari extension?
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Nov 30, 2021 11:31
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101 posted:Isn't it a Safari extension? Yes it is but all browsers on iOS are just wrappers for Safari anyway. It seems to work the same in Safari and FF on my iPhone.
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Dec 1, 2021 00:26
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Red_Fred posted:Yes it is but all browsers on iOS are just wrappers for Safari anyway. It seems to work the same in Safari and FF on my iPhone. Are you sure it’s actually the extension working, and not maybe something built into Firefox? I know all browsers are Safari views anyway, but Safari views in other apps don’t get access to the new Safari extensions. I too used Firefox until iOS 15 came out, and switched back to Safari for extension support because it just doesn’t work in Firefox. To try something more visually obvious I have the Noir extension that restyles all pages to have a dark theme when dark mode is enabled. That 100% doesn’t kick in in Firefox.
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Dec 1, 2021 06:02
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Froist posted:Are you sure it’s actually the extension working, and not maybe something built into Firefox? Ah! Actually I think you’re right. Looks like all the features work in iOS after I disabled 1Blocker! FF kind of works but not with all the features. 
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Dec 1, 2021 07:01
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People who cant get PiP to work for youtube, check your account settings and make sure its enabled. Try it out!
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Dec 1, 2021 11:47
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Question Mark Mound posted:It was more about sending macros/instructions to a Windows PC rather than a remote desktop. depending on your nerd level, another idea might be running a server on your computer that is reachable via ios shortcuts 
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Dec 1, 2021 18:46
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Any suggestions for a reminder/tasks app with good widget implementation?
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Dec 1, 2021 20:55
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I’ve had good luck with Things and Due
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Dec 1, 2021 22:03
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Thanks for the Vinegar suggestion. Works great. I’ve noticed some videos max out at 720p and others max out at 1080p so I think it’s just dependent on whether or not the video was uploaded in 1080p?Vegetable posted:Any suggestions for a reminder/tasks app with good widget implementation? There are a million task apps and each one has like a million reviews so ultimately pick whatever looks nicest to you IMO. There are no good widget implementations because of iOS limitations, ie if you’re looking for a widget that lets you tick off tasks without opening the app then that’s just simply not possible (anymore, used to be doable with the old style widgets). So all task app widgets are just essentially jpegs of a specific list that launch the app to that list on tap, something that all of the apps are capable of. The default Reminders app is p good now.
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Dec 2, 2021 17:02
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Is Vinegar better than Musi? I’ve been using Musi for a while now. It was a few bucks to remove their ads but it blocks YouTube ads and plays in the background.
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Dec 4, 2021 05:23
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Well Vinegar is a Safari extension and Musi is a separate app from what I can tell so they’re not comparable. Also the Brave browser automagically removes YouTube ads, saves for offline watching, and plays in the background, for free, too.
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Dec 4, 2021 17:01
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Boris Galerkin posted:Also the Brave browser automagically removes YouTube ads, saves for offline watching, and plays in the background, for free, too. The Brave browser is uh kinda bad. It only exists because the founder of the Brave company got forced out of his high-up job at Mozilla (makers of Firefox) when people dug up his public political donation records and found he had donated to ban same-sex marriage in California. Brave is whole-hog on cryptocurrency junk. They created their own "token" and had a bit of a controversy where they lied to users and said "donate to your favorite content creators" but it turns out money was not going to your favorite content creators, but in fact users were just donating these cryptocurrency tokens back to the Brave company who was holding on to them until content creators signed a contract with Brave to get "paid", and I put that word in quotes because the creators would get "paid" these tokens instead of real money. Content creators generally said "lol" to this and refused to sign up with Brave. A second cryptocurrency controversy happened when people figured out that Brave was injecting their own referral codes into the browser's URL bar when users visited popular cryptocurrency trading websites. So like, a user types in or clicks a link to visit Coinbase or whatever, and Brave silently appended "&referralcode=braveinc" or whatever onto the URL.
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Dec 4, 2021 21:21
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As far as I’m aware, those cryptocurrency things are turned off by default and I don’t think it’s actually doing any mining. At either rate I knew about some of those things you posted and yeah I just use Brave to play some podcasts from people who for some dumbfuck reason only post their podcasts on YouTube because they refuse to move into the 21st century and embrace podcast apps.
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Dec 4, 2021 21:37
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I just discovered the Svadilfari browser extension that enables gesture navigation in Safari. If you hate swiping back and forward from the screen edge (which gets pretty ridiculous on the 12.9” iPads), this is for you.
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Dec 5, 2021 12:05
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Oh, I can also confirm that StopTheMadness Mobile rules. If you use Safari to browse SA on an iPad, you’ve probably experienced videos auto-playing in the OSHA and Schad threads and also not having sound (I think desktop users can right click those and unmute them). StopTheMadness turns those into regular videos with standard video controls and also enables you to hear them! Also does this to videos on the rest of the internet.
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Dec 5, 2021 12:11
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bobfather posted:Oh, I can also confirm that StopTheMadness Mobile rules. If you use Safari to browse SA on an iPad, you’ve probably experienced videos auto-playing in the OSHA and Schad threads and also not having sound (I think web users can right click those and unmute them). StopTheMadness turns those into regular videos with standard video controls and also enables you to hear them! Also does this to videos on the rest of the internet. Apparently it has some fixes that stop sites blocking copying images. Does it work for Google image search results?
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Dec 5, 2021 18:53
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I’m glad to see StopTheMadness is available for iOS, I’ve enjoyed it for a long time on MacOS.
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Dec 5, 2021 20:59
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Anyone else having gmail syncing issues with outlook app? Stopped working randomly at some point yesterday, tried everything from reset, re-add, reinstall, gmail emails not loading at all. Sick of this app and all its errors but don’t know where else to go. //edit this seemed to resolve itself sometime this morning. wooo manwithoutskin fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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Dec 5, 2021 21:00
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Question Mark Mound posted:Tempted to try this out purely to get away from Google AMP! I tried out the optional "images in front" feature but was unable to directly save images from Google Images. I think that feature is mainly for Instagram.
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Dec 5, 2021 21:04
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DuckDuckGo doesn't do any of that google images shenanigans and links directly to the images FYI.
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Dec 8, 2021 16:37
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I keep thinking I should make the switch to DDG as my search engine. Are the results pretty comparable in quality to Google these days?
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Dec 9, 2021 01:34
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Question Mark Mound posted:I keep thinking I should make the switch to DDG as my search engine. Are the results pretty comparable in quality to Google these days? Pretty much. If you plug the same search into both of them you might get some slightly different results but they're basically comparable. I've been using DDG for a couple years now and don't miss google at all.
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Dec 9, 2021 01:40
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Shortcuts are great but I hate having to authorize them. If I have an automation that runs when my phone connects to my car’s Bluetooth, don’t make me dig out my phone every time it runs to confirm it should run. Some of the HomeKit I understand since it can unlock your doors but just loving play the playlist when I get in my car.
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Dec 9, 2021 01:47
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Violator posted:Shortcuts are great but I hate having to authorize them. If I have an automation that runs when my phone connects to my car’s Bluetooth, don’t make me dig out my phone every time it runs to confirm it should run. Some of the HomeKit I understand since it can unlock your doors but just loving play the playlist when I get in my car. Yep I would love them to just run. I have a few set up that I ignore about half the time because I don’t want to grab my phone and click the dialog.
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Dec 9, 2021 02:10
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Question Mark Mound posted:I keep thinking I should make the switch to DDG as my search engine. Are the results pretty comparable in quality to Google these days? I’ve been using DDG for about a year now and it handles about 95% of my queries just fine. If I need some more technical information or their fuzzy matching just plain fails then I need to hit up google but for general searches it’s plenty fine. The one thing Google is insanely good at is intent, where you can have a search term with different meanings and Google can predict exactly what you mean. DDG just doesn’t have the sheer amount of personal data to do that.
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Dec 9, 2021 02:39
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FCKGW posted:I’ve been using DDG for about a year now and it handles about 95% of my queries just fine. If I need some more technical information or their fuzzy matching just plain fails then I need to hit up google but for general searches it’s plenty fine. I find google is getting shittier and shittier. I was trying to look up different wool hat construction techniques a couple days ago and it was giving me tons of ads to buy wool hats, not tutorials or patterns. There are specialty nerd searches on websites it knows about that it just chokes on, and trying to get to the right website in the first place is harder and harder because worse websites SEO themselves to hell and back. It is demonstrably worse and worse for everything I want to do with it because it wants to give me ads and products for sale and AMP pages and other services first on pretty much every search result.
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Dec 9, 2021 02:45
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Anyone got a working Imgur upload shortcut yet? iOS 15 broke the one I was using that added img tags
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My complaint with google is you can't search reviews on stuff anymore. Any attempts get you five pages of SEO optimized "top ten X in <YEAR>" results. It is the best option for technical questions though. I guess no one has found a way to monetize that yet.
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