Kribensis

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Kribensis,

Yup, you got it! I had to tweak the filter a bit: 1337x.to###freevpn was what worked for me.

The UBO UI is really bad, always has been. Just awful. It’s easy to miss customizing the rule once you select the element.

Pretty ironic that out of every reply in the thread, yours is the best answer and has no upvotes. Much appreciated!

Kribensis,

Haha. I didn’t think of that! It totally works, but is pretty irritating to use daily.

Another poster knew the right filter to add to UBO, so I went with that.

Kribensis,

Your comment made me check to see if the Jackett 1337x plugin was still asking me to install flaresolverr or whatever the fuck ever. And hey! It had stopped doing that, so I re-enabled it.

Jackett is absolutely awful software and is rickety as fuck, but as long as that plugin works, it’s the best solution.

Kribensis,

lol, the most upvotes goes to this shitpost that didn’t even read my OP. Never change.

Kribensis,

Tell you what, I’ll actually dip my nuts in your mouth instead, since I’m under no requirement to post anything for your review when I am the one doing the troubleshooting. That work?

Kribensis,

Oh, man. I hope you won’t take this poorly, but I can promise you that setting up some kind of GPT4-based LLM to wrote cover letters won’t help you find another job. Not ever.

I’m not sure if you’re trolling (if you are, LOL), but this is not the tree to bark up. Good luck though. The job market sucks at the moment.

Kribensis,

It would sound snarky to say correlation is not causation so let me say instead: just because your sister got a job with that cover letter doesn’t mean it’s the reason.

Hiring managers and HR don’t always read cover letters. Most never do. All your applications go into a applicant tracking system (ATS) anyway and your info gets extracted. Lately, folks uses LLMs to query that stuff: “find me all the candidates who went to top colleges,” or “which of these candidates can bend a steel beam with their bare hands,” etc.

It’s not the right sub for this, but spending a bunch of energy on cover letters won’t do much. Better cover letters won’t hurt and BAD cover letters might hurt, but there are many other reasons someone doesn’t get call-backs.

I have zero clue what field OP works in, but they’re actually free to DM me for advice if they like.

Kribensis,

They already know that and have since people started using LLMs.

Also, if you write a cover letter with an LLM and don’t tweak it, it’s obvious to anyone who knows what to look for.

Kribensis,

I’d been on Reddit for 13 years and finally managed to detox by doing two things only.

  • Uninstalling the app from my phone (along with LinkedIn, which I have to use, but despise). Since the browser experience is terrible, that was half the problem.
  • Strategically muting subreddits that annoyed me.

Wall of text about why (but I’ll use paragraphs):

In recent years, I started noticing that everything discussion-oriented was either a Dunning-Kruger driven echo chamber or a total circlejerk for the default progressive opinion on that subject. And, anything content-oriented was reposts.

Quick caveat: I’m not saying that every progressive position is bad, only that I enjoy forming my own positions without getting yelled at. Also, I don’t know OP’s sub and I’m sure it was well-moderated. I’d imagine quitting as a mod would be emotionally harder.

Anyway, for a few weeks, whenever some low-info/naive/didactic opinion or recycled content popped up, I muted that sub.

The last to go was my professional sub, since I’m in a small field. But once I realized all I’d done there in 13 years was help people starting out, but never once received help myself (since there are virtually no posters with experience), I was good to go. I can mentor elsewhere and probably help way more.

Once I muted stuff, I had a few content subs left like r/urbanhell or r/catio, or other fun stuff I want to keep. But my feed is suddenly super quiet, so I just open it once a week, like a magazine.

It’s not quite quitting, but that’s for when Huffman (or whoever replaces him) realizes that to move the revenue needle, they need to block adblockers like YouTube, or go fucking nuts with sponsored posts, or sell personal data, or build their own LLM on everyone’s posts, or whatever they’re gonna do.

And it probably won’t be Huffman anyway, since he just dumped half a million shares at $50+ and can therefore buy an island, so he is absolutely out of there 😂

Meanwhile, if I’m Reddit’s Unix admin or whatever and have waited for years to vest my equity, I can’t even sell for another 5.5 months. It ain’t gonna be $50+ then. Brutal.

And that’s how it goes. Never again. I don’t miss it, since sending Lemmy memes to my Signal chats replaces most of the hijinks and sex/the outdoors replaces the dopamine.

Kribensis,

Yeah, I’m stumped. I deleted all the plugins and restarted QBit, then clicked Update plugins. After restarting again, I had the default ones. But I can’t add any.

Just to rule this out, what do you mean by “enabling search plugins”? I don’t see a setting for that.

Kribensis,

Oh, understood! Yup, it’s on by default.

I ended up registering for the QBittorrent forums, since I’m just not going to figure this out elsewhere. If the admins ever approve me 🙄and I post and get an answer, I’ll update this thread.

Kribensis,

Arr is way more than I want or need. I use a seedbox so I can easily keep ratios up on private trackers or blast in an episode I want to watch immediately, but I can’t be bothered with that finnicky thing! It has like 19 components.

For my level of downloading, the old ways are best ;)

Kribensis,

Yep, it’s on the same Feral server and account. I tried a direct link too. That was: /media/sdy1/myusername/.local/share/qBittorrent/nova3/novaprinter.py

I did think that would work since I needed a direct link to install a skin, but no joy.

Kribensis,

Didn’t know that. I might end up doing this. I thought I needed at least two others to actually connect to the movie/tv trackers!

Kribensis,

The 1337x plugin wants Python 3.6.0. My slot had 2.x, so I updated to 3.9. But, the plugin also wants Qbit 4.4.x. Feral always installs 4.3.9 with a –noupdateflag, since that’s the version they’ve tested. I figured I was beat, but just for fun tried to install another plugin that my requirements met. That didn’t work either 😂

At that point, I reinstalled Jackett and added 1337x. Which wouldn’t work without installing FlareSolverr, which requires Docker, which is unsupported on Feral since it needs root. Nice!

Another commenter noted I could just use Prowlarr (and I was going to) but that also requires Docker, so this story has a sad ending. That ending is me pasting in magnet links from another tab and wishing for three hours of my life back…

Kribensis,

You’re right. For Prowlarr, not sure why I thought that. It installed no problem, but thinking about it more, doesn’t do anything for me since there is no difference between searching in Prowlarr and in some browser tab 😂

For flaresolverr, when I run the binary, I get this: [3288970] Error loading Python lib ‘/media/sdy1/myusername/flaresolverr/libpython3.11.so.1.0’: dlopen: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.35’ not found (required by /media/sdy1/myusername/flaresolverr/libpython3.11.so.1.0)`

I don’t know Linux, but an AI search indicates flaresolverr wants to update GLIBC (a GNU library) and that could break shit. That’s where I chose to stop before, but I’ll ask Feral. At this point, I’m committed.

Kribensis,

Yes, Xerox PARC existed, and was totally non-commercial / didn’t offer any product. Saying the iPod was the same thing as all those crappy MP3 players we all lugged around in the aughts is objectively LOL. The rest of your comment is pretty much ad-hominem and editorial – and of course, you don’t refute the rest of my points because you can’t.

Bottom line, discussions like this on Lemmy are no different than Reddit ever was. They’re circlejerks. I figured I’d drop in this one time to note that, but ultimately it’s pretty boring.

Kribensis,

Please do continue to spew ad-hominem copypasta from every Apple hate thread in the history of Reddit like you’re a first-gen LLM trained on r/foss posts. “All of that existed way before Apple” … please feel free to refute each product I listed as being innovative or new by showing where it previously existed. I’d love to understand how some form of the iPhone was around way before Apple, or the iPad – please go for it.

As for the statement that OSX is based on BSD, wow! Such an important distinction when BSD is a descendant of UNIX… this is a nice little straw man thing, please go look up what a straw man argument is.

On Jobs getting banned from demos, that’s actually hilarious. But please do list any products I named that Apple objectively stole. I’m sure you have all the info there.

Just super fun times, I always hoped that Lemmy would have a higher level of discussion than Reddit. But how can it, when it’s the same people and they’re even more self-important? :D

Kribensis,

Oh, man. I’m definitely not going to point by point. On a sub-argument that’s not even the topic of the thread? These are minutes in my life I don’t get back. But, seriously? My argument is invalid because I said Windows 95 instead of XP? And I must not have used any good MP3 players? By the way, they all sounded the same since they were playing 128 kbps MP3s… by the definition of how those work, they had to 😂

And just to consider this from another angle, if apple did get the goggles from hololens, where did Microsoft get their UI from in the 80s? How about Android?

Wow, I am so, so done seeking out a non-groupthink argument in this format ever. On any site. The memes are still better than Reddit though!

Kribensis,

Ok ok, I’ll give you what you seem to need. Let’s step back a moment and recall the context of this thread: Apple’s being shady as hell about complying with the DMA and everyone’s piling on. I’ve noted that Apple is pretty greedy, but probably not as objectively evil as some other big tech companies, so this is a circlejerk. But, it’s verboten to say that Apple’s not terrible. I’ve also said that at least they innovate, but that’s also verboten. You can’t say Apple innovates. So, that’s why we’re here.

Now, going from memory, I’ve listed some Apple products that I think were innovative for their time. You’ve made a few counterpoints. Btw, it did take some time for that reply. I hope you weren’t… researching? If not, congratulations: you’re fellow GenX and either you have an eidetic memory or you work in UI/UX. Either way, you did teach me a couple of things, so thanks for that.

Let’s go point by point:

  • MS stole from Xerox and Apple did too, but Apple was sued - You didn’t mention that Xerox lost the case, since you can’t patent the concept of a UI. Also, Apple released their first Mac more than a year before Microsoft released Windows 1.0, which by all measure was utterly atrocious and looked slapped together. Are you sure Microsoft didn’t borrow from Apple instead of Xerox? You’re leaving out all the context here and I don’t come away thinking the early Macs were not innovative.
  • Apple stole from LG when they noticed Google was building a mobile OS - You didn’t mention that although LG sued Apple, Apple then produced design docs that proved they’d been working on that years earlier… and LG lost the case. I’m not even going to bother linking to Wikipedia. I didn’t remember the Prada, though. You omitted things here too, so I’m not feeling like the iPhone wasn’t innovative. It was the first commercially viable smartphone. You make a good point that Apple and Google were in an arms race on smartphones, though I’m not sure if you knew you were making that point. Of course, Google being Google, they bought the solution, still got beaten to the market, and then Android absolutely sucked ass for years anyway. Not to mention, early Android was basically iOS with a Google search box and moar telemetry.
  • 192 kbps existed and so do hardware DACs - I didn’t know what DACs were, so thanks for that. But, I wonder if anyone could hear the difference on the headphones of the time? I also hadn’t heard of the Cowon and don’t know anyone who had one. I wonder if they sold… eleven units? Maybe you meant Creative Zen? Creative sold a ton of MP3 players and I had a few, but the iPod was much better. This is a straw man argument anyway, though. You’re saying that since one random MP3 player that nobody bought had a better DAC, and also that 192 kbps exists (this is literally just offered randomly), the iPod was not innovative. I’m not sure it’s working out for you.

As for this:

The real issue for you isn’t your “done seeking out a non-group think argument”, the reality is you are desperately looking for a group-think group that only sees Apple as some all mighty and infallible company that can do no wrong and none can do better than them. I wish you the best of luck finding such a group, but as you’ve noticed, it won’t be here.

That sounds great. If I were 20, I’d be very intimidated and I’d feel cast out. I’d be sad. But actually, that’s … another straw man argument! Love those. I’m “desperately” looking for a group that thinks Apple is all-mighty, I won’t find it here, good luck with that, etc. Well yes, but actually no. Congrats on proving that a thing I never said is unavailable to me 😂

That took 20 minutes and I could have done literally anything else with that time. I should bill you.

Kribensis,

So for you, you’re objectively not smart enough to have the debate with. You’re all set, you don’t need to do anything 👍

Kribensis,

Dude! Bro! Son!

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