Comment on Anon tries to download videos from youtube

• Saithe@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Anyone who’s done “/gamemode creative” is smart enough to figure out “yt-dlp <url>”. Seriously people need to stop acting like typing the most basic commands that you can find tutorials about is some kinda level 9 magic

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  • essell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think you’ve defined the problem rather well there…

    It’s not that Normies couldn’t use it, it’s that Normies won’t use it.

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Which generally helps it fly under the radar so us nerds can have nice things for longer.

      I’m not for gate keeping, but I kinda like having tricky things if it means they don’t get ruined/stopped as fast.

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  • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not that peoplecan’t figure it out, it’s that they won’t. As soon as you mention the terminal they stop listening or thinking

    /gamemode creative doesn’t have that problem because it’s not a terminal, it’s a chat window

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    • Saithe@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think saying “anything command line isn’t for normies” would only worsen the problem

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• Honeybee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thats why I run it in docker with a web ui

  Shut up, im not a nerd

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  • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Metube?

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    • Honeybee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Exactly

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• stewi1914@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nah I’m sorry. There is a point where it’s unreasonable to expect someone to learn something, but that isn’t it.

  Using yt-dlp is extremely straightforward.

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    simply downloading a video? sure, but literally anything else is insanely complicated for an average person.
    If they want the music from a video they would have to look through all of github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp and probably still wouldn’t find what they’re looking for

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I agree with the sentiment but you are going way too hard on it. Chill.

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  • savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The average person learns how to drive a car, which is akin to operating it. The average person does not know how to muck about in the engine of their car, and should not, because if they do the wrong thing they could break it. For that matter, I wouldn’t even recommend someone OPERATES the car without training.

    The terminal is considered for advanced users for the same reason. Learning to copy/paste into the terminal without understanding how to use it could mean I say "oh yeah the fix for that issue is doing rm -rf / --no-preserve-root.

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• ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you are on an android phone you should check the F-Droid pages for Seal. No commandline, a nice GUI, works great.

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  • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    +1 for Seal, Newpipe and Tubular both work fine too

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• stom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can use the OpenWith extensions to add it as a right click option.

  I have this setup for my non-technical family members, so they just right click on the page choose open with -> ytdlp and it saves it to their downloads folder.

  You can set up different options for example video or audio only.

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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Normies don’t deserve joy.

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• BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s GUIs for it though. Obviously not for everyone, but I made my own.

  That it can download virtually from any site is pretty useful, assuming you know what to give it.

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