Lol you sound way to bloody overhyped man. We don't need to be bloody cool to be cool normaly. Apps don't make you be excepted how you are in real life either, my friend.
-- (cyrmax):
Regarding Youtube, you can use sponsor block extension for nearly any browser to skip not only the youtube ads but also the integration ads inside videos. It does the job greadly!
Also you can use ublock origin for any browser to ignore and hide almost every kind of ads on websites too.
To download youtube videos you use either savefrom.net, or its browser extension or yt-dlp program.
As a good player I can recommend you foobar2000 because it is bloody fast and responsive even on playlists with thousants of tracks.
For a video player I cannot choose between vlc and podplayer because every of them has its unique features so i have two for convenience.
For file managing I use total commander which is even more bloody fast then foobar2000.
And yes, you can play music and videos with just one press of a key, either enter to open the file in the mighty foobar2000 which takes just half of a second or even quicker press f3 which stands for viewer and plays immediately. You even can setup automatic playing when you press ctrl+q and every file you focus is played until you press ctrl+q again or focus another file.
Yes, those are different apps and you need to get used to them before you use them so fastly and comfortably. But I am sure that we, blind people, have to, must to, odd to develop our skills and grab more and more and more knowledge about everything to just be able to be as cool and useful as sighted ones.
Yes, Elten was a great place to find someone new and interesting but in terms of self-development and skills Elten leads us to degradation and even more and more separation from sighted people.
-- (marchoffmann):
I guess often it's this long nostalgia, just the way one got to know people, or just how the interface looks, the sounds, etc etc. At least for me. Some random mainstream chat client is of course good in the way that everyone can use it but one like that would never make me have great memmories of it once, they can permenintly update them and make accessibility worse or add things noone cares, and I don't feel like going on a website with adds to browse youtube vids, nor do I feel like pasting an audio 5 times or more behind each other in goldwave to represent a playlist in a decent player, nor is explorer a good and fast file manager since all it does is lagging a lot, I could go on and on here. Of course it'll be easy for people who never got into this program so much. I've been here since 2021 but actively since 2022, and nearly every day. That does something. I'm not sure where I've mensioned this and if this post still exists, but in 2022 this forum was absolutely great. Nice conversations, too in the voice forum, it was easy to get intigrated and open up with even more private/emotional content which would now be impossible in 2024. Look into some older threads like intigration or some might be in others, but then yall will get it. Especially, the feeling lonely topic. A lot of those posts were very interesting to read, many were even helpful, now almost unimaginable too. So I think that, once this comunity would be fixed this could become a place where far more users would feel like enjoying, opening up, and inviting others to so we all can have a great time. If you think this program isn't good and want it to shut down, if you think about this like that for every program blind dudes make we'll soon have nothing. Of course it's a shame that sighted people won't be able to truely access this, it'd feel very interesting for me anyway, but I'm not a fan of discord and all those, especially the mobile app was really cool once, now it's nearly garbage. But I remember how many people got sad about klangos shut down. And then one day we'll have another client trying to concept clone elten. Nah, it's not how this needs to go. Well, that's my opinion at least, in the end what do I have to say.
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