Portable Apps on Linux

[CloisteredNeuron]

Hey Uptorn,

I have a couple extensions I use for searching YouTube scripts/comments. They are actually useful and would take forever to do manually. Try to scroll to the bottom of comments for a video with hundreds of comments.

I have library cards with a few libraries. When I find a book I want to read I can go to Amazon, find the book, and the plugin searches each library where I have an account to see if it is available. Definitely something you can do manually but it is very convenient.

..."we're doing it for your safety" seldom ever have anything to do with actual safety but instead are usually veils for some underlying agenda.

Yep. The agenda is out there.

[steve_v]

Could the MAC GUI be the successor?

Please, no. The day that happens is the day I go back to clay tablets.

I haven't used MAC but I thought it was a UNIX derivative.

MacOS (>=10) is technically a Unix. It doesn't have all that much in common with GNU/Linux though, the kernel is derived from Mach, much of the rest is from BSD, and the UI is an apple proprietary thing. They even have their own graphics API, which is of course completely incompatible with everything else because "Think different vendor lock in as little as possible"

I have a couple extensions I use for searching YouTube scripts/comments.

Wait, what? People actually want to read youtube comments? I thought that was more like exposure to an infectious disease. Ya know, "I just went for some light entertainment, but I came back with syphilis", that kind of thing.

Related: If you know of a browser extension that makes the youtube comments section disappear, ideally before I have a chance to accidentally glance at it and irrevocably scar my brain, I'm all ears.

I have library cards with a few libraries. When I find a book I want to read I can go to Amazon, find the book, and the plugin searches each library where I have an account to see if it is available.

Definitely more useful, but that sounds like rather a lot of information to give away for a convenience. Sure hope it's not sharing which libraries you visit (location) and what you like to read (there's a lot that can be gleaned from that with the right analysis) with anyone else *cough* amazon.

[Uptorn]

Hey Uptorn,

I have a couple extensions I use for searching YouTube scripts/comments. They are actually useful and would take forever to do manually. Try to scroll to the bottom of comments for a video with hundreds of comments.

Invidious might also be a suitable solution for reading comments, without having to install any extensions. You can also use the ever excellent yt-dlp to extract a video's comments into a text file - something like

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yt-dlp --skip-download --write-comments <video_URL>

[CloisteredNeuron]

Those clay tablets were quite impressive back in the day.

[Uptorn]

I think you might have just doomed this thread to getting locked. Too bad, I was rather enjoying it too.

Maybe it best to keep discussion on Debian and linux in a Debian centric forum.

[CloisteredNeuron]

Uptorn

I didn't know yt-dlp did that. Very, very useful. I don't use this type of extension often and a couple months back was scrambling to find a replacement when the one I was using stopped working.

Invidious seems quite interesting. Great backup for searching comments.

Thanks!

[CloisteredNeuron]

Hey Uptorn,

Thanks for the heads up. Getting just a bit too creative Refocused to clay tablets.

[sunrat]

I think you might have just doomed this thread to getting locked. Too bad, I was rather enjoying it too.

Maybe it best to keep discussion on Debian and linux in a Debian centric forum.

Well it won't be locked. Yet. But considering how far off the rails it has got from the original topic, I'm moving it to Off-Topic. Portable apps are off-topic anyway as they are not official Debian packages.

[CloisteredNeuron]

sunrat,

Very kind of you to just shift this to Off-Topic. I've really learned a lot here. Thank you

[friendlysalmon88]

Of the three Linux “portable” alternatives, I prefer AppImage as it does not require additional infrastructure. After watching

App Image is my second favorite method application distribution on the GNU/Linux platform, my primary preference in the .deb packaging method, as I mainly use Debian derivatives Mint, etc. However, I also have used distributions like CentosOS or Fedora. I have to tell you I didn't like dealing with RPM drift.

[CloisteredNeuron]

HI friendlysalmon88,

My favorite AppImage feature is you can create your own AppImage from a vendor's package.

BTW, have you ever been to the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks (locally known as the Ballard Locks)? I was in Seattle several years back and saw a few fish in the fish ladder observation area but it must be amazing to see the salmon during their run.