Does YT own the content? Its not exactly the same as movies, music or TV shows. He is downloading a video made by another user and uploaded to a publicly accessible website. Account is not even required to watch YT unless its +18 content. So what is Google going to argue here that user X stole users Y content and they are just good middle man samaritan?

>Does YT own the content?

No, they don't.

>He is downloading a video made by another user

Without a license from that user to make a copy of their video.

There is a copy of the video on your device every time you watch it.

Yeah, if that other user copyrighted the video.

Works are automatically copyrighted when they are created

Sure but X doesn’t indicate it being a hospital or any other institution that would have people confused. Its just a letter.

To me, a random letter is pretty confusing, but it seems I might be in the minority.

What ads is he talking about?

The ones that are so offensive to Hacker News commenters that they will rail wildly against them, call YouTube’s business practices scummy because of them, and make a new hobby of blocking them rather than pay $14 a month for YouTube Premium.

Such a snobby comment. Do you really think people on HN don't know uBlock Origin?

People make their own adblockers because YouTube and uBlock Origin have been in an arm race for years. Sometimes uBlock Origin doesn't update fast enough to respond to YouTube's changes.

And this thread isn't even about ad blockers...

Well, it’s not though.

You can also sync via iCloud for free

Agreed on that. I had to take a break from reading this post just because of how unreadable that blog UI is

Is there any tool that can find those leftovers and remove then permanently?

The free AppCleaner was mentioned by another reader earlier in the thread, and I've been happy with CleanMyMac X.

AppCleaner is no good after you deleted an app by other means and it left crap on the hd tho… as far as I recall CleanMyMac was a paid closed course app?

You can still delete all the junk an app leaves behind using this to find it all, then trash them: https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

Thank you

> …as far as I recall CleanMyMac was a paid closed course app?

Yes.

Org mode isnt something an average user can manage no matter how many times comments like that are written

Sure, approachability isn't its strong suit. Anyone arguing against that is lying. I'm mostly referring to the HN crowd reading this article.

But thats why you cant compare a ready product to use like Notion to org-mode. I’m somewhat an advanced user and I cant be bothered fucking with org-mode. Obsidian is just perfect for my needs.

They dont have the app anymore do they? Its just electron.

yup, it’s electron crap.

I feel exactly the same. How the hell people have time foe all this?

It’s procrastinating in a fashionable way to make yourself feel like you’re productive.

I think there’s immediate gratification in this. You feel like you’re making progress towards your goals by planning them out, even if you don’t actually progress. You just add a superfluous step of documentation and complete it. A small industry has formed around this feeling.

I think one can achieve a lot in life with much more rudimentary planning tools, like pen and paper. I am yet to find a situation where that doesn’t get the job done for me personally.

I think you're right with the immediate gratification in this sort of thing. Then I think that's the problem right there.

Check out Hobonichi. It's a whole cottage industry dedicated to making your notebook/planner look nice. I like looking at the designs, but, like most people, I never have a need to re-open notebooks, so there's no point in trying to convert my idea scratchpad into art.