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Generate random mixes of youtube playlists on some command line, to watch it on some browser

Posted 02-16-2023 at 10:10 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 02-16-2023 at 10:51 AM by the dsc

Tags distraction, fun, leisure, media, youtube

I eventually became somewhat youtube-dependent for media consumption, but I don't quite like the natural flow of youtube's algorithms' "play next" suggestions, which are probably even minimally bearable when I'm logged in.

So it can be interesting to have a shuffle of a series of chosen playlists to be played when we're doing whatever. The arguably best-ish way for doing it is to save YT playlists (the list of URLs, not the video files themselves) on disk, then do some bash/sed...

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Excitement

Posted 03-02-2019 at 06:40 AM by schulidr (An open source user evolution)

Tags educational, fun, learning, newbie

Continuing on with my early trials in figuring out where I wanted to go with computers, Linux had piqued my interest enough to the point I was strongly considering making the jump. But I had to be sure! I turned to the one thing I knew I could sacrifice without really giving a shit if I bricked it. “Bricking”, for those how are reading this and may not know, is a term given to things that are rendered useless through means of tinkering and attempts at repairing. And so I started to look around...

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#! toddler just like me (:

Posted 01-31-2013 at 08:26 AM by jamison20000e
Updated 09-04-2017 at 03:56 PM by jamison20000e

Tags education, free, fun, kids, linux

My nephew JJ is almost two: so of course I'm setting him up a (literally this (now on Xfce; LibreOffice Writer; Iceweasel; Google Drive) computer (vaio-pcv-r556ds | Linux-Debain-Crunchbangcrun\#!-Openbox\*). For the first year I will lock it down with baby-friendly programs mostly only icons and widgets (e.g: solar system, bouncing ball, sliding block puzzle, moon and stuff) so no taskbar on WMs like: Educational Desktops(most *nix flavors offer free Edu-D-tops i.g. Sugar or educational-desktop-lxde...

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