Well, I don't want to sound selfish, but I'd never be a maintainer - again. I've done it for hardware.

The only time you hear from folks is when they are in trouble; then it's your problem. When you fix it, they're not even grateful, but it's the "You should have sorted it faster," or "there must have been a problem you didn't fix last time." The Youtube-dl maintainer has been doing it for years, and no amount of enthusiasm will keep you going forever.

I always preferred Dennis Norden's "It'll be alright on the night" to Ant & Dec's.

This is Part 1, but there's about 35 of them before Ant & Dec took over. All good imho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iok_VqYUKQ

Am I the only one here?

Reviews:

Free Guy (recommended here) - The experience of a guy who discovers he's an NPC inside a game. The action moves fast and there's numerous threads, so I was over 20 minutes into it when I realised there was no plot, or if there was, it was going over my head. I'm no gamer; I had to search to find out what an NPC is.

Adventure of English - this is a chronological documentary/history of the English language 500-2000 AD, concentrated from the Middle Ages forward. I have watched 2 of 8 episodes, and we've gone from 500 AD into the 1400s, past the Black Death. It's unashamedly of the BBC genre, but it's interesting on the power of the language; why you so often have 2 words with the almost exactly the same meaning (e.g. begin & commence); why our words for animals and the meat from them are so different, etc. It also has many well chosen examples of words we know to back up the points made. Good if you like that sort of stuff.

Not at all.
I watch a lot of stuff.
Not documentaries and news so much, that particular itch I scratch with podcasts.

Currently I watch further episodes of shows I started earlier (and have been discussed here for the most part I think).

Maybe worth mentioning: Dark
A very slow start, but the plot twists and twists, until I was utterly hooked. First season finished, but afaics there's 2 more complete seasons.

Also more crime: Agatha Christie's Poirot, New Tricks (I believe that was your recommendation, it's easy on the mind whilst still having sufficiently exciting plots), Frankie Drake Mysteries (very flawed, by I like the all-female cast and slightly unusal setting)...

What I'm searching for is something humorous & socio-political. I like Monty Python's Flying Circus, early Simpsons, South Park, hell even Futurama, but don't really know where to go from there.

I never dissed or complained about them, I was just asking why development ground to a complete standstill. In a modern FOSS world this should not happen, others should have the option to continue maintenance & development, short of forking the whole thing.

But yt-dlp (the fork) seems to be working well for now. I just hope this doesn't result in splitting of resources or even wasting resources in a petty war.

Thanks for the recommendations.

On the Devs: I spent many years trying to juggle a small business, where you were either idle or super-busy, kids, a crowded schedule and a highly strung wife. The program would be one extra ball to juggle. Can you imagine it?

Picture yourself coming in late, with an appointment and perhaps a talk that evening, spending 5-10 minutes riot control on the kids, having to grab food, change and exit. "Oh, you need to spend more time with your lover, your <expletive> program, do you? What did those <expletives> on the internet ever do for you? Answer me that! You're obviously not able for this. If you wrote it right the first time, there wouldn't BE so many bugs".../protracted excoriating rant.

In the Excited States that sort of thing can escalate to a divorce fairly quick.

^ Since you keep harping on something I did not say, not even implicitly, I have to assume that you don't understand how collaborative FOSS development on a git platform works.

Sorry about your personal life though.

Sorry I think I followed up on my own post, not yours. That's certainly how it would have been if I had been an OSS maintainer, but any wife fights her corner at times. My wife and I never had those conversations, btw. I've seen some naggers in action here, and my lady isn't bad that way. There seems to be a number here who marry someone less intellectually gifted, and get off on goading him until she meets his fists. Then they would go around the neighbourhood bitching about him. I've met them in tv repair and as a JW.

Separation is easier now, and divorce is available here. Back in the 1970s, in my tv repair days, a broken tv was the 4th biggest reason why husbands beat their wives. Those houses often couldn't pay the rent (for the tv), so they were given old banger tvs, which regularly broke down. So you'd do free overtime to save some women a hiding. They were the bad old days here.

I finished the PBS Documentary on Magellan. It is linked by teckk a few posts back. It excels the usual PBS stuff and I recommend it highly.

It was educational, went into detail on what it covered, although it skipped some minor plot twists. Nobody comes out of it smelling of roses - they all had their flaws, but nobody was villified, either. There is very telling commentary from a native of the Magellan Straits area who detailed some of the horrors Europeans visited upon her ancestors.

/Begin reflection
It struck me that history is full of cosseted individuals with an inflated sense of entitlement and some respect or power demanding the good things of the world be brought to them, and sending off "lesser mortals" to fetch these by any means necessary. I can trace the pattern from the Phaorohs onward, but it probably was happening before that. Wealth was aquired fastest by conquest, and the cruelty of these "lesser mortals" risking their lives traveling and conquering was and continues to be shocking. It looks more like survival of the unfittest.
/End reflection.

Yes.
We have separated this form of aquirement from our lives pretty well, but essentially we still live in a colonialist world. Just yesterday I heard on the news that Finland is better than average with carbon emissions, but this advantage is completely obliterated if one factors in all the sh!t we buy from China and all over the world - esp. the so-called "Global SOuth".

Makes me wonder what the first three were.

Watching Avatar 2 movie for free on youtube this morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=058s3smFXx0

It works!

Review of Columbus Documentary (History Channel?):

I went for this after the Magellan experience and found it much the same, if a tad more depressing. We all know Columbus discovered America in 1492, but is that correct? There's a lot of stuff we don't know before his death in 1506 and this tells it, warts and all. ~90 minutes. Can't say much without spoilers.

Review: Looked at "The Wind and the Lion" last night. I'll spare the blushes of the poster who suggested it. He meant well.

It jarred. The best thing about it is it starred Seán Connery. Without wishing to write spoilers, somebody defined a manual as
and it was about as in touch as that. The screenplay probably was written by aliens who had never been within light years of Morocco, or planet earth, where it was apparently set. It was rife with "stage-nationality" characters (as in stage-Arab, Stage-British, stage-Yank, etc) but it didn't discriminate and treated them all with equal contempt. I couldn't hang around long enough to find out more.

Except the Americans.

Curious enough to watch the trailer was I.
Like a cheap Hollywood Western, only in North Africa.
And what's the President of the USA got to do with anything? Don't answer, it's a rhetorical question.
I wonder what the USA's foreign policy was like at the time (the 70s I mean), and that isn't a rhetorical question.

That's it in a nutshell. I'm just amazed that Connery took the part, which was mainly poncing around like a quintessential gentleman. But he was supposed to have "the blood of the prophet" in his veins. He musty have been near bankruptcy.