I would say that’s not comparable. One process (screenshotting or taking a photo as PNG) results in a PNG as the output. The other process results in an image of the same format as the output. I guess at best you could make a philosophical argument as to what is ontologically a PNG: is it something that ends in .png, or is it a file that follows the PNG format? I think most people would say the latter, so if we say the definition of something is just a description of how it’s used, then the former process results in a PNG and the latter process does not.

Also, how is screenshotting an “entirely new image” in a way that e.g. putting it into GIMP and exporting to PNG isn’t? That’s doing the same thing. You know there isn’t some “canonical” JPEG to PNG algorithm, right?

That’s not on the chart because it doesn’t convert it. It only renames it. A JPEG ending with .png is still a JPEG

I think yt-dlp allows you to use your browser’s cookies to appear as a signed in user for downloading videos. I never bothered trying that.

How easy is it to make a throwaway google account nowadays?

I make throwaway Google accounts semi-frequently, though I don’t remember what they require. If you have a phone number it’s definitely sufficient but I don’t remember if you can make one without a phone number. If they require a phone number you can just buy a cheap sim card (in cash if you care about privacy) and use that. It costs money so if you need hundreds of throwaway accounts maybe not, but if it’s just one for downloading videos then it’s probably NBD, you’d be spending money on the VPN anyway.

yt-dlp hasn’t worked for me for a few months on Mullvad. Using Swiss and Swedish servers but I’ve tried a couple other countries too, same problem.

I used Ubuntu for many years on an nvidia machine and had a shit ton of nvidia problems, but I haven’t used Ubuntu for a long time now so I would hope there’s been progress. The experience has made me a lifelong AMD user since though.

I’ve never had trouble installing them. Getting them to work after an update is another story.

I use the same font everywhere. At two different sizes because it’s a bitmap font, but I’d have more variation for a vector font. Looks the same to me 🤷 Maybe it’s to do with the shape or size of the container of the text?

cryptomount -a
insmod normal
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But yes, it’s super annoying. Especially if you mistype it multiple times and you have to type that in multiple times.

That is definitionally not plagiarising. It follows IP law, which is the opposite of plagiarism.

It’s not “stealing”. It’s explicitly allowed. Using IP according to its licence is the opposite of stealing.

I didn’t start using Gentoo when I was 10. Is it over for me?

Looks pretty but why is this marked nsfw 😭