thanks for the link, there were a few options in about:config that I hadn’t set to false

although even after going through all those Firefox says Telemetry is collecting release data and upload is disabled. so even if it’s not being sent it appears that it’s still being collected. (about:telemetry)

maybe it will change after reboot, I will edit later if that’s the case.

iirc there’s a few mods but I’ve always used TK Dodge and don’t remember what the other ones are called

I switched to Firefox 6 months ago and it’s working much better than Chromium for me, I do have some minor complaints but for the most part it’s been equivalent or better.

However I can’t seem to turn off the telemetry at all…

I think some way to temporarily exclude/include which communities’ feed show up would be ideal.

And maybe some way to tag or group up communities into collections.

I want to block several communities but sometimes I might want to view them (for example NSFW ones), is there a way to block them from appearing from the All and Local feed but not block the posts while I’m directly viewing the community?

Also is there a way to see a list of communities I’ve blocked?

p.s. I’m on the lemmy.world instance in case it matters

I played the old DS one many years ago, it’s a great game, I’d definitely recommend it if you haven’t played it.

With that said I personally won’t play the remake even though it looks really good, since while the graphical improvements are a plus, at the end of the day it’s still a puzzle and story game so I don’t see how I would get any replay value out of it since I already played it.

Proton? Why are you using Proton? Does qBittorrent only have a Windows version? In that case don’t use qBittorrent, or if it has a Linux version (I assume you’re on Linux since you’re using Proton) get that one.

If you’re on Linux, at least Arch Linux like me (but I assume most OSes will have it), you can use the transmission-qt package.

There’s also a gtk version.

Anyway I’ve never used a VPN for torrents and never had a problem, but it probably depends on where you live and your ISP. Also I should note that I don’t have a static IP address, which means every time I start my PC I’m getting a new IP, which probably doesn’t hurt.

Though obviously the ISP always knows what my IP address is, so if they do have a problem with it then I would probably need to use a VPN.

After you have a torrent client, like qBittorrent, you should be able to click on "magnet links" on torrent sites, and then the web browser will automatically ask if you want to open the magnet link with qBittorrent.

For me the same thing happens, except I’m using one called Transmission.

Anyway, after that you might have to choose to which directory/folder it gets downloaded if it’s your first time.

Then it will start downloading. Of course how fast it’s downloading depends on the number of Seeders and Leechers.

Seeders are people with the files who are allowing others to download it from them, if there’s no seeders then you won’t be downloading anything.

Interesting. I’m pretty sure it was on AUR when I installed quite a while back, but looks like it’s in Extra now yeah.

It does make sense though since youtube-dl hasn’t been working for about a year.

I should’ve checked before commenting

like I said only the original youtube-dl package is in extra but it stopped working a while back.

since then I’ve been using the youtube-dl fork yt-dlp that OP mentioned, but it’s in aur atm since it hasn’t gotten as recognized as it’s a fork (I assume)

Basically yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, and unlike youtube-dl it’s in aur instead of extra.

At least last I checked all youtube-dl forks are in aur, but you have to use yt-dlp (or maybe one of the other forks) since youtube-dl doesn’t work anymore.

Edit: It seems yt-dlp was at some point moved from AUR to Extra. I was half expecting it to happen eventually since youtube-dl stopped working about a year ago, but I never noticed it happening.

Either way, as it’s a package on extra instead of AUR there’s a lot less of a security concern for anyone worried about that.

Original comment:

I have yt-dlp from the AUR (Arch User Repository). youtube-dl package also exists, and it’s on extra, but it stopped working about half a year ago

When I learned how to use xEdit I saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khJWk6EUGtU

There was another video too but I don’t seem to have it bookmarked.

xEdit, known as SSEEdit to Skyrim SE players

Yeah, so the thing is xEdit, SSEEdit, FO4Edit, or whatever, they’re all the same. You literally just rename xEdit depending on which game you’re using it for.

So when modding Skyrim Special Edition you rename it to SSEEdit

And I can’t recommend xEdit enough. If you’ve got a lot of mods there will inevitably be mod conflicts.

With xEdit you can quickly (and fairly easily) make merged patches to combine the changes of multiple mods into a single new mod.

e.g. one of the mod might change how Potions look, another how much they cost, and a 3rd what their effects are. Normally only the mod last in the load order will have it’s changes apply, but with a merged mod you can combine all the changes and resolve the conflict.

With xEdit you can also modify stuff from the game and create your own mods. There’s lots of little tweaks I wanted, like changing carry weight, duration of Fortify potions, make food useful, remove salt from lots of recipes, change the player starting skill levels, etc. etc.

There’s existing mods that do all those things, but if you want it to be exactly how you want it rather than how the modmaker wants it you have to tweak the numbers yourself.

With one of the scripts Automation Tools for TES5Edit adds I even made my own Perk Trees in xEdit: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/49373

It was definitely daunting and somewhat confusing in the beginning, but it was definitely worth it and I can’t recommend xEdit enough.