There’s Zotero. I haven’t used it but seems to have a feature called ‘Collect with a click’ which should allow adding bookmarks.

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I can’t write much today, but I just want to thank everyone for their input. I know that AI means different things for different professions and different people. In cording, it can be quite helpful. But in a language-based profession, it can be problematic, because it can output fluent and convincing language, while getting all the facts wrong. Or it can sound very artistic, but if you look at it closer, it’s not all that original, or the language might become impoverished, and so on and so forth. In tedious and repetitive jobs people are perhaps more willing to give over to AI. Which is what robots are doing.

I’ll read your replies more closely tomorrow and reply to each one, if I can. Thanks for the discussion!

No prob! 😊 👍️

Thank you, I’m pretty proud of myself as well. I was already prepared to re-install from scratch, because I have backups in place. I still can’t understand why a tiny programme completely borked Software Center, but apparently Windows and Linux don’t mix at all, unless you use Wine.

My upvote goes to Master PDF Editor as well. Only PDF reader/editor that can do annotations and notes sufficiently well, in my very personal opinion.

Tauon Music Box available on Flathub. You look for albums by typing on your keyboard. Once you see the result which says “Artist”, hit enter. It creates a playlist which shows all the albums of that playlist. The next time you want to listen to that artist, start typing and select “[Artist name] playlist”. This concept differs from a traditional concept of playlists, because it doesn’t actually create playlists you can use or export. I just like the UI, although the play controls are bit weird, they don’t quite work the way you’d expect them to. It’s a new project but worth keeping an eye on.

Not affiliated with them in any way but want to say this: support them, if you can. The amount of support, or lack thereof, could make or break this fork.

FocusWriter for a minimalist, focused writing experience. You can edit the existing template for a dark theme and white text. I rather like the typewriter font, Liberation Mono (it was Courier something back on Windows). Give it a try. I’ve been using it for around 3-4 years.

Hah, yeah. Like others, I already use uBlock, and I don’t really use Facebook any more. On the other hand, I’m worried about the social implications of not using FB and Messenger. I’ve been planning to move to secure messaging apps, but it almost feels like you’re not a human if you don’t have FB. In that regard, I found switching my email provider easier. But I’ll remove my account eventually, more likely sooner than later.

Nice move Meta, you just cemented my decision to leave Facebook / Meta for good. Thanks!

Thanks for the idea. I tried Handbrake to decrease the video quality and it seemed to work well. Also, getting rid of audio also gets rid of a big chunk of data, decreasing the file size.

You’re right. I’ll just go with a cloud storage provider then, other than Google. My main concern is privacy, yes. I recently got rid of my Youtube account, which had accumulated a little too much information about me for my liking. But returning to cloud storage, If I use shareable links for friends and de-share the videos when done, I don’t think they’ll leak outside of said cloud storage provider.

I found peertube.io which has an unlimited upload quota… I think?

Okay, I might give PeerTube another try.

Thanks for your input and apologies if my question is a bit vague.

I’m primarily looking for a service, but might be interested in self-hosting in the future. I don’t have experience with self-hosting, but I suppose it could be an option in the future. I found a website about video CMS’s which require self-hosting. However, I don’t plan on sharing a lot of content, just an occasional video every now and then. As for accessibility of the videos, I’d make them available for anyone with a link.

I also looked at other cloud storage options and found IceDrive, a paid service. I think it has video playback but I’m not sure. I’ve heard about it before and the price is affordable enough for me to give it a try. It has client-side encryption which is good.

EDIT: sorry for uttering the forbidden phrase ‘paid service’.

Thank you. I’ve tried it on desktop and I like it. I’m looking for a phone app for this use case (such as translating product labels when shopping).

Thank you, looks promising!

Thanks for this. I’m looking for a phone app, sorry for not specifying that. I run stock Android so using GT might be the least of my privacy concerns, though… I can’t make the switch to a de-googled phone (Pixel and GrapheneOS) yet because money. Technically I could try LineageOS, but I’m afraid of bricking my phone.

Joke’s on them, I don’t want Youtube recommendations anyway. I just search for the stuff I want and subscribe to the channels I like. Besides, I’ve made my Youtube front page blank with CSS to avoid all the spam.