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7/29/25 — Don't watch videos in the browser!
 Videos are meant to be watched within a video player, not a web browser. This is connected to a much larger issue of everything becoming a webapp—I simply won't stand for this. In my view, the browser is meant for browsing the web (duh) and not for document editing, video watching, image manipulation, email, music listening, etc.
This is all linked to the creation of the "smart phone"—That we don't need programs and software anymore, we just need an app for that and that mentality seeped into the desktop sphere.

A Man's software stack

The soy software stack

Not to mention that you need an Internet connection to do any work, how lame is that?
I can do 85% of my work on my computer without a connection to the Internet.

7/23/25 — The Internet offline
 Computers are not the issue, it's the Internet. Computers are only a tool, you use them as word processors, photo editors, and for computing (shocking...)
The Internet used to be a great tool, a means to get information instantly; Web1 was just to share documents and files. Now in the latter parts of Web2, people don't even use a web browser anymore. They just want an "Internet connection" for their apps to load, they don't even know how the Internet works.
The biggest evil is that most video sites either use DRM and or they don't let you download the video file. Just think how stupid that is, you may download the video bit-by-bit within your browser, but you CAN'T download the whole thing to your hard drive.
The modern Web is based so much on clicks, views, engagement, and it's so attention grabbing by design. YouTube's algorithms are programmed to keep you watching for as long as possible. So it boosts videos that are clicked on more and are watched the whole way through—thus creators must make their thumbnails and videos as attention grabbing as possible; Ruining your attentions span.
Using yt-dlp (one of the best programs ever made), I mass-download YouTube videos (and other platforms' videos as well) to my hard drive for offline viewing. I've been wanting to read more—so my plan is to use my computer without Internet at home, using it for offline work (Writing, drafting emails, video editing, updating my website, etc), and then go to either my local coffee shop or library to steal their Internet. To download more YouTube videos, update my RSS feeds, download my emails, and to upload any updates to my website.