Looks great! I’ve been rocking Strawberry for a little while now since I decided to finally retire Winamp, but this looks like it might be better in terms of the UI!
But Grayjay isn’t open-source, is it? Just source-available - it has some weird FUTO license. LibreTube and Newpipe, on the other hand are GPL-3.0 licensed.
Yep, look but don’t touch unless it’s for personal use. Not ideal, but I think it’s a step up compared to a completely closed source alternative.
I can somewhat understand the reasons, particularly looking at the fake NewPipe app malware on the Play Store, and Louis’ own experiences of being screwed over by other lobbyists while trying to pass R2R legislation in the cleanest possible condition. Trademark protection + GPLv3 would have mostly sufficed I think, but an explicit “prohibition” by license allows for a much faster legal conclusion AFAIK.
The unusual license may also be to allow distribution on iOS at some point, as GPL licensed software is not allowed on the iOS app store without dual licensing (although this is not something I’m familiar with). GPL components can be embedded within apps though I think.
Grayjay is pretty much a frontend viewing and development interface for media platform plugins, and every plugin is AGPLv3 licensed. Someone could make a Purplejay or a Greenjay alternative frontend implementation for them and there’d probably be no issue.
Having fewer SA & FOSS apps that take the place of several closed source apps is great: Newpipe (or my preferred fork, Tubular) handles soundcloud, youtube, and bandcamp. Grayjay handles patreon and nebula. It also doesn’t hurt to have multiple apps capable of playing YouTube in the event that they break one app with some new change, as NewPipe, LibreTube, Grayjay’s plugin and yt-dlp all use different extractors AFAIK
Obtainium doesn’t even come close to fdroid . like it isn’t even a question bruh completely different things as one is just a tool to make updates easy the other is a high privacy and security app store with really good policy, security and privacy check etc.
One reason I’m thankful for Obtainium is because “OAuth was not approved by Google, etc for the F-Droid build” of Fair Email, and unfortunately, that’s still important for me. Obtainium is able to download from the official F-droid repo too.
Yeah, the pilot is beyond problematic. They did try. A woman as the first officer was extremely progressive for the time. Unfortunately, they still had to sell a show.
You’re talking about people making and watching TV in the 1960s. I’m talking about a woman in the 23rd century finding out the hot captain doesn’t want women around and thinking, “he doesn’t want me around? He’s getting what he wants.”
We all know that the pilot was a product of its time. We also know that was Roddenberry trying to normalize females in command positions.
The idea was that Pike was okay with it, just not used to it. He would have acted as an audience surrogate by learning to work with and trust Una over time.
Let’s all remember to direct our hate towards the real villains of the story: the NBC Board of Directors, who demanded Majel Barret’s removal.
Thankfully, Roddenberry didn’t take it lying down. We lost a Number One but we gained a Uhura. And Majel reappeared as Nurse Chapel.
Loved seeing the new Captain Pike with Anson Mount, he not only looked the part but he played a fantastic Captain.
It was tragic to read about the history of Jeffrey Hunter. He was reviving his acting career when he took on the part in the new show Star Trek at the time. He tragically died from an accident from a movie he was performing in 1968. His death was just four years after his appearance as Captain Pike and before the show had grown any popularity.
He never got to know just how famous and popular he would become to so many fans decades later. He would have been happy to know we’re still celebrating him today 60 years later.
EDIT: I hate to admit it but the original Captain Pike filmed his parts in 1964 and broadcast in 1965 … that’s 60 years, not 50 years. I really don’t like the fact that it was that long ago because it means we’re all getting old. :(
Even if the mirrors are all hosted by the same admin team that doesn’t mean that they will sync at exactly the same time and that they will serve the exact same content at the exact same second. Mirroring download servers do not use distributed transactions.
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