evln via EV wrote:
There are ways around not having a strong internet connecion
to view youtube videos.
You could use
https://x2convert.com
to convert the streaming video's audio to a .mp3 file you could
download and listen to.
If I remember correctly, years ago, Lee held bragging-rights to
having his internet access via an old 486 pc on outdated operating
system and outdated browsers.
Yep; guilty as charged. :-) All I had was dial-up, and my old Prodigy
email program was still pretty fast because it didn't load any of the
bloat. But it's long-gone. Any poor soul that tries to use dial-up on
the modern internet is doomed!
I would have hoped by now that situation had changed when more up-to-date
PCs...
The PC itself isn't so much the problem. My current PC is an HP 6000
Pro, which isn't all that old. The problem is that I have a DSL line,
which averages 100-200k b/sec. Fine for email, slow for bloated web
pages, and terrible for video.
Also, I hate Windows, and so am using linux. For whatever reason,
Youtube refuses to work with any of my linux browsers. The error
messages say it needs HTML5; but my browsers work fine with HTML5 files
from any other source.
Like Peppermnt
https://www.google.com/search?q=peppermint+linux
or linux mint (or others)
https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+mint
I'm running Puppy linux. I've tried a few others, but got lost in
"configuration hell". They might be fine for a linux expert, but I'm a
rank amateur.
I had to upgrade to a new android 9 smartphone...
To show what a luddite I am, I don't *have* a smartphone! For one thing,
the text is too hard to read for my tired old eyes. For another, my fat
old fingers can't type on the tiny keyboards. I've tried a tablet, but
even that's too small. (I'm reading this on a 17" monitor set to 1024x768).
Also I don't have cable, and don't watch TV, and don't play video games.
And no facebook, no twitter... I don't use *any* social media at all.
Perhaps if Lee had one of these with a weeks worth of
video url links stored on it, when he goes out to do his
weekly shopping, he could stop off at a wifi site parking
lot and (legally) mooch some free internet to stream &
watch videos like everyone else?
Folks must think I lead a life of desperation without all the modern
(in)convenieces of being totally addicted to a smartphone and endlessly
immersed in the online world. Quite the contrary; I enjoy the real world
a lot more than the online world! I have real friends that I actually
see in person, and real hobbies where I build stuff that has nothing to
do with computers.
The more time I spend online, the LESS I get done!
Lee Hart
--
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint Exupery
--
Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com
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