That looks pretty awesome! Come to think of it though, maybe I don't want HAL to always be listening 
I still admire what they've done though.
I still admire what they've done though.
Speaking of HAL, I'm surprised Amazon & Google haven't released modules for their home assistants to give them the HAL voice.
They lost their chance. Doug Rain passed away recently
So I have a semi-oddball question. I normally use Safari as my main browser, and have preferred it for a few years since I started using MacBooks. My OS and Safari are perfectly up to date, but in the past day or two I've noticed that Safari seems to have issues on YouTube loading videos properly. It loads slower than it was doing previously and if I have multiple tabs open, but am not on the YT one, it often "skips" because it doesn't want to keep loading the video properly and hits an "unfilled" section.
I know that Google has made some changes over the last few years that can affect how well YT runs in a non-Chrome browser, and I have Chrome but I generally just prefer not to use it. Nothing personal, I just find Safari works fine most of the time. I've seen a recommendation to install a script that would allow Safari to run YT better, but I'm not sure if that's a worthwhile step at this point. I'm open to suggestions, but as mentioned I haven't changed any settings on my end and everything is most up to date. I've used Safari and YT for years without having such a problem consistently, before now. But I mainly don't want to become reliant on Chrome to do that sort of thing.
I know that Google has made some changes over the last few years that can affect how well YT runs in a non-Chrome browser, and I have Chrome but I generally just prefer not to use it. Nothing personal, I just find Safari works fine most of the time.
I've seen a recommendation to install a script that would allow Safari to run YT better, but I'm not sure if that's a worthwhile step at this point. I'm open to suggestions, but as mentioned I haven't changed any settings on my end and everything is most up to date. I've used Safari and YT for years without having such a problem consistently, before now. But I mainly don't want to become reliant on Chrome to do that sort of thing.
Did the default Youtube resolution increase by accident?
Click on the cog in the right hand lower corner.
Even if something else is wrong, lower the default resolution to 480p and most of your problems should be gone, if you don't want to reinstall your browser.
Click on the cog in the right hand lower corner.
Even if something else is wrong, lower the default resolution to 480p and most of your problems should be gone, if you don't want to reinstall your browser.
No, that has nothing do with it. It's also not a cache issue, because I clear those periodically and I haven't had any issues with Safari outside of YT. If I go to Chrome and load the same stuff, it doesn't have the buffering problem that seems to be affecting Safari repeatedly. It's gone from being able to play almost any video with no loading problems in any tab to not being able to consistently load apparently, unless I keep the YT tab as the "active" one. And at times it seems as if the load bar is not entirely accurate, as it might seem to load 50% of a video while I'm looking at it but then if I switch tabs for 10 seconds, it skips and only seems to have loaded half of that data.
I have noted occasional issues with YT in the past not loading properly, but those have generally been much smaller and more quickly resolved. Usually if there's a steady problem it's on their end, or I might solve it with a cache dump on my end. One reason I'm more reluctant to use Chrome is that I'm not sure how updated it is, because I use it more rarely. I don't think there's a huge risk, but it is something I'd need to look at.
I have noted occasional issues with YT in the past not loading properly, but those have generally been much smaller and more quickly resolved. Usually if there's a steady problem it's on their end, or I might solve it with a cache dump on my end. One reason I'm more reluctant to use Chrome is that I'm not sure how updated it is, because I use it more rarely. I don't think there's a huge risk, but it is something I'd need to look at.
Sometimes browsers just take a wrong turn that is incompatible with your unique set up. Next is a close to last recourse.
If you know how to back up your bookmarks or there is a sync option, think about using it. Although the sync option might carry over whatever the problem is right now to your next browser.
Turn off automatic (Safari) updates ( I don't know if you can do this with Safari, but you can with firefox and chrome)
Uninstall safari.
Install an older version of safari. You may have to so to a stand alone install site if Safari does not offer older versions of itself from the official site.
Then make sure that the safari updates are still turned off so you don't automatically upgrade to the newest version of safari.
My lap top explodes if I try to use chrome or fire fox newer than 5 years ago, so I did use old browsers for as long as I could as the internet got more robust. I now use neither.
If you know how to back up your bookmarks or there is a sync option, think about using it. Although the sync option might carry over whatever the problem is right now to your next browser.
Turn off automatic (Safari) updates ( I don't know if you can do this with Safari, but you can with firefox and chrome)
Uninstall safari.
Install an older version of safari. You may have to so to a stand alone install site if Safari does not offer older versions of itself from the official site.
Then make sure that the safari updates are still turned off so you don't automatically upgrade to the newest version of safari.
My lap top explodes if I try to use chrome or fire fox newer than 5 years ago, so I did use old browsers for as long as I could as the internet got more robust. I now use neither.
I'll have to look into it... I'm under the impression that using the recommended script could solve the problem without having to change or reset Safari, which would be my preference, since it seems as though part of the problem is Google wanting Chrome to do everything. I haven't used Firefox in a long time, so I don't know how the modern versions compare. 
Whatever happens, I appreciate the advice.
Whatever happens, I appreciate the advice.
Seems like YT is back to its normal self on Safari, so I'm being cautiously optimistic. I haven't seen the loading/skipping issues, so perhaps whatever it was had to do with work on the site. Interestingly, I don't always pay attention to the video resolution settings, but I did notice that the vids were playing on a lower resolution while the problem persisted. Mainly glad it seems okay again... and I likely didn't screw anything up on my end.
I haven't seen the loading/skipping issues, so perhaps whatever it was had to do with work on the site. Interestingly, I don't always pay attention to the video resolution settings, but I did notice that the vids were playing on a lower resolution while the problem persisted. Mainly glad it seems okay again... and I likely didn't screw anything up on my end. 
Got an issue maybe you guys can help with.
I'm running Win7 x64 on a Dell Latitude e6520. Intel Core i5-2520M quad core.
I put a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB in it when I reinstalled Windows. Also 16GB of RAM.
When I'm running MP4 Downloader's video conversion tool, it ends up using 90%-95% of the CPU and around 500MB of RAM.
I've tried setting the process to low priority, but that hasn't changed anything.
When it's running, it fucking bogs almost everything else down, even my browser.
Anything else I can do to prevent this kind of resource hogging?
I'm running Win7 x64 on a Dell Latitude e6520. Intel Core i5-2520M quad core.
I put a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB in it when I reinstalled Windows. Also 16GB of RAM.
When I'm running MP4 Downloader's video conversion tool, it ends up using 90%-95% of the CPU and around 500MB of RAM.
I've tried setting the process to low priority, but that hasn't changed anything.
When it's running, it fucking bogs almost everything else down, even my browser.
Anything else I can do to prevent this kind of resource hogging?
video converters can be major resource hogs.
Are you using the a setting within the application to lower the priority or through and external setting?
Is there are reason for using the particular application? I use MakeMKV to convert to mkv (x265) re-encodes and it doesn't bog the system down (unless I change the priority level in the application and then I have the same experience as you).
Nothing within the app, though I've seen very few that do have something built in.
MP4 Downloader is a continuation of an earlier paid app that has always been great at downloading from YT. But more and more, it wants to DL in .webm format as the natural format whereas I prefer .mp4, hence the need to convert.
MP4 Downloader is a continuation of an earlier paid app that has always been great at downloading from YT. But more and more, it wants to DL in .webm format as the natural format whereas I prefer .mp4, hence the need to convert.
in that case look at clipgrap (www.clipgrap.org) that will download from YT and saves to standard formats (mp3/ogg/MP4). I use it and it works quite well. You simply copy and paste the link in and it does the rest.
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My youtube downloader of choice is this: https://www.telechargerunevideo.com/en/
It will download in MP4 format and everything. I haven't found a Youtube video yet that it can't handle.
MP4 Downloader is a great app, but I get the feeling that the "standard" output from YT is .webm. That's what I get a lot of the time if I let it do it's job in natural mode.
It does all the video formats, plus audio formats as well.
I also have Handbrake, but don't remember it causing a lag.
It does all the video formats, plus audio formats as well.
I also have Handbrake, but don't remember it causing a lag.
Have you tried this one?
https://www.onlinevideoconverter.com
I also find this one useful for converting YouTube videos to MP3 files. Although, unlike the above, it will only convert videos under a certain length. http://convert2mp3.net
Or this one. Download YouTube videos as MP4 https://en.savefrom.net/1-how-to-download-youtube-video/ Open MP4 files in avidemux and export in other formats. http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html
Video conversion is quite a CPU intensive task on any CPU.
