Scifirenegade's Trash Can

Or How I Learnt To Stop Clicking and Love Reading

This doesn't make any sense, now does it?

It all starts with an alternative application for Youtube on Android: Newpipe! It's great because you can listen to music while the phone is locked, there's no ads and you can get rid of the recommendation system.

It also let's you download videos, audio and captions.

So, when I am on my phone and find something on Youtube that shouldn't be there because of copyright, I immediately download it, and later put it on my PC or on an external drive. One of those things, was a certain episode from a soap called Angels.

( On Angels and Jacqueline Hill's work, for it got rambly )

Angels was always elusive. So when the lovelies Katie and Claire posted that picspam, I yelled and snatched it with Newpipe. And had it on my phone for months.

Then Network decided to release the legendary Maigret TV series with Rupert Davies on DVD amd Bluray. Awesome! Jackie was in an ep there too, and the show seems right up my alley. But the price was too much for me.

A few weeks ago, The Trap gets posted on Youtube. I do the same as I did with the Angels ep: snatched it immediately. Her performance is fan-tas-tic! Jacqueline Hill is a master of subtlety, and I loved looking at all the little gestures she made. Pretty good ep too, a bit dated maybe, but it threw me off the loop.

Oh Newpipe, my little friend. If only your user interface did not suck. Because as I was trying to clean up my downloaded videos history, you delete all the videos I downloaded.

All of them.

The good news is that I got almost them all back. It was a pain, but I managed it. The bad news is that it was almost all of them. Bye bye Angels.

Why is deleting all video files even an option? I'm assuming it's a techbro thing, but it's stupid. Even more stupid is the lack of "Are you sure?" prompts. And even more stupid is that the prompt is like

"Would you like to delete your downloaded video history or your downloaded video files?"

And they reverse the options, so the first option is to delete the video files. I'm not a UI expert, but I don't think that's how you do it.

So now I'm praying to Yetaxa hoping that the episode gets uploaded somewhere again that isn't a scam site.