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I'm aware this has been the case since Windows 3.x, you always need an external program to ensure the executable is created with the icon you want. Why?

Please no mentions of Linux and other OSs, I know it's trivial to do so for them.

I've been thinking about putting some stuff that I can only find on direct download sites up as torrents, but most places I can access either have fake sign up/login links, or have very strict rules, like torrentgalaxy requiring at least 5 uploads per month for 3 months

Some things that make it very annoying to me:

• She complains whenever she can't find certain movies
• She usually searches using the complete video title in the search bar, it's usually something like: Movie name - Complete Movie - Dubbed - Pirate Site or Uploader - Genre
  • She has a list of saved movie/video titles in a .docx file, where she also writes whether she liked the movie or not. Whenever a YT search shows something she thinks she'll be interested, she copies the title to the doc.
  • Will usually use that same search on Netflix, or continue typing and adding more despite no search results showing already.
• Complains about video/audio quality
• Complains when there's no dubbed version
• Complains when the "movie" is just a trailer repeating for 1 hour
• Seems to willfully ignore my explanations to why searching for and watching full movies on YT sucks (it's pirate content on a platform that doesn't allow piracy)
• Ignores some 🏴‍☠️ alternatives I've set up, because "there's nothing interesting there"
• "Forgets" anything I teach her about searching and search terms in 5 minutes

To be fair, most of the movies she "wants" to watch aren't available on any streaming services. Feels like I'm dealing with the world's worst pirate.

Which is somewhat ironic, because I know that "sit and just do it" is the ideal start. Think less about choosing, just pick it up and go.

But I end up spending more time looking up things and getting excited about them.

LOVE2D? Oooh, it's lua! It can even run on Android! DragonRuby? Oooh, simple and lightweight and fast! Oh wait, Godot just had a new update! Hey, maybe I should get back to programming Java, libGDX looks neat! Damn, Raylib feels like it does many things right! And on it goes...

I overwhelm myself with choices, start a bit then abandon at the second hard-ish hurdle (like menu/interface showing under the map despite lots of fiddling with the Z position, in Godot). So, yeah, just exposing my problem, I suspect I'm not alone in this.

Or, put it another way, a html renderer that can open most web pages, but has a different programming/scripting language that it can interpret during runtime or on page loads, instead of the javascript engine.

I suppose that java applets, flash and activeX were attempts in these directions, but they were things you had to install on top of the browsers, so not quite the same thing? I'm imagining something like web pages using Lua, since it's lightweight, to make them dynamic.

In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being "harder"* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies' services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

• "harder" because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn't work with phrases? at least not on preview^