• eric@lemmy.caEnglish
    781·
    23 days ago

    I wrote a blog post about how to remove the ads and enable dark mode for JDownloder2 here.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      23 days ago

      Thanks I just did that right now. It’s so nice having the Ad banners gone, and also a nice and well functioning dark mode too.

        • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          I was mistaken and said KDE rather than GTK theme but you just need to add this add an environment variable before the operator on the desktop shortcut file and it should work

          _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel -Dswing.crossplatformlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel ${_JAVA_OPTIONS}"
          • eric@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            I didn’t know that. I’ll try that and maybe make an edit and mention of it in that blog post

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    571·
    23 days ago

    Well, they are still the most versatile download tool in existence… And not like you guys are downloading legal stuff with that

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16·
      23 days ago

      Yup.
      The annoyance from dealing with those crappy file hosters alone is enough to send them a couple bucks.

    • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
      171·
      23 days ago

      JDownloader is a tool whose continued development is well worth supporting.

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
      31·
      23 days ago

      oh there are plenty such. kget, aria2, uget, and motrix off the top of my head. but people use jdownloader for the same reason they use windows – it’s what they know.

      • Syer10@lemmy.caEnglish
        28·
        23 days ago

        More like JDownloader supports almost every download host website in existence without any hoops. Most other applications just support standard http downloads which may be difficult to use with many websites.

        • TableteKarcioji@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          101·
          23 days ago

          I suppose it’s a bit of a “hoop,” but what I use to download files with curl, aria2, or wget is a Firefox add-on “cliget” (I’m not sure if there’s a Chrome version). You click a link in the browser to download, and it generates a command for these programs to emulate a browser download. I don’t use it all the time, but I do for large files or slow downloads. Since these programs are CLI-based, I can run them on my server and let them work for as long as needed.

          I guess it’s still not an option for people who download a lot using direct downloads, but still just putting it out there as an option for people like me.

  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    23 days ago

    Same shit different software. I’m still using that turd Filezilla because literally no other FTP software I’ve tried has worked with the server run by WiiU homebrew.

        • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          23 days ago

          I’ve only ever used it to move files to and from… yeah, hacked consoles.

          If they can make off with my gold before sunset with that information, more power to them.

          • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            19 days ago

            The concern isn’t so much them directly taking your money or info, but rather accepting money to enable someone else to.

            Basically, they’ve been bundling ads with their installer for years, but several years back, whatever ad service they used without a care decided to start shipping spyware as well, in addition to the already existent deceptive patterns used in the installer.

            You’d expect any good dev to be pissed if something like this got into their software, right? Well, they were pissed… at the users. The stupid, stupid users and cyber security researchers who dared to say this was a problem. They refused to acknowledge the problem, made excuses, removed discussions about it on their forums and tried to act like it wasn’t a big deal even if there was malware because they also offer a download without the malware, provided as a nice, tiny link on a separate page.

            • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              18 days ago

              Oh, I’m not defending them. I have no sense of software loyalty. They aren’t the only ftp game in town by a longshot.

      • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        Yeah, there’s a module for the modern custom firmware that runs an ftp server in the background for file access. Let’s you manage things, add homebrew, install games, etc without constantly swapping the SD card. For whatever reason, though, GNOME commander can’t connect at all and gFTP disconnects immediately when trying to make a transfer.

      • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        Ah, didn’t mention I’m on Linux. Not gonna bother with a paid client just for Wii U homebrew anyway.

        Really kinda sucks that all the FTP clients that seem good are Windows only.

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
      121·
      23 days ago

      Does that one have something like Click’nLoad and a Browser add-on or app to allow for it when the Downloader is running on a remote machine? Can it run on my server and be accessed through a browser or said app?

      Does it handle various hosters including debrid?