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What is Grayjay?

Grayjay is a cutting-edge app that serves as a video player and source aggregator. It allows you to stream and organize videos from various sources, providing a unified platform for your entertainment needs.

It’s mostly used as a YouTube frontend^. However, it is now launching as a desktop app for Linux, Mac and Windows.

  • @CosstyEnglish
    1•13 hours ago

    Gradualism

    At first I watched every YouTube video on 1.5x for like 6 months.

    Then I watched everything on 1.8X for another 6 months. Then 2.2x and so on.

    Now I watch everything between 2.8x and 3.6x, Depends on the talking speed of the person in the video. I can understand everything.

    Of course I watch some videos in normal 1x speed but those are usually just like artistic videos or movie trailers and stuff like that. If there is just a person talking to the camera, there is no reason for me to watch it in normal speed.

    • qyronEnglish
      7•13 hours ago

      And what is the reason for doing that?

      • @CosstyEnglish
        4•12 hours ago

        I thought that was obvious. Time.

        You would not believe how much time I have saved over the years by doing this. When I can finish 30m video in less than 10 minutes.

        I don’t know about you, but when I come home from work, I don’t have a whole evening to just watch yt videos.

        This way I can finish the videos I wanted to watch a lot sooner and then I can go and do something else.

        • qyronEnglish
          3•12 hours ago

          I struggle with that same issue. I’ll risk nine out of 10 people suffer from it. There are only twenty four hours in a day.

          In my understanding, that is not a good way to make better use of your time. I’m glad it works for you but makes no sense whatsoever.

          If you do that for, to my understanding, speeding through dialogue heavy content, you’re essentially following podcasts. You can do many things while listening anything, at normal speeds.

          • @CosstyEnglish
            1•11 hours ago

            When I am cooking, cleaning, etc, I listen to audiobooks. Not at those same speeds as YouTube videos. Between 1.25x and 1.8x, depends on a narrator again.

            • qyronEnglish
              2•9 hours ago

              Not trying to pry into your intimacy but what is motivating such a concern for speeding up your media consumption rate?

              • @CosstyEnglish
                1•7 hours ago

                I don’t know what to tell you. It looks like to me that you seem to think that somehow I am wasting my enjoyment of the media. Or that my consumption of the media isn’t the right one or fulfilling or something like that.

                As I said before, I can understand everything. Why should I listen to or watch something in normal speed? It’s just a waste of time in my case.

                When somebody can hit a target that is 300 meters away, why would you tell them to shoot at the target that is only 100 meters away? What’s the point in that for them?

                I don’t know if that is a good analogy, but I don’t know how else to explain this.

                • @[email protected]English
                  2•4 hours ago

                  imagine someone told you they ate bananas sideways because it’s faster and cleaner. That’s probably how they feel.