submitted 3 days ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Y'all still using this? Is it safe?

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[-] Chaser@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago

I use the Docker Version on my NAS. So it can run 24/7 headless.

[-] Nexy@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

I never seen an installer with such number of extra unwanted programs in it in a looooooong time, is scandalous. Also, very dificult to unintall them.

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 days ago

Yes but the caveat is you have to use the "clean" one. The publicly facing JD2 downloader comes with malware. There is a clean link that can be found on their forum. Once you have that though, the thing just updates itself a couple times a day, it's not an ongoing issue once you have the damn thing.

Then it has ads that you can disable, but they re-enable after so many days. It's just an annoyance though, like how we're in the year of our LORD 2026 and it still has no dark mode. There IS a hack to get it dark, but again, like the ads, it doesn't persist for long and it's generally not worth doing. I've done it a few times, and it's nice, but it goes away before you know it and then it's like "fuck it".

I think the thing you want to be careful with is, by default it scans your clipboard. Granted it does this for download links, but it catches all kinds of bizarre shit. So I just leave it off. When I want to download something I copied, I just find it on the dock, ⌘+L to open the link thing, ⌘+V to paste it, enter, then I'm good to go.

Speaking of the dock, it keeps moving itself to the end. I think what is happening is, after an update, it adds itself to the end of the dock if you've moved it to the middle or the left.

The dock is Mac specific, I'm not sure if it acts differently on a Windows taskbar or whatever you have on Linux (it's Linux, so it could be either). Of course, so are the command shortcuts, but if you're using Jd2, subscribed to c/piracy on Lemmy (especially if you're a db0 user... you can figure them out for your OS. ;)

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

JD2 also auto extracts archives by default which is certainly not my preference. Annoying old program but it can do so much.

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Funny you should mention that... 7-zip is not available on macOS as a GUI (probably due to limitations on file managers maybe, since it can be used as one), and the command line never works for me with password protected archives. However, with Jd2 it works, as long as I supply the password before the archive downloads.

I do have an unpacker, but it doesn't work on everything (like password protected .7z files).

I could probably get a more robust file manager (something like Directory Opus for Windows, but I'm sure other options do exist on Macs) that has a built-in archiver that would do what Jd2 does, but for now Jd2 solves the minor issue.

Pretty sure you can disable archive extraction in settings if you don't want it to do that.