They are still unreliable though and I would side with @Kresimir that they are generated either through “AI” or some other algorithm. It may not do this with all videos but the ones I’ve noticed it in all involve people speaking English with slightly different dialects/accents.
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Maybe FreeTube is interesting for you. Yes, it’s shitty ass electron, but other than that it’s pretty handy.
I guess you don’t have a smartphone with a YouTube app either, right? (Auto captions are available on NewPipe also)
Not sure what you mean with “careful”? I’m aware those subs are not always 100% correct but it’s usually good enough to understand everything with context.
Ofc there are ppl out there that even the best AI struggles to understand. I sometimes find videos where I just can’t tell if the guy is trying to speak English or if it’s Hindi. Or maybe a mix of both 
Basically still do your own research and make sure whats being translated is whats being said.
Yeah, ofc. I almost never use the feature anyway. I watched movies and TV in English my whole life and I watch a lot of YouTube so I usually have no problem here unless it’s some kind of heavy accent on hyperspeed.
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Yer I can’t explain it properly might just be the videos I’m watching but basically anything with lingo or an accent that isn’t “clear” seems to get mistransllations, I think i was watching Pawn Stars the other day and it’s subs through me off as I could hear what they where saying but when I read the subs it was like WTF.
I’ve seen that for proper names sometimes or for foreign words. But I really rarely use that feature so ymmv.
Also not all subs on YouTube are auto generated. There are user generated ones also.
BTW: What drives me completely nuts are English videos/movies with German subs. TV here usually does this and you can’t disable the subs. It’s incredibly distracting for me.
It’s worse when you go to watch TV and they have subs for a show in english like Pawn Stars or Swamp people and theyre hardcoded like I can understand them I get a small percentage may not but why the rest of us got to suffer
Edit I think we should leave this here and if someone really want open a new topic as its gone a bit off track
I’m an expert for off topic discussions! Not even sure what’s the topic here
Ah, I see, KDE, X11 and Wayland… well, guess you’re right, let’s stop this here
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Where’s our dedicated Cinnamon “dropping” X11 for Wayland discussion and alternatives in the case-thread? I feel betrayed! 
Make it
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Betraying this thread by any action? What’s next, watching a Youtube video?
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Was seriously stating though if you think its an issue make a thread, but get your gig
Who uses Cinnamon in the current year?
I might, it would buy me a couple of years of X11… 
19 minutes of 
Wayland copium
tl;dr
Yes it can’t do this and that, and also this, and some of that, this is buggy…but it will work later! 
Another one of those “Is it ready? No. But personally I’m using it for a year now.” videos.
When will people stop using it for years!1!!
Where do you dig these videos up?
Oh boy the video just started 
And first argument of “network transparency” is already wrong because it possible with wayland 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
They’re nothing that make Wayland incompatible to do that, i argue its literally the opposite.
I disagree with some point made on this topic and this video:
Keylogger on wayland is possible. Example with “technical” explanation about how this work: https://espanso.org/docs/install/linux/#install-on-wayland
Xeyes can be ported on plasma with or as a kwin script. I’ve made a example this morning that don’t require to do qml ect, its basically a x11 (a hack 
):
kwin_wayland_getcursorpos.js (kwinscript):
console.info(
'*{ "x":' + workspace.cursorPos.x + ', "y":' + workspace.cursorPos.y + " }"
);
getcursorpos.sh
script="/home/$USER/kwin_wayland_getcursorpos.js"
num=$(dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.KWin \
/Scripting org.kde.kwin.Scripting.loadScript \
string:"$script" | awk 'END {print $2}')
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.KWin /$num \
org.kde.kwin.Script.run
#Not sure if its needed but its a proof of concept
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.KWin /$num \
org.kde.kwin.Script.stop
# Now we need to get the output from journalctl cf: bug output kwinscript
journalctl _COMM=kwin_wayland -g "js:" --since "10ms ago"
And tada you get the current position of your cursor 
Making a simple color picker is also easy:
Taking a screenshot with the corresponding XDG portal → get cursor pos with kwinscript → look what color is at that position on the screenshot. A little bit of a hack but we already have working one so its more a proof a possibility.
Another way of doing this type of thing: https://github.com/KDE/xwaylandvideobridge is drawing a invisible window that cover all the screen and they get the image like that.
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