He’s already way past caring about anything other than money. He just gets the script and lends his known face for the video… regardless of anything else.

Can’t entirely blame the guy though, cuz when he gets going you quickly see what an asshat he actually is, but he did have passion for the content a few years ago.

I just wish LTT would fade into irrelevancy already, it’s just shallow clickbaity content that hardly provides any value. I’m also just waiting for their next workplace abuse accusations… the place is known to be abusive for years.

This is what I’m referring to https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjJUVsmjIj4

It has been definitely downplayed and sugarcoated for public audience, but the shitty workplace smells a mile away…

Just install Linux, it’s not that hard.

This is just but the small first step. I was basically checking what it will take to daily drive linux on my desktop, and there’s many little roadblocks that I’m just instead considering getting a Win 11 pro license next year and just turning off all the shit in gpedit.

• No RGB software for my gigabyte mobo (openrgb doesn’t have it).
• No AMD adrenalin unless I go with Ubuntu, which is just on the same path of enshittification as windows
• No steelseries engine
• No Sapphire trixx
• No microsoft office desktop/onedrive (means I gotta find an office replacement that also works on my apple devices and syncs)

Linux has come a long way, and it’s probably enough for some but it would be a massive headache for me still…

"but we still can’t give everything away for free.”

Then why have they positioned youtube to be a public worldwide service freely accessible all these years?

It is the usual tactic of operating at a loss for years, building an unsustainable service and supporting it with revenue from other places. Google was officially declared a monopoly, and youtube is not profitable, so it’s easy to connect the dots and say youtube grew to it’s current dominance unfairly through that monopoly money.

Now they want to enforce their TOS on you, pay up or watch a million ads or leave. Well fuck their TOS, I avoid anything google like the plague, but their unfair position on video sharing makes it hard to avoid youtube particularly. I respond unfairly in turn, by proxying youtube through invidious.

Built on a foundation of theft

Sums up all AI

EDIT: meant all gen AI

Built on a foundation of theft

Sums up all AI

google has been blocking any IP that uses lots of youtube bandwidth, and that means any public instance needs to do IP rotation.

I also heard they began blocking all IPs belonging to some cloud providers.

I run my own invidious instance from my home servr. Only I use it, so it’ll never be blocked, but I don’t have the same anonymity as if using a public instance…

It’s mostly for the benefits of using youtube ad-free without a google account, while having local bookmarks, watch-later, and subscription feed. If that’s your main goal Invidious is really easy to set-up.

I did that when they leaked my phone number to hackers, as happened to other millions of users. Using authy is a security threat

Now that authy has fucked us over with this, what should I move my 2fa codes into, any recommendations?

Unfortunately I can’t use aegis on iOS/windows, does keepass have this functionality?

I usually find reasons to keep using microsoft products, but right now it’s the first time I’m seriously considering ditching all my microsoft services for FOSS and move to linux.

It’s gonna take a lot of effort and time migrating everything I use, but taking literal screenshots of your PC sounds fucking creepy, no matter how they sugar coat it. It’s like someone else literally watching all you do.

Usually you know they get your data, but now they want exactly what you are seeing and exactly what you are doing, taking it right out of your screen. It’s literal and plain spyware.

I have degoogled for a few years already, now I guess it’s microsoft’s turn.

I recommend Okular for PDF reading. No ads, no upsells, no BS. It also has native dark mode

You can just use crypto for its intended purpose and not give a shit about the whole culture around it. I frequently use it to buy gift cards not available in my country, a VPN, and pay securely without giving away all my data.

The real issue is people coming and bastardizing the concept by trying to get rich, and treating it as some kind of gambling machine.

He didn’t say “i don’t believe in crypto because it’s a scam” he said “I don’t believe in crypto, except on its use as a scam” so it’d be great to hear why.

Youtube is one of those things you can’t avoid in practice. So if you don’t like it what do you do? do you just miss out on most existing video content?

Same, I’d take it any day over VLC because of native dark mode. VLC’s themes are janky and weird-looking.

Reminds me when foldable smartphones first came out. If you touched them wrong the screen got fucked.

This is a common pattern in content creators. As they grow their goals shift into running a production machine that maximizes earnings, throwing away any values or standards they started with.

Just look at LTT/LMG. It’s not gonna get better, so you could watch someone else who still values things other than money.

The same Linus who can’t be arsed to spend $500 of various people’s time to properly test a product is now telling us what to do?

I’ve never given money to roku, and now I’ll never will

Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

AFAIK this is not what’s happening this time. YouTube slowly rolled out a change over the past 3 days that requires some sort of app verification for the android yt app. This is affecting Invidious since it emulates the yt android client to fetch video streams. This affects invidious instances hosted privately as well.

The maintainers are aware of this, and are working on ways to solve it. Tools like yt-dlp/newpipe still work because they have working implementations to fetch data by emulating web/iOS/etc clients.

If the team is finding out that their job ends on the same day, it’s totally Google’s doing, and not the vendor company.

Google loves cheap, disposable workers, that why half of their workers are contractors.

Not really, they have a docker compose file ready to go, and it works without issue.