If all the kids crap was removed from youtube, they wouldn’t have to worry about adding for storage for a decade.

“With the economy like that, it’s very hard for not just me. It’s for a lot of people.”

Every time, a fucking revelation.

WOW, it’s not just one person doing it wrong and having trouble. Truth is, the vast majority DGAF until it affects them, and they they broacast, it could happen to you too! Before it happened to them, they didn’t care one iota what happened to everyone else. Now it’s happening to them, and let me tell you the rest of the base that’s not getting directly hammered by this (that can still afford groceries) DGAF that he is in a bad situation.

He’s in the cult of selfishness where people only care about themselves, getting what he’s given.

Left to the imagination of the reader

No, they just happened to match police issued rounds exactly.

–probably

Translation: Nothing’s happening until someone needs to get bribed.

/s

I ripped a ton of my stuff back in the day, guess I’ve been lucky, every generic BD drive i’ve used just worked.

But once you get past the “works” hurdle, the real struggle begins.

It’s slow, like really slow. Assuming you can find the right titles and convince makemkv extract them, it’s a start the process and go brew a cup of coffee slow. But hey, I’ve got time and you don’t need to watch it … mostly.

Depending on the disk, it’s still either crap quality or it takes up an ungodly amount of space. Even a decent sized drive buckles sooner or later if you’re generating 20GB images.

Unless you’re up on your network game, your streaming sticks/tv’s can hardly handle the throughput to stream the video.

So you encode the video. HEVC (which is getting dicey starting january as the royalties go up and processors stop support hardware decoding) or hopefully AV1, which still has spotty support in places. and the re-encode? The easy software isn’t free, the free software isn’t easy, but FFMPEG isn’t that hard to work with.

OR, you find an ISO provider and download it.

golden dog brain: what am i doing, should i be sit, why and i wear, omg omg omg, why is this chair wiggle, why is this collar long, why is headset falling, do i eat microphone, can i go now please

That stare is intense.

As far as I can tell, FUTO’s dictation is the best of the ‘private’ keyboards. I was using Heli, but had to tie someone else’s dictation into it, and since I mostly dictate, it was irritating the hell out of me.

The biggest problems I have with it are their leadership shenanigans, and I’m nonplussed that they didn’t use FOSS.

That said, I’m willing to give on FOSS for SA, if they’re not collecting/selling my data.

So I trust them not to sell my data with the aforementioned leadership crap? Yes, for now. But at first word of them getting hungry for money, I’ll re-evaluate what else I can get my hands on.

That said, they cannot have my swipe data; I’d rather not swipe if it comes down to that.

Outstanding choice.

Just keep in mind, the instances are all made up, you can see everything from everywhere and if you don’t like limits or administration on one instance, you can always move to another.

https://www.freedomforum.org/recording-in-public/

yeah, it’s complicated to say the least

Stop using the algorithm. Take your existing known likes and go search them out for their collaborators. Search out creators not single videos on a topic.

Thanks for the thorough write-up.

It’s not so much that it doesn’t appeal; it’s more like I’m looking at a menu in a foreign language.

I’m middle-aged, I like science, tech, retro, gaming, and whatever VLDL is. I am open-minded to new things, but prefer substance over screaming and outrage. I’ve spent a lot of time sifting through Odysee and Peertube for anything redeeming, and while I’ve not come up empty-handed, I’ve also not found enough content to offset my YouTube habit enough to walk away from the platform (my goal). The service is half the monthly price of Netflix, and while I don’t expect a production company full of quality entertainment, I’d like to be able to fill a couple of hours a day with vaguely interesting programming.

I’ll check em out post holidays pass and my finances recover.

Heh, work has a fucking life insurance policy out on your ass. When open enrollment gives you that free coverage that pays 30k, they took out another 30k and it’s there to cover the cost of hiring someone to replace you.

Well look at that, last time I checked it was guest pass or nothing. good move on their part!

I’ll have to give them a shot after the holidays.

d asking about their religion and political affiliations.

To be completely reasonable, I’ve not seen any strong right-wing supporters that are not either deeply racist or don’t care what’s going on with black/brown people right now.

If someone is so far up Fox News’ butt that they think nothing wrong is going on, I sure as FUCK don’t want them recruiting my children.

There is a vast difference between being in a different political affiliation and whatever the fuck is going on right now. I don’t want my kids wrapped up in that bullshit and if you support it, just block me now.

I often forget about nebula. I really do like their model. Personally, I think their biggest problem is lacking a free trial. They’re curating, so I expect they’ll have some pretty solid content. But every time I consider them I go and browse their catalog and I don’t recognize most of it, and that what I do recognize is marginally interesting to me, but not worthy of payment.

I suspect their closed model is because it’s very expensive to host that data, and they want to make sure that whoever they put up there is worth spending the money on. Return on investment, yada, yada.

I think its obvious that it would/will go awry.

I’m not even sure that is possible, but I’d like to see us try something.

Maybe the best place to start is by allowing a microtransaction service into the UI and let people add their own API keys to known players.

Non-Gated Microtransactions in Peertube would be pretty cool. I don’t know that it would amount to anything, but it would be a damn good start

Not OP, but I’d work real fucking hard to give us something that can be a viable alternative to Youtube where a corporate monopoly doesn’t take 95% of the cash. It doesn’t even need to be federated, but we all see the shithole Odysee immediately became. We have a substantial number of people here with like interests and marginally like feelings on a lot of topics that would make great video content.

Peertube has been around for 7 years, and there isn’t enough content on it to occupy even a Linux nerd for more than 30 minutes a week. People are only making videos on YouTube because they can make some semblance of a living at it.

I think giving people who are willing to create videos some decent tools for monetization in open products would be a reasonably good idea. We have nothing there now; we don’t have anything to lose by it. It’s not like great content that doesn’t exist can be walled off to us.

This could be as easy as forking peertube and putting in patreon privitization links. Or it could be a federated version of KoFi that ties in.

It’s not you, it’s the world changing around you, or perhaps the world perceiving to change around you. I’m not sure the world has changed all that much, I think a lot of it is just us having better optics than we ever had. Rockefeller and Vanderbilt probably indirectly hurt/killed more people, but it wasn’t broadcast as easily as it is now.