Grayjay

Edit: instead of making a snarky comment, I should probably do the right thing for fellow lemmings and explain:

I’m fucking old and I’ve seen this before. It’s the same model as it was with TV and Cable. Air tv becomes so ad ridden than when Cable comes “ad free” we all start paying and switch over. A decade later the “base” cable TV plan is so ad ridden that they come up with “premium channels”, so you sign up for that so you can watch a movie without 10 minute ad break in the middle or 4 minute ad breaks on series. Then channels start splitting into “base” and “premium” versions (e.g. Discovery or History). Base channel is now just RealityTV garbage.

I got fed up and started following creators on Google Video (then YouTube), Vimeo, listening to stuff on ShoutCast (that was winamp’s podcast/radio thing). Then Netflix comes out, decent service. Every other media company wants a piece of the pie. Slowly but surely every decent movie/series on Netflix gets moved to their respective production company’s service: disney, HBO, Paramount+… Netflix starts toying with ads, now disney…

Slowly YT starts adding ads on the sidebar, then in the lower third, then pre-rolls. Now there’s “premium bitrate” behind a paywall. At some point I said “fuck it I’m not playing ball anymore”. Why pay premium? it’ll be the same as it’s always been. Soon enough “premium” yt will be the only way to watch over 360p quality, they’ll lower a bit the cost of YT Premium, ppl will jump in and down the road they’ll add ads back.

I’d rather donate a buck to my favorite creators, it’ll be 100x more income that whatever they’d get off my views.

Luckily there are a lot of nice EVs from better brands!

Please don’t mix Bill&Ted with that asshole

The concept is still terrifying, though the article has a BS pic. Here are the real things, they’re basically knock-off BD Spot dogs… With guns

Lmao then they bitch and moan when people abroad start cutting back on us-based tech and enforcing open standards

Never had graphene, but been using Lineage since it was called CyanogenMod on my Galaxy Nexus

Thats the trick, when a company supports romming, you can extend the support for however long you want!

Fair enough. I was hosting it for years on a borked ideapad with like a 4th gen i3 along some other stuff

Read through the whole thing, you “lose access” to your stuff but it never mentions them deleting the content. Seems like the same shitty move Reddit did a while ago, “your” content in there is now theirs. Deleting your account just makes u unable to use/modify it.

Murmur (mumble server) is so light it can run on a smart toaster.

I remember back in the day getting my mind blown by the BB demo on a live Linux CD (Knoppix?)

I only know the library for doing this stuff is libcaca just because it’s libpoop in spanish