Sowhatever

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[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

Use a second computer or a friend's one to download the updates, get a USB ethernet adapter (a 100mbps one is like $5), put the system drive in a computer with lan, tether with another device via USB (phone, pi zero, etc) or use a different version/distro. I'm sure there are a bunch of other solutions.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Raspberry, seriously? What problems are you seeing?

I have a raspberry pi 3 acting as a 5GHz access point for as long as it's been on the market, I can remember one time I had to restart it because of some wonkiness. About a dozen others as clients, never had an issue there either, fast and stable enough.

All using the default os (raspbian first, raspberry os later).

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The only one I know of is Nebula, and I only know of it because of ads. Ironically, ads on YouTube.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

In what world Craigslist is honest and Alphabet is circling the drain? They make billions of profit per quarter and they have majority control of the biggest two platforms worldwide (mobile and web). We are not in the wild west years of the early web. It will be decades before Meta or Alphabet collapse, in favor of TikTok or a similar, or even worse, competitor. Mastodon and lemmy are an exception and a niche, not a rule.

Wishing something very hard doesn't make it true.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why would creators leave? They only earn money from users that watch ads or use premium. Ad blocker users leaving doesn't affect them.

And if you "just leave", guess what? You just saved them a few bucks in bandwidth. It's a win-win for them.

It's YouTube, they don't need "exposure". They are out to make a profit.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

It can. But the average impact is still positive.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

As soon as on user does it? Welcome, DoS attack!

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is completely wrong. You are serving video stream, you just substitute for the ad you would serve the user, at a randomized point in the video. YouTube doesn't do this because they don't want to reimplement the tracking and logging, but if it was financially necessary it wouldn't be hard to do.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You would be surprised how many people will just uninstall the ad blocker the third time YouTube isn't working for 24 hours.

Every time YouTube or twitch make a change, a certain percentage of users give up, which means more revenue.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 11 months ago

I got vaccinated at my local pharmacy in Munich...

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Very interesting, thanks for the message. I might use it in my next Nas, but my workstation is staying on regular lvm, too much hassle to change probably...

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