I’ve self-hosted my own single-user Piped instance for about a year. However, I sometimes encounter problems with video loading times, and some subscriptions don’t display new publications until I manually visit the channel. The main reason I chose Piped was because it had LibreTube for Android, allowing me to sync my subscriptions between mobile and desktop.
Recently, I’ve been testing Invidious and I’m liking it. I discovered that using it on Android as a web app is quite efficient, especially in combination with UntrackMe to automatically open YouTube links in my Invidious instance. Additionally, there’s Clipious, an Android app similar to LibreTube but with an Invidious backend. Although it’s early in its development, it performs well.
I’m still weighing my options, but I find Invidious to be more stable in terms of loading times and subscription feed updates.
Unfortunately, not yet. Whisper per se is not able to do that. Currently, there are few viable solutions for integration, and I’m looking at this one, but all current solutions I know about need GPU for this.
Whisper models have a very good WER (word error ratio) for languages like Spanish, English, French… if you use the english-only models it also improves. Check out this page on the docs:
No, it’s completely independent, it does not rely on any third-party APIs or anything else. It can function entirely offline once the models have been downloaded.
Correct me if I’m wrong but, I think Brave Ads are opt-in. I have brave installed (although I use Librewolf as my main browser) and I’ve never seen an ad, you just need to disable them from the settings. Ads are just for those who want to earn BAT (the weird crypto token) by seeing ads.