rush

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17 year old Tech enthusiast and Cat lover from Germany.

I’m almost positive I’m autistic and/or have ADHD.

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rush,

lol that sounds like an existing old-YouTube bug that ReVanced also suffered of a while ago.

You’d wanna use an up-to-date version, but that’s hard on such an old android version

I’d suggest - even tho it isn’t 1:1 the same - that you export your subscriptions from Google and import them either into LibreTube (closer to the official YT app) or NewPipe.

Because LibreTube uses the (awesome) Piped Project to load videos and info, you can also sync data using it and your favourite piped instance. (piped.video, piped.smnz.de, piped.adminforge.de are personal recommendations)

rush,

newpipe does YouTube, SoundCloud, Peertube, and Bandcamp. NewPipe isn’t YouTube-Only.

rush,

there could be a patchset made with ReVanced-CLI. It’s an easy bypass if you know a bit of Java/Kotlin, even with release APKs

rush,

piped.smnz.de and piped.adminforge.de have worked well for me so far. Relatively quick updates and bugfixes :)

rush,

What I like to do is export my subscriptions using Google’s data export page, and then import it into a Piped instance, in my case piped.adminforge.de or piped.smnz.de

rush,

Eh, the devs probably don’t want this either, only because it means they’ll keep their job are they doing this

I vote for making the executives’ lives hell instead

rush,

Judging from how many SWEs are in the US, its basically this or loose your job. And that’d be a bit bad because of how many different pricing crisis there are at the moment.

rush,

I would wager a guess and say that many joined long before they got this bad, probably because back then their visions and values were a lot more aligned

Nowadays I rarely see more than hectic startups and Big Tech, both of which have massive downsides which affect people outside of their field too.

Additionally, especially at the HQs of Google and others, many SWEs live in vans on the street because rent is too high, they cannot just work somewhere else as that won’t actually change the situation

rush,

Make sure you really only selected YouTube subs, otherwise they’ll give you like 6 50gb ZIP Files (depending on how much they know about you 😉)

rush,

Web

For the web, there is Piped (github.com/teampiped/piped) and Invidious (invidious.io)

NOTE: Only Piped proxies your videos, which means invidious allows connections directly to Google to load the video.

Android

On Android, there’s NewPipe and LibreTube which are well known by now.

NOTE: LibreTube uses Piped to preserve privacy and (somewhat) anonymity when watching, thus you’ll need to select some piped instance with it.

iOS

On iOS, there’s the web frontends and Yattee (github.com/yattee/yattee).

NOTE: Yattee is on the AppStore, but without any sources/instances by default. Look for “instances” in the settings and add a Piped API URL, like https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks to watch videos from YouTube with Piped+Yattee.

Desktop

On Desktop, there is all the web clients as well as FreeTube (freetubeapp.io).

NOTE: FreeTube has an option to proxy everything or just the videos through Invidious to preserve privacy. It is recommended to enable this.

rush,

Eh, obtainium doesn’t verify signatures, it quite literally just scrapes sources.

rush,

It doesn’t sign it locally, it verifies the file you downloaded is already signed properly as it should be. This ensures the download isn’t broken but also that the app is from who they claim it is.

rush,

because obtainium gets many apps directly from F-Droid.org too, not just github

And for those downloads, it does no verification

Not on GitHub either, where signatures are often attached together with the APK.

rush,

Librewolf is Firefox configured with many privacy-related settings out of the box, uBlock Origin and it clears all data on exit by default.

rush,

You lose:

  • Your existing YouTube account, which can only be manually imported (subscriptions)
  • Account-Based/Algorithmic Homescreen recommendations
  • Some higher resolutions (e.g 4K) (very dependant on instance, I don’t have a list of instances with their max resolutions)
  • The UI will be somewhat different, but not necessarily hard to navigate
  • probably more random stuff idk
rush,

A piece of software that anyone can host on the internet which allows you and others to watch YouTube without loading their original page full of ads and anti-features, whilst also allowing you to have a certain level of anonymity and improved privacy.

(the anonymity comes from collective anonymity, where you’re harder to make out in the crowd, as YouTube only sees a bunch of people watching a bunch of random videos, but not who is watching)

rush,

If you already got steam set up, just add your pirated game as a non-steam game.

If you’d want some more control about the environment a game runs in (e.g tooling like DXVK), I suggest bottles, it’s a tool designed to more easily manage Wine installations and dependencies.

They have their own compatibility layer called “Soda” based on the same tech that Proton uses, just with less of a gaming focus out-of-the-box. They recommend installing through Flatpak, a software management tool that’s available by default on many Linux distributions, but note that you’d wanna give it access to your games folder (wherever you wanna put that) or your entire home-folder using Flatseal

rush,

There is AppImages. There’s also tools to package games as AppImages with Wine.

rush,

Or you just use something like bottles

rush,

Good to see! It really needed some reorganisation

rush,

I sleep like 10 hours a day and I am still tired

I feel scammed

rush,

I don’t have an alarm

I never said I had an alarm

[discussion]: regarding the best OS for a pirate

This post started out as a question, but throughout two days of googling it became this compilation of links. I will tell you everything worth mention that I found, share my plan with you, and expect some critics (for the infos of course, please not for the silly hyperactivity of my ADHD brain over such a trivial matter 🥲)....

rush,

If Linux broke that often (in comparison to windows), many of your devices and most of the internet wouldn’t run Linux.

(other than windows PCs and maybe MacOS devices)

rush,

by “most of the internet” I mean a HUGE majority of the websites you interact with being hosted on servers that run, you guessed it, Linux. Additionally, your WiFi router probably runs linux, almost any non-iPhone runs Linux, IOT devices (say, security cameras) usually run Linux, and Linux is even on Mars.

rush,

though, websites aren’t the only thing that power the internet

I’m interested in what it’d look like if other things, like game servers for example were to be counted

rush,

The last time that YouTube used Flash Player, was in 2015. That is about 8 years ago, nearly a decade. I’ve installed Linux Mint on devices by relatives and they have not really had any major issues since, the first instance of that was 2 years ago.

Since 2015, which seems to me was the last time you tried a Linux Distribution, things have changed dramatically. About 5 years ago, Valve released their first version of Proton - a compatibility layer for windows programs based on Wine, DXVK and other tooling - that has been able to run tons of programs up to this point and has only been improving. In the games department alone about 87% of the top 1000 games have been marked as playable by the community. In terms of other software there’s been a massive shift from trying to run Windows Software to instead looking for alternatives and/or programs which fill your needs, as you should when switching operating systems. After all, when someone switches to macOS from Windows or vice versa, they wouldn’t expect to have the same Windows-Only software, or macOS-Only software.

Last year, the Steam Deck released, which ships with a full, user-facing version of Linux developed in-house by Valve called SteamOS. That marked the moment where another, decently sized development team working on various different aspects of the Linux desktop stack was being paid to continue developing to ensure a better experience, and Valve is known for upstreaming their fixes and changes where possible, contributing back to the experience for the benefit of everyone.

I don’t know when you’ve last tried Linux on the desktop, but in case it really hasn’t been since 2015 I encourage you to give it another try. Things have changed, and whilst - like any software - the experience still isn’t perfect, it has come a long way from the experience you’re describing, even when comparing it to a shorter timespan like from 2019 to now.

rush,

Many subreddits, especially popular ones, are archived on archive.org

rush,

Signal. SimpleX is a second to that.

rush,

Its managing your rights in the sense of taking them away.

rush,

Unity Is a separate desktop, see Ubuntu Unity

rush,

You may wanna look into F(x)tec

rush,

I agree in the fact that some ML algorithms are used daily by nearly all who have a smartphone, but things like increasing the touch target is BS. It’s quite easy to confirm by simply either looking at the code or enabling “show layout bounds” in Android’s Developer Options.

rush,

hats off to them, great company

rush,

the hardware is middle to low class, but they’ve taken a lot of time to optimize the software indeed

rush,

meanwhile Fairphone on their way to do up to 10 years

rush,

The solutions are there, but 💫capitalism💫

rush,

I’d play that, the fact that you’d include this content sounds dope

rush,

Vivaldi also has a reader mode 🤔

rush,

Eh, depends on your threat model. When Telemetry is none of your concern, you’re good to go.

rush,

New people will be unsure, even with the resources. Gatekeeping this could be avoided by simply linking to the correct part in the Sidebar/Megathread.

rush,

I’d wager a guess and say Debian is probably used on servers more than desktops. I’d wager another guess and say that for server applications many are actually fine with snap

as such, I bring forth the theory that snapd is a popular package on Debian due to it’s widespread use on servers, not because tons of people are running bare Debian on their desktops and preferring snaps.

We need more data to say anything about the desktop.

rush,

If you want your Flatpak on Flathub.org, you’ll need to open a pull request and go through review.

rush,

If you’re thinking prompts and permissions, that exists. PolKit handles all of that both on and outside the desktop. Many on servers may use sudo instead.

You don’t have admin/root priveleges by default unless you’re dumb enough to do sudo -i or login to the root user

rush,

Both are maintained. Both are official. LMDE / Linux Mint Debian Edition is an alternative version.

rush,

One is based on Ubuntu, the other is based on Debian.

It’s maintained in case something goes wrong with Ubuntu, or for those who don’t want to use it as the base for Mint.

rush,

With the maintainer having added the ability to re-clock newer cards and the upcoming NVK driver, it may be a possibility in the future.

rush, (edited )

that’s really just two differences:

  • weaker separation/sandboxing (process is granted permission to everything) (mostly bad with handy usecases)
  • an alias feature for binaries contained in packages so you don’t have to run them by ID
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