Physical media: spinning disks

In for the Snowflake the Pirate doubloons!

I have a place in the boonies and I use starlink. I find it to be vastly superior to the only other semi-viable option, line of site. Speeds aren’t as great as they use to be and I’ll be happy to change when another better or similar option comes along.

I do experience mico-outages every few days. Like a 1 to 2 second drop that I would only notice with vid chats or gaming.

I do have a media server and surf the seven seas. Starlink is crap for that, so I found a new home for it as I move my residence out here.

Ooo they sell these in the US?

See wish list item 1

Glad you enjoy it. Keep doing your thing. But are you seriously deaf to the rising chorus of complaints about YouTube? This thread contains many examples of youtube’s enshitification over the few couple years. Your question feels disingenuous at best to me

I propose YouTube make a MUCH better premium product and price it correctly. Paying for things is fine. Paying for things to get crappier? Na

Better than magma toots

The thing is it does need to be said. And it needs to be said about Hamas and Palestinians. And it needed to be said about the Taliban and Afghans, Hussain and the Iraqi people, ISIS and Muslims.

At least in America, lots of people need reminding.

It’s not legal for the government to take it. So instead, we’ll pay to give it to them.

So far they’ve learned the benefit far outweighs the cost

Grab yourself an antenna and filter and feed adsbexchsnge, flightaware, and flightradar24.

Na, man. It’s too damn long

Na, many pilots are allowed to carry a gun

Well, yeah.

Thank you for your honesty

Those parties got exactly what they wanted to buy. The death of their detractors’ communication platform.

Well, this way I got to see it. Thanks to you. Thanks.

Luckily for me YT hosts all the crap

Edit: Billions of years ago stars exploded. So today while waiting in line at the DMV I got to have an “awww” moment when someone I don’t know posted a link, to a video of other people I don’t know enjoying their dog, as an example of useless crap that a computer company hosts on its servers. Stars exploded. And here we are.

Life is wild, man

How is sharing the love for your puppers useless? A sweet and touching moment.

YT is spending money on hosting that to reinforce their monopoly. If they have the vast majority of user created videos they are able to block ad blockers with minimal loss of user activities. If they did not host such “useless” content another platform would have a space to get a foothold.

Same reason YouTube started hosting shorts, to fill the space that was started on other platforms and help maintain their video hosting monopoly.

Users voicing their displeasure with forced ads is valuable feedback for the monopoly.

No one ever pays me in juice 🥺