YouTube sucks now. Here's how to fix it.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I'm going to guess that's located in Seattle, WA, Arlington, VA, or Washington, D.C. ....

Hillsboro, OR. Just 5 of the many data farms here in town and there is another 300 mW under construction at the moment.

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by Logic

You guys did watch that 1st video right?

I'd skipped the link because I'm not afflicted by ads.

But I removed the 'app=desktop&' and it opened so I'll get to that tab eventually.

[Logic]

Any Linux users??

I'm on Mint on my older system:
Quad core AMD A8-6600K, 8GB RAM, 1 GB Samsung 840 Evo and various HDDs.
Way quicker than Windows, and everything just works:

• Windows' formatted NTFS HDDs.
• 2 Screens. (1 a TV providing sound)
• Printer.
• USB attached SATA drive, using the 'new' UASP protocol. (TRIM, NCQ, etc)

No fanfare like windows. Just; Oh! There it is.
Some tweaks like write caching make a nice difference. (Timeshift/backup enabled)
Much lower internet data usage. (no Bing or Chrome. uBlock helps a lot!)

(2nd system is a Windows, AMD 3900x, 16GB RAM, SSD and 2 striped SSHDs all file aware read cached (eBoostr) on Intel Optane.
I'm thinking/researching CachyOS and Bcache..?)

[Logic]

Originally Posted by JSH

Who pays for these if nobody pays for anything? (Those are each 50 MW data centers down the road from me). That is the internet version of the old retail mall. Google, Amazon, and others are providing the infrastructure that people use to host their product and run their businesses.

I have 1 life. That's priceless and I wont waste it watching (infuriating) ads.
if ...'Poor little' Google don't like it; they can close YouTube TF down.

Are those solar cells on 3 of the roofs?
That's ...nice.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by Logic

I have 1 life. That's priceless and I wont waste it watching (infuriating) ads.
if ...'Poor little' Google don't like it; they can close YouTube TF down.

Are those solar cells on 3 of the roofs?
That's ...nice.

Nope, those are A/C units on the roof and a row of diesel generators on the left.

Solar / battery storage is done at the utility level with the local utility having a field of solar panels and a 75 kw battery backup in a dedicated building. Both are near to the substation that feeds the industrial park.

A closer view:

[freebeard]

Any Linux users??

I'm on Mint on my older system:

[raises hand] Raspian OS on the two most recent computers. Two remaining Apple machines, but they are non-worldfacing.

Better desktop performance than Apple's Finder. But the Pi 5 shipped with a Real Time Clock battery socket unpopulated. Batteries Plus don't have them, so I need to go to the trouble of ordering online.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I got started with the Apple][ in 1980. Supported Norton Utilities for nine years. But I left the Apple ecosystem for the Raspberry Pi.

What Pi?
I ask as there are nuerous ways to improve their performance. I find it fun to do! Are you interested in that sort of thing?

Originally Posted by freebeard

A week or two ago, Youtube started halting videos if their ads wouldn't work. I just opened Rumble and followed my podcasters there. Not so much Blender tutorials and rat rods* on Rumble. It had ended a few days later.

So the browser (what?) or ad blocker (what?) on your Pi (which OS?) updated its anti-anti-adblocker filters and the issue went away?

Originally Posted by freebeard

I declined Bill Gates operating system, so he switched to vaccines. I declined those too. What will he try next?

All the virii humanity is scared of are the ones for which there are not innoculations.
All the virii for which there are not innoculations are lipid coated.

The lipid coating 'disguises' the virus as a 'nutrient', so while innoculations for the uncoated/undisguised virii are easy; with the 'disguise' on;
your immune sys has no idea that the virus it's been 'trained' to destoy is in fact there in front of it...

The other thing the lipid layer does is enable the virus to dock with and infect a cell, turning it into a virus factory.
Eventually the factory 'pops', releasing millions of virii to continue the vicious cycle.

Now what if there was a way to disrupt or strip off that lipid layer/disguise:
Well your immune sys would then 'see' and destroy the virus.
And if it were busy elsewhere it wouldnt matter as the virus would not be able to get into a cell. It would just hang about awaiting it's turn to be executed.

Remember the Covid "Wash your hands with soap. I wont kill the virus but..." thing? Same story, but soap's not edible...

I'll stop there as, like the "Too good to be true" Boric Acid thing, no-one will believe me anyway.
Finding 3 "Too good to be true" things (so far) that are in fact true in my lifetime is my own little 'Won the Lotto' thing.

Covid was a complete non event for me and mine. No 'fear and hiding' etc.
No flu or fever blisters etc either. Havent been to a quack in what... 10-15 years now.
(Those flu vaccines are BS because your immune sys has been innoculated against the nakid virii, which it cannot 'see')

Having no fear of any of those 'no cure, no innoculation for it!' virii is liberating!

[Isaac Zachary]

The way I see it, YouTube funds it's service (hard drives aren't free) by two means, ads and subscriptions. If you don't want to watch ads or pay for a subscription, then maybe YouTube isn't for you.

[freebeard]

What Pi?
I ask as there are nuerous ways to improve their performance. I find it fun to do! Are you interested in that sort of thing?

Pi 4 (4Gb) and Pi 5 (8Gb) running Bookworm. I see there was a new release in May so I shall update. There are some things I should fix, like the overscan -- I can only see half the Left-most icon in the menu bar.

So the browser (what?) or ad blocker (what?) on your Pi (which OS?) updated its anti-anti-adblocker filters and the issue went away?

Stock out of the box. I think Youtube's policy reverted. Update and Upgrade is done in the Terminal which it looks like is due.

If you don't want to watch ads or pay for a subscription, then maybe YouTube isn't for you.

I'm with Logic on that.

[Piotrsko]

Afaik, pihole isn't necessarily required to run on a raspberry, but all the distros are done in binary to optimize. My youtube is mostly ad free, but it took a while to winnow out the domains of the major advertisers, and I still have to periodically go and add new addresses. Sometimes it takes a couple seconds to go through that list to load programming