The way they worded it, it sounded like dealing with YouTube was their job, like maybe managing a company’s YT account. So yeah, I totally expect a company to pay for YT premium. I’m certainly not suggesting they do it, unless they’re a freelancer or something.

People exaggerate issues with Nvidia. There’s certainly some substance to it, but having used Nvidia for ~10 years on Linux, it’s fine. The main caveats only really apply if you’re on a bleeding edge distro and want the latest features working.

Here are the issues I’ve had:

• kernel/driver mismatch - solved by manually reinstalling the package, loading from snapshot and trying again in a few days (happened 2-3x/year)
• Wayland support - keep using X11 if Nvidia is giving you issues on Wayland

That’s it. It largely works fine. You probably won’t get all of the features (not sure about the state of DLSS and RTX on Linux), but it’ll get the job done.

I’ve since switched to AMD and am happier, but if i found a good deal on an Nvidia card, I’d switch back.

Nvidia works fine on Linux, I used it for ~10 years in both rolling and stable distros (Ubuntu, Arch, and openSUSE Tumbleweed). AMD just works better because the driver is FOSS and included with the kernel. Specifically, this means:

• no upgrade failures - if the kernel and nvidia driver sees out of sync, it’ll fail to boot to a GUI and you’ll need to fix it without the GUI; only really an issue on rolling release distros, and then only a couple times/year
• better support for new rendering features - for a long time, Nvidia just didn’t work with Wayland because they refused to implement the same interface as AMD; they have since backtracked, but AMD still probably works better with Wayland
• timely updates - AMD updates come with the new kernel, Nvidia comes when someone updates the package

If you already have Nvidia, don’t feel obligated to replace your GPU, but the next time you’re looking to upgrade, consider AMD.

Yeah, not going to go look through everything, but I did just finish Assassins Creed: Brotherhood.

Next up, probably Balatro since I just bought it to support the devs after the stupid PEGI rating and winning best indie of the year.

If you need it for work, why don’t you have YouTube premium?

Do you know how to extract it?

Yeah, I think so. I’m not interested in addons anyway.

I think he’s pretty centrist, but he does tend to defend Trump a bit (not a fanboy, but a “see what he does” position) and is against supporting Ukraine, which is why I say he’s right of center. He’s nowhere near the Republican Party though, he’s pretty independent.

Regardless, I don’t really care where he sits on the left/right spectrum, I just appreciate an independent voice that backs statements with facts.

I used to do that, but I guess the novelty wore off after a few years. I’ve been 100% Linux for something like 15 years, and I’m happily rolling along with Tumbleweed.

Looks like I missed that movie, I’ll have to check it out.

And I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term “rendering” used in that context, I guess we just used other terminology. Thanks!

I thought it was largely federated? I don’t know how the internals work, so I don’t know what group of peers it’ll pull from.

Regardless, the problem PeerTube has little to do with its technical foundation IMO, but the network effect. If we get people to start using it, either we’ll fix it or we’ll develop something better, but getting creators to move is the first step.

I thought PeerTube’s problem was largely federation (need to know which servers to use), which results in making it hard to find content to watch and probably has something to do with how load balancing works (i.e. are you mostly streaming from your instance?). I think Lemmy has a similar problem, but it’s at least pretty fast because text and images are a lot easier to manage than video.

I hope they don’t commit. But if they do, I guess that’ll be the end of YT for me…

Yup, paying for something doesn’t guarantee good behavior, but not paying for something that most charge for almost guarantees bad behavior.

Sounds like someone hocking a loogie.

Sure, and none of that is necessary with a proper P2P system. If I’m torrenting something, it’ll naturally pull from seeders near me over seeders on the other side of the planet, so load balancing happens by every client being greedy.

The complex load balancing is only necessary because it’s a centralized service.

Yeah, FUTO rocks, literally my only complaint is their license for in-house stuff. If that gets fixed, I’ll shill them all day long.

Yeah, don’t do that. The most popular content on YouTube isn’t bad in the same way it is on Rumble/Odyssey, but in general, it’s filled with clickbait/rage bait and is generally pretty awful. It’s going to be especially awful on Rumble and Odyssey because it’s a refuge for people who didn’t like YouTube’s policies, so it’s going to largely be conspiracy theorists and far right nonsense.

That said, there’s some good on every platform. On Rumble, I like Glenn Greenwald, who is a right of center independent journalist who lives in Brazil (also gay, but that’s irrelevant). On Odyssey, I like Mental Outlaw (covers hacks, leaks, and privacy related news) and Naomi Brockwell (privacy advocacy). I don’t have an account at either, largely because those platforms are full of trash, I just sub through Grayjay so I don’t see that nonsense.

I wish a credible alternative existed, but for now, I’ll hedge a bit with other platforms.

Sure, but you’re assuming all content is on one server. With something like PeerTube, content is federated.

That said, I don’t think federation is the solution here because a popular video is going to completely swamp that instance, but something P2P would probably work if you can stream from multiple seeders. Even if you copy like we do w/ Lemmy, you’d still end up with a handful of instances that are way more popular than the rest and those would get hammered if there’s a particularly popular video.

If you can spread that $6B (ignoring bandwidth here) over 10M people, you end up with a very reasonable $600/year, and costs would go down as more people join the network. I also assume a lot of that is duplication to handle demand spikes, which is baked in to the P2P system, so a P2P system would probably be way cheaper to scale up.

You already often can’t mute ads directly, you can only mute them on whatever platform you’re watching them on.