I heard one game dev in a podcast saying that they were told to make more and more expensive in-game purchases, and no matter how expensive it got ($1,000+), SOMEBODY would buy it. 🤦🏻♂️
@RL_Dane And that's the problem with a lot of things these days: People DO NOT have any self control. Idiots will still buy this garbage and it makes the rest of us suffer. I wouldn't mind paying $70 per game (yes, that's the new norm) if it was worth it. Instead, we get a buggy mess every time, the games are SO uninspired, and DLC runs rampant. Did I mention that game devs/publishers rely on the fact that they can just "patch it later"? ARGH!
@RL_Dane No worries. I find that other instances like this are pretty slow so I just rely on my own instance, which is slightly slower than YT itself. But hey, it works.
I use newpipe/libretube on android and mostly just YT proper (with uBlock Origin) the few times I watch YT on my big laptop.
On slower laptops, I use a yewtu.be script I wrote to take commandline parameters and pass them as queries to yewtu.be via w3m directly, and then when I find a video I want to watch, I select "watch in youtube"...
...which gives me a mostly blank page, but then I can yank the URL and pass it to a bash function I wrote called yt-mpv which tells mpv to use yt-dlp (instead of youtube-dl) to view the video, and also handles detecting the vertical resolution of the monitor (X11 only, obvs ;) and selecting the appropriate resolution for that machine (since slower devices can't handle 1080p, let alone 4K).
@RL_Dane YT-DLP ftw! I really only use it for videos I want to keep forever and archive for use with Jellyfin. For offline videos that I don’t want the best quality of, I use MeTube and the browser extension. Super handy for both MP3 and MP4 downloads.
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