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Did TikTok just stop working in the browser completely? I won’t download the app, but my family sometimes send me links to it and the videos never load anymore. I thought it was my VPN.
You usually have to remove anything after the numbers and “?”, that should allow you to play it in the browser.
Seems to be so, it hasn’t worked for me in sometime.
NewPipe is great on my phone, SmartTube for my TV. I tried showing others but it’s like they don’t think that there is a problem. I use Arch btw.
YouTube.com through firefox with uBo for me. SmartTube is super easy to set up and if anyone is on the fence, do it now.
i just use the YouTube site on firefox with adblock and sponsorblock. slightly janky but works
Does anyone know something not terribly complicated for blocking YouTube ads on Xbox one? We don’t have a smart tv and the ads are infuriating when I remember they exist
100%.
SponsorBlock on SmartTube is incredible. Saved so much time
FreeTube is pretty good as well. Using it on Debian (or Mint).
+1 to FreeTube. It just sucks that all these players typically use the same YouTube.js lib. So when google fucks with that lib (because they definitely cat-and-mouse that shit), it breaks so many.
That’s my fear as well. Google breaks literally everything they touch.
lesbian-moon-gf is a goddess of curmudgeonry and I am now her high priestess
Not being able to use every server emoji on Discord is actually a good safeguard for NSFW spamming, because when trolls have to pay to be obnoxious, they usually stop doing it.
I agree on the premise as a whole, though. Our entire lives are getting enshittified with subscription models, designed to prey on those who forget to cancel or otherwise don’t have the means or knowledge to get rid of it
If you can’t pirate it, it’s not worth the money to rent it
I only disagree when it comes to paying creators for their content. I pay for a single streaming service, and that’s just because it directly supports the people running the service and making the content.
I’m more than happy to pay creators more or less directly for content, but I’m definitely not supporting shit services like Hulu and Netflix.
I pay for a single streaming service, and that’s just because it directly supports the people running the service and making the content.
Nebula?
Dropout for me
Dropout.tv would be my guess
You would be correct
Slippi was right, I pay for dropout.tv. It’s an amazing platform that basically rose from the ashes of college humor. If you like their style of humor, they have a bunch of new shows and tons of D&D-like content. Easiest $5/mo I spend.
I’m so excited for season 2 of Misfits and Magic coming out tonight
Me and my partners are still working through NSBU, but I can’t recall if we’ve seen season 1. So much content and so little time!
Enjoy watching as it comes out!
Season 1 is only 5 episodes of actual play, so it’s a fairly quick watch.
Never Stop Blowing Up was a great season, you’re in for a great time. I highly recommend watching the Adventuring Party, generally, and especially for NSBU.
We have been, and it’s sooopoo good. Also nice to see some BTS stuff and characters progressing. My partners don’t always like watching the adventuring party, but I enjoy them.
I think that’s fair, I do think AP got way better once they started recording after the episode they were for compared to when they used to record them after the season was over.
We need more texts like these. Different people respond to different kinds of content/appeals. I personally very much agree with this but I think some people would reject the entire idea because they might draw their line at piracy; which can be shifted, and I think that’s why we need way more of these messages
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Self host on your desktop or laptop. Freedom is yours in FOSS.
What’s this?
Fuckin’ A on this one. Think about how much companies make with entirely artificial scarcity. You can only add 1 license to this, you can only watch on one TV unless you pay us $15 a month. It costs $200 to change where you are in the database table for this flight. Complete bullshit and we need to see it for what it is and stop it. I love how she says all that will be left in their wake is dull capitalists. Exactly. Stop playing their games. Play your game.
Also work on not being such a dopamine hound. I don’t need to see new-show this year. Or this decade. I’ll see it eventually. Or never. Who cares.
Know what’s as good as music? The wind in the trees.
Not saying I’m some ascetic who doesn’t enjoy media, but when I hit a paywall or an adwall I just try to say “ok, see ya later” and move on letting that content desire slip from my mind.
This is great advice. There’s so much content to enjoy from the past 20+ years that I don’t feel the desire to immediately buy the new thing. You can usually get it for far cheaper down the line.
There are communities such as PatientGamers for videogames that preach exactly this.
Usually, but not always. Some 5-10 year old games are still north of $50. The price for some movies and TV series has gone up rather than down over the years.
Luckily, as you said there’s so much out there that as long as I don’t get too picky there’s more than enough available without paying gouged prices.
Downvotes from stimulation hounds lol.
What if someone other than me knows what baby Yoda is up to?
To repeat, I’m not saying I perfectly succeed at this.
I recently setup magnetico and tuned its crawling to not be super disruptive to my network (ISP’s shitty router doesn’t have enough RAM to maintain a stateful firewall for NAT for all the sockets magnetico likes to open).
And slowly, I’ve been accumulating torrent hashes. In a couple of months, I’m up to 118k+. I’ve considered trying to merge in other people’s magnetico databases. The point is to maintain my own search for torrents to avoid the the whack-a-mole that stupid governments play with torrent search sites.
A buddy of mine swears by usenet and uses a pretty cheap option for access.
All of that said about piracy: Support creators in your life. Cut off parasites.
For every person with the discipline to ignore subscription based services there are hundreds who go “but I don’t get ads if I do”
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.
- the best advice an AI ever gave (too bad it was a fictional AI)
Except when it comes to voting. Vote, please.
That’s because all the good shit* comes from humans.
*but also so much bad shit. So so so much bad as well.
“If you can’t pirate it.”
That’s a skill issue.
git gud
Tiktok being able to display videos on desktop but not images is simultaneously hilarious and sad. It’s baffling. Like why? How?
I say this as a creator; it is not stealing to take something that can be replicated infinitely without cost.
I wonder if there is a word for that
It can be reproduced indefinitely without cost to the creator. It’s the first production that’s a bitch.
How is initial production funded if nobody is willing to pay for it?
If it were fairly funded it would be easier to find the money. Because right now tickets and subscriptions are most expensive ever yet just a few months ago US writers had to go on a long strike. If execs and “stars” stopped taking astronomical amounts of money then the production costs would probably go down.
Up front through things like kickstarter? instead of convincing a publisher to sign you on you have to convince a crowd
Artists will create art regardless of whether they are paid for it.
In any case, sale of physical media and merchandising will earn plenty to fund production.
