This. When YouTube finally succeeds in making it impossible for anyone to use their website without watching ads, they probably still won’t succeed in preventing people from downloading for offline viewing. When this happens I’m going to invest in making scripts that autodownload stuff ahead of time and I’ll only watch whatever videos are in my home network.

Im not watching their brainwash bullshit ass propaganda. I’ll find other stuff to do for entertainment before I give in to ads.

Pretty soon you’ll be required to get one of these as a condition of employment. Just watch.

We should harass the fuck out of this guy until he removes it. This shit is completely uncalled for.

1 meter is roughly 17 football field bud lights per ar-15.

If there’s a free software alternative to what I want to pirate, I always use that instead. Software is like sex. It’s better when it’s free.

I’ve tried jeroba, liftoff and thunder. My experience with jeroba is mostly negative. It’s not good enough to be a full replacement for using a web browser and with the new update it crashes on my older, not bleeding edge phone. It can’t even open lemmy links people post half the time.

Thundar is ok. I’m not a fan of its interface but at least you can actually browse communities you aren’t subscribed to.

The third one I’ve tried is Liftoff and it’s the best one I’ve seen so far. It’s about the same in terms of quality as Boost for reddit. You can explore new communities in other instances, have more than one active account logged in to be able to simultaneously use different instances and best of all there’s a search.

No. When they changed the 4G bands and dropped the older ones, they changed them to the only 2 or 3 bands that non North American phones don’t have. I’ve never heard of anyone hacking this through software but you never know.

people will just find a new brand that doesn’t fuck up the bootloader

Yep, and right now, the Google pixels are the ones that have an unlockable bootloader and have the most features. Some of the pixels have microphone jacks, making them the only phone I know of that can be used in North America that has both a microphone jack and unlockable bootloader.

We used to be able to use the Exynos Samsungs. It was great. Unlockable bootloader, microphone jack and sdcard. Carriers then fucked us by changing the frequencies so the European Samsungs don’t work anymore. Now you can’t get a phone that has an unlockable bootloader, an sdcard and a microphone jack and also have it work on North America. Shit sucks.

Most political issues are like this. It’s just one big circlejerk of finger pointing where “no one” is responsible. Housing crisis? Same shit. Wages not keeping up with inflation? Same shit. Shrinkflation? Also the same shit.

Every time I try to make money online without “getting a real job” they find some reason to fuck it up and pocket the money without giving me anything. If I’m not allowed to make money without getting a “real job” then I don’t see how it’s fair anyone else should be able to. This is why I pirate everything and don’t do x as a service. I always use open source alternatives when possible. Maybe corporations should get a real job.