Yeah the Roblox thing is hard to swallow, it used to work better on Linux than on any other platform for me. Everything else there’s alternatives - my local PC shop sells machines at a significant discount “without windows installed”, maybe if more did that the market would take care of things and the software vendors would have to support Linux.

My own ads, just to make sure they still work (for the 40% who still don’t block ads)

As a professional juggler practised early on to do things with either hand - whether it’s washing dishes or putting a key in the door… just paying attention to how you do things. Now can take juggle 3 balls in either hand

As a former Android developer, you can’t just do anything in an android app on a modern smartphone. The system is fighting you for resources the whole time. It makes sense to have something like this running as root on a device that you control.

Not that I’m sold on it, just saying…

We don’t have bears here, only lions…

I’m my county a high percentage of cars have GPS trackers fitted already - by the owner - because of the high vehicle theft rate.

I imagine if that police here just have to call up the tracking company to achieve the same result - something to think about actually (I don’t have one, my car isn’t worth much)

Then I think the actual answer is there are none. Although PipePipe can access PeerTube? Also BiliBili and NicoNico. BiliBili is possibly larger than YouTube but of course it’s all in Chinese!

I mostly use PipePipe on android, from f-droid store. It’s basically New pipe but more reliable and can also view Chinese and Japanese video platforms

On desktop Freetube can’t be beat

The apipocalypse same as everyone else. I do miss my niche communities, and my 4000+ internet points, but as an open source enthusiast (I use arch btw) I’m very much at home here 😁

I heard about the avast thing, but how are isp’s modifying web pages, that shouldn’t be possible with with https, right?

That’s the plan.

Yeah I’m going with they’re innocent. Just the UI with the install button and no explanation is not cool.

Yeah looking at you Roblox 😠. Has anyone hacked that anti cheat nonsense yet? Right now I’m mirroring my android phone on my desktop to be able to see what I’m doing (I’m over 40 but I play with my kids in case you wondering)

AI models get more dishonest if you ask them to respond as if they were a pirate: https://www.circusscientist.com/2023/11/13/i-hired-a-pirate-to-take-orders-for-my-entertainment-business/

Putting in my vote for Librera reader here. Also on f-droid

Have you tried Minetest? It’s pretty good, and not Java based so a lot more lightweight.

The votes are in, it is bad UI! Thanks to those who commented and made suggestions.

I have no idea why, but somehow my site became the target of bots signing up, with legit looking emails but username was random letters. I already check for emails, so a friend suggested putting a hidden trip field for the bots (this is apparently common?) and I thought it might be fun if I made it visible.

The field totally worked though, the bots gave up. Still annoyed though, who was it? I didn’t post the links to the site in many places yet it’s work in progress, I have like 10 (human) users. I guess I need to add some IP blocking and all sorts of other stuff too in future (eg captcha).

And yes the DDG thing was put there by my browser. It’s a handy feature, gave me multiple free trials on ChatGPT for eg, before they stopped the new sign-ups!

I’ve been told it is bad, I really like it (it’s my own site)

Something similar happened recently here in South Africa, a woman bumped the thief with her car. He didn’t die though, and she wasn’t prosecuted. People are sick of crime here

Pretty cool. I was looking up nes games recently, turns out there are still people making games for the platform, open source and on GitHub!