Three ad blockers? One of them is fake and serving you ads. Or is allowing ads through because they are getting kickbacks. Or one of your other add-ons is serving that crap. Purge all that shit and start over.

Who the hell sees ads? If you choose to let your browser run them, well, what do you want?

Eh, then if your online ID is compromised you’re in trouble. Can’t just burn it and start over.

I have one 12 TB and two 14 internal hard drives. I also have 6 external drives (two 12 TB, four 14 TB) for 2x redundant backups. All my new stuff and dynamic documents are stored on the 12 TB drive (so that I only have to update the backups for that drive frequently). When it gets fullish I migrate content over to the storage drives and update those backups. I’ve been doing this maybe twice a year.

I also have my dynamic files, photos, docs etc, set to auto backup twice daily to a remote backup.

I only delete content to replace with higher quality.

I haven’t bothered with any sort of raid in nearly two decades. You need proper backups regardless so what’s the point? If I have to run half my Plex library off a USB backup drive for a week while a new drive runs badsector and syncs up… who cares? Merging the drives as a JBOB is nifty and all, but adds complexity across the board without meaningful gain.

It’s back!

I’d love to hear how the decaf is.

It is both the best and worst idea humans ever conceived.

If they don’t call it Green Lizard Enterprise Linux I’ll be disappointed.

You want a disgusting AI generated content mess? Because that’s how you get a disgusting AI generated content mess.

You say that like demolition and building a new structure aren’t fucking expensive. Old buildings are reused for new things all the time.

While I’m generally opposed to defederation as a general rule, I’m also old enough to have suffered through Microsoft’s Embrace Extend Extinguish paradigm. Never again. Absolutely no federation with megacorp instances.

Go banana.

Lol motivation to whom? And yes, it shouldn’t be part of the standard. It shouldn’t be a thing. But all of FAANG are DRM enthusiasts, so it’s not going anywhere unfortunately. Best you’ll be able to do is use a browser that doesn’t display content served by FAANG and friends.

No, I’ve seen no plans to expand DRM on YouTube but the paid videos have been DRM from the start, so they very much have the software internally in place to do it. And third party apps using a YouTube-dl backend provide a workaround against ad blocker bans so if they’re serious about this…

There are tools to record mediocre quality video from Netflix (flixgrab) and there is an exploit that the scene groups use to nab webdls but there’s nothing quality for normal users.

Which will provide the motivation to enable DRM the whole platform.

No, when they decide to end yt-dl (and similar tools) they will just enable DRM on all videos, rather than just the pay-per-view videos. The infrastructure already exists for Netflix-like DRM on YouTube. If they are serious about cracking down on ad blocking then it is a matter of time before they throw that switch.

They’re lining up an IPO. Anything suggesting that they can’t maintain 5-10% real growth year after year (like other companies that investors could put their money) is truly damming. A sustained decrease in revenue, even a small one, is going to gut the IPO valuation.

I expect most of us are here for the chill vibe. That should be reflected in the outcomes at the agora. Assuming it’s local only.