I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.
I am praying this is wrong SO MUCH.
I’m happy seeing so many kids getting into retro hardware and actual computing and physical media and stuff. We should tighten that bolt.
As much trouble as we’ve got, I REALLY will not live in this “everything is just a terminal to The Cloud™” world. It’s disgusting.
Oh like a Chrome book?
Exactly like a Chromebook. Those stupid things were (are?) such a coordinated landfill and education-decimating campaign.
With my mom in law’s, I had to go through so much crap to overwrite the bootloader using some saint’s scripts just so I could put Linux on it. The stupid thing (an Asus) actually said “We’re done updating this thing. Buy a new one. Lol.”
The way they foisted that Temu-grade hardware on impoverished schoolsystems across the country is disgusting.