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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • I’m old enough to remember a time before YouTube. When YouTube started, it wasn’t about making money. There were no ads. No subscriptions. No sponsors. In the early days of YouTube it was just backyard videos. But it didn’t take long for the connect to start getting good because it was the first of its kind, and everyone started using it. The problem now is, to convince people to use something else that, essentially does the same thing, but doesn’t make people money. Good luck with that.

    Money corrupted YouTube. And now, the idea that people can be “content creators” for a living means that there will likely never be a mainstream, ad free, subscription free video platform, where people just make videos in their spare time. Peer tube is cool, but your not going to see high quality, curated content like you get on YouTube. An I think that’s probably a good thing.















  • Thanks for this. I went down a bit of a rabbit hole today looking into proxmix, and started thinking that a Dell optiplex won’t cut it after reading how using proxmox with zfs uses more resources, plus I kept seeing people recommend ECC ram which is more expensive and is harder to come by.

    I’m look at ucore, but most install instructions for things are targeted at debian systems using apt. I guess that’s not a major hurdle though.

    Proxmox still peaks my interest, and maybe one-day when I can afford a decent setup I’ll get into it some more.