I mean, it all hinged in the fact that under all those glitches and bugged mechanics CDPR still had a nice game. Starfield can't be salvaged cuz the core game is just mediocre shit.
I wanna say it's a failed IP at this point, but who knows how many copies sold. What is sure is it doesn't deserve any more of my time. I have the DLC but won't reinstall that garbage
No one is forced to use youtube in the same sense no one is forced to use a smartphone.
In the real world you'll eventually have to use those things to participate in society, just by the sheer reach those things have in our daily lives.
Just look back into any time a friend or family shared a link, or it was embedded in an article, or a company made an announcement only in youtube, or if you're in school and you were asked to view some lesson, or those college lectures that get uploaded to youtube.
I can get more examples, the thing is you'll need to click a youtube link at some point. Is it ok for us to deal with an enshittified platform? should we act like a luddite because we don't agree with the TOS? is this fair for us?
My current usage of youtube doesn't involve following creators, for that I use odysee/twitch. But the point remains, its morally correct to block ads, the platform is unfairly dominant.
Easier said than done when you talk about the global video sharing platform that is used everywhere by everyone...
It's like telling someone to just ditch their smartphone... not practically doable. Blocking ads is morally correct when you are forced to use it.
Title is kinda misleading. The issue only affects public instances, and it has been an ongoing problem since many months ago. Basically the moment youtube detects lots of traffic from one IP it gets blocked, and need sign-in.
It seems this block just became harder to work around, and they started blocking all IPs from hosting providers, but I'm sure a solution will be found eventually.
If you have a spare laptop/PC/raspberry pi you can host your own invidious in your home. It won't get blocked, it will be much faster, and you can use options that are usually disabled on public instances (the API and DASH quality).
Then you can add something like tailscale/twingate into the mix to access it outside your home. Self hosted wireguard can also work if your ISP gives you a static IP or you setup a DDNS service. I personally use twingate because I don't like opening any port in my router.
They can try to enshittify all they want, but as long as they keep offering that shit for free it's their own fault really. There will always be a way to remove all the crap once the video images enter my computer.
If it isn't sustainable for them then they should have required sign in and payment long ago instead of operating at a loss just to get all the content in their place. The only ones letting it happen are themselves, we just here for the ride.
it's not fake, bing rewards has been a thing for many years. It's literally just using bing to search things, each search gives you points, and then you redeem giftcards (amazon, uber, etc)
I guess most here don't particularly care, but the points mechanic it's nice
I wouldn't say it's borderline unusable tbh...
The first adware result is blocked with any ad blocker, the fact you see it means you might not have your ad blocker on, or disabled in incognito mode.
The second and third copilot bullshit sections can be toggled off from any search result page, on the sidebar settings there's a toggle.
I do appreciate the bing rewards thing, basically every few weeks I get a gift card because you earn points by using bing
He's already way past caring about anything other than money. He just gets the script and lends his known face for the video... regardless of anything else.
Can't entirely blame the guy though, cuz when he gets going you quickly see what an asshat he actually is, but he did have passion for the content a few years ago.
I just wish LTT would fade into irrelevancy already, it's just shallow clickbaity content that hardly provides any value. I'm also just waiting for their next workplace abuse accusations... the place is known to be abusive for years.
This is what I'm referring to https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjJUVsmjIj4
It has been definitely downplayed and sugarcoated for public audience, but the shitty workplace smells a mile away...
I don't use pens a lot these days, but in college I had to take a shit ton of notes every day, so I used to obsess over the best pens to get. I'm also lefty, so I have to deal with lots of smudging the paper and my hand...
Ballpoint pens are a hard no. They smudge far too much, and usually had uneven ink flow. They also had this scratchy feeling when writing, didn't help me as a lefty write quickly
Gel pens therefore were my go-to. I tried pilot G2's for a while, but I had to deal with smudging still cuz of the thicker point. Then I switched to uniball signo 207 micro, and these hit the sweet spot. Even ink distribution, finer point, quick-dry ink, smooth flow.
I think I tried fountain pens once or twice before, but I couldn't use them properly. I smudged the entire paper and couldn't write fast either...
Just install Linux, it’s not that hard.
This is just but the small first step. I was basically checking what it will take to daily drive linux on my desktop, and there's many little roadblocks that I'm just instead considering getting a Win 11 pro license next year and just turning off all the shit in gpedit.
Linux has come a long way, and it's probably enough for some but it would be a massive headache for me still...
Imagine using a google service. Do yourselves a favor and use anything else, even outlook, over Google.