unitedwithme

What country are you in? I literally just did this (US) in my browser and watched (started) 3 different videos with no account or age checks.

We spread word to migrate to federated and non US tech platforms to start taking their financial leg, then ad revenue drops and slowly they weaken. The weaker they are, the less political influence (aka purchasing power) they have!

I used Copilot to tell me how to create a GPO to uninstall and block Copilot from getting reinstalled on our domain PCs. Windows periodically reinstalls it through updates 🤔 we'll see if it works.

Remind me, is that 5th or 4th gen Intel? I’m thinking 5th, I seem to remember haswell-E (extreme) half gen coming out, which is why I’m stuck… but either way that’s awesome! Coming up on 12 years solid! Just retired my 3rd gen and opted to take my 7th gen daily driver and replace that machine, and make a 12th the new daily. Last year, so prices were a bit better. Didn’t have a use for that 3770K though anymore unfortunately.

Dual boot your current one so you have a choice to learn Linux at your own pace! Still have w11 for a fall back just on case.

I just kind of forego any content. I used to watch silly stuff like the Electroboom guy, Linux Tech tips A LONG time ago when it felt more personable and meaningful. My son watches carwow or something, doing car comparisons sort of how Top gear used to, but I’m not into it as I can’t afford those nice cars lol. Tech review stuff gets under my skin bc it’s so much promotion of sponsors, their channels, and they’re always begging for likes and subscribes… 🤮 plus they’re often biased. I know there’s a large audience to cater to but I feel often times I’m more, product and feature aware than they are, but I’m also obsessed with technology, FOSS, self-hosting, etc.

“Content creators” lol. I mean, I guess there could be, but YT stopped being decent about 10 years ago, maybe longer. I haven’t used it but for an occasional video. Surprisingly, I haven’t missed it. There’s not much on YouTube I couldn’t get elsewhere, with less ads, and to the point vs a 10 minute video intro plus sponsor plugs, etc.

There’s Peertube, Vimeo, and others

Gmail didn’t exist until 2004 or so. Google back then was a search engine in 1998 so there’d be no need for an "account"in the sense it’s used today. I mean, they’re probably not wrong claiming they have a Google account old enough to be legal since it’d only need to be from 2008 to be 18, and there was Gmail, YouTube, and Android (later on) by then.

Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it’s absurd and bad and all that.

Considering YT didn’t even start until 2005, I call BS 😁. Not to mention I don’t think they would’ve had accounts from the get go unless you wanted to upload videos.

Lol, piracy, the logical solution.

Just setting up the OS you can toggle a lot of the things off, I don’t know why you’d leave those enabled in the first place! That and disable several more optional services too once in the desktop in settings. Though 11 is a resource hog, it’s quick to undo it-not that I’m defending MS. Please utilize whatever resources necessary

Maybe Session was doomed from the get go with such high expenses!