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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The fediverse can mitigate this a little bit, as everyone can host their own videos on their own server, but that’s not enough, and extremely inconvenient.

and still expensive as hell. Hopefully one of your videos doesn't go slightly viral, or you'll get a pretty huge bill from your VPS. Unless you own the infrastructure, you're paying a huge penny to host video.

Linus from LTT talked about it when it comes to FloatPlane. How stupidly expensive it is to host video.

[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 years ago (21 children)

I literally have like 1TB of video stored on YouTube and privatized. Google is making $0 from my videos, but they still have to store them and have them available if I want to watch it (it's all of my Twitch VODs). Meanwhile websites like Streamable perma-delete my 5MB video after it gets 0 views in 2 milliseconds.

YouTube is a behemoth that will not be replaced.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It really is! And if you upgrade your laptop, you can use the old parts to build a mini desktop. They sell an enclosure. So nothing really goes to waste!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's a laptop that you can upgrade like a desktop.

You can also mix and match the ports on it, so you can do a combination of whatever ports you use and need most.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

They should shut down their entire garbage ass company instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

"it's normal! The world does this every 50 years!"

"It was hotter last year"

"You watch, we will have a crazy cold winter this year. Global warming my ass!"

At least I'm not my sisters children. Poor bastards can barely talk. They've got a shit future ahead of them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Am I missing something? This is very old news. Unless my Lemmy app isn't showing me the entire post?

Edit: oh, I think you're a repost bot.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2019/07/30/confirmed-apple-caught-in-siri-privacy-scandal-let-contractors-listen-to-private-voice-recordings/?sh=3d0448257314

Apple is faux privacy.

Also, companies like Google are doing a ton of on device ML now. pretty much every single thing on my Pixel 7 Pro never leaves my device.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A single entity running the web is dangerous. Using different flavours of what is essentially Chrome is just as bad as using Chrome.

People should really switch away from chromium based browsers if they want to preserve the web. Google is really, really close to having full control.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I've had a few websites tell me to view their website in Chrome. I just leave, because no way am I putting any kind of personal data into a website run by such incompetent people.

I used to be a web developer. Back 8 years ago, you used to have to do a lot of special tricks to make your website look and function the same in all the browsers. Now, you really don't. Unless you're using some really obscure closed source codec or something, websites literally render and function properly without needing any browser specific code fixes.

There's no excuse, unless you're blocking older versions of every browser for security reasons, which is fine, because browsers update automatically these days, and it's very rare for someone to be running a really old version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wait, Canada is getting something? I must be dreaming. Google acts like Canada doesn't exist!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's not true. There are both native and web apps that do this.

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