Don’t they monitor what you copy to thumb drives?

Sure, why not?

🎵I’m just kidding like Jason… unless you’re gonna do it 🎶

Soft gym shorts: pous-pous.

My high school history teacher’s favorite word

What’s the word? “I’m just ____ing”?

I kind of liked skibidi toilet for this kind of thing, but it’s pretty violent and brainroty

I hope I can. I’ve been doing this for like 25 years …

I was taught to type that way, but I was never that good at using my right pinky while typing a letter with my left. Or maybe I just wasn’t good at coordinating which shift key to use with which letter. So I started just always using the left shift key which I somehow never had a problem with.

If I have to type capital A, left pinky holds shift and ring finger hits the A. This isn’t the “right” way to touch type, but I can still type pretty fast.

Only time will tell, I can see how that would be the risk. I’ve noticed how Sabine Hossenfelter started out with science news and followed her audience right-ward to anti-science crazy town. I have more hope for classically-trained journalists with ethics to follow and reputation to uphold, but you’re right that pressure is real

Bad by association. If I already know something and hear about it on yt, fine, whatever. But there are so many bad sponsors out there that it immediately makes me suspect a company if they sponsor videos.

I’m a fan of 404media’s model, which does have ads, but gets most of its funding through subscribers. All their news journalism is free (behind a login page), but they have premium content like behind the scenes blogs and an expanded podcast for subscribers only.

I get that the only reason they can do this is because

1. They benefitted from traditional media organizations to grow their skills and contacts before striking out on their own.
2. They run a lean organization and have a limited “beat”.
3. They encourage a parasocial relationship with their readers through the free podcast, etc. (not necessarily a bad thing).

But it is an interesting model. I’d subscribe if I could afford it. And maybe someday I will.

It’s also a sponsor on many YouTubes which makes me suspicious.

Afaik you can still use any compatible software you want on a Mac; with the apple silicon chips that may be changing, and they might require installs from the apple store. IDK if it is-- you tell me. Big sad if it is.

For me a big draw of using Linux on my PC was to have another option for the OS and desktop environment, even if getting software I wanted was more difficult or impossible. I would be into trying this with Mac, if it weren’t so difficult / expensive (to do it legally).

I would argue that everybody has a line in the sand they don’t want to cross.

For most of us, we don’t mind ads as long as we can avoid them with adblock. Which honestly just externalizes the problem onto people without it.

It seems to be a reasonable position to not accept a free site with personalized ads, because of the privacy costs.

It’s also unfortunate, for the newspaper to go this direction.

It is.

Why wouldn’t you want to do that? Besides legal and hardware compatibility

What is in invidious and ggtyler.dev?

Are there really? I have a soda stream but all the syrups I’ve seen were like diet versions of stuff. Do you have an example you can link to?

Try to keep track of how much work you invest because it may be time-expensive to switch later on if you built a lot of stuff on their infra. Which is not the end of the world.