I do wish there were more services like nebula one yearly fee no baked in ads or ads at all and more creators are willing to join them.

The thing that sucks with youtube premium is you still have creators dumping 1 min long sponsors ruining the experience. Additionally often only way these creators allow you to go add free is via patreon, floatplane, etc which can get quite expensive if you follow 30-50 channels. The only other viable route is sponsorblock which works great but requires modified youtube clients/browser extensions and with youtubes new video adinjection could potentially be broken.

The only part I do wonder with nebula is how well it works for larger creators.

Linus Media group revenue break down

https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=532

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Sorry about that (didn’t think that far when making the post 🫠 ).

I updated the title

If your willing to deal with self hosting, immich is a great alternative. Its facial recognition and search is practically on par with google photos.

The only downside is it doesnt’ have photo editing, and its under active developmeant (it gets weekly updates and you occasionally need to modify docker config though they do give a warning in ui).

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

With pypush the error seems to come when generating validaiton data (it either gets stuck endlessly or shows a error saying no cert found). Pypush is still able to communicate with apples sms gateway (and the gateway still sends sms replies). Additionally 2fa codes are still triggered and sent.

The weirdest part is even if you import your own real mac serial (data.plist) the same issue arises (I tried with my personal 2011 mac mini).

I wonder if the issue specifically relates to pypush trying to spoof a m1 mac using a intel mac serial, or the uncanny vally of registering a phone number through a mac serial.

I do wonder how this compares to current payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, etc)

I have a fire tv cube just direct launch into apps to avoid this. For example instead of powering on the fire tv with power button I tell Alexa to open the app I need.

Down side is this doesn’t really work with sieloaded apps like smart tube

Only time I every encountered the popup was when I used orion with its built in adblocker. And even then I gat one warning (no metion of 3 strike policy). Only change now is the added a 3 second timer to the dismiss button.

Edit: Ublock origen and firefox as usual no issue

Silly question if you don’t mind me asking, when you got the pop up:

• Which browser/adblocker where you using (also did you use any custom filters)?
• What device are you watching youtube on when you saw the block (windows, macos, ios, android, linux)?
• Where are you located? (like which country)

I never saw these popups just curious.

Also my setups using a web browser (no issues):

• (Mac OS Soma) Firefox Stable with ublock origen stock filters
• (iPadOS 17) with adguard safari content blocker stock filters

Setups with third part clients (no issues):

• Revanced android
• Smarttube (Fire TV)
• YTLitePlus (iPadOS)

I do use sponsorblock 😅

Only gripe is your stuck to the web version of youtube (especially on ios).

If you want sponsorblock in the native youtube app you have to side load a mod which means either dealing with apple’s 7 day limit refresh or paying for a apple dev acount/ signing service subscription.

Android there is revanced (no sideloading subscriptions needed).

On a final note I am considering trying https://grayjay.app/

It bundles odessy, nebula, youtube and a few other platforms in one app (it also includes sponsorblock and return dislikes for youtube).

I know this isn’t YouTube’s fault but one thing that bugs me about yet premium is when creators dump baked in ads.

As a user you have 3 options:

1. Deal with it and manual skip (in a way this feels like skipping commercials on cable tv Dvr)
2. Get ready to buy a ton of patreon subscriptions (kills the point of getting yt premium).
3. Get a modded client/ use browser extensions and use sponsorblock

Now the one exception to this is nebula where like YouTube you pay an all access fee but no baked in ads (I pay for this currently).

I do wonder if creators had the option to make videos available via YouTube premium only (say early access and no baked in ads). Would more people pay and would creators use this system? (They wouldn’t have to worry about demonetization).

Curious on your thoughts

To be fair the speed difference is crucial for the “direct record to external storage” feature. Not sure how often people would use it day to day.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/09/12/iphone-15-pro-gets-direct-record-to-external-storage-but-iphone-15-has-lightning-speeds

Yeah its a yearly subscription 😔

I remember back when I had a iPhone 6 I managed to wreck the battery in 1.5-2 years.

I used to play way to much world to tanks and ended up charging my phone twice a day 😂.

As this was before apple had battery health my phone would spontaneously shut down at the time.

Although to apples credit this was far from normal use

In my case it’s only had it happen to me 3 times over the course of 1-2 years. It wasn’t consistent in running wild.

Meanwhile… 🤡

Snazzy labs and macadress

Found a handy script to minimize this:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/471718-lemmy-post-keyword-filter

I’m a weirdo that was s half apple half Android. I have I ipad and Macbook and Android and Galaxy watch (also I do have iMessage on android thanks to bluebubbles runing on a older Mac Mini with opencore).

I kinda like tinkering hence I choose android but I like the efficiency and continuity of apple silicon macs and ipads.

As per apple services I use them at the bare minimum and try to rely on cross platform apps to replace some of the native apps.

Some of my general programs

1. Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
2. Magnet
3. Shottr
4. Velja
5. Bitwarden
6. Spark
7. Firefox Nightly/Chrome
8. Ferdium
9. Pdf expert (before the subscription junk happened)/ PDF Studio
10. Day progress
11. Horo
12. Obsidian
13. Bartender (testing it)