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user224 , 1 year ago to technology in My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered.

Welp, time to “Archive” some good YouTube videos :)

user224 , 1 year ago to android in Google Begins discontinuing Updates for Android KitKat – Phandroid

I use Android 11 but I wish I was using Android 7. Things are just too restrictive since then and it’s slowly getting closer to iOS.

user224 OP , 1 year ago to piracy in The first 2 comments made on the now dead FMHY instance shall remain remembered

Not a (permanent) solution, just a very (very, very,…) stupid idea, that I am not even sure would work.
What happened? They don’t own the domains anymore, the DNS records were removed so those domains don’t resolve to anything. But maybe they could be locally resolved by each instance. I added these entries to my /etc/hosts file when the DNS records were deleted:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">104.21.81.71        lemmy.fmhy.ml
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#172.67.140.145      lemmy.fmhy.ml
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#188.114.97.3        www.fmhy.ml
</span><span style="color:#323232;">188.114.96.3        www.fmhy.ml
</span>

This allowed me access to FMHY (while it was still up).

Even if this worked, why would it be stupid? Well it would have to be manually set by each instance. And those IP addresses may change from time to time, so it would have to be manually updated again, by every instance.

A thanks for the IP addresses to dnshistory.org (fmhy.ml) and whoever wrote this comment: lemmy.fmhy.ml/comment/1231585 (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

user224 OP , 1 year ago to piracy in The first 2 comments made on the now dead FMHY instance shall remain remembered

lemmy.org is for sale for 6,666.00EUR

user224 , 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in #JustLemmyThings

AdGuard filter as well.

It’s probably because very.bignutty.xyz sounds suspicious.

user224 OP , 1 year ago to piracy in The first 2 comments made on the now dead FMHY instance shall remain remembered

I am not on that instance either.

user224 , 1 year ago to technology in FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore

For 13EUR/month I sure could get faster speeds, but also fairly small data limits. Here I get 300GB/month.

Maybe the nearby cell towers are overloaded, I don’t know. But at midnight it can go up to 45Mbps. The speed peaks around 2-3AM.
Also there’s the free national roaming in Orange 2G/3G network. So if I really need faster internet speeds, I can use Orange 3G HSPA+ which is pretty reliable, although with 20GB/month cap.

user224 , 1 year ago to technology in ‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

If I need to write fast I can’t even read my handwriting. Currently teachers send us notes electronically which also gives us more time for discussion. Well, guess how we view the notes.

user224 OP , 1 year ago to piracy in The first 2 comments made on the now dead FMHY instance shall remain remembered

Seems like they’re working on it: very.bignutty.xyz/

(If you can’t open the website, try disabling your adblocker. very.bignutty.xyz might be blocked by some adblockers)

very.bignutty.xyz is being blocked by AdGuard DNS filter, AdGuard Base filter and EasyList

user224 OP , 1 year ago to piracy in The first 2 comments made on the now dead FMHY instance shall remain remembered

FMHY was piracy-oriented instance, so I thought maybe it would fit here. And maybe I thought wrong.

user224 , 1 year ago to technology in FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore

Honestly I am really happy when I get such high speeds. 25Mbps feels blazing fast for me. Everything loading/downloading so quickly. An average song in the FLAC 16/44 format would download in just 10 seconds instead of up to 5 minutes.

And there’s already even 10Gbps available. I can’t even imagine that. You could download a whole 4K movie in a matter of seconds!

Anyway, this is what I have:
https://www.speedtest.net/result/15038103719.pngImage link for compatibility

I can only dream.

user224 , 1 year ago to piracy in i accidentally rm -rf my movies directory. can someone provide magnet links for these

I just wanted to mention one program I use, but I forgot its name so I can’t even use it 💀

I can really bloat my system.

user224 , 1 year ago to technology in Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives?

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user224 , 1 year ago to android in Android 4.4 KitKat is truly dead, loses Play Services support

As far as I know it’s also used on embedded devices like barcode scanners at Tesco. Those either run Windows or Android. Ancient versions in both cases. Unfortunately it seems the model number disappeared from my search history so I don’t know which versions for sure. I think it’s either Android 4.4 or Windows CE.
But in those cases the Google Play services probably don’t matter.

user224 , 1 year ago to android in Android 4.4 KitKat is truly dead, loses Play Services support

Nearly 2 years ago (Sept. 27th 2021) they removed sign-in support for Android versions <= 2.3.7 and nearly 3 years ago (Sept. 20th 2020) they removed YouTube web app support for Android versions < 4.0.

The latter is kinda sad. That YouTube web app opened videos in the browser’s video player and it didn’t support Ads. Yep, you didn’t even need Ad blocker.

Unfortunately I don’t have the original screenshots, just this image I quickly put together for something, but it partially shows the simple (good) YouTube UI:
https://i.imgur.com/AUHk9Va.jpgImage link for compatibility