Can you not just log in on a mobile browser in desktop only mode?

Absolutely, fully agree here. An Open Source widely applicable phone OS would benefit millions of people. Possibly billions.

BAR 4 life!

Basically, yeah. That was my math as well. The irony was thick.

A Boomer family member that voted for this shitshow told me the other day I was right that my version of societal collapse, a slow crumbling as everything falls apart, was what was happening.

I meant like over 30 years. I’d hate to know what they think a speedrun would look like

Just turn them off and default to local IP. The Invidious API doesnt work right now.

YT broke the Invidious API last month, which barely worked to begin with.

Use your VPN for the thing it’s meant to do and don’t use any API. Just change the VPN to a non-primary location, and turn off the API or use the local IP fallback. If it doesn’t work, change locations again until it works.

Yep.

It’s very important to remember that between 1991 and 2001, the US saw 10 years of a world that was the epilogue of the End of History. We had won the Cold War, and while there were problems, they were largely distant, the politics fairly civil, things like the internet changing life quickly, and even the moments of hard times gave us great music. It took 2-3 years for the effects of Columbine and 9/11 to really change the country and world.

25 years is also not nothing. 25 years before 2001 was 1976. Star Wars was new. Ford was president. Disco was HOT. Apple and Microsoft were founded. Things can change a lot.

I use both all the time in the same VPN. Other then sometimes switching locations to find a good one, never a problem.

Are you using the Invidious API? Those are broke as hell.

The average person doesn’t know how to use a VPN, either. They turn it on once, expect magic, and don’t go beyond that.

10/10

If you’ve never lived in a place where you complain about having speeds being throttled, then 2 guys come to your house with a full color printout of your internet use over the last few months, then walk around looking at everything you have and basically asking for a bribe just becaise, then you haven’t fully understood the use case “masking traffic from your ISP.”

You can’t log in via redlib, IIRC. It is great just to read, though. I used it all the time.

Then explain why if I get this error, I switch locations and don’t get it. I’ve been dodging this for 2 years.

VPN blacklists are chasing a moving target. Only truly bad VPNs with few exit servers and IPs would manage to get fully blocked across any location.

Change the VPN location.

The point of having a VPN is to use many locations.

I know you mean well here, but this is fully bonkers. This is not how friends behave with each other.

They absolutely don’t owe me shit. We lived with them for a month before they moved, all in same house, for free. So there’s money we didn’t spend right there. We shared meals, shared hangovers, and shared their other friends in a place we were just moving to, which is priceless. But if you’re still really worried about money, they sold us their car for well under KBB as well. The guy’s brother and mom were who we called when stuff broke, and who brought us pupusas randomly when they were in the neighborhood. We trust them and they trust us, so we aren’t going to fuck up their house, and we got landlords that respond to shit immediately. I’m not going to ruin a 20+ year relationship with some tankie notions about “oh, bro, you owe me home equity.” And you can trust that anyone doing something like this knows when they have a good thing going without having to explain details.

Do you mean bad incentives?

And sure, I don’t disagree, but these people are also not actually that smart. I would worry more about this getting hacked in a week way before Elon gets a chance to use it against anyone.

I’m sure there are, but no one needs to be worried about Addams Family cannon.

Might as well spend all your free time worried about Flintstones or Felix the Cat canon. The people making the media certainly don’t care to follow any of it, it’s not ever going to make sense. Just live in the moment and enjoy it for what it is!

Quick everyone, install this just so that if Pete Hegseth invites people to the next airstrikes chat group, your satirical JD Vance account will be next to the real JD Vance’s account and he’ll probably add you both and figure it out later.

Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.

I once rented a house from friends that were out of the country. We paid exactly their mortgage payment (plus utils and I did and paid for handyman level stuff, they covered big stuff), which was $600 a month less than the market rate for places a step down in quality.

Once we left I told them to increase the rent by $200 for higher insurance and a real handyman and whatever else and it’s still a huge favor to anyone they get by word of mouth only. The next couple thought they had won the lottery scoring a place for almost $5000 a year less than the rest of the area.