How old are you?

In Germany we need coins to unlock supermarket carts, so I use the coin pocket for it’s intended purpose to house my one coin.

I know it exists and it showcases my point very nicely.

I randomly picked a fairly large instance, clicked on the top recommended video with 1.5k views.

Waited for it to load on my phone for >30 seconds and then gave up.

This is not an alternative for any serious content creator.

It’s a start, but it’s still miles away from what content consumers expect and what YouTube offers.

That’s a really bad take.

Show me one small creator with the ability to serve just twenty 30-minute 1080p (not to mention 4k) videos in 15 different resolutions instantly to a random selection of people around the globe. BitTorrent style distribution works perfectly when you already have a large swarm of people interested in your stuff. For small creators it absolutely does not work. Who is going to peer with me? Joe Johnson watching my video on his phone on the toilet on the other side of the world? I guess every creator just needs to get his or her shit together and pay for a seedbox… Things YouTube gives you for free in MUCH better quality.

Not to mention that discoverability outside of large platforms absolutely sucks ass and there is no viable alternative right now. I’m not saying this is an unsolvable problem, but it current is absolutely unsolved.

My favorite creator absolutely could not exist without YouTube or any other content delivery platform for that matter. So why not pay for that?

But my preferred content creator could not exist without YouTube and YouTube shoulders the enormous expense of hosting videos. I don’t get why they should not get compensated for that as well.

YouTube premium views pay creators a LOT more than ads. So if you care about supporting creators and the platform they run on, then premium is an easy choice.

Additionally, most people spend a lot more time in YouTube than any other streaming site, so the cost makes sense given how fucking expensive video serving is.

Because a lot of entitled assholes will later complain when they are unable to eat their food because it’s too spicy.

Look for Chinese restaurants where the Chinese go eat.

Most regions in China eat very spicy, just ask the waiter for something extra spicy like the Chinese eat it and they’ll give you something amazing.

Where do you live in Germany? Maybe I can recommend something.

Brother has been amazing. Good products, manufacturer support for all operating systems, no subscription bullshit.

For a handful of servers, try zabbix. Every distribution has a packaged zabbix agent. It has everything: web ui, a way to Auto discover things with a bit of setup, nice graphs, alerting, LDAP User Management if you need it, a way to define per person/group alerting/notification schedules. And the community is big enough that many common services (fail2ban/postfix/MySQL/etc.) have premade custom monitoring scripts. Adding your own metrics is also very easy.

You know corporations build shit people buy, right? It’s not like they pollute for the fun of it. They pollute because we give them money to do it…

For personal use, I don’t bother with databases on k8s. They are waaay easier to manage if you just let your host distribution run it as a regular service and Upgrade it through that