Well there's your problem. Those direct download sites will also impose things like daily download limits. Maybe you get 10Mbps for the first 10GB every 24 hr, and after 10GB you're dropped to 100kbps. Something like that. Couple it with a VPN and you're sharing that 10GB limit with total randos
Youtubes fresh battle with adblockers has had me on a 6 month music video rip spree, with no signs of slowing down.
Right now Jdownloader2 plus a browser extension to copy cookie info to the clipboard is working half decently.
Once I started, I realized I can do a lot more with the videos now that they're off youtube. No more ASR subtitles, I can time lyrics myself using Gaupol. I've also figured out how to pack the new subtitle, as well as original thumbnails and YT descriptions into the video using mkvtoolnix. Now a single video file can be dropped into jellyfin and fully provide its own local Metadata.
It's going well and I'm not slowing down at all. Fuck you, youtube.
Steam forces game updates down your throat. It makes sense for competitive online games, but take fallout 4 for example. Totally offline single player. A million mods made for specific game versions, and all the guides for modding stress a half dozen little things you can do to your steam install to stop the updates but the shit happens anyway. Crap like modifying steam INI files and making them read only. Shit users shouldn't need to do.
It's not on Bethesda to just what...not update their game? It's on steam to say hold up, maybe we shouldnt be pushing this update - it might break everything. Yes/no dialog prompts aren't rocket science.
A few weeks ago Bethesda pushed a new update on a 10+ year old game, and it destroyed countless modded save files for everyone. This is on steam and their ham fisted updates.
Edit: don't take my word for it, find some reviews here with 1000+ hours in the game:
910.3 hrs on record - "Bethesda? Please stop releasing updates to 10y+ old games. Just breaking mods and frustrating players at this point."
1,565.3 hrs on record - 'Well, after 1.6K hours spent playing, all the towns built, monsters killed and latex suits craftet for my beautifull girls companions, latest update destroyed all the 200 mods again...'
1,617.5 hrs on record - "The new update was hot rubbish. Leave well enough alone Bethesda, updating a ten-year old game and breaking a thriving modding community..."
This graph is based on goodreads users who have bothered to post reviews. The data could entirely be a result of:
women might use goodreads more than men.
women might be more inclined to post reviews about a book they read
a dozen other variables that are unaccounted for
Basically i struggle to see this graph as anything other than graphing goodreads users interactions with goodreads. I don't see how it can be used for ANYTHING else especially not some general statement that women read more of genre x than men.
Tell that to the public school teachers holding fundraisers for school supplies. Even police departments hold staggering amounts of fundraisers for police equipment lol.
I maybe wouldn't donate to NASA generally, but a fundraiser for a specific mission? Hell yes take my money. We would have Gundams by next year
If you have a chunk of money saved up, offer to pay months in advance.
I had a couple bad marks on my rental history. I really needed a cheap apartment next to a new job but noone was interested in renting to me. I found a rental agency that wasn't fully corporate, with a local office I could walk into, gave them a short, professional sob story and ended with 'I'll do 6 months up front' and there wasn't much friction after that. At the end of the day, thats all they fucking care about
Well there's your problem. Those direct download sites will also impose things like daily download limits. Maybe you get 10Mbps for the first 10GB every 24 hr, and after 10GB you're dropped to 100kbps. Something like that. Couple it with a VPN and you're sharing that 10GB limit with total randos