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Any non-youtube link to watch this? Don't want to deal with Google no more
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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For tech people: You can host Invidious locally... No google, no ads, no popups.
It's a lot of maintenance. I'm not knocking it, I'm just pointing out how difficult it is.
I hosted a pixelfed server for my city and it cost a few hundred bucks out of my own pocket. It was a test run so I can push my city to move their social media to open-source.
But the constant need to apply spam protection and abuse from visitors, not to mention abuse from users like copyright shit and even CSAM. My expensive side project became a full time job.
Locally!!!
I'm hosting it in my own network. I access it. no one else!!
And I'm doing it, so I can tell you: It's almost no effort hosting Invidious locally for yourself. It just works. And if YouTube breaks something every 2 months, you can usually "docker compose pull; docker compose down; docker compose up" and it works again.
Just in case it is not clear: Invidious is an alternative YouTube frontend. In the backend, it uses YouTube. It's not some kind of Fediverse thing. You cannot upload videos with it / on it and you can be the only user ever using it.
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
Conclusion: low effort to host locally.
It amazes me how certain people just can't help themselves with CSAM. Disgusting.
My theory is that it's just a handful of people who are using anything free to mirror that content, out of fear of losing it.
I imagine some of them are also just trolls trying to get people in trouble. (Pedophillic trolls, to be clear.) The same way folks just wanna break stuff just to break it. But who fucking knows. Some people are just disgusting and ruin good things.
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It is pretty standard in most electric cars I've been in that it shows the kWh/h as it charges and how many kWh it has charged when complete.
Also your comment reminds me of the Boots economic theory. That poor people pay more overall because keep buying cheap boots yearly rather than spend more once on expensive boots every 10 years like the rich.
A captured government is the problem, the corrupt administration and the purchased opposition can't do anything for you like cheap power and subsidized electric cars because it doesn't help their donors.
Common sense.
it still needs to be explained carefully though
like to a child you still have to explain how to read a clock or how to tie their shoes even though it's common sense. and you have to be patient while explaining it.
I didn't write "common sense" to imply it doesn't need to be explained.
I wrote it to mean that once explained, it clearly is impossible to refute because it's common sense.
My comment was not adversarial.
Fairly uncommon, sadly
I've been connected to renewables for over a year now and am quite satisfied with its performance, although I could be much happier if there were less trees lining the line paths causing outages during winters. That being said, when it does go out the line managers are very quick to fix it.