TrustingZebra

That's the thing, I personally liked the YouTube homepage! Even with watch history disabled, I found it gave me decent mix of recommendations based on my region, subscriptions and Liked videos. I know many people dislike the YouTube algorithm but it actually worked well for me.

Now that YouTube has disabled my homepage (held hostage unless I turn on Watch History), I am far less inclined to go on YouTube and watch random videos. Which is probably a good thing for me, let's be honest. On the other hand I don't know what YouTube wanted to achieve with this move. I find it hilarious that my homepage is empty now by Google's own choice.

I've noticed YouTube comments have actually become more positive (though still mostly useless). It seems YouTube has implemented some algorithm where it prioritizes "positive" sentiment comments above all. That's why all the top comments on popular videos are generic platitudes.

For example, go on any MrBeast video and read the top comments. They are all praising MrBeast for his videos and hard work. Finding any negative comment is difficult. On the other hand, if you go on a Reddit discussion about MrBeast, you'll find plenty of people complaining about him.

MrBeast is just an example, I'm sure we all have our own opinions about him but that's not the point I'm trying to make. In fact, the same is true for any popular YouTube channel. Even political channels, where you'd expect to see heated debates in the comments, mostly showcase top comments agreeing with the video.

Funny you need YouTube. I have been rediscovering the "Subscriptions" tab recently. It's a chronological view (newest first) of all Channels I am subscribed to, but I actually haven't used it for years.

I've gotten used to the YouTube algorithm, going to the homepage and just finding whatever seemingly interesting videos YouTube suggests to me. However recently, YouTube made the strange decision to disable the homepage for people who disable Watch History. Now my YouTube homepage is entirely empty.

Anyway, going to the subscription tab it's just a massive collection of random channels I've subscribed to over the years. It's too messy to keep my interest, and I've actually been using YouTube less.

What's that?

Video game price have significant differences across regions though, even when you take cost of living into account. Some of these regional price differences are ridiculous.

I mean algorithms have their flaws but there is a reason they became popular.

Subscribe to a dozen RSS feeds and suddenly you have more content then you can read with no easy way to sort through the chuff. Also no easy way to discover content beyond your feeds.

I'm not sure about that. The average consumer router is fairly underpowered but is still capable of handling the needs of most home networks.

why would you even get Word or PowerPoint on macOS?? Excel I understand but these two??

Main reason would be full compatibility with Office documents.

Almost everything in Scrum can be seen as protecting the team.

Funny, in ny team it's the opposite. Our team leader is protecting us from the Scrum BS that is forced on us by upper management.

Git Flow is awful I absolutely agree. On the other hand I like GitHub Flow.

How is dynamic typinf faster? Is typing num = 1 instead of int num = 1 really that much faster?

Which yt-dlp GUI do you use?