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  • net00@lemm.eetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlDeath of Piped?
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    5 months ago

    google has been blocking any IP that uses lots of youtube bandwidth, and that means any public instance needs to do IP rotation.

    I also heard they began blocking all IPs belonging to some cloud providers.

    I run my own invidious instance from my home servr. Only I use it, so it’ll never be blocked, but I don’t have the same anonymity as if using a public instance…

    It’s mostly for the benefits of using youtube ad-free without a google account, while having local bookmarks, watch-later, and subscription feed. If that’s your main goal Invidious is really easy to set-up.


  • Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

    AFAIK this is not what’s happening this time. YouTube slowly rolled out a change over the past 3 days that requires some sort of app verification for the android yt app. This is affecting Invidious since it emulates the yt android client to fetch video streams. This affects invidious instances hosted privately as well.

    The maintainers are aware of this, and are working on ways to solve it. Tools like yt-dlp/newpipe still work because they have working implementations to fetch data by emulating web/iOS/etc clients.


  • Overall it was a very good game. Just finished my 150 hour character and I see this game as another Bethesda classic that will be replayed over and over for years just like fallout/elder scrolls.

    It obviously had its flaws, but they weren’t a deal breaker for me, and for many besides a very loud minority.

    The good:

    • Massive amount of quests, questlines, companion quests, and places to explore. I doubt fully completing this game is feasible unless you just grind, which will turn dull. I didn’t do any freestar, red mile, and many other quests/companions. On a future playthrough I will go back to it.
    • Multiple ways to approach quests. Not everything is gun your way through. Items from other quests, your perks, your traits, and your companions offer unique dialogue options.
    • This is more subjective, but thank god outpost/ship building isn’t shoved down your throat. I hate that part of FO4 where settlements are constantly a chore. You can do those at your own pace like I did without being nagged to do it.
    • The NG+ mechanic gives the story a new spin and brings a few plot points to life. I also enhances the replay value. Can’t say much more without heavy spoilers.

    The bad:

    • Planet exploration is lacking. I can’t see a reason as to why we need to land and point X and walk a mostly barren place when we have a ship. It takes most usefulness away from the ship
    • Lack of local maps
    • Neon was disappointing. We were promised a cyberpunk-like town where anything goes and full of shocking stuff, but all we got was a dirty shopping mall. The main thing causing this was this games’s total avoidance of any sexual theme.

    Overall a 8/10 for me. I’m sure modders will in time improve whatever is lacking.




  • Just played 4 hours. Not saying whether the game is good or bad, but I’m not seeing the point of the spaceship yet.

    It’s looks like merely a medium for the fast traveling mechanic. You can’t really “move” in space (as far as ive tried), and can’t use it to fly within a planet.

    I expected being able to manually travel from planet A to planet B and finding cool stuff along the way. If you wanna actually move you need to fast travel.

    I also expected to be able to get in my ship and go from place A to place B within the same planet (also finding cool stuff along the way). It seems that also is just done by fast traveling only.