In that case, and please anyone correct me if you think I’m wrong, I would create a user just for that, entirely divorced from real life “me”, including, but not limited to, different country, gender, age, all demographics, and use this persona exclusively for this purpose.

Know that if you are expecting to monetize directly from YouTube, this is most likely an exercise in futility, but if you you’re not concerned with that, you’re golden.

I would make sure to upload always over a VPN, just for good measure.

Here’s the deal, YouTube belongs to Google, which makes the content inherently easy to find, unless YouTube doesn’t want it to be. That removes any possibility of you controlling who can see and who can’t.

Peertube is a completely different animal, you have much more control on who has access, in special if you self host.

My confusion with you post is that you say you want it to be hard to find, but at the same time you want it to be “successful”, what do you mean by that? What would make it successful for you?

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/a-dangerous-conflict-of-interest-between-firefox-and-google/

Look at the finances part: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

That’s hooker behavior right there.

As far as I know, Samsung and LG both do that. But I’m guessing every manufacturer that adds wifi connectivity does the same.

Privacy invasive everything, forced arbitration, TOS bait and switch.,etc.

That’s a real brain fuck. Now I need to go research this.

To the devil (Google).

No, I respect myself and you too much to say Brave. Mullvad and Libres Wolf. So, the fox while unfucked without a tail.

My gut is circular, that’s bullying 🤣

A VPN has it’s advantages, mostly to avoid your ISP snooping on you (while having to trust another party not to snoop) and giving you access to stuff in the internet that may be geoblocked.

A solid DNS provider with Doh or DOT will encrypt your browsing, so I also believe it’s better than a VPN, but I use both.

It’s a matter of not overdoing it. Do it one step at a time. I feel you on the ADHD, I am also diagnosed, and now I inly check Lemmy and Mastodon every now and then. My mental health has improved dramatically since I dropped all the mainstream social networks.

When I look at my gut, I ask myself the same question 😭

I did the same on a PC I built like 10 years ago just because “why not?” 🤣

They sold their soul. I don’t trust them farther than I can throw a fully loaded 787. On that same note, fuck Google, fuck Apple, fuck Adobe, fuck LG, I can go on forever.

Now keep down voting me, fuck those who do too. 🤣

I’ll watch it right now and come back. BRB.

Edit: now I have to “arrr” that series and watch it. 🤣🤣

Fuck the fox.

There are many reasons Microsoft software is only “good” (and I’m using that word loosely) in business and home settings. Can you imagine a rocket taking off and windows suddenly “rebooting to complete updates” (or whatever it is that it says along those lines)?

My firewall, server, NAS and all my services have web GUIs. If I need SSH access all I have to do is enable it via web GUI, do what I need to, disable again.

If push comes to shove, I do have a portable monitor and a keyboard in storage if needed, but have not had the need to use them yet.

Yeah, I guess I’ve never needed to do that. That may change as I’m thinking of moving all my services from UnRaid to ProxMox to leave UnRaid for storage only.

I guess that’ll bring me back here soon enough.

Am I missing something? Why would anyone leave SSH open outside the internal network?

All of my services have SSH disabled unless I need to do something, and then I only do it locally, and disable as soon as I’m done.

Note that I don’t have a VPS anywhere.

Yeah, I’ve no idea what happened either, as I’m not that smart, lol. I just tend to move away from stuff that breaks easily. I searched a bit around to see if I found anyone else with this issue, but found nothing even remotely similar.

Could be that my hardware is the issue? I was running it on a Gazelle 16 (System76) with an RTX3050Ti. But Fedora Workstation has always worked flawlessly on it.

Since Fedora 37 I had issues waking up from sleep and hibernation only on my laptop with an NVIDIA card, never on my 2 Ryzen PCs.

Since Fedora 40 it works everywhere now. I’ve always been on Gnome, so that could be a factor as well.