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Yeah thats to be expected sorry. If you want to use a free option youll need to look into deezer or qobuz downloaders. Streamrip should work, but afaik tidal always requires a paid subscription to download from.

You might need a trial account to use qobuz but it should let you. You can also find ‘paid’ arls for deezer to allow downloading flac.

There are services that can migrate playlists across services for you also, but i dont know of any free ones.

Tidal-dl-ng

Should download whatever you want.

Could be. Ive not come across that format yet myself

Are videos you watched that previously had subs no longer showing them?

On my sererver i use bazaar to try and automate getting missing subs but its not perfect.

You can always manually download the video and look on opensubtitles or another site for subs that work.

One issue i run into is that devices can be very weird about which formats they work with. Some only allow srt and some work with .ass or other formats. vlc supports all of them but other apps might not.

APIs are the compromise that sites have to make if they dont want the much more reasource heavy scrapping methods used.

The most they could do is rate limit IP addresses, and that doesbt work too well when jts individual users who can just request a new IP any time

I use Dockge to manage everything.

I bet people who know exactly who and what GWAR is, decided to do this as a promotion for GWAR, its just way too obvious. GWAR has been on fox news, its well known they do this, and the fact that the outrage was over musk and not trump goes to show whoever started it knew there would be a response pointing out they’ve done it to ALL the former presidents. It just seems so unlikely that anyone would see a gwar show and think “if only more people saw* this, they’d be canceled”, there’s just no way.

They’ve been killing musk since at least may of this year so even that isn’t new. Honestly after this I kind of hope they do make one of Charlie Kirk just to keep the rage going, but honestly I don’t think kirk was that well known until after he lost his last debate.

You probably should not use number of users or amount of content as the deciding factor (that leads to centralization, remember the entire point of federation is to DE-centralize), that said…

The instance list does allow sorting by number of users or number of videos, phijkchu.com has the most users and Videovortex has the most videos.

Who has peer tube rejected?

Funkwhale is the best option for replacing Spotify. It can be private or public and federated so you can follow users who want to share their playlists and such.

Navidrome is another good option although i don’t use it personally I hear nothing but good things.

Avoid subsonic directly but youll find funkwhale and other services support it as a protocol very well. Its just the subsonic server software itself and all of the forks seem to basically just be reinventing the same wheel over and over so they can charge for “premium” features.

&totse and IRC mostly

You can pay me and I’ll setup a searxng instance for you if you want.

Or just use the free ones, mine is here

Kagi is the only paid search ive heard of but its more of a AI company that just happened to have a search engine as their most successful product. Consider reading this before switching to them: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

It was always going to be a rug pull, they basically took XBMC and ffmpeg, made a “cloud” based front end for it and started asking people for money.

At no point was it anything other then an attempt to cash in on pirates. At some point I guess they realized all those “lifetime” subscription purchases would dry up and they started Partnering with or buying up other streaming content so they could at least pretend to be offering something else but that can only get them so far financially.

It might have been short sighted rather then an intentional rug pull, but obviously running a service like Plex requires an constant stream of funding, and when your loyalist users are the ones who paid a relativly small lump sum early on, it gets harder and harder to keep revenue coming in from new users and monthly subscribers.

I will preface this by saying I think it would be interesting to attempt but I think the end result would be disagreements of all kinds would lead to a lot of degeneration and splitting as we see with Lemmy and with how gab and parlor are in relation to mastodon and such.

There already are “forks” of wikipedia for conspiracy nuts and other sorts.

I think what could work though is similar to how some things are adding AP support that allows for following and sharing, and maybe commenting on articles, having those aspects be federated might not be so bad.

yes most chromebooks if you own them you do what you want because google knows even if they did lock them down more someone out there would be waiting with a soldering iron to figure out how to mod them into running other things. But thats not the same thing as a company that buys devices for their employees and doesnt give said employees permission to open them (without risking their job anyway). The point being, the “demand” for such systems is already mostly met, normal PC users/ gamers wouldnt actually buy a product like that, because if they did it would just be a “Console”. You couldnt force it on users because there isn’t a monopoly of PCs like there is with phones or game consoles

Actually I should have said in my original post, Game Consoles also qualify, because the PS4/5 Xbox whatever, the last 2 generations they’re literally just locked down PCs with very specific hardware.

Such pcs already exist and are used by buinesses and schools all over… Mostly chromebooks and i suppose apple also fits that criteria.

But it would be very hard to stop a determined hacker who has physical access to a device and doesnt mind voiding any warranties or user agreements.

Thanks but i meant the site in the original post https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html

It says

403 Error Your IP address has been blocked. This MAY be because you have made yourself look like a robot by using an unknown VPN or Tor exit node.

I just wish i could read it, it seems to block based on my IP which isn’t really a good way to identify bots.

Well it cant be that good becauase it thinks im a bot.

Anubis works pretty well for me so far in blocking clankers.

Last time i checked “states rights” didn’t mean the right to impose your laws on people or businesses running out of other states.

If anyone from Mississippi wants to use our services I’m totally ready to ignore any and all laws that don’t acknowledge to sovereignty of the net.