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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!
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PeerTube hasn't any ads
Does it have any content?
Joking aside, I've found like 2 PeerTube channels to follow. People, give me your recommendations. And don't just list the channel name, be nice and write a few words about what its about.
Shifter and Oh the Urbanity! are on https://video.canadiancivil.com/ . They are both fairly well-known Canadian Youtubers making videos about biking and urbanism.
Veronica Explains annnnnnd that's about it.
it's a shame that I have to keep using youtube to get good linux content as I thought there would be plenty of it on peertube. nope, can't find it.
Veronica is excellent.
Linux User Space have a thing over there, though sadly it looks like they are a bit slow to upload stuff, compared to youtube (understandable) https://tilvids.com/c/linuxuserspace_channel/videos
I have mostly German tech/gaming channels there, but I'm also open to new stuff.
Is that available for TVs?
https://smarttubeapp.github.io/
Anything for WebOS (LG TVs)?
I'd suggest:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/
Or
https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ + https://cachyos.org/ + https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine + https://github.com/supechicken/waydroid-androidtv-builds
Big no thank you to anything Nvidia. Plasma Bigscreen doesn't seem production-ready yet, by the looks of its web site. Either way, that would require me to get a PC and run its output to my TV, right? I'm unfortunately not considering that option right now.
CachyOS, Steam Machine, I already have a beast Arch Linux PC that I game on, so that's not necessary. But what about that Waydroid business? Would I flash that on to my LG TV and run that as its OS or what is that about? All of these github projects that people link to do such a terrible job of explaining what it is exactly that they offer, and what to do with them.
Thanks for the recommendations.
Waydroid emulates Android (in this case AndroidTV) on Linux, allowing you to run Android apps inside your Linux-based OS.
So... not on my TV then?
I haven't tried it, but NTH on the SmartTube telegram chat recommended https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos
Would that allow me to log in to my YouTube account, watch my curated recommendations, thousands-of-items Watch Later list, watch shorts, etc, just without ads?
We definitely need to develop apps for TVs. YouTube has a great advantage because it is there by default.