I agree that, theoretically speaking, YouTube might be protecting some end users from this type of attack. However, the main reason YouTube re-encodes video is to reduce (their) bandwidth usage. I think it’s very kind towards YouTube to view this as a free service to the general public, when it’s mostly a cost-cutting measure.

Good point, though I believe you have to explicitly enable AV1 in Firefox for it to advertise AV1 support. YouTube on Firefox should fall back to VP9 by default (which is supported by a lot more accelerators), so not being able to decode AV1 shouldn’t be a problem for most Firefox-users (and by extension most lemmy users, I assume).

I use the “wakeonlan” package. Simply install it, ssh to your server, and run “wakeonlan xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”, where “xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx” is the Mac-adres of the PC you’re trying to wake.

Could it have something to do with your client? The wiki and megathread are pinned to the top of c/piracy for me (https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy)

I personally use qBitTorrent, which has support for search plugins. You can just go to the plugin list (https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficial-search-plugins) and pick the ones which are also in the megathread (https://rentry.org/megathread, go to the torrents section in the general purpose category). The initial setup takes at most 15 minutes, after which you can search multiple trusted sites simultaneously without even opening a browser or leaving your torrent client.

I actually started of with arch on my server, and recently moved to Debian. In my opinion, Debian is way more suitable for a server, especially if you want things to “just work”. Especially when installing Nextcloud, I noticed how much more Debian does for you compared to arch, which makes the entire process way easier.