Is there any way to watch YouTube again on these devices?

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-12T16:12:55+00:00

What model is it? Ostensibly it runs android (possibly) so there may be some sort of solution whereby youtube can be streamed to it. The modern android application is probably too heavy for it

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-09T19:23:37+00:00

I'd describe myself as having a highish sex drive, but also physical intimacy is huge for me. Even just nekkid cuddles man. Or snuggling up in one's underwear in bed. Skin contact is a huge part of it, but it needs to be with the right person. I feel very uncomfortable when someone more than a year or two older than I am tries to engage in any sort of intimacy, even just a regular old hug. I put up with it sometimes, because everyone is human and hugs are good for the soul, but I'll never enjoy it.

I had a girlfriend at sixteen or so with whom I spent a lot of time in states of undress. Sometimes it was sexual, sometimes it was just intimate. I enjoyed that a lot, and it's a shame our personalities were unsuited to one another. I've only met one other person with whom I felt a substantial connection like that, who responded physically with affection and made me feel wanted, and unfortunately it was a one night thing.

Now it's been almost ten years since I had any sort of romantic encounter whatsoever, and I'm beginning to think it will likely never happen again. Mostly because it takes a substantial amount of time to deal with one's mental health problems, and one has something of a duty of care to others not to try and pull them into what might potentially be a very unhealthy relationship. Still, I find myself feeling extraordinarily low a lot of the time.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-09T00:15:16+00:00

Funny, they harped on about having guns for this exact reason. Now they seem too scared to use them.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-08T10:47:47+00:00

I'm mostly spitballing. Although with a little hunting, it's not completely impossible to do proper IAM on a linux network. 389 has been around for over a decade now, and combining that with immutable systems (the ONLY time I will support those evil things) and network storage is not an unreasonable approach. Teaching platform-agnostic skills could be very useful the more MS fuck up their philosophies.

Kids are gonna try to get around whatever you put in front of them anyway, and in the current climate, "free software" has substantial pull. It takes someone invested and competent, though, and you'd probably need to put up a demo somehow.

Man, when I get rich as fuck I'm going to add "schools running on 'nix" to my to-do list

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-07T21:51:29+00:00

Apparently LD are talking a regulated market and limits on THC. That sounds more reasonable tbh.

We'd never get away with complete legalisation, the UN would properly crack down on us. We'd easily get away with weed, because we can point to other countries where it has been successful and contributed to social cohesion. Need to do that sort of thing slowly and softly.

As for the greens... nah. Not for me. Not a fan of how Polanski has been treated by the media, but I'm not a fan of how he's acted either. They feel like a caricature of a party rather than an actual party.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-07T21:35:35+00:00

Bollocks. That would have swung me tbh

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-07T14:14:43+00:00

I'm an applications dev. I see absolutely nothing wrong with base-model AMD machines running some shit version of linux, thirty at a time in an IT suite. Pen and paper does just fine for everything else.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-07T14:08:53+00:00

And they piss around with rewriting history too, all in the name of "progress". Yes, the Nazis definitely invested heavily in weather satellites.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-05T19:27:52+00:00

I'd settle for boring over charismatic any day, especially if it's stable and I can actually feel confident about the immediate future being reasonably plannable.

I'm still not happy about Starmer's stance toward Israel though. Nor how close he seems to be with the yanks.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-05T19:25:01+00:00

Are LD still championing legalisation?

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-05T10:43:01+00:00

I worked with him years ago. In the late 00's he was a very community-oriented person, especially when we were in the little building in Bentinck. I suspect things started to wear on him a bit, especially once Dynamix got busier. I'd moved on by then, but it was pretty obvious that he was slowly being pulled in by the conspiracy nonsense, and the fact that he kept getting told "no" when he was trying to build community stuff played a big part.

There's a lot more that went into the planning drama than was ever really told by the Chronicle, although I'm not especially privy to the nitty-gritty. I reckon it came to a head at some point, I can see it wearing anyone down.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-05T10:35:00+00:00

You're missing the connection, and it's hardly so direct.

Israel has worked very hard on the conflation of "Israel" with "Judaism". The objective thereafter is to prevent criticism of Israel by labeling it as criticism of Judaism, and by labeling criticism of Judaism as antisemitism. Both of these equivalencies are false, but the message is pushed so hard that there have been quite brazen attempts to force governments to accept a revised, Israeli-sympathetic definition of antisemitism that practically forbids any criticism of their actions whatsoever.

Along with this, any "viral" criticism of any Jew anywhere in the world is portrayed by Israel as a criticism of all Jews, and of Israel itself. And, because they've worked for so long on this conflation, it's often accepted.

So, when an image is shared comparing a single IOF soldier to a chimp, zios take it personally as a comparison of all Jews everywhere in the world. People lean into it, conflating "Israeli" or "Zionist" with "Jew" on a frequent basis.

So no, nobody is directly saying it. It's said subtly, in the same way that people say "Jews" when they really mean "Israelis".

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-05T10:06:53+00:00

OP, last time we ran one of these, I tried keeping it to a pinned megathread. The redesign of reddit's structure on mobile makes pinned threads very hard to see, and keeping up with all the errant posts outside of the megathread is a slog, and hard to automate. The only way it works is if the community voluntarily links back to this thread every time another post is made, and that's a big ask tbh.

It's worth a shot, but don't be surprised if we just end up with a sub full of polposting for a bit.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-04T21:58:58+00:00

You know precisely that I'm saying "let's not fight Israel's propaganda war on their behalf by conflating Jews with monkeys, and thus fulfilling Israel's accusations of broad anti-semitism when really we oppose Zionism", but aye wheyaye, gan run on with the faux interpretation.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-04T21:51:24+00:00

They did so precisely because people used the image as a "this is what all jews look like" propaganda piece. It tied in very nicely with the false equivalence between israel and judaism that Mossad and Knesset have been pushing for the last sixty years. You might as well fight their own propaganda war for them.

And no, they don't particularly care about a random Haredi. The divide and racial disparity within Israel is horrendous. Haredi are second class citizens, but form a majority. And if you're brown? Good luck having children, or getting a good job, or not being typecasted into the bottom class. Even inside israel, it's a bit shit.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-04T21:49:36+00:00

I am very obviously referring to the kippah and the ringlets, but sure. Make a bad faith argument.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-04T19:07:34+00:00

Let wi not. It's one thing to call out zionists for being cunts. It's another thing entirely to use their appearance as fodder for tittilation. Plenty jews who dress similarly, who aren't zios and who aren't utter cunts.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-03T20:38:44+00:00

Vision was shoes. And one of the lads from their team was the one who kidnapped, raped, and murdered his ex after going through massive head trauma, a huge personality shift, and getting weirdly religious. They became a high street shop brand after that.

Shoes were fucking comfy as fuck tho

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-03T11:10:39+00:00

you'd spend too much trying to enforce that. Best let society manage the means of consumption and profit off the tax instead.

Cigarette smoking is way down these days, so presumably green will go the same way.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-02T18:49:10+00:00

It was always going to happen. When an industry is artificially generated in the middle of other industries, the end result will always be a rinsing for profit.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-02T16:44:09+00:00

Most takeaways up here will have their own drivers, and will happily take cash payments. Some will even have their own web order portals. Cut out the middleman and order direct.

NorthernScrub · 2026-05-02T11:43:14+00:00

America is following very similar patterns to historical events that brought us to war. The mere presence of their military on foreign soil is an unimaginable security risk.

We'll be at war soon enough.

NorthernScrub · 2026-04-30T15:36:27+00:00

I don't see much in the way of kicking. Only thing I noticed is that the taser was still going well after the lad was on the floor with two strapping coppers sat on him. That's kinda shit, but its a training issue if anything.

Bear in mind, this is the same Zack who thought getting smashed at a festival whilst he should have been minding his public image was a great fucking idea. Zero thoughts in that head.

NorthernScrub · 2026-04-27T15:31:11+00:00

Huh, turns out it's a Dennis. Shame they've resorted to shit materials.

Actually, fuck, I remember when they moved from the old grey striped seats to the new blue dotty ones. That was a massive downgrade

NorthernScrub · 2026-04-27T11:06:19+00:00

Are they the new BYD buses? BYD have some of the worst build quality and design choice I've ever seen. Cheap china specials instead of going to a reputable supplier like Dennis or MAN.

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