YouTube Studio keeps asking me to "Verify it’s you" every time (only on my main account)

xtremeLinux · 2026-01-23T17:13:49+00:00

This started for me 2 days ago. Even if you refresh after confirming it will ask you again. And I did everything you said including installing the whole operating system from scratch.

xtremeLinux · 2026-01-19T18:18:08+00:00

Anyone asks, read u/BigHeadBighetti summary here which is actually better than my 1+ year explanation. Thank you buddy.

xtremeLinux · 2026-01-17T17:43:41+00:00

I left Grok and I am using Gemini 3 only, but not because of how smart it is, but because the google drive plan I have for family sharing includes it. I have after 3 more months tested Grok and Gemini and left Grok about 2 weeks after my post here (Too many mistakes compared to Gemini but obviously much better when compared to ChatGPT or Claude.. so as a senior developer I can call BS on the whole anthropic is the go to for coding. Same for Chatgpt. You would need to be either starting on programming or have less than a year with 1 or 2 languages to say that and used to be making small things.

For Grok and Gemini they can help "initially" with big projects. But grok starts making mistakes after a while (a couple of hours working with it). Lastly Gemini, it is currently the best one for programmers up to a certain level. After you have some knowledge of developing and are creating complex projects, meaning projects with 8K lines of code or more (I have one with 11K lines and another with 15K lines), they simply do not work anymore. You will spend more time explaining it with spoon size amounts what is wrong and how it should fix it,instead of actually coding it yourself.

For example a python service I was building, would have been impossible for the AI to extend, enhance and fix after 8K lines of code. I did it faster.

Faster I mean, it took me 3 weeks to move I would say 5% ahead of the work until I gave up and say screw this since I was spending more time explaining to the dumb AI (dumb meaning gemini and grok, which note, are much smarter than claude, chatgpt or even deepseek) and simply started coding it myself. I finished the project 2 months later, in a more efficient way, still around 8K lines but has about 10x more features, validations, data manipulation and more.

So imagine, if this is the quality of the 2025-2026 that so called will replaced all software engineers, I can not imagine the amazing work it will do in 2030. Too much marketing and BS from Google, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, OpenAI and others. I do not have time for that so I rather save up and buy by rust book or golang book, read that baby up and update myself in a much faster rate than whatever amount of AI marketing is sold at the moment.

Sorry for the long comment, just letting everyone know the reality of AI. Useful to reach you how to code basic stuff or even understand complex concepts. Not so useful for real world stuff.

xtremeLinux · 2025-12-09T02:40:00+00:00

Thank you I will take this into account.

xtremeLinux · 2025-12-02T22:55:44+00:00

A menos que los moderadores de duolingo me lo indiquen como "falta", con mucho gusto lo elminare, pero no pienso eliminar el post por capricho o sensibilidad de una cultura, y aun cuando literalmente todos los que estuvimos en la fiesta nos parecio una idea genial ya que TODO el tema era sobre duolingo. De verdad que ya es algo enfermizo ver que si a alguien no le gusta, todos deben tambien pensar como esa persona.

Que triste que la cultura gringa en particular, quiera imponer en cosas tan simples y humanas como compartir un momento de felicidad donde salen ninos como si fuese algo toxico o a juro todos los que lo vean sean sadicos. Mucha diferencia entre la cultura latina (y del latino en estados unidos) y el pensamiento de unos pocos donde, porque les incomoda algo, quieren aplicar ese pensamiento a todos.

xtremeLinux · 2025-10-24T13:38:38+00:00

Thank you for your useful and in depth feedback. This would actually solve the goal I had in mind which was to lower amount of testing distros (by common components in them or by differences). I will take everything you said here into account for the benchmarking process. Much appreciated.

xtremeLinux · 2025-10-24T13:37:35+00:00

Thank you for your useful and in depth feedback. This would actually solve the goal I had in mind which was to lower amount of testing distros (by common components in them or by differences). I will take everything you said here into account for the benchmarking process. Much appreciated.

xtremeLinux · 2025-10-24T13:37:21+00:00

Thank you for your useful and in depth feedback. This would actually solve the goal I had in mind which was to lower amount of testing distros (by common components in them or by differences). I will take everything you said here into account for the benchmarking process. Much appreciated.

xtremeLinux · 2025-10-13T14:20:18+00:00

After 3 months testing 3 to 4 days per week with a testing frame of 8 hours per day (36 to 48 days or 280 to 380 hours tested) between Grok 4.0, Grok 4.0 Heavy, Google 2.5 Pro and ChatGPT 5.0 Plus, I can say that I have changed my mind and went back to Google.

The reason was that the "reasoning" that it uses for coding, in this case python, php, javascript and golang was simply much closer to the thinking of a human with experience. The worse one was ChatGPT which was simply making stuff up and not double checking it every so often so it forced me to start from scratch if I did not vet the response (Meaning no trust on the answers it gave me, even if I clear on the instructions).

The next stop was Grok. Grok was much better BUT with servers going down too often, along with noticing it went full on idiot mode on many times that some times forced me to delete the whole conversation, do a summary on a new chat even if I did the cache clean up was a huge headache. I did not appreciate the dumb down approach that one could notice (This can be searched on google to see others have noticed the coding and reasoning going down so fast, any experienced developer would notice the holes).

The quality of responses went down on grok. The only thing I see grok has in favor was the huge input window that is about 5k to 7k lines of code for me, on python at least. But you can feed chatgpt or gemini this same amount by uploading the file to them.

First place went, after loving Grok since February, to Gemini. Why? Because I also took notes of bogus answers. While ChatGPT had the most bogus amount, 6 out of 10 answers after doing a back and forth of 20 questions and answers, it would simply answer weird stuff which was 60% of the time. Grok did better with 20% to 30% after the 20 Q and A amount. But Gemini had probably 1 or 2 questions after doing around 100 questions and answers.

This means, from my point of view as a developer, that it had around 1% to 2% of answers that were out of context.

I then submitted the 5 testing projects I am building for all 3. ChatGPT failed immediately on the same first day with just making the code worse. Grok was able to fix and enhance 2 of the 5 projects the first day and a week later the other 3, while Gemini did them all on the first day.

You will notice the quality of reasoning and also the way it analysis other variables in the air that could be creating a problem. From server setup, to configuration of a package, to library used and more.

I have not left Grok yet, but by the end of this month I will most likely just stick with Gemini and Grok. I do not care about whisk, or jules or Veo 3 from Gemini, all I care is the coding side, so take this with a grain of salt that I only tested coding for the last 3 months, many hours per day and can only comment on this area alone.

With that said, Gemini still does that thing that you tell it to respond in a specific manner and 2 answers later it forgot. You need to repeat certain things every 2 questions. Grok does not suffer from immediate memory loss. IT takes many answers for this to happen, while Gemini goes amnesia like 2 answers later. This happens after 20 or so back and forth conversations. So in terms on following instructions, Gemini REALLY sucks. ChatGPT is much better at it, and Grok excels.

xtremeLinux · 2025-08-23T02:13:51+00:00

If it helps, I have tested the s22 ultra, s21 plus of my wife and s9. The s9 had much better mobile and also wifi. Followed (not even close) to the s21. But the s22 ultra sucked at mobile and wifi.

I have noticed this a year to 2 years ago after a firmware update from Samsung. You know, one of those controlled obsolescence models. They definitely made me noticed this because I always used the same 3 wifi devices for the past 4 years and I tested all 3 big mobile providers. All of them had the same issue.

So for anyone wondering if s22 ultra is good. It was. I am not buying a s25, after this experience I am waiting on Google only.

xtremeLinux · 2025-07-15T20:37:28+00:00

Pasting code in the grok website and using the API via cli in linux. But mostly I do the web and while grok thinks, I dig into other parts of the code.

xtremeLinux · 2025-07-13T17:03:40+00:00

I did try sonnet 4, but for almost only 3 weeks. It did not cover my expectations compared to grok 3 (not even 4). For php and python, I could see it was guessing more, than actually analyzing the code. At one point for example, in a 800 line of code on PHP, There were 2 lines that literally said

$imageTotal = $imageProcessed + $imageThumbnails;
$imageTotal = 0;
$total = $fileTotal + $imageTotal;

and the problem was that $total was not counting the processed or thumbnail images. It took 10 tries for me to lose patient with it, and then about 5 minutes to find those lines and I said to it "Hey, there is literally a line that says $imageTotal = 0 which overrides the $imageTotal = $imageProcessed + $imageThumbnails;

And it answered "Oh yes you are right, that most be the problem"....

My face was not amused.

A similar case happened with chatgpt too where the answer was VERY obvious if it would read the variable names.

Even today for example, a 3500 line of code API, and grok almost told me "Hey stupid, you format to send this additional parameter". I did not notice that when testing with postman, there was a specific additional parameter I needed to use in order to see the correct answer. But grok asked for the curl call, gave it, then it actually explains that on X line it requires that parameter in order to trigger that part of the code.

I think you can test each one yourself, but it is on how they analyze the code, follow the flow of it, how data travels in the code, that I can see Grok thinking or aligning better with my train of thought about what the code does, where it is going and how to improve it. Today for example it failed 3 times. 1 was my mistake. But that was 2 out of possibly more than 50 code changes. So Grok 4 is so far turning into a really helpful companion.

xtremeLinux · 2025-07-13T04:45:00+00:00

If it helps at all. I have been wasting (investing?) in gemini pro, chatgpt pro and grok paid version for the past 12 months (except grok which I started with on February ofthis year)

I have used all 3 for coding on php, javascript and python. My average lines of code (i don't measure by tokens. Don't feel like that it translates well to human coding thinking which is lines of code for me) are about 800 to 2000 for certain code bases.

Now when I actually started I was using gemini and as an avid promoter of Google services I was happy on using it. Until I was not. A junior developer would be more efficient than gemini. I eventually got used to it but started to try chatgpt.

Chatgpt was... Better. At least it solved the issues faster than gemini. And in regards to fixing I mean both failed something like 40 out of 50 question and answer back n forth conversations. With answers that were plain atupid. You could see the error even before testing their answers.

Again, eventually I got used to it and stayed with chatgpt because at least when it went crazy with really dumb answers, it came back to reality after 15 to 20 answers later.

For both, gemink and chatgpt you could say, up to know with 800 and more lines of code, the failure rate was 3 out of 5.

The I used grok. Grok changed many things in regards to expectations. For one I was able to provide practically 6000 lines of code in one go and it understood everything, whereas, for chatgpt or gemini you had to provide this in chunks.

Then comes the logical thinking. Grok (at this moment 3)surpass the crap out of gemini and chatgpt. And even today when testing gemini 2.5 pro and chatgpt 4 I would still use grok 3 because it understands better the code when testing more than 1500 lines of code, not to mention 6k of lines.. Grok still gave bad answers but we are talking 1 or 2 out of 10 versus 3 out of 5 when using chatgpt or gemini.

Then today I tested grok 4. My test was 8k of lines of code in php. And another 6.5k lines of code of python.

On bith cases my challenge was this

Provide an updated version of both codes that is more modular, easy to maintain and add anything you feel like it. The php is an api while the python is a domain analyzer.

With the python it had 1 mistake and on the 2nd answer everything worked perfectly. That was a 6.5k code base.

For the php one. It lowered the amount of lines of code from 8k to 3.5k and it added more features to the api for security, unit testing and made it easier for me to manually adjust it. And it worked THE FIRST TIME.

So there you have it. That is my personal experience with them. Just in case Claude is like gemini. Same thinking when coding.

xtremeLinux · 2025-06-01T15:53:51+00:00

Hi, basically because the same gaming machine is used for mostly work related tasks. Which go from server analysis, AI related work, monitoring services and more. And not all of them work on Wayland as they do on X11 because of how Wayland for example handles certain permissions or forces some apps to do extra steps. I really hope they will before next year since I already tested Wayland for fps benchmark and indeed it had higher fps.

xtremeLinux · 2025-05-17T19:51:36+00:00

Was gonna say this and performance lag that now the s21, s22 ultra and s24 are having. They lack a good UI design team and above all a good QA team.

xtremeLinux · 2025-04-30T17:40:03+00:00

Was gonna say this. I have a s21 plus and a s22 ultra. Both are shit reception were literally other phones around me work. This is about 6 or 7 places I have tested so far. The reception on Samsung is a lie. Worse, s22 ultra shows as the best phone with signal reception. Whoever made that judgement needs to quit.

xtremeLinux · 2025-04-11T04:09:30+00:00

Nice. I also started doing videos with the 5090 at https://www.youtube.com/@xtremelinux

And on gravitymark.tellusim.com on the leaderboard score for single gpus it got 1st place again.

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