These are not necessarily unpopular in terms of subscribers, but nieche in terms of topics:

• acollierastro: theoretical physicist with a unique style. What got me hooked are her videos debunking or responding to popular scientific misconceptions.
• Ben Eater: teaches computer related subjects like electronics, networking, low level programming, architecture etc. in a fun way. He has a series where he builds a computer from scratch with cables and circuit boards.
• Living Ironically in Europe: if 2balkans4you was a youtube channel, although he has some serious content as well
• Masaman: mostly talks about genetics, he hasn’t made any new videos in a while.
• Max Derrat: he seems to have deep knowledge about occult stuff and its history which he uses to analyse video games and other media.
• Ostura Official TV: progressive metal band from Lebanon.

Ads are indeed getting smarter every day

I like to “annoy” people whith small “things” that are insignificant “alone” but add up over “time”. Kind of like “overusing” quotation marks in “posts” and comments.

I was seriously considering buying the game on release but after 8 hours of not having fun paying it I’m glad I had GamePass to try it on first.

I was a huge fan of the Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy. Just before the third game came out I replayed the previous two games again. I managed to get the secret ending of the second game. It’s un understatement that it blew my mind and that the third continued from there instead of the regular ending.

That’s a fair point, where I live we have a point system for entry and you get the majority of your points through your grades. You also get points if you’re economically disadvantaged and some other factors like certain disabilities, if I remember correctly.

It seems from the outside that a systematic change would indeed be a good idea, not something that would just help the poor but address the root cause of why people become poor in the first place.

I’m from a country with free university education and we also have student loans available.

Here’s something that works for us: forget about private universities, invest in federal or state owned collages so that they can compete with the private ones.

Do a scholarship program where students can get free entry into these universities if their grades are high enough in high school, or make it dependent on an entry exam. Those that don’t get in have a paid option that’s still partially funded by the state or federal government.

Student loans will still be useful, not for tuition but for families who can’t afford to send their kids to study in the cities where the universities are located.

Communities I usually block if I see them more than once:

• cities/towns (outside of mine)
• porn
• US politics
• sports teams
• tankies and neonazis
• meme communities that flood my feed
• meme communities of other countries
• most Reddit repost communities
• communities that focus mostly on negativity (making fun of people, ranting, artificial drama, “haha these people are stupid” etc.)
• countries that only post in a language I don’t understand
• communities with too many stereotypical Reddit users where I can already predict what 80% of the comments will be (commenting the same 10 jokes, only allowing the same opinions, referencing old Reddit posts etc.)

Not sure if they IP ban you because it’s not reliable. Most internet providers don’t give you a static IP, you get a new one every time you connect to the internet.

I’ve been IP banned before from some Counter Strike (1.6) servers back in the day because they though I was cheating (I just learned the AK’s recoil pattern), all I had to do was restart the router to play again.

I recently visited a forum for the first time and I wanted to comment but I couldn’t because I was IP banned. Probably because someone trolled there with the IP that I ended up receiving.

Me and my friends got banned from an online game because we logged in from school computers and sent each other resources. They thought they were one person’s alt accounts, which was forbidden. This was before wifi became commonplace so I guess they assumed everyone used their own internet.

I suspect that your IP is just one data point that they use to try to identify you if they do this sort of thing. Your browser (or their app) provides tons of information like screen resolution, device id, extension list, plugged in device list etc. These can identify you quite accurately.

Really? People pay for short, unencrypted messages that can barely handle accented characters, let alone media, when there are free alternatives that are much better in the vast majority of scenarios?

Or is free sms a common thing in people’s phone plans?

This is really strange but a few weeks ago I was looking for something to watch and I came across the thumbnail for the Golden Girls.

That thumbnail gave me a huge nostalgia trip and I can’t explain why. The show was never aired in my home country so I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen it as a kid. I watched some clips from it and I felt nothing.

But the moment I look at that thumbnail of the main cast sitting together I feel like I’m at my parents house in my old room as a 6 year old.

I don’t know what li invites are but for your first request you could try tinder. /s

I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread

How? I’ve read this many times, but I never understood it. Do people just hand them out on the street or is it customary to give bibles as a gift?

JavaScript: i know it was easy to write it like this but you should index your citations next time

Typescript: I meant properly, not on your scratch sheet

TES: Morrowind

You mean like OpenMW or a full remake?

No need for shields when you have plot armor

Depends on what you already know.

Functional languages like Haskell, Clojure or Erlang have a reputation of being hard to grasp.

Rust’s borrow mechanics are hard for some people at first, especially because it’s very unique to the language.

Javascript can be frustrating because it also has some rare features among popular languages, and uses the same keywords for different concepts. It’s not bad at all once you let go of your assumptions and dedicate the time to understand how it works under the hood.

C++ is also notorious for being hard but I haven’t used it for a very long time so I can’t say anything about it.

Honestly, I didn’t notice any difference in sound quality, so for me it wasn’t worth switching to Tidal. You could try their free trial and see for yourself, maybe you have better ears or headphones than me.

The only hassle was transferring my playlists, but I used an app that did it for me.

I used both Spotify and Tidal, I have upper mid range headphones and I couldn’t tell the difference in quality.

I’m now using YouTube Music because it costs the same as Spotify (around $4 in my country) but I also get YT Premium, so no YT ads on mobile either. On desktop I’m using an ad blocker, so by having premium I can support the creators that I watch without wasting my time with ads.

Probably Typescript, it has so many quality of life features that I miss when I’m using anything else. A close second is C#, Kotlin third.

Rust when performance really matters.

PowerShell when scripting and automating stuff. It’s common to hate it because “microsoft bad” but it’s very logical and it feels modern. Funnily enough, I’ve only used it on Mac and Linux.