I almost always prefer clean installation when possible, while making sure to backup important content from highly accessed folders like Desktop, Downloads and Documents (on Windows), for example.

Which Invidio.us instance would you recommend? I’m looking for one that’s the most stable and relatively fast compared to other instances. Also, I believe it’s also geography dependent because instances don’t have CDNs?

Yes. I updated my uBlock Origin and it seems to skip through YouTube video ads for now. But I’m sure YouTube’s team is hard at work trying to overcome the new workaround. This is essentially going to be a tech arms race, lol.

I use Windows 10 LTSC (the Enterprise edition with long-term updates and way less bloat) for this very reason. It’s the most tolerable version of Windows for me and I’m not planning to make the switch to Windows 11 anytime soon.

3.5mm headphone jack.

Inb4 reddit karma farms pop-up all over the third world promising unlimited upvotes.

Your impression isn’t super far off from the reality of the state of railways in India, but the central (federal) government there has been making substantial investments into the train systems. It’s just that this particular region has long been known for being marginalized and neglected when it comes to infrastructure development and funding in general.

I agree. Lemmy is super wholesome right now and it looks like most of the folks who’ve migrated over aren’t the toxic types… at least not yet.

Watch me reply to a random comment.

I agree. This feels like the beginning of something beautiful and I’m guessing we’re still in the honeymoon phase.

But yeah, better to be here than on the corporatized hell hole that reddit has become.

Beat me to it. Came here to say exactly this.

Pirated version of Windows 10 LTSC (v2021) because FUCK Microsoft.

Another reddit refugee here and this is my first ever comment on Lemmy.ml (or any of the Lemmy instances, for that matter). Welcome!