You’ll have to try it out.

There are lots of torrent clients for android, even ones like stremio and and a few others that can stream torrent videos.

Do something that will confuse her parents a ton. Like tell her that every time she wants something, she has to touch her nose three times then say the thing. Demonstrate it a lot to drill it in.

taps nose three times… COOKIES

I’ve never used it personally, so I don’t know.

Torrents link to static data, each with their own explicit seeders, so that always seemed more safe than these universal file-system solutions where you don’t know what might be changing, or what you’re hosting.

Peertube uses webtorrents, not regular torrents, and doesn’t even hook into the larger torrent network, which is seeding most of media on the net.

You’re correc, the peer part of peertube is mainly a gimmick at this point, and it’s nowhere close to being what torrents already are, a decentralized hosting network.

Counter-point : every single one of the videos uploaded to youtube already lives on the creators hard drive, usually in a much larger format. All that’s needed is for them to create torrents for them.

Sure, a lot of people do even have entire youtube playlists and channels shared on torrents without their consent even, downloaded with youtube-dl. Getting existing content onto torrents should be pretty easy.

We do need to get these content creators to create and seed their own torrents also tho, rather than have everyone else do it on their behalf, then post their own torrent links so others can help seed.

The only clean way I see this happening is some kind of a tool that simplifies this, or a readme that can help with the process, possibly linked to lemmy’s post creation as a video/audio upload button, and on any other platform that supports magnet links.

If anyone knows of something like that already, it’d be really helpful.

Torrents solved this problem (big data distribution) over 20 years ago now, and is still a sizeable chunk of all internet media traffic.

All that’s needed is for people to actually create torrents for their content, and a user friendly way for people to post and view magnet links.

I’m trying to integrate them into lemmy in various ways: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4204

Like most torrents currently… most seeders have lots of HD space and network bandwidth, and are happy to share to the occasional leech as long as the torrents stay alive.

Also there are some mobile clients like libretorrent that can be set to turn on only when plugged in.

I’ve been trying for a while now to integrate torrents properly into lemmy, just need more time for testing and demonstration. Torrents really are the only way forward for video content, youtube will just keep getting worse and worse.

Tempo rules, its such a good music player.

Its fairly difficult to find “up-to-date” performance / RAM comparisons of Linux Desktop environments, but here’s a decent one from 2019 comparing memory usage of different Ubuntu flavors.

The most surprising thing is that despite KDE Plasma’s reputation as being more ram-hungry, it actually used less ram than XFCE, meaning its developers have been making performance a focus.

Moxie tried to put a crypto-coin into signal. He is not to be trusted in the slightest.

Basically for the same reason people often defend apple: the user interface is shiny, and they claim to be privacy oriented.

Signal is a centralized US hosted service, that alone should be enough to disqualify it, outside of our many other criticisms.

It’s real! https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/25/julian-assange-is-free-wikileaks-founder-freed-in-deal-with-us

The classic rebranding ala facebook -> meta / insta, or food companies with their thousands of differently named subsidiaries.

This works if they fly low enough