The grumpy thread

[barefoot]

4 hours ago, Jazoli said:

 

 

You can get YT premium by using a free VPN and signing up with a fake address in India, just use an address generator and a fee free card, it costs me around £1.30 a month, you can then just turn the VPN off and use it normally, I've been doing it for a year or so, its quite a saving.

) Delete all YouTube apps
2) Change VPN location to India
3) Search for YouTube premium on google
4) Click the link, should come up as 129 rupees per month which is £1.25
5) Use a card that doesn’t charge international fees such as clarity card.
6) use a address generator to fill in details and pay...

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I'm never going to be paying Youtube a penny, in any currency. Some years ago I made a load of short films, some of which were shown on the BBC, another one was shown at Tate Britain. It also toured the UK, and another couple were big hits at VW festivals.. I paid the relevant royalty fees for the soundtracks. I won a utube award for the fastest number of hits, 13,000 in a single afternoon. You tube used to promote my channel heavily & the film 'Smashed' racked up 1.5 million hits. I declined moneterising it & utube took the hump with me so I deleted & re-uploaded it. It's barely been watched since. Youtube has also deleted a load of other films that I made, for alleged & spurious copyright bollocks. Watch what's left quickly if you want, their terms change again at the end of the month & anything I still have on there is coming off.

[vulgalour]

Youtube's excuse for the adverts seems to be that they need to cover the cost of hosting everything, which is an ever spiralling cost.  Interestingly, they don't seem to be forwarding a fair chunk on to the content creators since almost all the established channels I watch not only have Youtube adverts, they also have promoted content, links to merchandise, a Patreon, and of course the subscription/premium thing.  Clearly, making a living from Youtube alone isn't possible, it's only viable as an advertising platform and supplementary income.  As for the copyright nonsense, that's well out of hand now.  Because the system is largely automated, people (and presumably bots) can and do make spurious copyright claims that Youtube has no interest in resolving.  As a sole creator, the amount of effort and time required to put a decision right is too much and, even if you manage it, the damage is always already done and your content never recovers.  Ever the issue with creative media, someone is going to steal it and profit and there's jack your average creator can do about it.

I've come pretty late to the Youtube game and I accept that it's unlikely I'll make a living from it.  The one thing it has done is improve sales in my print shop a little, and it's put me in contact with useful people I otherwise wouldn't have met, so I don't really mind what I'm getting out of it and I can step away from it at any point if I so choose.  We've been seeing increased regulation, censorship, and monetising of the internet in recent years, mostly coming from North America it seems which I suppose makes sense since that's where many of the hosting companies are located (except for tax purposes, obviously).  The internet is an ever-changing thing and Youtube won't last forever, just like various platforms before it, something else will pop up to replace it eventually and the whole cycle will start over.  Look at how big LiveJournal and Myspace were not so many years ago and how insignificant they now are in comparison to Twitter and Facebook.  The wheel turns.

[Angrydicky]

12 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Use an adbloker for YouTube fuckwittery.

Some browser add-ons only target Yt ads so you fav website can still get advertising revenue.

This. I use Adblock Plus (which is free) and it makes Youtube bearable.

Life's too short to watch ads.

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I've been using uBlock origin for years.  Haven't seen a YouTube advert on a computer for a very long time - unless it's a creator I really like in which case I disable it for that video...

[bobdisk]

21 hours ago, barefoot said:

I've about had enough of commercial breaks on youtube. If you've not had a look at my channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/thebarefootchef/videos - take a look quickly, because the whole lot is about to be deleted.

It's a total waste of fucking time now.

I run an ad blocker and have no trouble with those damned ads. UBlock is just one.   @barefootI looked at your channel, no ads.

[Lacquer Peel]

YouTube Vanced for ad free and background use on a phone

[myglaren]

16 hours ago, Jazoli said:

 

 

You can get YT premium by using a free VPN and signing up with a fake address in India, just use an address generator and a fee free card, it costs me around £1.30 a month, you can then just turn the VPN off and use it normally, I've been doing it for a year or so, its quite a saving.

) Delete all YouTube apps
2) Change VPN location to India
3) Search for YouTube premium on google
4) Click the link, should come up as 129 rupees per month which is £1.25
5) Use a card that doesn’t charge international fees such as clarity card.
6) use a address generator to fill in details and pay...

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I have yet to see an advert on YouTube.

Ublock Origin and Adblock+ seem to frighten them away.

[New POD]

12 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

Tradesmen.  Well and tradeswomen, for the sake of pc balance, but we all know there are few women in the trade I'm about to describe.

John (auto electrician): I can't make it repeat the fault.  If it happens again, come and see me and I'll come out to it.  This was at New Year,

Me (on May 13th): It's doing the same thing, John.  Hasn't moved since you last saw it and now I can't start it at all.

John: Let me write down your number and I'll come out tomorrow (Friday) or Monday.

That would have been Monday this week, I stayed home rather than go to one of my support groups because I was expecting him to call.  It's now Friday night.  His workshop is across the railway and round the corner; so close I could almost walk there without my tripod walker, but that might be ambitious.

FFS!  What does it take to get someone to do a job they specialise in?  Until he does whatever it is that he needs to do, I can't use Huggy at all.

You need to offer cash, (lots of it) and be able to use emotional blackmail and be incredibly polite and yet very firm. 

I'm currently juggling 4 tradesmen on 2 houses, and patience is definately a virtue. 

But if you fail to chase them, they've forgotten about you.  

But to be honest the local Doctor is worse. 

I have to email every 28 days to get 4 different tablets. I run out on a Friday. I work away in the week now. So I need to pick them up from the pharmacist the previous saturday morning. 

It takes the pharmacist 3 days to get the tablets. 

I emailed last Friday and the GP took until Thursday to send over the script. I phoned the pharmacist, and they should be able to get them by Tuesday. So do I work from home Tuesday or Friday next week ? I actually need to be in the office in Friday if at all possible, so it looks like I have to drive home on Monday night and back on Wednesday morning. 3.5 hours and 180 miles, that I shouldn't need to do. 

If I email more than 2 weeks before I need them, they send me an email back telling me they are not due. 

But I've probably mentioned it before. 

[eddyramrod]

22 hours ago, New POD said:

You need to offer cash, (lots of it)

Never going to happen, for extremely sound and practical reasons.

22 hours ago, New POD said:

But if you fail to chase them, they've forgotten about you. 

Clearly!

[New POD]

15 hours ago, warch said:

Or cheapo coilovers/huge Max Power style sideskirts to prevent access. Just don't get a puncture.

I used to visit Mrs warch whilst she was my girlfriend in Sarf London during that mania for drilling fuel tanks to nick the diesel. My Corsarrgh! was so low you couldn't get a drill under the car let alone a receptacle for the fuel.

I was involved in the design and development of a product for Lucas that was for a diesel pump. 

We had to get hold of what is called diesel calibration fluid. Smells like Deisel, but doesn't burn like diesel. We used in on a pressure test rig to check for leakage and spray pattern.

We didn't need much so I used to drop into another Lucas factory and fill 2 x 5 litre containers. 

We stored it in the outside flammable cupboard in the yard. 

Both containers went missing one night. Probably another staff member.  

Never found out who took it, but always assumed that 10 litres would be enough to make any car run really badly.

[Jerzy Woking]

Saw something about non-fungible tokens in relation to a YouTube video. No idea what they are, so Googled it.

 https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/nft-non-fungible-token/ 

Honestly, what the actual fuck? Makes me feel really old as I barely understood a word of it.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Saw something about non-fungible tokens in relation to a YouTube video. No idea what they are, so Googled it.

 https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/nft-non-fungible-token/ 

Honestly, what the actual fuck? Makes me feel really old as I barely understood a word of it.

 

I think it's another way of saying that something that doesn't physically exist - in the sense that you can actually touch and hold it - has value. Possible Emperor's New Clothes here.

[Jerzy Woking]

17 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I think it's another way of saying that something that doesn't physically exist - in the sense that you can actually touch and hold it - has value. Possible Emperor's New Clothes here.

The article I saw was about a video that "sold" for just over£1million. It's a video that has had millions of downloads, so I cannot grasp how something that has been dowloaded millions of times has any value at all.

Emperor's new clothes indeed.

Edit: This video has been viewed some 880 million times and is up for a non-fungible token auction next week. Read the video description as to why. Sounds completely bonkers to me.

https://youtu.be/7mcAsxPKYZg 

[chadders]

It looks like people pay for the bragging rights of owning it even though there's no actual benefit of doing so.

[Bazfr69]

I thin’k for some of the digital artwork there are reasons around taxation in the US that make them worth purchasing. 

[Rocket88]

5 hours ago, New POD said:

You need to offer cash, (lots of it) and be able to use emotional blackmail and be incredibly polite and yet very firm. 

I'm currently juggling 4 tradesmen on 2 houses, and patience is definately a virtue. 

But if you fail to chase them, they've forgotten about you.  

But to be honest the local Doctor is worse. 

I have to email every 28 days to get 4 different tablets. I run out on a Friday. I work away in the week now. So I need to pick them up from the pharmacist the previous saturday morning. 

It takes the pharmacist 3 days to get the tablets. 

I emailed last Friday and the GP took until Thursday to send over the script. I phoned the pharmacist, and they should be able to get them by Tuesday. So do I work from home Tuesday or Friday next week ? I actually need to be in the office in Friday if at all possible, so it looks like I have to drive home on Monday night and back on Wednesday morning. 3.5 hours and 180 miles, that I shouldn't need to do. 

If I email more than 2 weeks before I need them, they send me an email back telling me they are not due. 

But I've probably mentioned it before. 

Why anybody goes to the chemist to pick up prescriptions baffles me.... used Pharmacy  2U for years.....never a problem 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

34 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said:

The article I saw was about a video that "sold" for just over£1million. It's a video that has had millions of downloads, so I cannot grasp how something that has been dowloaded millions of times has any value at all.

Emperor's new clothes indeed.

Edit: This video has been viewed some 880 million times and is up for a non-fungible token auction next week. Read the video description as to why. Sounds completely bonkers to me.

https://youtu.be/7mcAsxPKYZg 

It's all very Schrödinger's. You have it but you don't have it.

*shrugs*

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, colc said:

Why anybody goes to the chemist to pick up prescriptions baffles me.... 

I do. Someone has to keep them going.

[somewhatfoolish]

I did ponder going online with my prescription, but a new GP at the surgery a couple of years ago resulted in a tech revolution locally and I can now email for repeats and they are reliably ready in the pharmacy within a week, sometimes within 2-3 days. The previous faff of having to phone up and convince Philomena of insufficient light at reception I was worthy or fill in an actual piece of paper and physically handing it in to the surgery was a pain in the bum.

[Spurious]

16 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

I did ponder going online with my prescription, but a new GP at the surgery a couple of years ago resulted in a tech revolution locally and I can now email for repeats and they are reliably ready in the pharmacy within a week, sometimes within 2-3 days. The previous faff of having to phone up and convince Philomena of insufficient light at reception I was worthy or fill in an actual piece of paper and physically handing it in to the surgery was a pain in the bum.

My surgery uses AskMyGP. It's great, it's like a webchat for GPs.  Got a sick note for work when I'd Covid in 24hrs without having to speak to reception or hold the phone for 3 hours. 

[meggersdog]

Laptop not working, after trying to reset I get this :

Chrome OS missing or damaged.

WTF it was working fine yesterday. If I get a usb stick I can probably recover it using the work laptop but don't want to bugger that one up .

[Remspoor]

1 hour ago, Isopon said:

Talking of Youtube, they're making me verify my age to watch, wait for it- Scatman's world music video. WTF.

Try this. https://nsfwyoutube.com/

There are also browser extensions.

[beko1987]

Oooh I can go back to ordering a kebab then sitting outside the pub for half an hour whilst I wait, fab! Doombar please... 

Yea I'll nurse this one, thanks... 

[MikeR]

Bought a poundland silver rattle tin to spruce up the motor ....

Done nothing but blow a gale since .

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Oooh I can go back to ordering a kebab then sitting outside the pub for half an hour whilst I wait, fab! Doombar please... 

Yea I'll nurse this one, thanks... 

Is there a serving wench lifting the glass to your lips? Bloody hell, no wonder I didn't go in pubs much even before this.

[Fumbler]

I wake up and the weather has blown in early. Bugger. I wanted to get a little bit of work done on the car today!

[dozeydustman]

On 18/05/2021 at 08:13, New POD said:

Use of a soldering iron to put the address on, is quite effective. 

Until you cancel the contract, the Council/contractor (e.g. Biffa) then want their bin back and permanently engraved bin can’t be cleaned and re-used. Many councils and contractors do this and then charge the customer for damage to their property.

[hairnet]

fuck me is eddie jordan still alive??

not watched F1 for years but watch monaco or canada if its on if i remember its on

highlights are on channel 4 now and from 6.30 till 9

why!!!?!?!?!?!?!!

proabaly more than half an hour blabbing at the front and likely that at the end

even live the race is 2 hours or less (F1 rools - has been like that for years)

fuck coulthard too

fuck it gonna watch athetics and john williams instead

and i was gonna walk to the chippy but it started pissing down so had a bowl of soup instead

i hate sundays

[Jerzy Woking]

Its pissing down here, but thats not the grump.

When it rains it pretty much knocks out my satellite TV and through the air internet.

Forecast is for rain until 02.00 hours, so that's no Match of the Day for me then.

[Zelandeth]

Oh FFS...

Bloody fences...