I do wish there were more services like nebula one yearly fee no baked in ads or ads at all and more creators are willing to join them.

The thing that sucks with youtube premium is you still have creators dumping 1 min long sponsors ruining the experience. Additionally often only way these creators allow you to go add free is via patreon, floatplane, etc which can get quite expensive if you follow 30-50 channels. The only other viable route is sponsorblock which works great but requires modified youtube clients/browser extensions and with youtubes new video adinjection could potentially be broken.

The only part I do wonder with nebula is how well it works for larger creators.

Linus Media group revenue break down

https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=532

Again thanks for taking the time to help and explain this to me

Yep this works

“origin=cloudsmith/caddy/stable”;

Unable to parse Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins. An error occurred: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)

// Automatically upgrade packages from these (origin:archive) pairs
//
// Note that in Ubuntu security updates may pull in new dependencies
// from non-security sources (e.g. chromium). By allowing the release
// pocket these get automatically pulled in.
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
        "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}";
        "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-security";
        // Extended Security Maintenance; doesn't necessarily exist for
        // every release and this system may not have it installed, but if
        // available, the policy for updates is such that unattended-upgrades
        // should also install from here by default.
        "${distro_id}ESMApps:${distro_codename}-apps-security";
        "${distro_id}ESM:${distro_codename}-infra-security";
        "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-updates";
//      "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-proposed";
//      "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-backports";
        "origin=cloudsmith/caddy/stable";
};

Firstly thank you so much for explaing this for me.

“origin=Zabbix,codename=${distro_codename}”; //Zabbix Agent repository

I tried using this as a template for caddy

 500 https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/deb/debian any-version/main arm64 Packages
     release o=cloudsmith/caddy/stable,a=any-version,n=any-version,l=source=none,c=main,b=arm64
     origin dl.cloudsmith.io

I assume origin is:

o=cloudsmith/caddy/stable

When adding this rule

"origin=cloudsmith/caddy/stable,codename=${distro_codename}"; //Caddy repository

I get this error

Unable to parse Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins.
An error occurred: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):

https://pastebin.com/raw/7gtkRw7c

When changing the syntax to:

"cloudsmith/caddy/stable:${distro_codename}"; // Caddy

The error goes away.

Any ideas?

Update regarding virtual files has more quirks.

• You cannot move files or folders. If you try nextcloud will simply copy the files to new destinaiton while not moving.
• the nextcloud sync and virtual files refresh/update independently (a change may propigate to sync but not files and vice versa).

Also turns out the reason it was a github release was it is still in alpha 😅 .

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Update the stable client does have proper virtual file sync.

Regarding the previous virtual file sync system (.nextcloud) you had to enable experimental features to get it. The latest stable just has both versions of syncing and I missed the obsious vfs sync option.

The only downside to the new system is there isn’t a make file/folder available offline always option in the context menu (you can get around this by manually setting up synced folders but it is a little inconvient).

This is how it shows up for me on Nextcloud desktop client 3.13.0

Unfortunatly like syncthing nextcloud mac app also has the same file extension sync issue (they use .nextcloud).

If your willing to deal with self hosting, immich is a great alternative. Its facial recognition and search is practically on par with google photos.

The only downside is it doesnt’ have photo editing, and its under active developmeant (it gets weekly updates and you occasionally need to modify docker config though they do give a warning in ui).

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

I do wonder how this compares to current payment processors (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, etc)

I have a fire tv cube just direct launch into apps to avoid this. For example instead of powering on the fire tv with power button I tell Alexa to open the app I need.

Down side is this doesn’t really work with sieloaded apps like smart tube

Only time I every encountered the popup was when I used orion with its built in adblocker. And even then I gat one warning (no metion of 3 strike policy). Only change now is the added a 3 second timer to the dismiss button.

Edit: Ublock origen and firefox as usual no issue

I do use sponsorblock 😅

Only gripe is your stuck to the web version of youtube (especially on ios).

If you want sponsorblock in the native youtube app you have to side load a mod which means either dealing with apple's 7 day limit refresh or paying for a apple dev acount/ signing service subscription.

Android there is revanced (no sideloading subscriptions needed).

On a final note I am considering trying https://grayjay.app/

It bundles odessy, nebula, youtube and a few other platforms in one app (it also includes sponsorblock and return dislikes for youtube).

I know this isn’t YouTube’s fault but one thing that bugs me about yet premium is when creators dump baked in ads.

As a user you have 3 options:

1. Deal with it and manual skip (in a way this feels like skipping commercials on cable tv Dvr)
2. Get ready to buy a ton of patreon subscriptions (kills the point of getting yt premium).
3. Get a modded client/ use browser extensions and use sponsorblock

Now the one exception to this is nebula where like YouTube you pay an all access fee but no baked in ads (I pay for this currently).

I do wonder if creators had the option to make videos available via YouTube premium only (say early access and no baked in ads). Would more people pay and would creators use this system? (They wouldn’t have to worry about demonetization).

Curious on your thoughts

Few problems:

1. Safteynet (play integrity) and root detection

There are magisk tweaks to help combat this but its a annoying game of cat and mouse. Some apps like chase have particularly annoying root detection to deal with. Also regaring safteynet once google fully enforces hardware attestation passing safteynet with tweaks will be borderline impossible (most tweaks try to spoof older phones that don’t support safteynet hardware attestation).

2. Widevine

Many streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, Disney, etc) will downgrade your video quality to 480p-540p due to L3 from unlocking the bootloader (a step thats usually required before you can root).

3. Physical security (potential risk)

Unlocking the bootloader is the first step to allowing for rooting and custom roms. One pro/con is when you unlock the bootloader you are partially at risk to a evil maid attack (some one with physical acess to your phone can compromise it). While difficult to do automatically (and probably very very rare) some one could hypothetically place a malicious bootloader that could steel data. The risk of this is mostly low but does exist.

Same issues (especially when fdroid tries to update itself). Not sure why it doesn’t work (when it should in theory).

Plugin repo hasn’t been updated in a bit as well 😢

With root privilaged extension it is.

On android 13 however it should be able to do it via session installer (google allowed unattened updates) and even without that there is a shizuku plugin which should allow it to work in theory (however the plugin is buggy and works half the time).

I use drodify. For UI and shizuku. Only wish is if auto updates could work.

I also use obtanium. Gets updates direct from GitHub release, handy if an app you want doesn’t have a fdroid repo or you want faster updates.

https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium