Wasn't my choice. I was 10.

What absolute wankers! In case anyone's adblock goes south, here are some YouTube alternatives:

For Watching YouTube

• Invidious
• Piped
• CloudTube (personal favourite)

For Uploading

• PeerTube
• Idk, make a video blog or something.

Try changing your user agent to a Chrome one (e.g. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36). Works a treat!

Time to get an Android, I guess.

Here it is on PeerTube, since we're on the Fediverse and probably wanting to avoid Google.

https://spectra.video/w/2SRf76FVKRfLuaaSMvbJR7

Ha! Yeah, I remember that phase. I was planning to install LXDE as my first distro, simply because I thought the wallpaper looked cool.

I really hate these guys. The exam board is petty, the content is hard, and they do bullshit like this.

It wasn't my dumb idea.

In an ideal world, this would be a good thing. Machines doing the work so humans can relax; but I doubt this is even possible in the world we live in.

I have three:

• They don't make things like they used to
• We don't need all these damned computers in everything
• Modern music sounds like crap

I'm 17.

Tech support has been my status since I was 12. Honestly, I enjoy being able to explain stuff like this.

I don't know man. Looks like something I'd buy.

In the UK, a lot of our government still uses XP and a lot of our public embedded devices (e.g. the tills in the Co-Op) run on Internet Explorer.

Some random Thai hacker using 7 isn't that much of a stretch.

Services I Use:

• LibreX (search engine)
• CloudTube (YouTube proxy)
• PeerTube (federated YouTube alternative)
• Tutanota (mail & calendar)
• Organic Maps (maps app based around OpenStreetMap)
• Cryptee (encrypted notes)
• Matrix (chat)
• LibreOffice + Collabora Office (office suite)
• Kiwix (offline Wikipedia & other wikis)
• NetNewsWire (RSS reader, for news)

Arms of the Fediverse I Use Regularly:

• Mastodon
• Pixelfed
• Lemmy
• PeerTube
• WordPress

Dormant Arms of the Fediverse:

• Friendica
• Kbin
• Funkwhale
• WriteFreely

I have installed Linux on all four of my laptops, and I'm hoping to migrate from my iPhone to a Pixel with DivestOS as soon as I move out of my parents' house (I'm currently 17), or sooner if possible.

I have also swapped many web apps for desktop apps, and my music collection has been based around CDs and DRM-free files since it started in 2016. In addition, I still use DVDs, VHS tapes, and (to a lesser extent) good old-fashioned Torrents for my films and TV shows.

If the internet becomes altogether too bad, there's always Gemini. Making web apps is trickier, but entirely feasible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

I think there was also a federated social media site on Gemini, which could interact with Mastodon, but I can't find it.

Something Android has had since version 1.0: the ability to install apps from places other than the App Store.

I use Organic Maps. OsmAnd is also pretty good.

There are two main alternatives, AFAIK:

• PeerTube is a federated video sharing platform, which is based on WebTorrent and ActivityPub. There aren't too many creators there yet, but here's a list of the channels I follow: https://lt27.de/jAyUHD

• A YouTube frontend will provide YouTube videos with no ads or tracking. Here are a few that I like:

  • Invidious | (Website)
  • Piped | (GitHub)
  • CloudTube | (sourcehut)
  • LightTube | (GitHub)
  • LiteTube

• There are also apps:

  • Android:
    • NewPipe
    • SkyTube
    • LibreTube
  • iOS, macOS, tvOS:
    • Yattee
  • Windows, Mac, Linux:
    • FreeTube

• Proprietary
• Based on Chromium
• Requires an account to use

Instant nope from me!

If you're after an online dictionary, I personally like Wiktionary.