Nearly everyone I know watches YouTube in some kind or another regularly. Most of them on a smart TV or mobile with ads. I think the amount of people watching youtube regularly is vastly higher than the amount of people just watching it when they get sent one video. Espechially since most people use phones to communicate with others and will watch the Videos sent to them with that device and the original YouTube App.

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I don’t think it will piss off people enough to a point that Google will care. There will be a very small amount of techy people that will always try to circumvent this but the vast majority of people will deactivate AdBlock or buy premium.

I hope an Imgur link is fine. If not please tell me which (multi) image hoster is fine here on lemmy. Here are a few pictures I took of my setup and the necromanced parts

I have four screens from four different manufacturers, with three different sizes, three different resolutions, two different aspect ratios and two different refresh rates.
Two of these are resurrected from the dead of which one has a high voltage cold cathode driver externally plastered to it’s back (because the internal failed and there was no space inside) and the other one shining from every pore because I “replaced” one cold cathode tube by plastering the “replacement” tube somewhere in the housing of the monitor to fool the driver into thinking all tubes are fine (one was defect, the driver doesn’t work without every tube connected and putting the replacement in the place where it should belong is too much work).
I am basically the evil necromancer of chaotic evil.

1. 27 inch, 1440p, 16:9, 144Hz, Asus
2. 24 inch, 1080p, 16:9, 60Hz (driver sticking out), BenQ
3. 21 inch, 1080p, 16:9, 60Hz, Iiyama
4. 21 inch, 1680x1050p, 16:10, 60Hz, Eizo

I can provide pictures later today if someone’s interested.
Edit: Here are the pictures

Yes, Dishonored is really fun. Having a good saving system (with quick save and load) makes it even better. I love to have the option to just fool around.

Yeah, IoT is pretty nice. But proprietary stuff can be very annoying and a huge security risk.

Most HDMI switches (even the ones with remotes) don’t need external power so I always assumed that there must be some power spec.