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Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?

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[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

I did for years before it existed. Did for years after it came around.

It's a great thing to have the video guides and lessons that are available there, but the rest is just entertainment, and there's always entertainment somewhere that isn't full of shit.

And those useful things, well, humanity made do with written directions for decades before video became a realistic option back in the eighties with VHS. TV "lessons" before that amounted to being only cooking shows, and a handful of PBS awesomeness that wasn't really aimed at practical, modern things.

I will absolutely miss instructionals for specific devices being that easy to find, but as long as places like ifixit exist, I can do just fine.