On top of the other comments, your private tracker will have a tutorial/rulebook on exactly how new content should be labelled. It’s worth checking that out before you start experimenting with encoding quality options.

if there was an extention that could skip the sponsor segments inside the videos themselves I’d use it in a heartbeat.

sponsorblock does that. it’s crowd sourced, so it doesn’t always work with the small channel newest videos, but it’s very good at what it does considering.

Could have also been a buttplug that fell backwards.

If i’m invested i’ll just quote the bit they missrd back at them. If not, i’ll downvote and move on.

“Rules were made to be broken!”
-fanfiction

I mention the silencer thing because attaching one to a gun is literally screwing it in - every hollywood movie that includes a silencer has this specific scene in it, and so did all of the gun youtubers. Google never told anyone if these rules were for going forward or if their old content would get called out for it too, and so there was lrgit worries about finding a channel ban for videos uploaded ten years ago.

Youtube is being an ass about guns specifically. They had vague rules about assembly instructions including not being allowed to show someone screwing in a suppressor. Then they did the typical google thing and offerred no discussion or recourse options for talking about the rules to any of the youtubers. Essentially, fuck you, you do what you’re told type of deal. It was enough that all the gun youtubers had legitimate worries about their job security in the short and longterm future. They’ve since walked back that specific rule, but there are still a lot of other rules restricting what kind of gun related content is actually allowed. And all the channel owners know that google can and will cut their gun content on a whim without forewarning or talking about it.

You also see this with their rules about swearing in videos. Whatever makes the advertisors happiest apparently.

I have no idea. I learned this from the not political gun youtubers and various other hobby interest channels telling me they had a floatplane account set up.

It is not. It also has a lot of the not political gun youtubers on it, as wrll as various other hobby interests.

With prices being about 14$/tb on sale for the cheapest 8-16tb drives, yeah, it really is. And if the cheap drive breaks, no problem, you only had public torrents on it anyways.

Now? The pinkertons never left, and they started ages ago. Protesters got shot then too.

If you have a hard drive as your main storage, and in particular a raid array of smr hard drives, it’s worth checking the ‘pre-allocate disk space for all files’ check box in the connection settings. it keeps disk fragmentation down and lowers raid thrashing a shitton when downloading large media files. You won’t notice if it’s just you using your one hard drive, but it made a huge difference on my raid5 smr setup.

What front-end are you running with conduit? I just spent two hours trying to get element to talk to it but i’ve put it off due to so much failure with it.