I have started with Mandrake (later renamed to Mandriva) then went through few other distros before settling on Gentoo.

Gentoo installation is one of the most complicated because there is no installer, you do everything yourself.

This is like buying car parts and assembling them together into a car using a manufacturer’s manual. its painful but once the car is assembled you almost never have to take it to a repair shop. Not because it doesn’t breakdown but because you know well how it function and thus how to fix it yourself.

everywhere is ruled by bots now

I’d choose the side that didn’t deliberately mass kill civilians, didn’t force women from occupied territories into prostitution, didn’t perform forced lethal medical experiments on civilians, …

Russia also committed war crimes. both Natanyahu and Valadmir are officially war criminals so what’s your point?

Israel is committing Genocide yes. Iran killed thousands of Syrians opposing Asad regime and even killed thousands of Iranians opposing khumeni.

The discussion of “who is more criminal” or which killing is Genocide and which is just “mass killing” is pointless to me.

Its a really confusing world we’re living in.

I don’t super US/Israel so I am happy Iran with Russia’s help is able to inflict pain on them. Happy to see US getting weaker.

But I also don’t support Russia/Iran both have horrible regime so I don’t want to see them victorious.

I supported Ukraine initially because Russia is a bully but Ukraine supports Israel which is a worse bully.

I don’t know who to support and who to be against any more

according to the news article, they were not destroyed but just damaged and are being repaired

I checked it now and it works fine if I don’t use VPN. but regular youtube also work fine without VPN.

If I switch to VPN both yt-dlp and normal youtube give same error “please login to prove you are not a bot” which is the problem OP is originally trying to find work around for

Does it still work for you? for me it stopped working a while back

Video ownloader it works but not very convenient

https://app.ytdown.to/en23/

I am not 100% clear on this. Is sideloading different from installing an APK from unknown source by simply taping on it?

You need to define what the word alive means first.

If you cut a roach’s head, it stays sort of alive in that the body responds when trying to touch it or expose it to harm but it won’t do anything if left alone. just standing still until eventual death.

A decapitated roach might still be able to “feel” pain but in my personal opinion - I am no expert in the matter - it doesn’t feel stress, trauma or have bad memory of the incident. Just pain and an appropriate reflex to it.