[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026372
That post was flagged. Difficult to imagine why.
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Sure, but by that logic you’re saying piracy* in general is bad, but when you pirate* the video it’s okay. And if I pirate* the video the same way it’s okay. But if we cross share it’s bad, while the only real difference is via this route , google is paying for more bandwidth and yt-dlp becomes less effective because it’s redundantly executed at scale.
*pirate, for lack of a better term. I couldn’t give a fuck what people call it.
I dispute that I'm pirating them. I'm still watching them on YouTube, I'm just also archiving a copy. They're still getting my view money.
Minisforum is also one of many mini-pc vendors that basically doesn't release bios updates. They might release a couple early on, to try to get systems stable, but after that don't expect any bios updates. AMD will release plenty of updates, & you'll be stuck on whatever it was your system came with.
Different kind of support concern from yours, but also noteworthy. Really unfortunate.
I still have an old HP EliteDesk (i5-8600t) that is my one reliable 24/7 system, still runs fine. Also no bios updates, so I guess there's that. Mini-PCs to me started more as a way to buy cast-off business gear, these small affordable small business systems, even cheaper second hand. It's amazing and great seeing this new market rise up to make interesting mini-pc's, and the value is often still pretty good, but it's a very different character from where the trend started.
Are there any mini PC vendors that do provide BIOS updates?
LeoPanthera commented on macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
OK, a couple bad icons here. But am I the only one who thinks the wrench metaphor actually looks good?
Yeah they look fine to me. They're not icons you're going to put on your dock and look at every day.
LeoPanthera commented on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS menial.co.uk/base/... · Posted by u/__bb
The name chosen probably didn't help here. “Base” is a very generic term.
It's also the name of the database application in LibreOffice, confusingly.
> You can get MiniPCs with 4-6 internal M.2 slots that are great for building a NAS with.
Where can I find that? My current Intel NUC has two M.2 slots and a SATA connection. If I were to relax the definition of a MiniPC to include mini ITX then yes I can find these, but given how the author talks about being all-in-one, I doubt the author is talking about mini ITX builds.
They're all fairly new. "Mini PC NAS" seems to be the magic Google words. One example is the "Beelink ME mini", which has 6 m.2 slots.
Yes indeed, I'm running Proxmox on an Asus NUC Pro... thing. Can't remember the exact name.
I initially was recommended a "Minisforum" thing, which I did buy, but it absolutely hated Debian for reasons I don't understand. It would boot, but not reboot, so you'd have to power cycle it every time. Not practical.
The Asus also came with its own issues - it only supports one stick of RAM unless you do a BIOS update, so you have to be careful not to put both sticks in until after the update. Slightly crazy.
Have you considered sharing them somehow? I always thought yt-dlp would end up p2p
Since many of the channels are monetized, my personal policy is only to upload videos to the Internet Archive if the original goes offline. Otherwise, it's better if people support the original channel by watching them on YouTube.
Isn’t an official downloading functionality part of their premium offering? If you’re a power user perhaps it’s worth just paying.
I am a premium subscriber, but "downloaded" videos are trapped inside the app. You can't actually get them out.
The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, anything you find precious.
I've been downloading YouTube videos for the past few years. Not randomly, from specific channels I select. Today I passed 12100 videos.
It's getting harder. YouTube keeps making yt-dlp work worse. (And I started when it was youtube-dl!) I limit my downloader script to no more than 2 videos at a time, every 3 hours, hopefully in order not to trip any rate limits. All good so far.