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I found the best way to deal with YouTube is to download the videos and airdrop them to my son's iPad.

This way he can still view a selected range of Minecraft videos without getting stuck in the cesspool of '100 days as a chicken' playlists.


Plex, Jellyfin, and similar solutions where you rip content for your own media collection and serve in a constrained manner can solve for this. App gets installed on kid's device, and you use the cli or use the web interface to push it into the storage system it's streamed from.

(i do this, it is very straightforward and keeps my kids off of Youtube)


I've been thinking of doing something like that with a Synology



Though the UI/iPad app of Plex is buggy and difficult too use. I haven't tried Jellyfin enough yet though.


Yes, seems like a better strategy. Even something like newpipe on an old android phone curating/downloading locally and playing through vlc. Simple and works great.

I actually noticed in the brave settings on android recently it can block all youtube comments/recommended/etc so that may be even simpler


I agree that this is the way to go. I'd also recommend the PBS kids video app as something you can let them navigate and explore without worry.


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If you get downvoted, it’s because you threw a trollish text without any arguments or explanations to back it up.

If you did, this could have been a good and useful discussion.


Well let me try and fix that. In my opinion, a child sitting in front of the screen for long hours and being occupied enough with a videogame that you want to watch additional media on it when you’re not playing belies a waste of potential and frankly social and mental (outside of a small band) development. It has created a generation of stunted individuals and there’s a pushback coming. Now it’s for social media but it will expand to all forms of screen time.


I'm an adult who doesn't have time to play Minecraft anymore because I'm too busy between a career and raising kids, but I did play a ton of it in its early days and I still watch a selection of Minecraft YouTube channels (mostly a few of the Hermits).

My early experiences with Minecraft absolutely helped get me to this point in my career. Minecraft is less a video game and more a sandbox and development platform. Redstone is a fabulous introduction to concepts that are applicable to programming, electrical engineering, and really any logic-oriented field. I first learned Forth through a Minecraft mod, and my first technical documentation experience came from writing docs for people to use that Forth system. I later picked up Lua through ComputerCraft, and my earliest real Java projects that I built were Minecraft mods.

All of which is to say: I'm totally going to introduce my kids to Minecraft when they're old enough! I wouldn't trade the hours I spent on that game and in its community for anything.


You're totally wrong. Apart from myopia and obesity, it's all nature, practically no nurture (without exceptionally negative environments, like abuse, drugs, or malnutrition). You're better off blaming social trends and microplastics.


Why's that?


I will check this out. I was playing around with https://grid.glideapps.com/ for a project.


Too early to tell yet. Here's an example of the content: https://www.standardretail.co/glossary/revenue-per-visitor-r...

I've only just submitted the site to Google and waiting on indexing.


I heard bing indexes faster. won't get as much traffic but it might give you feedback faster. Last I remember Google doesn't really like a new site until about a year later.


Do you still ban users from using different AI voices together?


I have no control over that. Exactly how do you expect me to enforce this?


But can I remove the torch icon from the lock screen? I hate it so much.


I think my most-used iOS feature throughout the pandemic was flashlight mode. I like it on the lock screen :)


What's the connection between the flashlight and the pandemic?


I didn't leave my house so it didn't make many phone calls or do other phone things. Just sat there charging and being used as a flashlight occasionally.


Otherwise known as the 'drain my battery' button.


Spot on! Hate it with all my heart


Do you mean the Control Center? You can customize it under Settings > Control Center and remove or move the flashlight.


You can set the sensitivity on it, I think i've only accidentally turned it on once since then


Can you!

I didnt know that!

I'm always turning it on accidentally!


That sounds like Elden Ring.


We (Replica Studios) are releasing a major quality update next year. Here's a preview: https://replicastudios.notion.site/Preview-Voice-Quality-Upd...


What are the main differences between you guys and Resemble.ai?


I first purchased an OP-1 because of the YouTube demos, but end up selling after a few weeks.

I've now got a Digiton/Digitakt setup that's much better. Elektron's workflow just clicked with my brain.


Zohaib and I can always be found on these threads :)

The two main non Google/Amazon competitors are https://www.resemble.ai/ and https://replicastudios.com/


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