Fair FairyYouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
Sentient Loomwhat kind of “non-standard windows 11 installs” ?
BlueWhat’s wrong with Rufus?
It edits the iso (making it non-standard) to run on not-anymore-supported hardware.
I know. What’s wrong with that?
Not sure, but I understood that comment to mean “it would be worth getting angry against YouTube if the videos they removed were about rufus”, not that rufus itself is wrong.
Ohhh, yeah that makes sense.
Exactly! Sorry, i’m late.
paraphrandFrom Microsoft’s POV, it probally breaks the ToS.
Oh yeah, I temporarily forgot the priority for laws in The US (from least to greatest):
- Local law
- state law
- HOA agreements
- NIMBY pet peeves
- federal law
- The Constitution
- corporate terms of service
- whatever trump posts on Truth Social, so long as its in all caps
Lyra_LycanI used Ghost Spectre once and it was great, but was scared off it by frequent mentions online of other security flaws with prebuilt ISOs, the same potential risks as any closed-source and unregulated software. I never saw issues, just got fearmongered out of it
rozodruThis is a screenshot of this HN thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744503
Which is about this Reddit post: old.reddit.com/…/youtube_is_taking_down_videos_on…
“non-standard” means without a Windows account (gasp!) and on “non-standard equipment” - like, what a Samsung Smart Fridge instead of the ads? I can’t tell what that means, YT thinks I’m a bot, and can get fucked instead of me digging any deeper.
“Nonstandard” for Windows 11 includes PCs with Intel 7th gen or older processors, many of which are still perfectly good and powerful enough to run Windows 11. So, it’s pretty sad that these videos are being taken down.
Oh, FFS. Of course it is.
Can confirm, I still own an i7-7700k. Pretty much all 77xx variants were on the compatibility list but mine wasn’t. Weird thing, though (sarcasm), I used the standard Win11 Install Media to install, and it did so with no problems! Funny, that.
Occasionally it threw a fit with the Office apps my partner needed to use (the standard for the university and LibreOffice’s docx, xlsx format is not compatible with M$), all it did was refuse login due to lack of TPM2.0, but this only happened after the 24H3 update or whatever it’s called
(All this is moot for me now as I switched to Arch Linux)
Next up: YouTube removes tutorials on breathing with your own lungs.
Sure. You could upload it to peer-tube, and have it be seen by a whole 11 people!
Or Odysee!! A well established platform with decentralised video storage and a FOSS app that lets you browse all videos with relatively fast loading.
FauxPseudo And craptastic search and discovery features.
Yeah, but discovery optimisation algorithms are what got YouTube into the mess it’s in. I’m okay with a more natural, look for what you want style, as opposed to being handed video after video to waste time.
I wouldn’t know too much about the searching issue. What problems have you noticed?
I found that it has zero ability to infer and suggest from what I’m typing. If I typo “mine inch”, easy to do on a phone keyboard, it is completely lost. But YouTube knows that I’m definitely looking for nine inch nails. “Chicken tr” on YouTube knows I’m looking for chicken tractors before I even finish, Odyssey is completely lost and requires me to type the whole thing out. When I’m searching for music it requires me to know exactly what I’m looking for and doesn’t offer much in the way of exploration help.
In this case, you could upload it to YouTube where it will be taken down and seen by a whole no people
No no. It’ll still be seen by thousands before it’s taken down.
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CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.
As a Floridian, I have to use a VPN for that.
Blocked in 23 states, unless you want to hand over your digital ID.
Ricky Rigatonithey’re not important
demonswordContrary to popular American belief, the USA is not the center of the Universe
no one cares about the plights of those living in backwater stone age dictatorships. the modern world must move forward on its own.
we Americans have to get used to being left behind and left out of conversations by real adults now.
Honestly? If anyone could make a rival for YouTube it would be a big porn hosting site.
The infrastructure is already there. Just need to buy another domain and throw money at it.
I dont think anyone will rival youtube, pornhubs infrastructure is no where near youtubes, like at all.
The only competitor I could see YouTube getting is if Twitch decided to chase that route. The only companies with the global infrastructure are Amazon and Microsoft.
Microsoft gave up on Mixer, so I don't see them ever trying to take on YouTube. Amazon have Twitch, which as mentioned, could try to take on YouTube. But even with owning their own servers and just running them at cost, it would be a massive undertaking and investment.
There's a tremendous amount of work to do, that these companies are not going to throw money at for decades just to compete for YouTube's profit margins, which apparently aren't that big (if they even exist).
We see a lot of smaller video hosting sites, like Dailymotion, but something would have to go seriously wrong at YouTube for any of them to grow meaningfully.
Microsoft Account gets FUCKED by huge command line penetration
There was a time Youtube videos would only be seen by 11 people. But it grew because people posted videos anyway.
It grew because it was the only platform that did it.
If you want views, you have to go where the viewers are. Current alternatives are sorely lacking.
If you want the smaller platforms to grow, you do need to post there, but ignoring the existing giant won’t get you seen unfortunately. At the very least, you should do both.
YouTube was not the only platform back then but I agree it dwarfs what is around now
there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.
it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don’t remember.
Wasn’t dailymotion and liveleak around before YouTube? And it took YouTube some time before it became the mammoth it is now
I was going to say vimeo but checked the dates to make sure I remembered right - looks like it was up even before youtube 2004 vs 2005.
oh wow, i thought for sit it came later. i should stop making snap comments when m waking up.
Hey man, the playing-pinball-while-a-cat-interferes peertube community is very close-knit (video.apz.fi).
I kid, but it’s true that peertube lacks the dopamine hooks and variety that youtube does. It’s much harder to sink hours into watching a bunch of videos that you’ll only half remember by the next day.
other_catA little ironic that this comment posted on Lemmy (tiny competitor to reddit)
Viewers go where the content is, yes, but you don’t get content on alternative sites if you don’t post there.
YouTube in the old days was awesome. Then Google happened to it. When it first started it was quite small.
Principles matter!
FireWire400They realise that A LOT of those videos are not primarily about Windows?
I’ve seen many reviews of vintage devices where the uploader just casually installs Windows 11 in a “nonstandard” way, just because it’s the only way.
Besides, you still have to activate it. Rufus doesn’t help you get around that, so it’s not even piracy.
Rare Youtube W I guess?
For those who care, at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10
CMD will open
Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.
Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.
Next type “ net user Prefferedusername/active:yes” and press enter.
Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.
Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.
Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” and press enter.
Next type “regedit” and press enter.
This opens registry editor navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE”
Delete DefaultAccountAction, DefaultAccountSAMName, and DefaultAccountSID
Right click on LaunchUserOOBE and rename it to SkipMachineOOBE and make sure the value is set to 1.
Close registry editor and type shutdown /r /t 0.
fossilesqueIntructions unclear.
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