Happy to be here!

Honestly I think I would find that one difficult. It essentially replaced conventional TV for me in the last 10-15 years. I use a privacy-respecting front-end so I'm never at youtube.com itself but if they killed it off I would find it difficult to adapt.

How to install adblockers, how to detect fake download sites that give you computer aids? Show them how to use a VPN and choosing the right one (a true pirate must always choose a VPN with port forwarding capabilities, so you can still seed) I feel like this is all valuable info we all learned as pirates the hard way, and valuable information to pass on to our kids.

Absolutely, I would say whether you're teaching piracy or not, those are essential things that everyone online must know about; it would be unethical to allow your kids to go online without that protection.

I don't know anything about Minecraft but if Minetest is an appropriate replacement without that minor annoyance I would suggest that's solicited advice.

I'm used to hearing about how a lot of people are put off of Lemmy because of all the "Linux" people on it, "people pushing Linux", "elitists", etc.

And yet I see something like this and think "are we not supposed to give good advice?".

If is the kind of thing you want for your computing then go for it.

I strongly believe nuisance advertising should be fought separately from privacy concerns. Both are valid concerns but need a different approach. Advertising based on website visits that collect user data is privacy intrusive, but an ad baked into a YouTube video is probably not (regardless of whether it's annoying or not).

I used to believe that only women drank tea and only men drank coffee (owing the the fact that my Mum only drinks tea and my Dad only drinks coffee).

I was a bit weirded out when I first encountered a friend's mother drinking coffee.

I usually ask them who they're calling to speak to, since if they're not a cold-caller they would know my name. This usually makes them hang up. With your inside experience, is this a good way of handling it?

Fish consumption, of course, being a famous cause of obesity?

Edit: Look, I'm making fun of the guy, I'm British, you don't need to all take it upon yourselves to explain fish and chips to me.

Landscapes is totally wrong

While Heinz aren't the best, American baked beans are not the same as British baked beans by a long way, so you're probably not actually comparing it to what is sold in the UK as Heinz baked beans.

Why the hang-up about "shops"? It's a colloquialism for restaurants.

Daniel Johnston - Cold Hard World

What I listen to when I'm depressed and want to be, not the best song to lift you out of it.

I don't know, I'm not American.

If it's just the fallback that's failing for the occasional video, under settings > general settings > Fallback to Non-Preferred Backend on Failure: - Check that the invidious instance there actually works.

If it's happening regularly I would say there's something else because that's not normal, it used to be less reliable than it is now but it's been very good for the last year or so. Only very occasionally I have to fall back to using yt-dlp these days (unless of course I'm keeping the video).