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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • As someone who has migrated data to new PCs many times, I will say you should always back everything up and sort through it later. I have had many occasions where I’ve forgotten about important files or documents and deleted them because I didn’t know they were in the location I deleted. Storage is relatively cheap, buy a 30$ hard drive dock and a couple TB hard drive (spinning HDD, not an SSD), and use a program like FoxClone to completely clone your current OS drive. Then you can happily wipe it and still have the backup should you need it.



  • The ultimate in privacy for YouTube is Invidious https://invidious.io/, which fully proxies your videos from YouTube through an Invidious server. Every once in a while YouTube will get the upper hand and figure out how to fingerprint and block the servers, but so far the community has always figured out how to circumvent it. One advantage is that you can feasibly use a VPN with Invidious; without it, you have to keep hopping from VPN server to VPN server until you find one YouTube hasn’t already blocked, especially on a large public VPN like ProtonVPN. This applies to NewPipe as well, since NewPipe still tries to talk to YouTube directly as far as I understand. On Android I use Clipious as the app to access the Invidious servers.