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Use yt-dlp to download all videos. Most RSS readers can automatically fetch YouTube channels.

Set the computer to download what you want overnight.

Upside: Recommendations will not appear.

Downside: I don’t know if you can ‘Chromecast’ videos. I just have a small computer attached to my TV (any computer will do).

I run a RockPro64 with Arch Arm. No need for a monitor - you just connect over SSH.

Hard magic seems like an unavoidable perspective. Once someone casts spells daily, those spells become familiar.

Tolkien avoided this problem with limited spells. Le Guine leaned into it so hard that the method became enchanting. The reader could see Sparrowhawk’s point of view and start to wonder more about the rules of magic as they trickle out slowly.

When you cook well, you can eat the food.

When the bot says something, you always need to look up if it’s correct. That’s the ‘cook a new meal from scratch’ bit, not the ‘taste it’ bit.

You need to look things up every time, or do the taste test by asking if the bot’s answer ‘smells true’ (which is tempting, but a bad idea).

The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they’re both janky as all heck.