I used to keep track of my playlists with my browser bookmarks, watching the videos themselves in mpv, and the channels I just memorized and checked from time to time. But later switched to using Freetube, that has built-in subscriptions, playlists and history tracking.
EngineerGaming
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I don't even use the browser on my Raspberry Pi - I just watch movies from my hard drive. I did doubt at first that Pi3 with just 1GB RAM would handle videos, but turns out it's okay, it has hardware acceleration for video. Although I now only watch Youtube by downloading videos in very specific formats.
Old Reddit is consistently blocking my VPS at least. Before Youtube started the recent IP-flagging BS, it was the only site that outright denied me access from this datacenter.
GeoGebra! Our school used it for demonstration on the lessons and had us do homework in there! Have good memories of it.
Signal isn't, and that's one of mine (and a lot of other people's) main gripes with it.
I'm concerned about centralization the most.
To be fair, Simplex is also a for-profit company. However, it's at least decentralized and more open, I'd take it over Threema any day.
Or a Raspberry Pi. Is more expensive ($60 for my Pi 3), but I think it was worth it due to versatility and privacy. Stock Android TVs would be uncomfortable as they spy on you.
To have a massive wall of video, you need to have a home spacious enough for a whole spare wall first! I haven't seen a <1m screen that would fit in the kitchen corner my TV occupies on an arm - I don't even think a projector would work with a screen this relatively small. And where would the projector itself go if opposite of that corner is the couch/bed? Sit on my lap?
With banking apps - it actually depends. I found out that in my country, most banks' apps (like, all the big ones except for one) don't require Google services, since requiring them would cut off a lot of users with Chinaphones (Huawei being the biggest example). The NFC payments in them are also their own implementation, independent from the Google one.
However, in case of at least one bank, the apk download link was hidden behind some dark patterns (ironically, less hidden than Signal's apk, lol), trying to instead direct people onto the national app store.
I don't think they need to either. In the physical world, cash is the absolute best. Using crypto in the real world is like using cash by mail - cool gimmick but very impractical. Crypto is a way to buy your VPS, domain, email, etc - the purely virtual things.