yt-dlp is the swiss army knife when it comes to downloading videos (not only!) from YouTube.

In order to get the best compatible format for the Apple ecosystem, I’m always adding a static -f argument. It makes sure to download the best possible H.264/5 video and m4a audio and avoids using webm or opus codecs.

Example:

yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4' "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=******"

In order to check all available formats and codecs, use the -F argument.

Put together, this gives us:

• Small, cheap hardware (1-7€ per tag)
• One year of battery life from a single coin battery
• (semi) complete control of our data (it does flow through Apple’s servers, but it’s encrypted and not connected to any account)

Source: reddit

Out of curiosity I made a short speed comparison with a Raspberry Pi 4 running on the internal SD card vs. an external SSD (via USB3). Fun fact: the 256 GB SSD I’m using is only 4€ more expensive than the SanDisk SD with the same size. Write speed of a 400 MB file:

SD (SanDisk microSDHC UHS-I):
419430400 bytes (419 MB, 400 MiB) copied, 32.6095 s, 12.9 MB/s

​SSD (SSK 256GB portable):
419430400 bytes (419 MB, 400 MiB) copied, 1.93642 s, 217 MB/s

And this is only plain write speed. Not to mention the huge general I/O speed bump and durability. Internal NVMe SSDs are even faster.

Der Film rückt die Geschichte des erfolgreichsten Albums “Disintegration” von The Cure ins Zentrum, das 1989 den Nerv einer Welt kurz vor der Zeitenwende trifft – und ergründet eines der erstaunlichsten Phänomene der Musikgeschichte.

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This is the best tv show I’ve seen in a while. In Germany it’s available on Sky.

This is probably the best video I’ve ever seen about photography and the exposure triangle (Aperture, Shutter speed and ISO). It is clear, concise, easy to understand and gives real world examples.