Working fine my friend.

Google-owned YouTube succeeded in shutting down the popular third-party YouTube Vanced app back in 2022

And 4 seconds later an alternative appeared.

It’s not even the first of April!

How big? Might be easier to dump it on an external HDD and just share it around.

“Update and Shutdown”… Walk away.

Running 2x ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro M.2 NVMe, 500Gb for OS and VMs and a 2Tb for games and documents.

I figured it was worth the gamble on this cheaper brand since everything important is synched/baked up to my server.

AAANNNDD that server is synched to my old NAS.

I’ve been running a couple ADATA Nvme drives since 2019. No issues and they’re fast.

Bingo!

Yeah, or just install a custom launcher.

Get a custom launcher mate; I installed one the second my Shield started showing that bullshit a couple years ago.

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Currently using Wolf Launcher, has a clean simple grid of my apps and a wallpaper of my choosing, no bullshit.

Flashing is pretty easy, been doing it on my phones for years, but never saw the point on media players… Until now!

In the next 10yrs Google with force to watch a full screen ad or pay for an incoming call subscription to answer a call!

It real seems like a huge fuck you to the end users, I hope it’s just a tiny test case, or fake, because I really liked my Shield.

I’ve been running a custom launcher since the recommendation paid ads where introduced; maybe I’ll avoid these ads too.

I made jokes about Google adding full screen video ads when they introduced recommendations paid ads and I was laughed at.

So glad I ditched the stock launcher.

That’s extremely fucked up if true!

Guess I’ll be blowing the dust off my media PC if Google dare to do something so blatantly greedy.

Replace “build” with “buy” if you want.

Even a used ex-business desktop would be faster and cheaper.

Build a basic i5 desktop.

It’ll cost less, be much faster and easier to upgrade; the “NAS” platform is so overrated.