Totally with you. My reason is slightly different I guess. It's not that I don't dislike sloppy video because I do, but I just can't watch videos at all. Our jungle internet is super slow, and I don't have the patience to let it load up. If I load a video, I have to know ahead of time that it's really good. A five minute video costs me at least 10 minutes.
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In important things with slow internets. Use linux!
A tool that I often use is youtube-dl and it downloads videos from thoutube in whatever format you tell it to. Then you just play it whenever you want.
Also, it is super easy to have it download them in the middle of the night.
And if its on dtube, you just tell wget to get it.
Makes life on a slow internet a lot easier.
Thank you. That is helpful.
And that's a very valid reason, as well. I get something similar from a friend of mine who lives in a small village in Alaska, and is dependent on a very dodgy satellite connection for Internet.
Ours is through a device that is essentially like the hotspot function on a cell phone, except our cell reception is horrid and has to be boosted.