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Often tickets to events include public transport for the event. There is usually a subway stop close to the location. Both help a lot.

Interesting that this extension is pay only, first time I see this. Again makes sense to go against a business model of "free" of cost but too expensive for sanity.

I find YouTube itself to be so adversarial that I don't even use it anymore.

Still, I'm installing both this and SponsorBlock to symbolically show support to this of projects that IMHO show that I want the Web MY way. I don't want to browse in whatever way maximizes attention and distraction to increase profit margin of surveillance capitalism.

Unfortunate for you, I'm using also the Index and seems I'm lucky with SteamVR, Proton and an NVIDIA card.

Have you tried using Proton? Worked out quite well for me so far. Check https://www.protondb.com

You actually reminded me I have a Windows 100Go partition. I reduced its size but really, based on when I last boot on it, I should really delete it.

You're just making another assumption, maybe the dorm has optic fiber with a big bandwidth and a lower latency that most home and business connection. Maybe OP doesn't care about 120hz and only heat. I don't think you are getting my point if you are pointing out imperfection about the current technology : it's possible.

See also suggestion on hardware and commercialization https://lemmy.world/comment/12248508

no business in the capitalist world where selling ads is a billion dollar industry is going to make this available

How about an open-hardware open-source project on e.g CrowdSupply (something like https://www.crowdsupply.com/jie-zou/rggber but dedicated) where everything is setup to do so efficiently, e.g an HDMI/HDMI box where you put the signal in, get the signal out, and on its own does nothing but cool looking visual filters, e.g from color to black&white, yet when the user reconfigure it, with community made filter, it removes ads?

annotate them by adding the time stamps then the location on the image

Depending on your legislation it might be legally mandatory to disclose, so if one can have an automated way to know this, it would simplify greatly the problem.

I agree but I don't watch TV so I don't bother. Yet... I still hate product placement so I might be interested in such a solution. Anyway here is how I would do it :

• evaluate what exists, e.g SponsorBlock, and see what's the closest that fit my need, try it, ask in forum or repository issues if modifications are possible
• gather videos of the typically problematic content, say few hours to start
• annotate them by adding the time stamps then the location on the image
• replace problematic content with gradually complex solutions, e.g black, average color of the area, denoising (quite compute intensive)
• honestly evaluate the result
• consider the biggest problem, e.g here on first pass fixed content so a detector based on machine learning for the type of content could help
• iterate, sharing my result back with the closest interested community

Honestly it's a worthwhile endeavor but be mindful it's an arm race. There are a LOT of smart people paid to add ads everywhere... but there are even more people, like you and I, eager to remove them. IMHO the key trick is, like SponsorBlock, to federate the efforts.

Right, and I mentioned CUDA earlier as one of the reason of their success, so it's definitely something important. Clients might be interested in e.g Google TPU, startups like Etched, Tenstorrent, Groq, Cerebras Systems or heck even design their own but are probably limited by their current stack relying on CUDA. I imagine though that if backlog do keep on existing there will be abstraction libraries, at least for the most popular ones e.g TensorFlow, JAX or PyTorch, simply because the cost of waiting is too high.

Anyway what I meant isn't about hardware or software but rather ROI, namely when Goldman Sachs and others issue analyst report saying that the promise itself isn't up to par with actual usage for paying customers.