That one can be realized client-side (just don't actually pause the stream download, but rather write it into a buffer). No idea, if there actually is a client that implements this, but it is conceptually possible.
I rather meant that with a livestream, people don't want to be several minutes behind. They want at most a few seconds delay, so they can collectively chat about the things happening in the stream and reasonably hold conversations with the streamer.
What you can do as well, is to just pause the stream when the ad starts and then reload when you imagine the ad might be over...
Yeah, problem is that I'm not aware of anyone who actually writes octal numbers as "OCT123" nor decimal numbers as "DEC123". It's basically a made-up syntax, supposed to look plausible for both date notation and number system notation. It's part of the joke, which LLMs won't understand.
A big difference is that Twitch livestreams are creating content as reality happens. You can't skip ahead, you can't pre-load into a buffer. YouTube would need to take those features away to allow for similarly effective ad enforcement, which would eliminate a significant advantage of VODs.
I've basically only watched one video on this (of someone who's supposedly medically trained, has fibro themselves and published a book about fibro), so you know, don't think I'm an expert.
But well, according to this video, one common cause for pain in people with fibro is muscle tension. She said something like, what's normally considered dangerous levels of muscle tension, where you'd actively medicate people in a hospital, that's normal levels for fibros.
Obviously, you won't get muscle tension in an exam, except maybe in your writing hand, because you're not really using your muscles and exams tend to be short enough anyways.
Another suspected cause is that during fight-or-flight, your body releases testosterone, which inhibits, I believe, oxytocin production, which means your body slows down long-term regenerative processes. So, quickly closing up a bleeding wound is on schedule, but making sure your joints are regenerated before the next fight-or-flight situation, that's lower priority while you're supposedly still in a fight-or-flight situation.
One theory I've heard where fibro comes from, is that the body is always in fight-or-flight mode (for varying reasons), it never properly switches over to rest-and-digest mode for an extended period.
So, it could be that someone with fibro just smells like someone taking an exam, but like, even in theoretically relaxed situations.
It is completely 100% ridiculous to try to 'diagnose' you from this short of a description, but it could be that you're autistic to some degree.
Us autistic folks like to take moral issues a lot more personal, like having to lie. We're often at odds with societal standards. We may feel like we're socially slow, even though in my experience, it's usually just that we socialize differently. And we definitely overanalyze things.
Problem is, when you sit there with headphones all day, you won't do much socializing. Often all it takes, is just one colleague who can't make it to the office or who works at a different office...
I mean, I certainly don't want to argue against 2FA, but some accounts are just ...disposable, you know?
Like, if someone hacks into this account, obviously not great, but I'll talk to the admins to get it suspended/deleted and then I'll make a new one. It's mostly just a minor inconvenience...
Yeah, I was actually aware of that, while writing the above. The AndroidManifest.xml is zipped into the APK-file, so even for closed-source apps, you should be able to check it.
Problem is, of course, that it doesn't help less techy folks, but also that you can't prevent app updates from suddenly adding internet access.
And that you can't take it away from apps that do claim to need it. At some point, I had some sort of root/XPosed/whatever setup, where I could take this permission away from apps, but because this was a thing that couldn't happen normally, they all just flopped over sideways, saying things like "Please connect to WiFi 🥺".
Some years ago, when Google introduced the permission system with Android Marshmallow, I watched this developer conference presentation. At the end of it, a visitor asked whether there's also a permission to prevent internet access.
The Google guy who had presented it, responded that there was not, because with the other permissions in place, no app would have access to data that shouldn't be on the internet.
I'd wager every single person in that room was techy enough to know that this was complete horseshit, including the presenter, but that did not stop him from pressing it out his grinning teeth.
To this day, when you install a third-party keyboard app, you either trust it with all your passwords and everything you type + internet access, or you don't use one, even though 99% of third-party keyboards don't need internet.
Similarly, you could allow camera apps etc. to not need to ask for permission, if they don't use the internet, thereby reducing user fatigue.
Instead, Google decided to compromise security of the Android platform, I imagine, because they want apps to ship with (their) ads and trackers.
This is going to be an oddball suggestion, but quite a unique gaming experience, in my opinion: NodeCore
It's basically Minecraft meets puzzling to progress through technologies.
The game is rather difficult. And it being so niche, there's no wiki to tell you the solutions, except for actual Wikipedia, because somehow it's relatively realistically modelled.
As such, it has this feeling of being the first human to figure these things out and I found it massively rewarding when I pushed through some of the more complex puzzles.
The whole game is completely free. Just download the Minetest engine/launcher and search for "NodeCore" in the Content-tab.
Electrolysis and then nuclear fusion.