causing users to suggest that Reddit admins are interfering with their art (there is no evidence so far that would prove this)
If you watch the time lapse, you'll see that the guillotine was wiped away in an instant, which would either require mass coordination or admin privileges. There's also the fact that it was removed in chunks, not pixel-by-pixel. Also, it was proven last year that one of the mods didn't have a cooldown.
Reddit has been thrown into chaos because the company began charging for access to its API
No, it's because they began charging an amount that isn't affordable to third-party app developers and with very little notice. They also lied about being willing to work with developers and they made false allegations against Apollo's developer.
apparently having some LTO’d static libraries can cause issues
Yeah, I think I've had that problem once or twice. I think I found the culprits by disabling all build flags for libraries that seemed related, rebuilding them, running emerge @preserved-rebuild and then repeating the process to narrow it down
dmesg and PFL help with diagnosing crashes due to libraries, but I don't think that would help here
I've found a good compromise between the two. I've disabled most of the desktop profile USE flags and I compile everything with -Ofast and LTO
Portage errors are uncommon, and build failures are easily fixed by disabling compilation flags from package.env. Build failures get less and less common as package.env grows (it's currently at about 20 lines)
As for the kernel, I just started with a distribution kernel, disabled all modules and only enabled the ones that I need (this can automatically be done with make localmodconfig). These modules are built-in (so lsmod usually returns nothing)
I chose systemd because of the huge increase in boot speed
You can also use the “zap” feature. Just use the lightning bolt icon to the left of the eyedropper and it’ll skip step 4. I also found this to work better because selecting shorts ended up always selecting the entire videos section as well.
They only removed it because it interfered with a new feature they added to the mobile app. If they removed it for monetary reasons (like what they did with dislikes), they wouldn't have brought it back
Go to the patcher (at the bottom of the screen) and follow the instructions. Make sure you select the YouTube APK file you downloaded previously from storage. Enable at least the "Vanced MicroG support" and "Disable Shorts on startup" patches. There are also patches for disabling ads, shorts, showing an estimated but accurate dislike counter ("ReturnYouTubeDislike") and automatically skipping sponsored segments ("SponsorBlock")
Click "Install"
Download and install Vanced Manager (it's discontinued, but you can get it here)
Fire it up and use it to install Vanced MicroG
You're done. You can now uninstall all the apps you installed except Vanced MicroG and YouTube
Firefox still has the fox: