Ive been trying to learn a new language and this feature is awful.
It constantly either translates language-learning videos entirely into english or into the language i'm trying to learn. Despite all settings on my account being set to english, if I include any non-english text in my search query that is enough to get youtube to translate all videos out of english. When it does this, there is seemingly no built-in feature to change this back, other than through addons. And there isn't even an indication that conveys the fact the video title and description are auto-translated, other than maybe i recognize the channel and can tell that its supposed to be in another language.
And part of me thinks, "maybe once i learn enough, such a feature could maybe be helpful in learning a language" But every video ive seen so far thats auto-translated into English is done so quite badly and confusingly. I can't trust the translation.
At the level of League of Legends me and my friend group play, we never noticed cheaters. We play casual ARAM games. Never noticed any hackers or anything.
But we definitely notice when at the start of the game, one of our team didnt actually get past the loading screen because Vanguard decided instead they need to reboot their machine. And then good luck winning when you are down a player for several minutes.
It doesn’t happen often, but it happens way more often than cheaters did. And this bug happens to multiple people in my friend group. This anti cheat software is extremely buggy. And causes way more problems than it solves for us.
I wish i could say “but the software is improving” because the last few weeks it’s been fine, until literally yesterday. I got out of fountain and into combat and then got a “Vanguard must be running” popup. It kicked me out and I couldn’t get back in until I rebooted. And then if you open league too fast after the reboot, because you are hurrying to get back in, you can actually open League before Vanguard starts and then too bad you have to reboot again!
It’s also very frequently easier to just open a new tab, compared to finding the already existing one.
I never really need more than one YouTube tab. I can’t watch more than one video at once, and if I want to watch something later, I use YouTube’s own “watch later”. But in my 300+ tabs there’s likely several copies of my subscription box. Because rather than scroll through the tabs I can just press ctrl+t and type YouTube in. This not only happens with YouTube, but with every bookmarked page I have, from the HN front page to the site I use to check the weather.
What I find works better than tabs for things like YouTube is “installed” PWAs. In my case under macOS, I use Safari to do this (File > Add to Dock…), which spins out an independent single site browser process that has a dock icon, presence in OS window management functions, etc as well as both windows and tabs. This way I can keep a few YouTube videos open without them getting lost in the shuffle of browser windows and tabs. These windows stay open even if I close my main browser too which is also nice.
Those issues are a surprising read. I would expect issues with TPM on old or niche devices, but not Dell XPS laptops, or a variety of VMs. But I guess I'm not entirely sure how my vms handle TPM state, or if they even can.
I'm running nearly all of my personal tailscale instances in containers and VMs. Looking now at the dashboard, it appears this feature really only encrypted things on my primary linux and windows pc, my iphone, and my main linux server's host. None of the VMs+containers i use were able to take advantage of this, nor was my laptop. Although my laptop might be too old.
Stuff breaks all the time, you just need a bigger sample size.
Overseeing IT admins for corp fleets is part of my gig, and from my experience, we get malfunctioning TPMs on anything consumer - Lenovo, Dell, HP, whatever. I think the incidence is some fraction of a percent, but get a few thousand devices and the chance of eventually experiencing it is high, very high. I can't imagine a vTPM being perfect either, since there isn't a hypervisor out there someone hasn't screwed up a VM on.
Many, many more devices here... And good/typical enterprise level hardware... And failing TPMs are just something that happen. It's pretty expected these days. And on Windows when it causes a loss of certificates, it's actually a good bit more of a pain than just a dying disk or display or something, because it's not immediately obvious what's wrong, it just doesn't talk to the network properly anymore, or so.
I'm not surprised by Tailscale's change here. It's a good move.
The issue could be a bug in the host OS not in the VM. I had a Windows update that broke VMs when the guest OS was Windows running in real-time mode. This was the only issue and if I didn't run real-time VMs I would have never known. The only resolution was to reinstall Windows.
Just had a system board replaced on a device in my org, Dell laptop.
As part of setting up a device in our org we enroll our device in Intune (Microsoft's cloud-based device management tool aka UEM / RMM / MDM / etc). To enroll your device you take a "hardware hash" which's basically TPM attestation and some additional spices and upload it to their admin portal.
After the system board replacement we got errors that the device is in another orgs tenant. This is not unusual (you open a ticket with MS and they typically fix it for you), and really isn't to blame on Dell per se. Why ewaste equipment you can refurbish?
Just adding 5c to the anecdata out there re: TPM as an imperfect solution.
When I replaced a motherboard (rest of the hw was OK) Microsoft was of the opinion I had a 'new computer' and would need to buy a new Windows 10 license (of IIRC 150 EUR → scoundrels). I went to G2A and bought one for 20 EUR. Then it hit me. This occurred before when my previous motherboard/CPU was broken, and back then I actually called Microsoft where they insisted on selling me a new license. I did exactly the same back then.
I've handled technical+legal concerns for licensing for a very small org in a different lifetime, and yes, that's exactly how Microsoft used to think of licenses. I don't know how it works these days, it's someone else's problem.
We had to archive invoices+servicing documentation for warrantied mobos from the supplier to keep a legal licensing chain.
I remember the path my license had: it was a free upgrade to Windows 10, from Windows 7 (right before they removed said free upgrade; I tend to be slow with adapter Windows versions). The original Windows 7 license was a pirated one, but that didn't matter (we know why: before GDPR, Microsoft could spy on Windows 10 users, and the pirated Windows 7 was already a lost sale).
Apparently the free upgrade was OEM, bound to the hardware. I did not know. Either way, I'm from Europe (EU), and here a software license cannot be exhausted via second hand market, so it stands to reason I can buy one second hand. That this isn't what Microsoft support is told to discuss, suuure (even when I explicitly asked for it, they insisted I had to buy it via them).
I've had quite the opposite experience with Microsoft.
One time their support just give me a licence for a newer version of Windows - I've replaced the HDD/SSD, cloned/copied it and it was not activated. I contacted their chat support from that laptop and when they asked me for licence on the sticker I mentioned I'll have to come back in 5 minutes since I'll have to turn off laptop, and take out battery to see the MS sticker/hologram.
Support said "No worries, here's a new activation key".
Can't recall if it was from XP to Win 7, or Win 7 to 10.
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And after buying 2 or 3 licences from another website just like G2A (Win 10 was ~€10 on Instant-Gaming) - a bunch of new computers (even brand new assembled desktops) were automatically activated.
My eyes have opened up to the pitfalls of TPM recently while upgrading CPUs and BIOS/UEFI versions on various hardware in my home.
VMs typically do not use TPMs, so it is not surprising that the feature was not being used there. One common exception is VMware, which can provide the host's TPM to the VM for a better Windows 11 experience. One caveat is this doesn't work on most Ryzen systems because they implement a CPU-based fTPM that VMware does not accept.
It is in fact surprising that TPMs can be wiped so easily. It makes them almost useless compared to dedicated solutions like physical FIDO keys or smartcards, and does not bode well for hardware-backed Passkeys that would also be inherently reliant on TPM storage.
Not all TPM. I've yet to manage it on my MBP M1 Pro or my Pixel. Of course, M1-M3 have broken secure enclave which cannot be fixed by the user.
On AMD with fTPM I get a fat warning if I want to reset the fTPM keys. I think earlier implementations failed here.
> and does not bode well for hardware-backed Passkeys that would also be inherently reliant on TPM storage.
So you revoke the key and auth in another way (or you use a backup). One passkey is never meant to be the one sole way of auth.
I actually like the concept. Consider a situation where you would log into your webmail while in a café or bus. If the password is tied to your hardware, nobody can watch over your shoulder to use it on theirs.
I don't use them much (I've been forced to) because I already use a self-hosted password manager where I never see the password myself. But for the average person, passkeys are better.
Now, if you compare with FIDO2, those are supposed to be with you all the time (something you have). So they can be used on multiple platforms, while a TPM is tied to hardware.
You can DoS many physical FIDO tokens by using the wrong PIN on purpose several times.
They're programmed to lock or reset as a security measure. If they're locked, they need a special process, software and credentials to unlock them, which you might not have immediate, or any, access to.
If they reset, it's no different than wiping a TPM.
I had a Ryzen 3900x on a gigabyte motherboard and the fTPM was just totally unreliable for a pretty mainstream combination. Not fully sure which was to blame there.
At least it was fixed in the 5900x (and _different_ gigabyte motherboard, but from the same lineup) that replaced it.
I'm not sure what makes any of this "surprising". Each ticket reads like "we replaced the computer that tailscale was on, it doesn't work anymore" pikachu face.
Yeah, that was a feature and the exact reason why we use TPMs. I guess it should have been better advertised.
VMs don't have TPMs as they are hw devices, although you can run a software TPM (potentially backed by the host TPM) and pass it to them, which you might want to do for this use case.
Not sure if its a "significant" u-turn, when its a relatively new feature. Its only been out for a few months, and seems to be getting rolled back because it was breaking things.
Its annoying that a security benefit is being turned off, but it can be turned back on if you are confident it will not break your setup.
I would say it is because they made a big marketing blog post about it at the time[1] (August 2025). So clearly they considered it a significant new feature.
The blog post ended with the words "If we don’t spot any major regressions with 1.86, the next stable release will likely turn on state encryption by default for all new nodes". It was then enabled by default 1.90.2 onwards (October 2025).
That is why I would consider it a significant u-turn.
I don't get it. It seems like they're doing largely what they said they would.
They wanted to push a feature, and they said they would if they didn't see any major regressions. Then they did see a major regression, so they pulled the feature.
Exact version numbers, timelines, and builds are pretty irrelevant to that process. Or are you actually saying you would prefer they had just left their product broken for a significant portion of users, just to keep aligned with the version numbers they mentioned in a blog post?
They may not say "turn off bitlocker", but people definitely recommend backing up the recovery keys, and windows allows you to back up the key to microsoft because they know people won't actually back them up. Not sure if that happens by default, but they provide a variety of options for the recovery keys because there is definitely a non-zero chance you need them. There were several stories of this happening with the windows 10->11 upgrade push, where people were auto-updated and then scrambling to decrypt their hard drives.
I’m pretty sure that’s because the lights are actually flickering.
The lights are the issue not the camera.
Rooms with these lights give me migraines. I can always tell when lights in a room are like that, and I use the 240hz slow motion on my phone to double check or figure out which specific lights are the issue.
I hate these lights and I don’t understand why places use them.
> I’m pretty sure that’s because the lights are actually flickering.
I didn't say it wasn't. I said I bet that Apple, the company that can zero-shot high resolution synthetic 3D views from flat photos, could make the flicker not show in the video if they tried so that slow motion videos shot indoors aren't completely ruined by AC flicker.
> I’m pretty sure that’s because the lights are actually flickering
They are, but the camera stack should be detecting and compensating for that - it's pretty easy to detect, since it should be a fixed 50/60Hz depending on geographic location. You typically have to implement this filtering on all manner of light sensors.
It’s not just about matching the frequency but also the phase.
This is easier when your lights are all in phase and also in a single frequency, but you might also have bulbs that are at different frequencies (120 vs 60) or electric hookups that go out of phase.
It’s a very tricky problem to solve and to the best of my knowledge, nobody truly has. Film lights do clever and expensive tricks to match phase but that’s not feasible in a domestic setup.
Yes, so you either get a strobe on/strobe off every two frames if you're in 60 Hz country, or a slower crawling flicker in 50 Hz land. Migraine-inducing either way. Also, your phone won't shutter at exactly 60.00/50.00 Hz (mains freq. is pretty stable, usually stable to at least the first decimal) so you'll see a jittered, jumpy phase drift on top of that.
Yep, and this breaks all sorts of computer vision setups. We had to compensate for it on the cameras that track the Oculus controllers, since folks are often playing under indoor lighting
I get all those same ads on YouTube. It’s easily >90% complete scam products, and most of the non-scam products are at least breaking YouTube’s own “rules” regarding what content is allowed. Like if one of the reportable reasons is “addictive product” why do I see so many ads for nicotine products?
I tried to report an ad that had literal nudity/porn in it. The report page was acting funky so I pulled it up manually in safari where I wasn’t logged in. and it made be log in to report the ad because the ad was age restricted. why is it running as an advertisement at all then? Clearly it got flagged somewhere to be age restricted.
YouTube has approximately zero incentive to fix this. They are a complete monopoly and there isn’t any consequence to any of the blatantly illegal products that I see advertised on their platform. I’ve seen ads for drugs and firearms. The firearm ad was claiming it was “easy to sneak past security” but the highest consequence is that the ad account gets nuked and another immediately takes its place.
This was changed, and it is pretty easy to think the feature got removed.
When it was pressure-sensitive, you could push harder anywhere on the keyboard. But now that it’s tap-and-hold, it only works on the space bar. Most other pressure-sensitive actions just got replaced with tap-and-hold with no changes. But doing that on any other key brings up letter-specific accents, so they moved it down to spacebar.
It also used to be faster. Now you have to wait, but before it was pressure sensitive. You could trigger it instantly with more pressure. Edits were so fast and convenient, but now it’s a slight pause each time
Nope. When a new iOS update comes out, all supported devices may immediately install the update if they seek it out. Or it will usually auto update on its own, or at least nag the user to update.
It’s gotten slightly more confusing with the major updates now being optional. You get a choice between getting a feature update or just security patches. Unless I missed it, my phone never really asked me to update to the latest iOS 26. But I can, it’s there. I’m instead on the latest version of iOS 18. (They changed number schemes. 18 is last years major update)
Apple also does security updates for quite a long time. iOS 15, from 2021, got a security patch in September of this year, and works on the iPhone 6s from 2015.
It constantly either translates language-learning videos entirely into english or into the language i'm trying to learn. Despite all settings on my account being set to english, if I include any non-english text in my search query that is enough to get youtube to translate all videos out of english. When it does this, there is seemingly no built-in feature to change this back, other than through addons. And there isn't even an indication that conveys the fact the video title and description are auto-translated, other than maybe i recognize the channel and can tell that its supposed to be in another language.
And part of me thinks, "maybe once i learn enough, such a feature could maybe be helpful in learning a language" But every video ive seen so far thats auto-translated into English is done so quite badly and confusingly. I can't trust the translation.
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