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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)
submitted 11 months ago by Whirling_Cloudburst to c/technology
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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[–] Clanket 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That was an excellent watch, thanks for sharing.

YouTube is horrendous for ads though.

[–] Shard 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Revanced

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I aint downloading a two year old microg gmscore apk 💀

[–] boywar3 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You thinking of Vanced? Revanced is updated pretty regularly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No when I patch youtube, it wants me to download this 2 year old gmscore build:

https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases

[–] boywar3 2 points 11 months ago

Ah gotcha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's required for the non-root installation to login to YouTube, yeah. If you are rooted you can modify the patch list and remove microg.