So I can subscribe for 1 month, download all the exclusive content, and then turn my membership off/back on based on the value I think I’m getting?

media.ccc.de is a great specialized “streaming service” too, mostly supported by NewPipe (oddly not Grayjay yet). I can understand German decently so I don’t have issues with the bilingual content. If you like Chaos Congress talks, you can also try DEFCON and other ones available on YouTube but I didn’t feel like including any of them because they’re just uploads of slightly different kinds of media, much like HBO’s Last Week Tonight channel I also subscribe to.

Because I manually download videos to watch on the bus or train (thanks Grayjay & NewPipe), most of my subscriptions are for long-form, often listenable content:

Retro Tech: Techmoan, Technology Connections, Posy, Janus Cycle, CRD, Ben Eater, DiodeGoneWild, pannenkoek2012, videolabguy, Adrian’s Digital Basement,The Science Elf, previously LGR and 8-Bit Guy/Keys

Science: Kuvina Saydaki, BobbyBroccoli, Numberphile, Computerphile, carykh

Tech News & Discussion (not always long-form): Louis Rossmann, Mental Outlaw, Brodie Robertson, SomeOrdinaryGamers, Asianometry, Atomic Shrimp, previously Thunderf00t

Urbanism: Not Just Bikes, Adam Something, Alan Fisher, Tramly, BritMonkey

D&D Story Narration: CritCrab, Puffin Forest

Bold channels are most underrated imo

My GSM service provider still runs 2G (it’s the only way to connect in very remote areas) and you can use it to connect to the internet using various old technologies, such as:

• EDGE (best 2G connection with a symmetrical few kB/s, multiple adjacent phone call channels dynamically allocated as available)
• GPRS (single phone channel but packets sent only when needed)
• ISDN/CSD (continuous call but with digital data instead of an audio codec)
• fucking ANALOG DIAL-UP over a normal call’s digital audio codec

The provider (T-Mobile CZ) told me all above technologies are supported. I will be able to get my Nokia 3410 online to wap.blamba.de and download some of the oldest J2ME games once they tell me the access point parameters. Their web only mentions GPRS and EDGE configuration nowadays, neither of which works on the 3410 but I have successfully used both on newer phones like Nokia 6070 in 2025.

Yes, this is a different kind of device but if that is still available you can expect some pager providers to still work. Doctors still use them, I think. Truckers would use paged broadcasts over FM radio’s RDS. I imagine Hezballah had their own transmitters. And yes, you can get GSM pagers - heck, the first SMS ever received was on a device that could not send them.

Not the morning pages!! 📟💥