TIL Vids is a really well maintained instance. It is not federated, and not everyone is allowed to upload just like that. Go to their Matrix channel for more information and discussions.
I highly recommend using PeerTube instead of YouTube.
For voice, I recommend using something Ardour or LMMS to mask your real voice with some filters.
What is critical mass?
I need meow community as well.
I recommend using WebM container with VP9 codec instead of GIF if you are exporting it for web. It even supports alpha.
I have written a small blog post about how to Bypass CGNAT, and have also mentioned why you should not use Cloudflare if you are hosting for privacy.
Handbrake is great. But I would also recommend using Kdenlive. It is a video editor but if you just open your video in it and just export the project, you will get some good output format options.
Yes, known as Duress password.
I have created a blog post about how to bypass CGNAT for self-hosting. I have also written a little bit aboit how Cloudflare works.
I am assuming your system is updated. What is the output of xrandr
?
Also, have you tried logging in to an Xorg session, and then changing the refresh rate?
I use Fedora Server with Podman (instead of Docker). I am not a noob either, but cockpit provides a really useful GUI for managing the whole operating system.