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Good luck age-gating the local copies of Wikipedia for anyone who downloaded it.

ATProto's dual-licensed under MIT and Apache so it's not like it'll be easy to get rid of.

They don’t own your PC (yet)

MS pretty much owns the desktop PC space with Windows though, and even though there's nothing stopping you from installing an alt OS on PC generally, Win11 not supporting anything older than Zen+ or Coffee Lake and flat-out refusing to run on anything older than Bulldozer or Nehalem even without support because everything before those arches lacks the POPCNT instruction, isn't a good sign to say the least.

Hopefully MS don't start acting like Google and start breaking WINE/Proton and DXVK/VKD3D and crippling Linux gaming and even general desktop use on Linux, or even forcing Pluton to be enabled platform-wide blocking the ability to install alt OSes.

Good luck doing that at all inconspicuously considering you'd need to spin up disc processing plants or somehow get your hands on thousands of DVD-/+R blanks.

(I'm pretty sure if you tried to burn a DVD-Video disc with M-DISC media, that it wouldn't be readable in most players).

Although similar to the Fediverse's ActivityPub, ATProto is set up at least in theory to prevent that in that someone could set up their own ATProto PDS, plus third-party AppViews are a thing as well, for example, I've been using Klearsky lately because the default Bsky app is kinda slow.

ActivityPub still beats it in practical application that it's fully self-hostable and you basically own your Fediverse instance where ATProto still has to associated with Bsky somehow, although ATProto has been trying to decentralize further lately.

I've been mulling in the back of the mind over migrating to one of the independent PDSes because of what the main Bsky PDS is trying to pull lately.

There's at two problems with that: VHS tapes and CEDs both degrade with each playback session, and CEDs even can get damaged or destroyed if you store them incorrectly (no wonder that format flopped and brought down RCA with it, lol...), and LDs have Laser Rot to deal with which is sadly becoming more common as some discs which were pressed in certain plants age.

VHS/Beta tapes, CEDs, and LDs if there's any media that wasn't released outside of those formats should be archived in some way ASAP due to the fragile nature of all three formats.

(and I say 'fragile' although LDs in theory should last indefinitely due to the lack of physical contact with that format vs. CEDs being read by a stylus and VHS and beta being read by a spinning head drum, but as I said, Laser Rot is an increasingly big problem with them)

*CEDs are literally video on vinyl, something that someone at RCA had to have been tripping on something to come up with, and that it's a miracle that it even worked at all, given the inherent limitations of vinyl as a format.

That's basically what LibreWolf does.

So is RHEL.

Give Pollock crap all you want, but the guy popularized one of the most fun painting techniques ever, regardless of how you feel about his stuff.

Seriously, splatter painting is really fun to do even if there's no real reason to it, and if anything, who says art has to have a reason behind it? Just straight-up having a play around throwing paint on something (in fact, there are entire places dedicated to that exact thing cropping up over the last few years) is as valid as drawing a scene out with an actual story behind it.

lemmy.org has been down for a while now, even. I just set up a new account on lemmy.wtf because I assume it might not come back at this point.

Update: lemmy.org is back up, for now, and hopefully it stays up this time, but I got an account set up on lemmy.wtf as a backup should lemmy.org become more unstable in the near future.