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That centralized low-power machine can even be your phone, if it has enough storage for your needs.

This is exactly how I use Syncthing, and as the author says, it sure would be nice if more things were just files. Really, most things are stored locally as files, but not always in a way that plays nice with syncing. Like, I can sync my Firefox profile between machines (it's all in one folder), but I found it prone to conflicts, with little to resolve those conflicts.

In a similar vein, local-first apps built with Conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) can be another way to avoid server dependency. I haven't seen any significant apps built this way yet (just occasional blog posts about it). I imagine the CRDT approach would work better for individual apps, since conflict resolution can be written in a way that works best for a given app, but I also imagine that such apps would not play nicely with a generic sync solution like Syncthing.

Where is "here" for you? I've never heard of a place with variable speed limits.

I believe that's pretty much what happened after the dot-com crash. A lot of fiber was laid during the bubble, it went dormant after the crash, but it was useful afterward as the internet continued growing.

Are you talking about the calendar that appears when you click the time on the (by default) right side of the task bar? Because mine shows a full month. This is how it's been since I upgraded from Windows 10. So I don't know what setting you have to change, but at least it's possible.

There’s was no mention of the functionality the the 145 release notes.

That's because it was in the 144.0 release notes, but rolled out gradually.

Yeah, this one's completely different from the one I remember. I found this blogspam around a greentext that matches my memory.

I just looked it up. It's actually 61,839 blocks in each axis.

Just finished Stray. Yes, I got it because you play as a cat (who was created with great detail), but it also has solid storytelling, world building, and level design.

Procedurally crafted tools, no restrictions on build height, a massive view distance are all very cool.

I'll note that the well-established Luanti (formerly Minetest) has no restrictions on build height[1], but I have always wished I could get a longer view distance. And I've never seen procedurally crafted tools, but Luanti has extensive mod support, so I wonder if it would be possible.

[1] Okay, technically it's restricted, but the limit is ~~something like a 64 km~~ about a 62 km cubic space, which is much more than I could reach.

All of that is true, and the article brings it up. But the article is mostly about increasing accusations of Wikipedia having a liberal bias (e.g. recently from US Republican senator Ted Cruz), which the article suggests are not well-founded. I'm concerned about these increasing attacks, because if right-wing political types can reshape Wikipedia in the way they want, I expect all the biases you list will get worse, not better.

Thanks, that's an excellent article, and it's exactly what I was looking for.