Welcome back SOPA.

Am I crazy for saying that DHH is a far-right plant and Omarchy is a plot to destroy FOSS from the inside?

I’d say good luck extending this to desktops, but MS might beat them to the punch if this becomes standardized and apps/sites start blocking alt OSes like Linux or BSD and start vendor-locking to Windows for age-gate DRM purposes.

No prob! And if you’re maxing out any lossy codec, that’s the point where your only intention is to make a file smaller than you can do with lossless, while still having no audible degradation between that lossy copy and the uncompressed or lossless original file, although you could also settle for transparency in the case of codecs like Opus or even Vorbis where their max bitrate is higher than their transparency rate for even smaller files.

In the case of older codecs like MP3, supposedly its transparency bitrate of 320kbit/s CBR is also its max bitrate, but there’s decades of debate over whether 320kbit/s CBR or V0 VBR is superior for that codec, such as this HA thread from 2008 on the matter. As for MD/ATRAC, its transparency bitrate, and also its max bitrate and the native bitrate for the MD format, is 292kbit/s CBR.

For the curious, the two bitrates for MD/ATRAC that fall below its transparency bitrate are 132kbit/s (MD LP2) and 66kbit/s (MD LP4).

• Analog art or crafts (get your crayons out, kids, or put on your smocks because we’re painting today). My fave media personally right now are crayons, chalk, or oil pastels for drawing or water-based markers and a brush pen filled with water or watercolors or acrylics + watercolor crayons for painting currently. Like, Crayola markers are really fun to paint with when you go to blend them with a wet brush.

• If going digital, using open alternatives to the Adobe suite, I personally use a combination of RawTherapee and GIMP for editing photos because it works for me so far.

• You can still buy used older digicams that are still respectable even by modern standards, there’s plenty of old DSLRs which fit that bill, for example, even going back as far as '07 with the Sony a900 boasting a resolution that is still by all means a very respectable resolution by modern standards at 24.6MP, plus it should be able to work with the entire A-mount range even going back to legacy screw-drive lenses, let alone ‘modern’ Sony servo-drive A-mount glass.

• You could buy a bunch of CDs and rip them to FLAC, and then transcode those lossless rips to lossy copies as desired, eg. transcoding them to 160-510kbit/s* Opus copies for storage-limited devices.

*Per the HydrogenAudio KB, Opus’ transparency bitrate for music is 160-192kbit/s and the codec maxes out at 510kbit/s.

Don’t do this, just run a Linux distro if you don’t run anything that’s vendor-locked to Windows by DRM.

I suppose you could start firing up alt nets like Freenet or like meshnets and the like assuming the worst happens to the clearnet.

It’s donation-based rather than a constant revenue source. It’ll work for secondary, but maybe not as a primary income. Basically, if you’re relying on donations for your primary or even only income, and you hit a slow month, that could actually hurt worst case.

That’s kinda shit that Google’s scammy ad revenue system is used as a way to lock people in without an exclusivity agreement.

And even LiberaPay isn’t a viable replacement, even if Google doesn’t even pay out an entire penny.

A lawsuit that Google can just bribe their way out of.

How soon before Google goes nuclear and completely locks YT to only their native client, and only on Chrome?

Can’t get a basic Kill-A-Watt anymore?

Welcome back, Nazi book burnings. We didn’t miss you.

Last time I tried a SearXNG instance, it was blocked by pretty much every search engine.

Goodbye free internet. Self-hosting is next.

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This smells of two odors: 1) Retaliation against the GrapheneOS deal with Lenovo/Moto Mobility and 2) Getting desktop users rounded up into the Google ecosystem before the launch of AluminumOS.

Even your PC is at risk of being taken away now, in favor of rented Win365 cloud servers if MS gets their way. And thin clients for that service have been out for a while.

Oh, and MS is making their own Win365 thin clients too. This is clearly aimed at enterprise, but imagine if it rolled out to consumers, too.

Not to mention you no longer own your phone as Google is locking down Android apps, and assuming AluminumOS takes off like Android, your future desktops or laptops will probably end up locked down like your current phones are about to be.

And TheBurger even argues in his blog that Android was always a closed ecosystem that you never owned to begin with, and AOSP is basically a farce. If Google could make Android fully closed-source ala Windows, they would, in a heartbeat.