So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts,
I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.
I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.
Historically, Big Autos and Big Oil/Big Fossil combined. Most recently with their AI datacenters sucking up all the water and also being powered by Big Oil/Big Fossil, Big Tech.
In fact, Big Autos, Big Oil, and Big Tech are tied for this one.
Basic, offline CCTV systems for starters, but those require effort to set up and may not be feasible if you’re renting your place as they require setting up cable runs.
I wouldn’t trust them to be long for the world, that and IMO they’re legally dubious.
Just use one of the established alternatives like GIMP/Krita, RawTherapee/Darktable, Inkscape, etc.
Good luck when that market gets squeezed too.
Typing in /list on your IRC client of choice will bring up a channel list generally, and here’s a channel list for XMPP.
Thanks, Sam, ‘I want to take your computers away and make you rent from the cloud,’ Altman.
Matrix, XMPP, the platform you’re on right now and the Fediverse as a whole, IRC…
How big was the bribe?
One may not have the hardware on hand to self-host for the more demanding stuff like video hosting ala PeerTube or OwnCast. Like, you could host a static blog on an ancient PC using the LGA775 or AM2 socket, but something like PeerTube or OwnCast would ideally need something with graphics that can encode modern video codecs.
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.
Move to KeePassXC or its recent LLM-free fork while you still can, because at some point Bitwarden is going to try to go closed-source again.
Electric arc furnaces have been a thing for smelting in steel mills for a while, hypothetically a mill using those could ditch coal for geothermal power, or even geo combined with solar.