I purchased a lowend vps for $15 USD a year. Correct, it is not as private - due to the singular ip; however, for my needs it works quite well.

I enjoyed mozilla vpn until a few months ago - seemed like every site in the world had their ips blocked; ended up rolling my own on a cheap vps.

Yup, I like jelly more - not that I have one running over the other lol

Making a note so I can find this again - also I have been loving JellyFin over Plex.

I vote for passing around a dirty, unmarked thumb drive

Uh I just have one alt for doing the five finger shuffle tyvm

Just wanted to chime in and agree with you - waited to buy it for years (patient gaming ftw) then after loading it up the first npc phased right through me, just walked straight through me and I was like, wtf?

They all make sense except for powering an old ‘dumb’ speaker (you’d likely need a reciever and/or an amp) and the LLM made me laugh (says you’ll wait a little longer for chatbot replies which is the understatement of the year) - music asst is pretty dope though

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Agree to disagree. Personally, if I was advertised a gold watch and then recieved a metal-painted-gold watch, I would be upset, but to each their own.

Ultima Online OST for life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUNtqRPkmo4&t=15s

OLED for my tv has been awesome, thinking I will go laser projector next though

Canvas Bag V2 incoming…

Yeah, they won because they made things easy imho. Lower barrier to entry === higher user base. I would contest your ‘everyone and their uncle had a site’ comment, though - for flash you still had to be ‘in the know’ or curious of how the flash games/animations were made, and then be inquisitve and resourceful enough to get yourself a ‘copy’ of your preferred flash ide, then figure out how to package/host/etc. Sites like livejournal/tumblr are more akin to what you are describing imo.

Yeah I acknowledge modern web is superior to flash in another comment, but argue the accessability has gone down. Also I was not ‘growing up with it,’ I was getting paid to write actionscript, then as3, then as3 inside of adobe flex/eclipse.

yeah, but for my personal bookmarks a hallucination is not a big deal, not exactly mission-critical lol

Yeah there is a bit of nostalgia for me, admittedly. Modern canvas with a decent lib can produce flash-like/flash-superior content but the tooling is aimed at engineers while flash was aimed at creatives/general public (imho), hence why we got so much trash (accessability) but also why we got so much incredible stuff (again, accessability)

Summary stuff works really well too - I like to be able to bookmark a page and have tags/brief summary auto-gen’d

I’m on a Macromedia kick this morning but the internet really died when adobe bought flash, turning point for me personally lol