It’s really surprising this doesn’t already exist. It’s such a hated piece of tech, I would have thought someome would have thought they could do better! I don’t know enough to do it myself but I’d sure as hell support a project to do it!

Incredible to see how far blender has come. I remember using it over ten years when I was trying to get off pirated software (3ds max), while it’s still recognisable the capability has exploded

Sounds like you were the odd one out, everyone I knew had plenty of VHS and DVD. They were a very common gift also

I’m 40% dolomite

I think that is downplaying it, while mobile devices caused the major boom in access, the Internet was already prolific before

The Internet has changed almost every aspect of daily life, I don’t see why you don’t think it is as innovative as the invention of the car.

Let’s not use the quality of other rail networks to act as if ours isn’t so bad

The issue is that AI never says no or tells you that your question is not valid

All HTTP requests include your ip address, you don’t “consent” to giving it to anybody. You can geolocate somebody based on ip address but it won’t be very accurate

Never heard of MBone, thanks for sharing. I think the fact that there is currently basically one successful video streaming service is indicative of how hard it is to run one. The bandwidth and performance it takes is huge, so unless a federated service is a paid-for service or receives huge donations there are never going to be enough resources to anywhere near match the performance of YouTube.

I would teach critical thinking, probability, empathy and logic more