Bought 5 acres (with 1.5 of those acres flat on a hill) about ~20 min outside a medium city, ~1 hour equidistant from 2 very large cities. Geotechnical engineers have been to the property, report submitted to the county (took months). Sewage engineers have been out to the property and approved the drain field (took weeks). Well will be drilled once the county approves the build site. It’s slow going but it will be worth it in the end! My only fear is trump cancelling the rural broadband fund as I am slated to get the fiber cable run to my property line within a year. Staying with starlink for longer will not be awesome, but oh well, sacrifice.

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

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