It’s also important to remember that syncing services like DropBox or iCloud are NOT backups. If a file is deleted or damaged in one location, that change will sync to all the other locations and the previous version of the file is very difficult to recover, even by the engineers running those services.
In your hypothetical scenario: no, your Dropbox files would not be lost. After you lose your laptop and HDD, if you were to buy a new laptop, you should be able to download your files from Dropbox just fine.
What that comment is talking about is how when your local files are synchronized with Dropbox, any changes locally get synchronized out to your Dropbox version. If you delete the file locally, a request gets sent out to the Dropbox servers to delete it there. If your file gets corrupted locally, that newer corrupted version gets sent off to the Dropbox servers to overwrite the intact version.
But if your laptop burns up, it doesn't send off a request to delete or corrupt the file on the Dropbox servers or anything. You just lose your local copy.
APNG files start to get large - a dozen or few dozen megabytes
I just messed around with using ffmpeg to convert that MP4 to both APNG and WEBP, and the size difference was substantial, but definitely not that bad.
Did you have a problem with making an APNG, or posting it? I have not tried making one, but I always post my animated images as WEBP. The only problem with that is that some Lemmy clients display animated WEBPs as just a still image of its first frame.
I had always interpreted that as Starfleet not allowing captains to be married, and also that she was also genuinely unfit for command herself. But looking into it, I see that apparently Roddenberry later stated that the comments did actually refer to women not being allowed to be captains. And that he had immediately regretted adding that.
That is exactly where I got the source video file to make this out of! I haven't played it at all, though. I just downloaded all the MP4s from that site so I could simply watch it all locally as if it were an episode. Which wasn't all that fun. It is probably much better to experience it as an interactive game.
EDIT: If anyone wants to just watch them anyway, here are the direct links to each video (since a simple list like this is nowhere to be found on the site itself). To watch at a lower resolution, replace the 1440 in each URL with either 1080, 720, 480, or CD-ROM. You can also use yt-dlp to download them.
I think your question is related to this part:
In your hypothetical scenario: no, your Dropbox files would not be lost. After you lose your laptop and HDD, if you were to buy a new laptop, you should be able to download your files from Dropbox just fine.
What that comment is talking about is how when your local files are synchronized with Dropbox, any changes locally get synchronized out to your Dropbox version. If you delete the file locally, a request gets sent out to the Dropbox servers to delete it there. If your file gets corrupted locally, that newer corrupted version gets sent off to the Dropbox servers to overwrite the intact version.
But if your laptop burns up, it doesn't send off a request to delete or corrupt the file on the Dropbox servers or anything. You just lose your local copy.