It's not the public. It's the corporate copyright and IP holders. Because why should preservation efforts be allowed when the rights holders are letting the IP rot, and sometimes actively deleting source code?
If I'm understanding the description on the git page correctly, it scans you media library, logs the resolution/format/etc, then searches wherever it's pointed(torrent trackers?) for better quality versions.
Ok, then just start region blocking places with these laws. If the OS connects to the internet and sees it's in a banned region it locks itself down irreparably or deletes the network drivers and permanently blocks reinstallation. Region block all said regions from even downloading the install files. Put a legally valid entry in the EULA saying that use in those regions is absolutely prohibited without exception and any use by anyone is without the company's permission and all responsibility for that is on the user.
I mean....yeah....I guess I could live with homebrew tech on a scale of 64gb of ram being the size of a full fridge.....but where the fuck do I put it?! Between the my wife and I there's barely enough space for us and just our stuff in the house we own....😒🖕 Fucking Big Corpo Tech is in bed with Big Housing to conspire against the space required for Big HomebrewTech to be a contender.....
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So, some of rakabis' advice is pretty good. I'll just say that if you're wanting to get away from being locked into a computational ecosystem with an even worse support lifetime than windows devices, avoid buying a Mac. A 2018 MacBook stopped receiving 90% of updates in 2024.Caveat that by saying that older MacBooks, i.e. pre Mac made chips, are usually pretty reasonably priced on the used market. If you're willing to switch to Linux then there's even really good support for the hardware, with basically every distro working on MacBooks with Intel chips out of the box. The only part of deploying Linux on my wife's 2017 MB Air that was REALLY a headache was the webcam. There's info on every step to get the drivers installed and everything working, it's just not all in one place, and a little outdated.
Nooooo.....really?!