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Put that shit on wheels and that baby will GLIDE

You now start flying away

And so does everything else, including all the AIR

Or a gastroenterologist instead of a neurosurgeon 🤔

I wonder how much of that is down to their real world sucking and their digital world being pretty cool.

Then they'd be alienating the open source community that makes a lot of contributions (though much of chromium is still essentially built internally). They also wouldn't be able to lock down the code that's already been released under the more permissive BSD license.

Now, a fork of Chromium is its own beast. Some searching shows that just to build it takes 30 minutes on a decent workstation. It's huge, which makes me think it's the kind of project that could only really be maintained by a large company. Not necessarily a Google sized company, but a large one nonetheless if you seriously want to remove the dependency on Google.

EDIT: turns out it's Chrome that takes that long to build, which includes things not in Chromium like Widevine, licensed codecs, telemetry, sync, that kind of thing.

An exact date is great too, I can plan everything out to a tee.

If we fell up, then up would be down!

I know very little about this technology, so is there a theoretical maximum height to these water pump systems being used here? Could they not just build skyscraper sized towers of water?

"What's YOUR deal?" sounds pretty aggressive, "what's your DEAL?" sounds borderline inflammatory, but I think there's a very neutral delivery without particular stress that sounds more like an open ended question than an aggression. Still, probably not great around fully sober folks.

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Well now I gotta!

I know someone with a fat one they use for smoothies and shakes.

There's many services out there like that that will charge you for basically the hardware and bandwidth (i.e. a VPS) but will give you an easy interface to host applications - even federated ones. The problem really is how do you compete with free? It's "free" to watch and free to upload on YouTube. And all your favourite creators are probably already there because of the network effect YouTube has built over the years. And it's a great place to discover new ones, too, even ones that have been around longer than you've been alive (for some folks, anyway).

From a technical perspective, though, this is pretty feasible. With huge upfront costs. If you rent hardware from existing providers like AWS/DigitalOcean/etc. you're gonna pay out the ass for it. It doesn't seem expensive to people who just need a little hardware but we're talking about video here. You have to store multiple versions of a single video - that's a ton of hard drive space. You have to encode what is uploaded by the users into a workable format - that's a ton of compute. So if you were gonna provide it to hobbyists at a reasonable price you'd want to open your own data center (yes people still do that) which will give you some, relatively speaking, very very cheap storage, compute, bandwidth. The only issue is it costs a ton upfront and you need someone to maintain it if you don't know how.