Installing old Linux applications IS a problem. They’re available only if someone repackaged them for newer distros. If not they can’t run anymore because of dependencies mismatch.

I know this is not an original thought. I saw the Technology Connections video.

Kinda.

We have the ability to choose our content, but more often than not we let the algorithms pick the junk for us and we just go with it.

Look at what the TikTok format has done to the internet, it’s turning it into TV 2.0.

Not even Bluesky, they went straight to Reddit. Shame.

From Wikipedia:

The VideoLAN software originated as a French academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for “VideoLAN Chad” when VLC was a chad from the VideoLAN project. Since VLC is no longer merely a chad, that initialism no longer applies.