Yeah look, everyone has to find their own way, I’m not trying to make the case that catch & release is going to be better for everyone, and there’s certainly a case to be made for archiving.

The thing that eventually got me was maintaining a big raid array. Lots of heat, power, drives dying every now and again. When it only takes a few minutes to download something and I never go near my bandwidth quota (or it’s unlimited maybe) going to catch & release made a lot of sense. I’m not religious about it but I generally delete things after I’ve listened / watched.

I’ve been catch and release for 5 years or so now.

Archiving is such a huge drain on time / effort / resources.

For me, I often get to Friday afternoon and realise I haven’t recorded my time all week.

Supposed to be billing clients for tasks.

Screen caps every 15 minutes helps me see what I was doing

Sharex auto capture?

Yeah it’s a poorly considered generalisation, but the point is you’re not going to be getting emails from your service provider.

Yeah a lot less for a lot better.

Also, people paying for Usenet subscriptions since forever.

Or hosted / managed next cloud + onlyoffice I reckon.

Clearly I have weird taste but I don’t find any of these appealing in the least.

Yeah honestly ebooks and audiobooks are a solved problem thanks to MAM.

Nothing. I never bookmark or save anything other than research in which case I take notes with urls.

I just search for what I want to read.

I don’t ever recall trying to find something that had disappeared. If that happened it would be a small price to pay for not having to archive the entire web.

Oh. Ok. Should I undo it then?

I guess there are exceptions, it’s unknowable but one wonders how long it would’ve taken you to discover nebula some other way.

If you didn’t know of it, then you didn’t need or want it.

This is such a bizarre concept to me.

Why would I want someone to convince me to buy something with a “good pitch” ?

Yes but you watching the ad doesn’t make money for the creator.

LOL. Sure mate. Keep smelling your own facts and I’ll eat a bag of dicks when … checks notes … the Italian government produces a FOSS browser to compete with Chrome & FF 🤣

Most of this is self referencing. Like the default search engine is not an example of Google’s control, it’s Mozilla’s revenue model.

The remainder sounds like personal gripes that you’re misconstruing as evidence of nefarious intent.

There’s also plenty of evidence to the contrary, total cookie protection to name but one.

Additionally, beurocratic processes produce terrible software. Log in to any govt website as a refresher.

Finally, browsers are incredibly complex, if this model worked you’d use it for much simpler projects first.

IMO a folder of markdown files is the way. Interoperable with so many things.

Yes absolutely.

Pro tip: choose an appropriate annual budget, divide that amongst different projects in a logical way.

I don’t really read ebooks, MAM has been supremely adequate for audiobooks for me though. I’ve never gone looking for an audiobook and been unable to find it there.