I'm trying to make a totally self-contained community software, sort of like an old-school BBS but via HTTP.
Don't need a db or anything, just run this and it works.
It's not significantly different than other software, it's just a slightly different approach that's probably most interesting and fun for a developer that's also interested in simple to host software.
If you want a project, you could check if your TV already has an antenna input (usually a coax input) and grab a $40 indoor HDTV antenna - if it looked interesting you could always invest more for a roof antenna and/or stuff for doing DVR with it.
I live in a major metro in the US. I get something like 100+ digital HD channels. Most of it I have never looked at to know what it is. I get the major broadcast networks, which means I can see most sports.
For me, when I bought the antenna, tuner and pc, there wasn't wild price gouging, so I was done for < $500, a one-time cost that netted me essentially a broadcast HDTV DVR setup. The only ongoing cost is $35 a year for guide data if you want to be able to schedule recordings.
10th grade, soliloquy from Macbeth. It hits me harder every year I grow older:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Completely opposite in many ways, but regarding criteria for the 25th? They are very, very similar and this problem exists throughout our government.
If you want to know why it's a problem: a representative government should roughly reflect population demographics. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to compare the US federal government to its constituency.
The top 1% of households owned 31.7% of all U.S. wealth in the third quarter of 2025, the highest share on record since the Federal Reserve began tracking household wealth in 1989.
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