As the economy fucks over the masses more and more in the late stage of capitalism, time for volunteering/hobbies will reduce.
Much like with Wikipedia, what’s needed is to centralize, work together on standards, and stop branching off with DIY.
Is chocolatey insufficient?
If you want to save the changes, you are creating a modified PDF file. If you don’t want to save the changes, don’t save them when you close the editor (a lot of browsers could do this, aside from open PDF editors). There are ways to overwrite file changes too, to reset files to their original.
If you are concerned for the original, use backup copies.
Thanks, I’ll look into it. I tend to avoid messing with the local app folders which are often hidden and can be break if you change something.
I’d like a browser that can sync those things with a local folder that I can sync/backup however I want, no account required. Does anyone know of such a thing?
I was referring to centralization more in the sense of concentration of effort and logic. I hate the word “consolidation” in this context.
Think of how science works. Lots of people focus deeply on specific topics and try to figure it out, model it and theorize the shit out of it until it’s stable or abandoned to some obscure library that few look up. There are new topics, new domains, yes, but there’s only one reality. Scientists don’t just branch off into a “new reality” to research and reinvent science from scratch.
Wikipedia reflects that both methodologically and topically, with collective efforts to cover single topics well.