Electric arc furnaces have been a thing for smelting in steel mills for a while, hypothetically a mill using those could ditch coal for geothermal power, or even geo combined with solar.
Historically, Big Autos and Big Oil/Big Fossil combined. Most recently with their AI datacenters sucking up all the water and also being powered by Big Oil/Big Fossil, Big Tech.
In fact, Big Autos, Big Oil, and Big Tech are tied for this one.
Basic, offline CCTV systems for starters, but those require effort to set up and may not be feasible if you're renting your place as they require setting up cable runs.
I wouldn't trust them to be long for the world, that and IMO they're legally dubious.
Just use one of the established alternatives like GIMP/Krita, RawTherapee/Darktable, Inkscape, etc.
Good luck when that market gets squeezed too.
Typing in /list on your IRC client of choice will bring up a channel list generally, and here's a channel list for XMPP.
Thanks, Sam, 'I want to take your computers away and make you rent from the cloud,' Altman.
Matrix, XMPP, the platform you're on right now and the Fediverse as a whole, IRC....
How big was the bribe?
One may not have the hardware on hand to self-host for the more demanding stuff like video hosting ala PeerTube or OwnCast. Like, you could host a static blog on an ancient PC using the LGA775 or AM2 socket, but something like PeerTube or OwnCast would ideally need something with graphics that can encode modern video codecs.
KIDS ACT = Kill Internet Dissent and Speech And Criminalize Thought. These bills should be seen as they are: Free Speech and Free Expression Destruction bills.
Next thing to take: unlockable bootloaders so you can no longer install an alt OS.