Congratulations!

It's sad to see someone running doom on a pregnancy tester?

No, people might be misreading his comment.

(To me) it seems that, he is saying how bad the situation of hardware/lock-in is that we are being excited over being able to run our own software on said hardware in the first place (Aka the reason why we are here)

Being able to run doom on pregnancy tester is actually good. If I paid for the tester, I am gonna use the whole tester to run doom (LOL)

So I think this is what they meant.

Or to put it more concretely in this context: Sony used to let you run Linux on PlayStations! There were all kinds of interesting uses for PS3s outside of gaming that they (initially) supported.

Actually it was a bit more nuanced.

After Yaroze, Sony thought PS2Linux would bring some indies into PS2, instead it got full of MAME and other emulators, hence why PS3 no longer offered graphics acceleration.

I do not own any Sony products and I am not a corporate cheerleader.

But “we” have to own that the reason that Sony stopped selling/supporting Linux in their machines is because “we” used it to circumvent copyright on closed-source games. It is the problem with “our” ethics, not theirs that led to Linux getting pulled.

That's BS. Linux/OtherOS on the PS3 only existed so that Sony could evade European tariffs on pure gaming consoles that were markedly higher than on general-purpose computers. Once the tariffs went, so went OtherOS support.

In any case OtherOS didn't have access to the full system resources and, on top of that, Sony actually lost money on PS3s because it was priced as a loss-leader, with game purchases being supposed to earn the actual money.

That entailed overcoming inherent technical problems, not roadblocks placed by the manufacturer with the intent of making it harder than it needs to be. It’s like the difference between climbing a mountain and breaking into a locked building.

Yeah, but if you vertically integrate you expand your target market, increase switching costs, and can charge rents, so everyone is trying to do it now.

Even better "imminent" war with Iran.

For 47 years.

Imminent.

> actual proof

You don't think their own opinion of their own life isn't self-evident proof?

When it's poorly explained, no.

Outside of a small handful that do go in-depth, these "switching off of Google" people just repeat the same thing over and over again, and expect everyone to instinctively agree with their views.

This has the classics like: - "Google’s services are actively worse than the alternatives" (not actually listing which services they're talking about. Not showing specific features or design decisions which are worse than the alternative. Youtube is certainly not worse than the alternatives.) - "I do my best to boycott bad things" - "but big tech is bad" - "The old adage of “if you’re not paying, you’re the product” is certainly true here." (do we need to hear this banality for the thousandth time?, also there's plenty of actually free services, like this site we're discussing this on.)

Fastmail and Kagi are not noticeable expenses (to me) but are a noticeable increase in quality of life.

Might not have been true at one point but if you can spare the cost I highly recommend either.

Fastmail user for a decade. Does the job.

Because they know for some problems it's easier to pay for the service than take the CapEx.

As far as I can tell, no. I moved to zed from nvim for fast starts + better AI UX with edit prediction & agents than nvim without start time/RAM of cursor. It delivered on that, but now that I think about it my coding practices have changed so much since that decision (sitting in Claude / https://www.conductor.build) I should probably just go back to nvim!

This is directly addressed in the article.