This is the dumbest decision ever if they actually wanted open source software.

Not like it will make a damn bit of difference. But still.

I didn’t throw away all of them. I’m just realizing that the imagined situation where I needed 5 of them is very unlikely to come to pass, if I hadn’t needed even one in like 15 years

Granted RCA is easy as shit. Just strip some wire and stick in into the plugs on either end and match the color. Shit will basically work 😂

I’ve still got 2 😂

I have money on less than 10 😂

Don’t worry I’ve still got 2 more 😂

I have an iPhone and a CalyxOS pixel 6. iPhone is still my main.

I use all the privacy and custom stuff, but i almost invariably use it alongside "normie" alternatives that I think produce good products. I use my Zorin linux and my Macbook in comparable amounts. I think of the custom/self-host setups as insurance and "extra capable" tools to help me avoid the pitfalls and restrictions of "normie" products. But I use them exactly to the degree that they help me concretely. I don't much care for "signaling" one way or the other like its an ideological choice. It's a practical and security one.

For the same reason, I intend to have a self-driving car in the not-too-distant future possibly. But I'll own one alongside a striped down, modified gas clunker that has no stock computer anything but instead has only what device i decide would make it better under my control and my software (granted my self driving car may very well be the same one based on the next few years with Comma.ai and competitors in that field. So it may not be the perfect example). One is for convenience, the other is for control.

Sometimes the convenient and "my control" option lands totally in the "normal product" space or the "full self hosted" space. On those occasions I don't get a backup. But generally speaking my stack is almost *always* a combination. And on that note I did test graphene, but have no immediate reason to switch from CalyxOS with my main android because I'm just using it for app testing and the apps I'm building myself. Then its also my business phone.

So the next time you are wondering which direction I chose. The answer is most likely "both."

Yeah the speed at which software can just be "regenerated" by a model and customized. I just think software is fundamentally changing from its previous nature. The overwhelming majority will be hard to charge money for, it will move to commoditized services and provision of resources, software will only be the portal to it and we will have as many selections as we need. Everything will shift to protocols and schema standards and APIs, etc. Although the secret will be in hiding all of it from the average user.

Maybe "open source" isn't really the thing, but the fact that it will be free and extremely customizable. But if that continues to trend in that direction then not being open source doesn't change much either way so it almost seems like "why not?" But I obviously could be wrong, just feels like there is a massive shift in the economics of software underway and I may be projecting what I *hope* it means rather than seeing the reality of where the market will find the gap.

Three times already. 🤣