The difference is that with financing you're stuck with it (and your credit rating drops, at least in the EU here). You're not stuck with a subscription. If your income changes and you can't afford it anymore then you can cancel your subscription.

In the US if you don't have any debt, that is bad for your credit rating. Perversely, the more debt you have, the easier it is to get more credit, at least up to a point.

Oh sure, my original comment’s point was just to allude to the point that costs are going up for all methods of compute, so that fact alone shouldn’t influence your buy versus rent versus finance decision too much.

This idea that there’s a conspiracy to take personal computing away from the masses seems far fetched to me.

The MRSP for those GPUs is already inflated. There's a reason Nvidia is going to start making more RTX 3060 GPUs. Because people (and system builders) can't afford 40XX and 50XX GPUs.

Even idiot investors eventually want their money back. And they will ruin you in the process with their idiotic ideas.

> Even though it may seem harsh to apache 2.0 the code, no one will steal it since you are maintaing it

But that's evidently not true. Amazon has co-opted plenty of open source projects and put the squeeze on the original maintainer's SaaS offering.

Look at the caveat. If you cannot control the nerrative, you are done. Code is nothing in 2025, when a few 100$ can recreate a code base. AWS could have just recreated the code if they wanted, they just didn't have to. And, with their money, they could have bought redis labs if it was too difficult. I think people are looking at it the wrong way. The license wasn't the thing holding them back, they have the cash.

I love Projectivity Launcher on my Google Streamer, but I can't figure out how to really replace the built-in launcher. Sometimes the device falls back to the default launcher until I press the "home" button on my remote.

Have you tried installing Launcher Manager? https://www.techdoctoruk.com/launcher-manager-for-android-tv...

I had that same issue, and to solve it, I connected to the TV with ADB and disabled the default launcher.

It also exist for e.g. radio. It's called compulsory licensing and people have been doing it for decades.

No problem. The parent had it the wrong way around. OMZ will use main if it exists, master otherwise. So a bad move still works!

Thanks that’s good to know

At work we recently moved from Jira to Linear. It it fully keyboard navigatable and has shortcuts for pretty much everything. It's great! For me the only downside is that al that keyboard greatness clashes with my Vimium browser extension. Oh well...

There is also a very polular package manager called Composer. Do companies not search for name collisions? Or do they squat on community projects on purpose?

How does Deno solve this? Genuine question by the way. I'm not trying to be snarky.

It provides a runtime, that sandboxes your application and requires you to give explicit permissions for file system operations and network requests.

This limits the attack surface, when it comes to installing malicious dependencies, that npm happily installs for you.

So yes, I was wrong and my previous comment a hyperbole. A big problem is npm, and not JavaScript.

My point about the staggering amount of dependencies still holds though.

Of course, this only works so long as the sandbox is secure.

There have been attempts to do this kind of sandboxing before. Java and .NET both used to have it. Both dropped it because it turns out that properly sandboxing stuff is hard.