Looks nice, but the marketing design ('make it just like Apple') doesn't match the product they're selling. Apple is technology for people afraid of technology, but self hosting is decidedly not for a technologically afraid audience.
How will they pay for maintaining all the apps and making sure that they are properly integrated into the platform as they get updated?
On the contrary, it is so much easier to upgrade a small app every week or so because you have little to test and probability of breaking changes affecting you is minimal.
You should be upgrading all the time since day one, adding necessary infrastructure gradually as your app grows.
Absolutely. I was leading a team a while ago and I instituted this practice to good effect.
Conversely, I was called by a company that I had built an app for previously. They had not upgraded the framework it was built with (Laravel), and ended up offering me consulting days to jump several versions. The irony is that the job ended up being quick and easy to do.
Laravel is relatively painless to upgrade as long as you have the autonomy to get the work done in a timely manner. I've seen upgrade projects drag on for weeks causing issues upstream since most of the team was still working on the product or fixing bugs while one developer was tasked with the upgrade.
Did you use a tool like Shift to help with the upgrade? What about frontend dependencies? The recent move from Mix to Vite is great, but if you have a large frontend, it can be a major PITA to update. More so if you have any sort of custom webpack configuration.
You need to have the right infrastructure/organizational maturity tho.
For example in many organizations partial deployments don't exist and rollback is not easy, so having a "once a quarter we test everything and bump" is less traumatic and expensive than handling minor breakages every week.
You can invest into that infrastructure/maturity but it may not be the best use of your time and money if you don't even know that your company will exist next year.
Anything else individual to be replaced by communal? Like, maybe, everything? Or just the cars? There are countries already implementing what you believe is right. Please emigrate over there and enjoy.
Arguing against a strawman is not a useful discussion technique. I was talking about public transport exclusively. Go to London or Tokyo and ask people living there if they would prefer to exchange the tube/Tokyo metro with individual cars.
But that would be a regress of civilization, not progress! The civilization progress is to have much more private transport and also somewhat more public transport.
Some people bemoan cars as a 20th-century anachronism. They forget that trains/trams/buses are from the 19th century and were superseded by cars. The e-scooter for hire is truly a 21st-century innovation, though. That, and the self-driving car.
While private horse transport did exist for hundreds of years before that. Yes, it was slow and going longer distances was expensive. Yet the idea of personal transit is very natural.
What makes you believe it won't be a thing (or a rebranded version of it)?
Unless any of the European countries (even the larger ones) wants to be crushed by the economic weight of the US or China they better stick together.
Even most Euro-skeptics seems to get it by now.
The fact that Russia is removing itself from the game of economics and has voluntarily killed of European dependency on their gas is reducing inner EU conflict.
Not saying it necessarily will fall apart but there is a possibility. UK is already out. Hungary and Poland are very nasty EU members for lack of a better term. The tension is growing.
Personally I would much prefer EU to *reset* to bare free-trade, free-movement, no-borders ethos, removing entirety of central regulations and central governance.
> Whether EU itself will be still a thing in 12+ years to enforce this bullshit ban is another question.
You are correct, the EU is going to break up, definitely before 2035, and probably sooner rather than later. We are at the beginning of a serious financial crisis, this time it's a sovereign debt crisis, caused by going to negative interest rates in 2014 (among other reasons).
I struggle with the very same problem. Even connecting a real physical SIM won't protect accounts from suspension. This is crazy because it isn't based on behavior on the platform (like posting too much or liking too much) but merely on the IP and browser fingerprint.
I suppose that might be true, but we can imagine a situation where there is no choice in the matter:
If network security cannot be maintained without sufficient inflation, then it surely it doesn't matter how philosophically wedded some users are to the 21m cap. It would lead to a hard fork, with two resulting coins:
1. An unchanged 'Capped-supply Bitcoin'
2. A new 'Permanent-subsidy Bitcoin'
Given a total breakdown in network security of the 'Capped-supply Bitcoin' (and its associated collapse in value), we would expect users to deem the, still secure and therefore higher value, 'Permanent-subsidy Bitcoin' to be the 'true' Bitcoin going forward, no?
