I always wondered what the fall of the western roman empire was like, and now I get to live it.

Proprietary tech with no existing laws telling the companies they have to keep supporting it, all so I can make a rich person richer? Where do I sign up?

Lagavulin, Balvenie, Fireball

Valuations are a multiple of EBITDA, and their multiple went up when they posted almost 30% YoY growth in revenue last quarter.

I'm a longtime vim user and I use nvim+lazyvim for all my personal stuff these days, but I have to use enterprise managed VS or VSCode for work.

I don't use Arch, BTW. So the biggest NPM threat vector on my machine is still VSCode.

A FOSS alternative would likely be missing or have meh performance from many of the streamers. All the big ones use proprietary codecs that are expensive annual licenses. And even then the streamer controls what various access methods are allowed to see and at what quality. I think netflix still limits web browsers to 720p, for example. And straight web access isn't great, you want an interface that can ideally be controlled with about 6 - 8 buttons (4 directions, OK, and Back are the minimum) which might require API access to these services, which introduces more access control. Netflix (and maybe others) even have hardware installed at the ISP level that give them a lot of control over individual access as well.

Basically for a full featured FOSS service you'd need to start with getting grants to buy to codec licenses, and then you'd need to hire people just to maintain your relationship with the streaming services to stay in their good graces while they know you're working against their bottom line.

That looks really fun!

This is one of the first "adult" movie I ever got to see in theaters. My back hurts.

I shouldn't admit to seeing myself in this picture, right?

Not when your ISP is a jerky company.