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KDE is getting a lot of funding recently from private entities, I would hope that the EU also noticed that and started supporting them substantially as a viable emerging European alternative for macOS and Windows.

Oh wow, this will make self-hosting so much easier! I have so far issued probably about 30 different API keys for my subdomain zones for services I host, which you then have to configure with ACME/Certbot. This reduces it to a simple DNS record change!

Let's Enpimp!

If they were paying $500k/year, why haven't they paid someone to rewrite it? Surely would be cheaper still.

But above everything else, this is a great example of how much JavaScript inefficiency actually costs us, as humanity. How many companies burn money through like this?

On top of that there are probably a few more hits for the containers, vm and hypervisor, all those pods have monitoring etc. All the layers of abstraction are just stacks of turtles giving the illusion of being easier but adding complexity and cost/overhead.

It is a security product, so unless they want to deal with the exfiltration charges on the data it's probably better to keep it in AWS. Thats the nasty double edge sword of "cloud", and how we're all getting locked in.

All the bits on their own seem to make perfect sense, but it's become apparent that the orchestra has been blind folded and given noise canceling head phones.

This doesn't work in when a market is run by oligopolies, you have to regulate to restore some sort of normalcy and competition.

Oligopolies are the result of overregulation.

Just fix the right things, not the wrong ones.

We was an electronic music producer in-between and a pro-level gamer. Let's not forget these achievements, either.

This is one of the reason I, as their user, am moving away. Things feel half-baked and I stopped trusting it with my data. I self host and the details for this were all over the place. Some of my contributions cleaning up the docs were rejected, so I grew even more wary. I am moving to Immich, even though I'd prefer e2ee for my photos even if I self host them.

EDIT: and there are long-standing bugs like this one, unaddressed: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/issues/3087

Further proving my point, I wasn't sure if you - a fellow commenter! - were talking about Ente Auth or Ente Photos until I re-read your comment and the linked issue. I think that they have great product(s) but terrible branding and apparently some growing pains as well.

I used both, actually. I root for them, too, but for the time being I am splitting.

> Compatible” is doing a bit of work here when it also means “implicitly relies on Homebrew’s CDN, CI, packaging infrastructure and maintainers who keep all this running”.

This is literally what "compatible" means, how else did you expect then to frame it?

It’s more of an alternative CLI for Homebrew itself, not an alternative that happens to be compatible.

My wild bet is that they'll offer Bootcamp yet again, including for Linux.

They make a ton of money with the margins on their laptops, especially considering their prior long-term memory contracts, so they don't need to compensate with services – which themselves must be costing them more nowadays since they don't own datacenters and so their expenses must have went up accordingly. In fact they likely increased margins on their hardware and decreased on services as of 2026.

They'd eat up a wild share of regular Windows market almost overnight and the growing, tiny Linux market in its entirety. I bet they'd double their laptop sales within months. It would also be a strong anti-anti-monopoly argument.

I honestly think it would irresponsible not to do so, from the fiduciary duty perspective. Heck, I should buy some more stock.