1) enshitification 2) AI 3) AI enhance enshitification

"... of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution" lead in seems to me an overly salacious remark. Clickbait for sure. Its absurd how long it takes for good stable bits to make it into RedHat. CentOS has been quite successful and is being repositioned to instead of lagging behind RedHat to be the post Fedora precursor to RedHat.

But instead of a third mobile OS, I'd like to suggest a standards body create a inter-operations treatise. Let Mozilla define what the web browsing features should be, let some other cosortium define the monimum text, voice bits, music, books, video again with sections for that, and lastly a WebOS style application model, likely build around web assembly. The the OS and other undeylying part scan be anything a vendors wants, and a rich HW and SW supply chain can provide everything, and even be 2nd sourced and such. The device can be submitted for treatise version x.x approval and consumer have an expectation for what the device can do. Then Android and iOS finally become some bloated, that eventuall Apple and Google cave and just adopt the third mobile OS with their look and feel, app mix, and likely content management sauce ... and literally get out of writing so much of the underlying cade themselves anymore. Just sell apps, content, and connectivity to their respective walled gardens. Sort of like the automitive industry is now - major car manufacture only make a few key compoentes, source everything else from suppliers. Except many mobile OS supplies may be Open Source approved.

Really agree with JohnFen's post. Add to that, any technology that equates to 'putting a bag over your head' to operate must have an especially compelling use case for it to be widely adopted. Racercar driving, Scuba diving, spacewalking/high altitude cockpits, firefighting, welding for example really have no helmetless options that are sane for the most part. Lastly, in the quest to view even larger televisions, VR goggles take the approach of moving the pixels closer to the face. And indeed there seems to be many who use the goggles not for 3D, but just to watch TV.

What do you think we've been doing last few years? Crowd sourcing answers to every bloody coding questions/solution you can think of. Here's how it works. Go to their website (and not just theirs, the Internet hs many websites about this last I checked), type in the coding thing you want done. In seconds it provides you with many different ways to do it, links to knowledgeable folk who actually have done it, and references to libraries and related posts in case maybe someone else actually wrote the requirements of your question better than you did.

To scale the sheer volumes of drivers to field the demand fares have during heavy events is not possible if everyone has to drive a black limousine and only work as a driver 30+/hours per week with bureaucratic registration regulatory license. Same thing goes for AirBnB and other gig / excess capacity platforms. So I respectfully disagree that ride share drivers should categorically be employees.

Analogy: Lots of beaches and pools have signs indicting swim at your own risk. Must all beaches provide life guards or disallow anyone to swim upon penalty of jail? Who's going to pay for the life guards? Why should skilled safe swimmers pay to subsidize risks of unwise, unskilled, or reckless people with poor swimming skills? The are community pools that do have full life guard staff, but it can not scale to all swim-able bodies of water.

If people want to hitchhike, and a platform makes it easier to match up parties - embrace it. That parties reputations are closely tracked and bad apples are proactively pruned, even better. Lyft pioneered it, Uber copied it, and now Waze/Google is joining the fray. If people want expensive, poor quality, unresponsive taxis and limousine service, well those business are still around and no one is stopping you from using those. But if you want affordable, demand based, agile transportation, or short stay guest rooms, or other sharing resources and you are a consenting adult who understands the term and conditions, let innovation ride and businesses evolve.

Book Plug: Peers Inc by Robin Chase

I have an ASUS WiFI router and a TimeCapsule WiFi.

AirPlay is way more reliable and consistent over the Apple WiFi than the non-Apple products for some reason. Like multi-cast AirPlay device discovery is more optimized on Apple gear. I really like using highly reliable Apple Express remote AirPlay audio, but wonder if those too will be discontinued?

I mean I know more people listen to music now just on their phones, but I happen to like casting it to a real amplifier with nice speakers wireless. With a mini setup as massive music server, I can use WiFI to push music all over the house to wired and wiress speakers - something bluetooth isn't really able to handle.

Pondering this one.

Putting a 'bag' over your to pretend you are in a different world doesn't really make a game or entertainment more enjoyable.

IMAX and HD theaters do a very good job bring you into other worlds - yet increasingly people are preferring the convenience of watching stuff on their smart phones - with augmented reality like Pokemon Go sort of mixing things up a bit, but still its and app on your phone that happens to be mobile x connected x GPU enabled.

A good FPS on an XBOX / Playstation / Steam PC sitting on couch with chat headset is incredibly immersive and no 3D goggles are needed.

Cheap 'poorly supported' Android smart phones with Linux underpinnings provide some licensing income for Google. Google I think also provides some funding for Mozilla. Firefox OS would potentially undermine Google's Android OS, the way Mozilla's free Let's Encrypt service is undermining over priced and deceptive SSL certificate vendors - which to me is a GOOD thing.

Me thinks Mozilla Firefox OS has a rather large addressable market for free / low cost smart phone and TV's that Google would rather get licensing fees for. Expect there is a memo from Google to Mozilla about withdrawing Mozilla funding if Firefox OS becomes a viable threat to Google Android licensing.

I would like to see a viable mobile OS besides iOS and Android. Browsers and connected apps are the killer use case for mobile devices, it really shouldn't just be Apple and Google, I think eventually some form of mobile OS that's essentially free will emerge. Maybe RedHat needs to get into this space with Fedora mobile then?

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Correction, acquired mSpot in 2012
http://www.theverge.com/2012/5...

The origins of Milk Music were a Silicon Valley startup that essentially rebadged Slacker streaming service (trying to find the startup name ...). Me thinks Samsung had Apple Music envy of some sort and the startup was looking for a exit strategy around 2013. Slacker is still around, and if you like/liked Milk Music, switch over to Slacker's direct access plan and you'll hardly know you're listening to a different service.

The plain truth is Samsung has no Steve Jobs (or legacy contacts of said pioneer) to pursue lucrative media rights to make Milk Music / Video / live sports / ... anything but a sad derivative of other streaming services. Samsung executive eyes were bigger than their stomachs for headaches that media streaming business licensing entails. So even though the app was pretty, had nice UI, it just didn't have compelling content - hence no real user base developed, its overhead / and now its axed.

Samsung excels at building boxes, panels, and appliances which all increasing have little screens to connect to everything else. Music player on your refrigerator anyone?

That said, kinda of which this had a Minecraft like Mac OS, Windows clients as the universe is stupifyingly vast. And I tend to play similar Minecraft sprawling/wondering around occasionally on whatever machine I happen to have in front of me ... which thought NMS is smooth on PS4, typically is not the machine I have in front of me.

I understand Aluminum refining and data-centers are very energy hungry - they can operate them for free now right?

Have GigaPower in Cupertino, CA.

We're running about 500 GBytes data/month with a 1 Gbps fiber link, its quite fast for only $70/month (though promotion discount $29/month runs out soon). Several binge watching millennials keep it pretty soaked.

For extra $30/month they say they'll allow unlimited data, but doesn't look like any risk of needing that any time soon.