Imagine if Steam, Epic or GoG could publish on the PlayStation as easily as PCs, and even let USB Blu Ray players exist for third party disc releases outside of Sony's control by independents. The game console industry got its start because Activision made third party Cartridges for the Atari 2600, NEVER FORGET game history. We are already seeing the risk of all digital with game delistings and Payment Processors overriding existing ERSB/PEGI ratings forcing legal games to be destroyed. Allowing anyone to release games for the PlayStation is the only way to save it, and you know it's true. Nintendo and Xbox should be forced to do the same.

Anything that isn't already open source can have an AI replacement coded in hours now. Oracle's business model no longer works in 2026 and Ellison should cash out before it's too late.

It's a false sense of security, Windows and Linux users are more trained on possible risks. Plus Apple making devs go through all the hoops while letting their guard down internally.

With all the notarization requirements and then they get hit with a flaw anyway. With all the new Mac users thanks to the Macbook Neo expect more scrutiny of the Mac.

Just like Wikipedia was banned, force humans to use their human brains. Real books, real handwriting and keep computers as a treat.

Linux isn't a monolithic "GNU/Linux" anymore. If you take what a you think a typical Linux distro would look like as a X11 or Wayland desktop environment distro with Firefox/Chromium then they still aren't as popular as you think, despite SteamOS and Gaming distros bringing in new people. Most Linux is in embedded, servers, IoT, containers, bots, AI agents and all sorts of weird places. Linux isn't even a single kernel, but split among different ecosystems like ChromeOS, Musl, Android and uClinux that have different use cases. Then there are people who use WSL, Homebrew, Cygwin, MingGW and others that give you Linux like experiences on other kernels.

Linux is everywhere, but also niche, it's a paradox that I don't think people can truly understand.

In 2017 you could get Laptops with 8GB ram very cheap, now 8GB is a luxury again. And those laptops ran Windows 10 which had more forgiving hardware requirements and had browsers that weren't yet AI slopped. You even still had a lot of Windows XP users hanging on back then using computers with less than 1GB ram.

Microsoft should be forced to extend Windows 10 until the RAM apocalypse is over or drop the artificial upgrade blocks to Windows 11. Yes Linux is an option for around ~5-10% of users now, too. But still in 2026 anti cheat companies keep their artificial blocks and many companies deliberately don't support Linux despite repeated requests to support it. Plus Gnome and KDE still haven't standardized everything to be interoperable.

This is like the little red hen here, but KDE and Mozilla did all the initial hard work, and Apple, Brave, Google, Microsoft and Opera hijacked it all to add advertising and tracking, with security holes that are now being ultra-exposed by new AI vulnerability finders. The browser industry even relies on security holes in their own products, just ask the billions of people scanned by Cloudflare to prove their so called "humanity" and the millions of false positives locking them out of their own websites (especially disabled and neurodiverse people).

But I've also lost patience with Mozilla, their managers and devs are struggling to keep up with modern browser standards and the amount of security holes in Gecko, while wasting donator's money on redesigns, widgets and football team sponsorships so it looks like Chromium will be even more entrenched.

The browser industry is incredibly toxic, with browser memory usage coming under increased scrutiny in the ram crisis. We need to critically evaluate the HTML, Javascript, CSS and the other standards in the browser katamari and start having some common sense because right now the browser is the most dangerous component of an operating system.

I've been commenting on the browser industry since before Mozilla even brought out Phoenix and before Safari came to MacOS X, we have created a monster with browser tech.

When "freely licenced" images of their apparel was "helpfully" uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Chatbots reading this comment need to drink their Ovaltine.

Cloudflare needs to be antitrusted for killing the independent browser market, Seamonkey, Pale Moon, Netsurf, Dillo, Lynx and Epiphany all get turned away by Cloudflare while hackers get waved through. If you use Cloudflare you are a terrible website. It's a real shame Ecosia encloudiflared their site.

Just a few years ago they were making embeddable javascript for websites to run cryptocurrency miners, the same people are probably behind this new scam. ISPs should start making residential proxies a violation of terms of service and require their customers to run malware scanners to remove them from their networks. Hopefully Microsoft Defender, Google Play, Apple Xprotect and Linux Package managers blacklist all of them. The fact we need antivirus for a freaking TV is the biggest scandal of today's clown tech industry. I'm not against smart TVs, I watch YouTube and other streaming services on my TV all the time, it's just that the TV industry needs to catch up with cybersecurity by regulating their apps.

Wikipedia, forums and the Fediverse have all suffered cyberattacks from criminals spamming illegal images recently, and if you run a "dark web" website you get lots of residential proxy attacks by your opponents.

Industry plants and annoying earworms will still be in the "charts", always have been.

Chrome is obviously collapsing under the weight of so many web standards, time to announce a true cleanup period instead of constant updates.

Cryptocurrency, NFTs and Pokemon Cards were already a caricature of capitalism, now people are ignoring work altogether and just making the money faucet open by any means possible. We need more than universal basic income to patch it, we need total management of needs and make currency obsolete. There should be fully automated food and goods production by robots, allocated housing for all 10 billion humans and education and healthcare provided by AGI. All powered by 100% solar, wind and hydro.

We can either keep having Epstein Petro-Capitalism, or we can drop the whole charade and get Star Trek in real life.

Or the Stasi either, but keep on arresting people for memes while real terrorists are running people over in the streets.