I went from trying to collaborate on gitea to coding my own git server real fast. Seems to be a tendency.

Just here to be that one person to say you're probably wrong about consumer software. Aka the apps users interact with, all being open source. If we use nostr clients or apps over the last 3yrs as an example.... it's not looking very good and I'm unsure how you've came to this conclusion about consumer software while having such a blatant example that you use, being the opposite. What gives you this opinion? Ai?

All software already is open source

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Yeah the speed at which software can just be "regenerated" by a model and customized. I just think software is fundamentally changing from its previous nature. The overwhelming majority will be hard to charge money for, it will move to commoditized services and provision of resources, software will only be the portal to it and we will have as many selections as we need. Everything will shift to protocols and schema standards and APIs, etc. Although the secret will be in hiding all of it from the average user. Maybe "open source" isn't really the thing, but the fact that it will be free and extremely customizable. But if that continues to trend in that direction then not being open source doesn't change much either way so it almost seems like "why not?" But I obviously could be wrong, just feels like there is a massive shift in the economics of software underway and I may be projecting what I *hope* it means rather than seeing the reality of where the market will find the gap.

That ArtCraft Adobe app suite move was an eye-opener for sure.

you on @GrapheneOS yet? or still rockin an iphone?

Goosebumps

Yes, I think software as an end product, specifically the applications space, goes away. What takes its place is bespoke software that "writes itself" and does what the user wants, on demand. Users won't tolerate interacting with "other people's software", and it starts with websites: who wants to click a link and be bombarded with logins, popups, ads, eulas, cookie acceptance forms, captchas, on and on, when they can just ask an LLM and get a complete, fully relevant response. The next generation of an LLM's "text wall" response is a fully audio/visual interactive one.

I have an iPhone and a CalyxOS pixel 6. iPhone is still my main. I use all the privacy and custom stuff, but i almost invariably use it alongside "normie" alternatives that I think produce good products. I use my Zorin linux and my Macbook in comparable amounts. I think of the custom/self-host setups as insurance and "extra capable" tools to help me avoid the pitfalls and restrictions of "normie" products. But I use them exactly to the degree that they help me concretely. I don't much care for "signaling" one way or the other like its an ideological choice. It's a practical and security one. For the same reason, I intend to have a self-driving car in the not-too-distant future possibly. But I'll own one alongside a striped down, modified gas clunker that has no stock computer anything but instead has only what device i decide would make it better under my control and my software (granted my self driving car may very well be the same one based on the next few years with Comma.ai and competitors in that field. So it may not be the perfect example). One is for convenience, the other is for control. Sometimes the convenient and "my control" option lands totally in the "normal product" space or the "full self hosted" space. On those occasions I don't get a backup. But generally speaking my stack is almost *always* a combination. And on that note I did test graphene, but have no immediate reason to switch from CalyxOS with my main android because I'm just using it for app testing and the apps I'm building myself. Then its also my business phone. So the next time you are wondering which direction I chose. The answer is most likely "both."

I like that approach, its actually quite similar to my own. I have a @GrapheneOS pixel, but I don't like it enough to use it as a daily driver. I keep it for sensitive things like bitcoin apps, and to backup some things from my iphone. But for day to day usage (particularly international travel), I can't deal with the friction it brings vs. an iPhone, despite giving it an honest go.

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