Did open source operating systems win? No, MacOS/Windows are pretty dominant.

Does open source... cloud hosting, social media, ride sharing apps, you name it win? Not in my experience?

I'm sorry this happened to you.

edit: more research

> Chert is in the Sendblue/Blooio lineage, which runs genuine Apple software on real Macs logged into real Apple IDs. They're almost certainly not doing "Beeper Plus again."

Part of me thinks it's a mild overreaction. It's not like people audit every line of kernel/driver/BIOS/EFI code before running Linux? As long as the tests pass and the performance doesn't regress and it's secure... why are people so mad that it was vibe coded? Is it because it was an irresponsible thing to do? Maybe?

I don't know, I see both sides.

Devil's advocate:

* inflation caused everything to go up to some degree since then

* if it was "that bad" as you say, they wouldn't be extremely profitable and have so many users

both things can be true? "they cut the driver pay in half and doubled the price" did not lead to the collapse of the business/people to stop using it.

How big/deep of a loss?

I feel like I read this every day for years that Uber did this same "idiotic, losing" strategy (how it was pitched/discussed) and then one day we woke up and... without much fuss, boom, they were profitable seemingly overnight.

Some that come to mind that are potentially tangentially related/similar:

https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence

"We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We miscalculated/we were too generous/gave too much away for too little. It's a new technology, we are seeing a ton of demand, we are trying to run a business, hope you understand. If you don't want it, don't pay for it."

* Anthropic is in some way trying to run a business (not a charity) and at least (eventually?) make money and not subsidize usage forever

* "What a steal/good deal" the $100-$200/mo plans are compared to if they had to pay for raw API usage

and less on "how dare you reserve the right to tweak the generous usage patterns you open-ended-ly gave us, we are owed something!"

> deepseek-v3.2-685b, $40/mo/slot for ~20 tok/s, 465 slots total

> 465 users × 20 tok/s = 9,300 tok/s needed

> The node peaks at ~3,000 tok/s total. So at full capacity they can really only serve:

> 3,000 ÷ 20 = 150 concurrent users at 20 tok/s

> That's only 32% of the cohort being active simultaneously.

    { pkgs }:
    
    pkgs.mkShell {
      nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
        # build tools
        cmake
        ninja
        gnumake
        pkg-config
      ];
    
      buildInputs = with pkgs; [
        # java
        jdk8
    
        # compilers
        gcc
        clang
        llvmPackages.libcxx
    
        # libraries
        capstone
        icu
        openssl_3
        libusb1
        libftdi
        zlib
    
        # scripting
        (python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [
          requests
          pyelftools
        ]))
      ];
    
      # capstone headers are in include/capstone/ but blutter expects include/
      shellHook = ''
        export CPATH="${pkgs.capstone}/include/capstone:$CPATH"
        export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH="${pkgs.capstone}/include/capstone:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH"
      '';
    }

right now I have bought into the Nix koolaid a bit.

I have NixOS Linux machines and then nix-darwin on my Mac.

I use Nix to install Brew and then Brew to manage casks for things like Chrome what I'm sure updates itself. So the "flake.lock" probably isn't super accurate for the apps you described.

The world doesn't need a dozen JS engines.

The world doesn't need many dozens of Linux distros.

The world doesn't need a handful of BSD distros.

The world doesn't need many dozens of package managers.

The world doesn't need hundreds of JS frameworks.

The world doesn't need dozens of programming languages or chat protocols or CI/CD systems.

The world doesn't need dozens of init systems, service managers, display servers, audio stacks, universal app formats, build tools/bundlers.

Deno may have dragged the JS runtime space forward, fully agree. Maybe it served its purpose and it is time to say goodbye.

Who cares? Why does the world need so many fringe tools/runtimes? So much fragmentation. Why does every project have to be a long-term success? Put some stuff out if its misery. Don't waste the time of the already few open-source contributors who pour hours into something for no good reason.

    const { rows } = client.query(
      "select id, name, last_modified from tbl where id = $1",
      [42],
    );

    const { rows } = client.query(
      "select id, name, last_modified from tbl where id = :id",
      { id: 42 },
    );

I wish in 2026 the default on new computers (Windows + Mac) was not only "inbound firewall on by default" but also outbound and users having to manually select what is allowed.

I know it is possible, it's just not the default and more of a "power user" thing at the moment. You have to know about it basically.

Is the writing on the wall for $100-$200/mo users that, it's basically known-subsidized for now and $400/mo+ is coming sooner than we think?

Are they getting us all hooked and then going to raise it in the future, or will inference prices go down to offset?