When my AC unit broke I didn't need to know the finer decisions surrounding which unit to choose.
I have weekly visits from the pool guy for a pool and gardener for the landscaping. A yearly termite check and AC/furnace maintenance. And so on.
We won’t have that for home compute appliances until hardware/interface innovation slows down, and that’d actually been trending in the other direction for a while now. It will stabilize, even while innovation happens at other layers, but core stability plays a huge role in what you have in mind here.
Cloud stuff basically hid that that stuff on the other side of a pipe for a while, but has its own drawbacks and we’re likely seeing the start of a turn away from it.
I’ve been running more or less the same services through hardware, hypervisor, and now kubernetes migrations and revisions. It seems to me doing things “the Linux way”, sticking to open source where possible, is resistant to the fast pace of the consumer innovation market. When anything new comes along, it’s usually relatively trivial to transfer over.
I mean, I essentially provide that to my small social community with a private media tenant.
With ZTA systems in place to accommodate remote access, maybe there is an appetite for neighbor-to-neighbor network sysadmin services? Hard to compete with the sleek silos of big box brands and their infinite marketing budget, plus 5 9s of service, though.
I know it's an "out there" crazy silicon valley leftist idea but maybe something like that could work?
Okay no but for reals, the USPS could do that!
I think the incentive of a trade/artisan economy would make more sense, and justify individualized labor (house calls for NAS reconfiguration, for instance). Like a plumbing contractor vs inspector… I like the socialized idea, but I don’t see how the implementation would work under current social service labor system and organization…
Am I just totally misunderstanding the situation here?
....would you want to as sysadmin now manage them any time police comes and wants some footage ?
I think that can definitely work for stuff like internet access, but anything where "private files" and copyrighted content comes to play will be messy
Really? I installed Ubuntu after a 5 year holiday from it - Now you have some kind of Snaps, and flatpak. There is whatever is happening in wayland. To install handbrake, you need to install flatpack.
There used to be 4 different drivers for intel GPU, now there are 7, and I still can't get Quicksync to work in Handbrake. There seems to be some kind of plugin you can download from their website, but that doesn't install.
After tinkering, I realised that Quicksync works in ffmpeg and in Jellyfin, but not in Handbrake
Mind you, I have a home server that runs 20 docker contsiner for things like home assistant. I deploy applications to kubernetes in my say job.
But this shit is still frustrating
Who do I call to fix this for less than $500 an hour?
Ubuntu is slowly turning into clown fiesta.
If GE made a home security product for example, it would make sense for vendors to get certified on GE home security support. Even if the underlying tech changed a lot, if they had access to support docs and a support portal it could work.
It’s easier to certify techs at an existing HVAC repair on your specific heater than it is to convince somebody to set up shop just for your new and peculiar product. Maturity of industry matters.
What is faster and faster is anti-consumer activities and the general acceptance of it.
For software, there are strong incentives on both sides of the transaction (buyer and seller) for a system to be remotely managed.