Yes, my Fairphone 4 was supposed to get monthly security updates until summer 2024 but in my experience they where always late, sometimes by more than a month. They now also missed the Q1 2025 deadline for the promised upgrade to Android 14.
Autodesk was only an illustrative example, Solidworks and Onshape have similar price tags. Professional software outside of software development is highly specialized and very expensive. There wont be any open source equivalents for most of them for a very long time if ever. "You shouldn't use proprietary software", is easy to say when alternatives exists; but currently we don't even have an FOSS alternative to Photoshop that creative workers are willing to use.
Most of their IDEs you can use for free for non-commercial purposes and even if you need to buy them; when you compare software development to any other profession our tools are incredibly cheap. You can get all the Jetbrains IDEs for less than 300€. Compare that to a HDL simulator or a 3D CAD application like Autodesk. These easily cost several thousand euros each year.
Imagine how successful their store could have been if they had put all that money into improving the launcher and not antagonizing large parts of their customer base instead.
This still fundamentally suffers from the oracle problem like all blockchains solutions. You can always attack these blockchain solutions at the point where they need to interact with the real world. In this case the camera is the "oracle" and nothing prevents someone from attacking the proposed camera and leveraging it to certify some modified footage. The blockchain doesn't add anything a public database and digitally signed footage wouldn't also achieve.
I experimented with it a bit but I just can't take Blazor seriously with its huge bundle sizes and interpreted IL. With AOT you can skip the interpreter and compile directly to wasm, but then the bundle size grows even bigger. I have pretty much given up on Blazor and the fact that Microsoft isn't using it for any of their products should be a clear signal to stay far away.
I am reminded of The Jaunt where animals and humans can survive teleportation only while unconscious.
The article doesn't link it directly but I think their cloud platform is called stackit. This could be a good offering if all you need is a server capacity and a bit of monitoring but companies looking for an equivalent to things like Azure B2C or other "Cloud native" services wont find them there. Bert Hubert wrote about this a few months ago. Platforms like this are really cool but they wont sway any customers who look for fully featured services that they can use like building blocks for their applications.
Yes, I did. They are both perfectly fine editors but they don't hold a candle to a proper IDE with a good Vim plugin. I also want to play some games that go beyond the production values of SuperTuxKart and Battle for Wesnoth.
You can just buy them for one year and keep using the perpetual fallback license. Also, they can fuck right off with their planet incinerating automatic plagiarism chat bots.