I doubt you're getting 1TB of storage for $1 anymore

Yeah, $4 at Hetzner is about the cheapest.

One of the big benefits of passkeys is that you can completely remove the ability to log in with a password!

Just spitballing here, but it seems like a good mix of phishing resistance & lockout recovery would be to have passkey-only auth, but with email recovery.

So no password login, but then you can recover your account by adding an additional passkey by receiving an email.

Just make sure you don't lose the passkey to log into your email.

Isn't it the same as my password manager's vault? I only remember my master password so if that vault is lost I can't even log in to my email

Kind of, but I have some of my most important passwords and account recovery codes duplicated on paper in a secure place. If there was ever a service that only allowed passkey login (do those exist?), you can't print those out.

I'd still prefer password+2fa+backup codes for email.

I wouldn't be okay with that. Say you're setting up a new iPhone with a new iCloud account because you forgot the password to your old one. (Unlikely scenario amongst us nerds, but very very likely outside of our bubble.)

If you want to log into, say, Google, but the passkey flow is the only way in, then you're almost-completely SOL unless you have some way of getting the passkey out of your iCloud keychain and into the keychain of the phone you're setting up.

If you still have your old phone, you can scan the QR code and get in that way. If you don't, then you're completely SOL.

Isn't that also what good software engineers are about?

Their business model is cloud rent and lootboxes - I love their approach to service, hardware and Linux but let's not pretend they're noble.

loot boxes, sure but how is cloud rent amoral/ignoble?

I'd assume open weight models hosted on openrouter aren't being run at a loss. As such, I've been experimenting with them lately and results are pretty promising. Requires slightly more patience and handholding than just cranking Opus 5 in Claude Code, but for the cost saving it's definitely worth it.

If you're really into self-hosting I've been experimenting with SearXNG and early signs are promising

You're actually using Strong as an example? It's practically abandonware nowadays!

What do you mean?

One of the earliest lines in the article:

> I believe subscriptions for mobile apps are the best thing that has ever happened for both indie developers and iPhone users.

The article isn't extolling the virtue of paying for a utility!

You used a lot of words to defend a strawman argument

As you ironically strawman me. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds!

But if you make 10 $40m movies and 2 of them make $300m you've spent less for more revenue and a lot more profit, and that's assuming the other 8 make exactly $0

But again, there are a limited number of money-making weekends in a year, and you're competing with other movies those weekends.

If you have only 4-5 good chances to make money in a year, you're going to maximize revenue over profitability.