Comment by trymas

1 day ago

Stop killing ~games~ [1] functioning products with forced proprietary server connection

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44478083

I hate cloud-required hardware and software because it always dies at the whims of the manufacturer.

Pre Android, Motorola Mobility's phones had a huge fleet of CentOS boxes that were required to run a large fraction of the social app functionality on their phones.

The only games/apps/hardware I want to use are those that can be run completely offline with no dial-home DRM or server backend.