Bambu Lab wants to lock you into their ecosystem, but here's how I took back control
… It also changes how I think about future purchases. …
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Home Assistant freed me from the smart home brand wars, and now I buy whatever works
… I can still use excellent devices from big ecosystems when they make sense, but I no longer need to treat those ecosystems as walls. …
The only reason I still recommend Synology is DSM, but even that's falling behind
… I've stopped recommending Synology to friends, and here's what I tell them to use instead There are plenty of other options for NAS enthusiasts besides Synology Synology's built-in ecosystem isn't what it used to be From a cohesive ecosystem to languishing apps When I set up my first Synology over … …
Windows is still the best OS for gaming, and these 4 things prove it
… Publishers like Valorant, the Riot ecosystem, along with a long list of competitive titles, are hard incompatibilities on the platform. …
Cloudflare Mesh gave me everything Tailscale did, minus another company in my network
… And the reason was that I was already deep into the Cloudflare ecosystem via DNS, DoH, and Tunnels. …
Windows still dominates these 3 major arenas, and Linux won't catch up anytime soon
… Now, this is a phenomenon that can be traced back to the economics of the ecosystem. …
DLSS has turned buying a GPU into analyzing different software tiers, and I can't keep up
… Modern GPUs are less like traditional hardware products, and much more like software ecosystems that come attached to the silicon inside. …
Zed made sense to me only after I stopped trying to replace VS Code
… It has evolved far beyond being just a code editor because of the massive ecosystem built around it. …
I ditched Claude Code and OpenCode for Pi, and my coding workflow became predictable again
… But it's also because it's part of a larger ecosystem for building AI agents and managing LLMs, which I jive with for vibe coding. …
Adobe was overkill for the editing I actually do, and that’s what finally made me leave
… But Adobe's ecosystem is nothing to scoff at There is one area where Adobe beats out the competition, and that's in its ecosystem. …