This is a vision I could get behind, and I already do a ton of self-hosting for that stuff! The theoretical simplification, easier conceptual understanding, and easier portability would all be very nice plusses over what we have now.
Buy it does feel a bit to me like creating just one more perfect standard, and then we will have our fracultured world, but with 14 standards...
I just found and set up Gameyfin (a play on Jellyfin). Still in the testing it out phase, but I love the idea of a collection of my friends and my DRM free games that we can all share with less reliance on big companies.
I don't think so (I could be wrong) it seemed to me like a telling of the same god machine but from a different perspective. Either way, I'm he kinda person who goes and re-reads the Bionicle wiki for fun sometimes though, so....
I'll pop in and say the mechanics of pointing the wiimote at the screen from using it as a horizontal controller in order to go into a first person mode was kina fun. It was also the (first?) Metroid game to use the parrying system that was also used in Dread, which is super satisfying. It also had a boss fight that was a near direct reference to one of the Alien movies, which was original inspiration for Metroid.
But the story sucked, and I think we have all rightfully retconned it, as Samus is an awesome bounty hunter, not a lame little baby.
You know, I'm really curious about xmpp, kinda wanna check it out, but then every time I am reminded that it exists it comes with a new and different chain of dependencies? other apps? whatever the other things are anyways that people list with it. And then I don't bother researching because suddenly it seems like the more complicated option.
Not intending to insult, just lamenting.
Same, too busy upvoting and moving on as usual...