I bet it will still be stuffed to the gills with buying things using real money, and the grind will be intentionally miserable to force people to take the shortcut.

Prusa if you want to buy something ready to go.

Voron if you want to build something from a kit.

And for a cheap starter printer the basic Ender 3 and variants are good.

Panasonic provides the software for free for their cameras. Still only 720p but at least you’re not paying for it.

Yes, but it also makes the experience worse for people that aren’t invested in the ecosystem because of privacy or similar reasons.

If I’m using an app that allows quotes, but my friend isn’t and wants to quote a post, they’re going to be annoyed.

Feedly does a great job of that.

Thats a good example of the UX issues, when only 1 specific app supports a feature.

Wasnt the parallel port also used for serial for awhile? Not quite perfect but better than now I suppose.

They still use far less, bitcoin manages like 10 transactions per second and consumes a staggering amount of power. A normal database running on something using a few watts could handle 10 database updates per second.