On the pihole subreddit there's a wiki with lists of domains you can whitelist for certain services. I had to whitelist something for xbox live to work.
I dont think anyone's arguing against generic alternatives of name brand items. The issue here is Amazon using up-and-coming and popular products as fodder for them to generic-ize and push to the top of results, essentially knee capping the original seller.
I don't think he's spreading FUD. It's a lot of trust you're placing in a 3rd party who doesn't have the source code to patch your system. Independent reviews and A B testing would help sway a lot of people, IMO.
My conspiracy brain thinks part of the reason for the red hat acquisition was to funnel disgruntled IBM i customers into that while bleeding the platform dry.
I can speak with confidence that its hanging on by a thread. IBM has bean counted the development and support staff to the point that entire critical sections of the OS have maybe one, two people working on it. Bugs take months or years to be addressed and security flaws sometimes take just as long to get patched.
Not to mention features that were new 20 years ago get the IBM red tape and beuracacy treatment and never get implemented, alienating even more customers.
What a sad little world view you have.
Of course it doesn't matter in the long run. But it matters to people alive right now. Which is why we do anything even though its all pointless. I guess you wouldn't care about your life or a family members life being taken by covid since its a nothingburger though huh?
Threatening a multi billion dollar company by making an emulator that contains zero infringing code? Give me a break. Nintendo needs to be squashed in court and brought back down to earth.
It looks like you still need to subscribe for a premium account if you self host to unlock even checklists unless I'm wrong? $40 a year to self host seems a bit steep.