I have a 2nd gen Fire TV 4K Max gathering dust you can have. It's slow as fuck and barely faster than the first one. All Fire TV devices I've seen are slow, laggy, and shitty.
Once they got funding and on HBO they rested on their behinds, spent too much money, wasted effort on bullshit while neglecting hard journalism, and believed they "arrived."
Paper billionaires checked out, some sold out, and their value slowly went to zero because the owners failed to insist on leadership and culture continuity.
- IPv6 - It's 2023 and it's still not deployed correctly and universally. Github, Github Copilot, Chromium-based browsers, and Amazon Alexa give up in the presence of IPv6.
- DNSSEC+DANE - It's half-assed deployed but there's a lack of end-user UX
- wais - search before gopher
- afs - distributed fs
- discard protocol - basically, a network-based /dev/null
- humans.txt - Not around as much as it was
- makeheaders - Auto-generated C/C++ headers
- man page generators - ronn and help2man
- checkinstall - The automatic software package creator
- bashdb and zshdb
- crystal - Compiled Ruby-ish
- forth - Powered the FreeBSD bootloader menu for many years and word processors (typewriter-like almost computers)
- ocaml - The best ML, used by Jane Street and Xen
- pony - A language built around an arguably better GC than Azul's C4 with arguably stronger sharing semantics than Rust
- prolog - Erlang's grandpa
- rpython - PyPy's recompiler-compiler
- pax - POSIX archives
- shar - shell archives - Self-extracting archives that look like scripts at the beginning
- surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web - founded by Julian Assange
- step-ca - A Go-based PKI server
- dmraid - Because it works
- X10 - Before WiFi and IoT, there was the Firecracker: a parasitic power serial port RF outlet controller
- FreeBSD - It's not unknown or obscure per se, but it powers many important things in the civilized world without getting much credit
- :CueCat - A dotcom era barcode reader that was given away
- Xen - If you need to run a VPS but can't ju$tify u$ing VMware
- KataContainers - k8s but with VM isolation
- stow - software management by symlinks
- habitat - similar philosophy as nix but not as clean and functional and almost like Arch PKGBUILD but with more infrastructure around it
A published list of fees, while transparent, is a useless blizzard of data by itself.
One customer-useful approach would be a "dslreports.com" providing precise total average monthly bill amount for a specific address along with the breakdown.
If those objects are people at the southern border, then they're the first to throw some bullshit finger-wagging about a requirement to register at some country they passed while fleeing for their lives with some buggy app. Americans are shocked that the tax-dodging neoliberals in power don't differ significantly in policy from the previous administration who rounded up children in cages, separated from their parents, and lost them to abusive, exploitative foster care parents who sometimes made them work in dangerous factories below the legal age of work, e.g., effectively child slave labor.
Or if those objects are also people who have an AGI < $5 megabucks, they're down to audit records with a probe where the sun doesn't shine.
It's also problematic, a distraction, and a waste of resources to address mythological and conspiratorial topics, like having a flat earth research committee.
The XB-1 is a tech and systems demonstrator platform cheaper than big design upfront and costs (and risks) all at once.