This isn't just down, this discussion seems like it's been barely holding on and there's a non-zero chance it goes away or changes in some significant way moving forward.
I get that for a boot / root drive but not for building a self hosted storage system. I'm not taking about cost of SATA SSD vs NVME; I haven't seen a lot of board+enclosure options that take enough M.2 disks.
I think it's possible to write a solid fuse filesystem. Not as performant as in-kernel but it could easily not be the bottleneck depending on the backend.
I commented though because GCP highlights it in a few places as component for AI workloads. I'm curious if anyone is using it in an important application and happy with it.
I like passkeys. I'm not able to be all in on them yet but I feel like they simplify my life. I have hardware keys and register all of them with sites that support them. Bitwarden for everything else.
I don't feel like that makes me dependant on any of the big tech cos, but I do recognize everyone won't be able to pull off such a setup.