Nostalgia is a hard drug. You can still appreciate games from you childhood & not buy games or consoles from a evil company.

I wish we could stop with smart TVs. I want a dumb TV with a nice screen & my own hardware without worrying about the data collection

Software making doesn’t need to be social media. Sad are the folks that think everything with an account should be Web 2.0.

This is why self-hosting matters. Why distributed version control is more resilient. I haven’t yet used it but this is the sort of use gave for Radicle where folks seed the repo like a torrent & there is no meaningful centralized server that you could even go after.

You could also launch directly to big picture mode for a “console” PC