I wonder if these could be dangerous if there is ever a leak releasing the CO2. I believe humans only tolerate very low concentrations in the air.

Happy they named it EcoCute, that's so much better than ElectroCute :)

Propane isn't exactly good for you either, and it'd obviously flammable. Freon caused ozone layer depletion. There is no perfect refrigerant, but CO2 seems pretty safe.

Indeed, on modern laptops and phones every UI interaction should be instant (check out BeOS in 1995 for comparison). For background stuff, add some progress indicator.

Can't believe the crap OSes and frameworks add these days in terms of performance cost (and sadly, Apple doesn't exactly shine in that regard)

Then don't. Isn't the whole point of long support cycles that you can keep using your phone for 5 years +, if it serves you well? (typing this from an S22)

I think local-first is a good heuristic in that it would avoid needless pushing of goods around the globe (or needless round-trips of lots of data around the globe).

Also, some people might like it if a product or service was made in US, Switzerland, Germany, Italy etc... for purely personal reasons (feelings).

It's the internet. We used to be proud that it's global. It used to be super cool to talk to people from other side of planet in real time.

It's called omakase, or rather aimakase in this case.

People will always pay for packaged convenience and a vendor that will keep things working/compatible in the future, IMHO.

This will only work for online/hosted software, right?

If local one can be one-shotted?

Or not everyone would care or know how to use AI...

I think there is value in an app you can drag/drop or exe you can just click (trust issues aside, maybe get them from some marketplace or walled garden) and that will keep working after the next OS update or get updates for future changes in XYZ.

For one-shotted apps you still need to:

1. know how to do it well 2. maintain it 3. host it (if online)

Can't you ask Astra to do that too? That's the promise, that it can use the computer as you would.

Also worth mentioning Twilight on Android.

You could say that the difference between "don't be evil" and having no backbone at all is quite a strong incentive (and strongly influences your brand valuation), but once your reputation is in the gutter, maybe it doesn't matter anymore.

Welcome to production software, where you really want to pin all uncertainties and dependencies, and roll back in case a major problem occurs.

Nobody is treating production software like that today. It's always downloading half the internet on every build.