> If you want to play Playstation games on your PS5 you must suffer Sony’s restrictions, but if you want to convert your PS5 into an emulator running Linux that should be possible.
This is what Sony did with the PS3, but afaik Linux was then used as a backdoor to jailbreak the "PS3 OS" and sideload games.
I guess, this is why Sony abandoned the idea of allowing Linux on their consoles. Kind of sad, but understandable.
The overarching issue is that this feature of the PS3 not only created cost in development/maintenance, but then negatively affected the core revenue-stream. So it was shut down, and Sony will never do this again.
Now we're at a point where there is no justification even for the cost of development/maintenance of such "open compute" features. Why even create a path for parts of your product to be "without rails" when there is no (legal) requirement for it and no significant commercial market, but just increased cost and complexity as well as security-risks.
I would like to see more devices being unlockable and provide the freedom to run "any code we want". But as there is no visible critical mass willing to pay for this, there is no market, and this means the current economic system doesn't support a company walking such a path.
So the only path I can see is to introduce an incentive for this into the system via a legal mandate, or change the system.
- user has an account on GOOD.COM
- user has saved her password in her browser
- user navigates to BAD.COM
In this case autofilled passwords are safe and convenient since they alarm the user that she isn't at GOOD.COM.
A clickable link sent in email mostly works too, it ensures that the user arrives at GOOD.COM. (If BAD sends an email too, then there is a race condition, but it is very visible to the user.)
Pin code sent in email is not very good when the user tries to log in to BAD.COM.
There is no password in these new flows. They just ask for email or phone and send you a code.
Bad website only needs to ask for an email. It logs into Good with a bot using that email. Good sends you the code. You put the code in bad. Bad finishes the login with that code.
At no point in time is a password involved in these new flows. It's all email/txt + code.
Many sites work like this now. Resy comes to mind.
According to Wikipedia:
Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 993% larger than Mongolia.
This has nothing to do with real borders, but with the distance to the nearest capital (that's how Voronoi diagrams work)
For instance, that shows that more than half of Russia territory is closest to the capital of Mongolia (which is Ulaanbaatar) than to Moscow, that's the point.