D3I5

As we have seen in the past with countless IOT devices, buying something that requires third party closed-source infrastructure to function is likely to be bricked one day. One day Google might come around with big-tech-money, buy Eshtek to own a small part of the tech stack or a license or something and abandon everything else ... Yes, thanks to trueNAS my data could probably be restored, but I still payed at least 600€ (2 licenses) for a then dead service that I would have liked to continue to use. This would only take effect if it comes to a reinstall but it will happen eventually. Don't get me wrong, the fact that its a one time purchase is great, but it could be even better. You are right, I forgot about the option to tinker with the underlying trueNAS. Thanks for the reminder :D

I read that too :( I hope they change their mind about that. If HexOS gets sold in a few years and the buyer decides to shutdown the activation service (which is not unlikely) we are cooked. I wouldn't mind a more complex solution as an option for tech savvy customers. A simple open source "connection broker" running on docker would be great, don't you think?

Hi everyone, I was reading the post about the upcoming local GUI, when a question came to my mind. Will there ever be a "true local" solution in the future, that does not depend on HexOS' Servers at all? I am quite concerned about this, because as long as a connection to offsite infrastructure is needed I will not be able to redo my HexOS install if said infrastructure is out off order. Which is not unlikely to happen one day. Same goes for the buddy backup, will there be a way to establish a peer to peer connection without relying on HexOS' servers? I really like the idea of HexOS but once I bought a license and downloaded my ISO I would prefer to be independent from you, if I want to. Regards, D3I5