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1 [1]Skip to main content 2 [2]The Verge logo.[3]The Verge homepage 3 4 • [4]The Verge homepageThe Verge logo./ 5 • [5]Tech/ 6 • [6]Reviews/ 7 • [7]Science/ 8 • [8]Entertainment/ 9 • MoreMenu 10 11 [10]The Verge logo. 12 Menu 13 14 • [12]Vergecast/ 15 • [13]Podcasts/ 16 • [14]Tech 17 18 From the cloud to your computer: a new theory of how software works 19 20 From the cloud to your computer: a new theory of how software works 21 22 / 23 24 From offline mode to multiplayer to heady questions about ownership, we’re 25 rethinking the way software works. But what does better look like? 26 27 By [15]David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade 28 of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street 29 Journal, and Wired. 30 31 Oct 30, 2023, 3:55 PM UTC 32 33 Share this story 34 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 39 Illustration of the Vergecast logo 40 Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge 41 42 For a while, I really thought I could be a self-hoster. After months of talking 43 to people about platforms and security and what it means that we really don’t 44 own any of the data and apps we use every day, my big plan was to buy a mini PC 45 and run my life off my own device. 46 47 A lot of Docker experimentation later, I pretty much gave up. (As one person 48 put it to me, if you ever find yourself typing in an IP address and port 49 number, you’ve officially exited the realm of “things most people will ever 50 do.”) And so this episode of [20]The Vergecast, the fourth and final in our 51 series about connectivity, became about something else. Self-hosting is a nice 52 idea and a totally impractical reality for most people; signing into cloud 53 services and downloading apps is just so much easier to do! 54 55 But there are plenty of people out there who think we don’t have to choose. 56 They think it’s possible to build software that both belongs to us and works 57 across all our devices, that is collaborative and user-friendly and has an 58 offline mode. They even have a term for this — [21]local-first software — and 59 point to apps like [22]Obsidian as proof that it can work. 60 61 After that, we get to one more idea about software: that the solution isn’t to 62 change the way we acquire and access software but rather to change the things 63 we can do to that software. In his book [23]The Internet Con, activist and 64 author Cory Doctorow argues that interoperability might be the solution to most 65 of our tech woes. Interop could turn the internet from a series of walled 66 gardens into a teeming forest of interconnected services that are only as 67 successful as they are good. But that requires some legal changes and some big 68 new ideas about how we build and use software. 69 70 Software has connected us and connected everything. So how do we connect to our 71 software? That’s the question of this episode. The answer doesn’t quite look 72 like Plex servers and NAS systems, but it might be the next best thing. 73 74 Most Popular 75 Most Popular 76 77 1. [25] 78 79 Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu will utterly fold and pay $2.4M to settle its 80 lawsuit 81 82 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 83 2. [26] 84 85 The MacBook Air gets an M3 upgrade 86 87 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 88 3. 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