Technology seems to tend toward integration: my desktop used to have a separate smartcard, modem, network card: all now integrated hardware.
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/16/github-launch-continuous-integration/ talks about a similar effect in GitHub: from hosting code to issues+wiki+projects+security+CI.
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Amazing blog post about running a modern Linux kernel on Chumby hardware, investigating bad CPU numbers from top, and finding a Linux kernel bug from 2009!
When someone says "you should use the cloud", I'm never sure if they mean:
1: use a virtual server rather than running your own hardware, or
2: use hosted services rather than running your own e.g. database
2 is often surprisingly expensive IME.
Remotely bricking satellite modems as part of (presumably) nation state hostilities: https://www.reversemode.com/2022/03/satcom-terminals-under-attack-in-europe.html
If over-the-air update systems aren't receiving regular patches, maybe it would be better for industry to use hardware that can't be reflashed remotely?