This isn't just down, this discussion seems like it's been barely holding on and there's a non-zero chance it goes away or changes in some significant way moving forward.
I get that for a boot / root drive but not for building a self hosted storage system. I'm not taking about cost of SATA SSD vs NVME; I haven't seen a lot of board+enclosure options that take enough M.2 disks.
I think it's possible to write a solid fuse filesystem. Not as performant as in-kernel but it could easily not be the bottleneck depending on the backend.
I commented though because GCP highlights it in a few places as component for AI workloads. I'm curious if anyone is using it in an important application and happy with it.
I've found QEMUs microvm to be faster at boot while having nicer tooling and a cleaner upgrade path if needing more features. Aside from hype I'm actually not sure why anyone would still use firecracker.
I want to stand on principle too. I switched from Google to Kagi about a year ago. If we're strictly comparing Google and Kagi, I consider Google far worse.
Banking happens to be the one where I do keep the app for each bank/brokerage that I have an account with. Some of the features like mobile deposit work better. And the biometric login on Android is convenient when I'm looking up things quickly.
(I use the banking websites too, and for those prefer hardware passkey where supported, and if not everything else is in bitwarden).
I think that's harsh. IME Go excels in a business setting where the focus is on correct, performant, maintainable, business logic in larger organizations, that's easy to integrate with a bunch of other systems. You can't squeeze every last bit of low-level performance out of it but you can get ... 9x% of the way there with concurrent code that is easy to reason about.
Yeah that's how my systems are set up. I also appreciate that each firmware let's me restore the original keys just in case without me having to manually back them up -- but they're not active for secure boot.
I find that yearly works better for me psychologically for stuff like this.
I got a 1 yr professional of kagi just to try it. IMO the results work. I've never seen Google do better when I compare; I have seen the Google AI responses be consistently straight up wrong.
To me it's worth the cost knowing I'm paying a sustainable rate for a service. Plus I want no part in whatever the hell Google is doing these days with search.