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Missing the "intellectual property" monopoly in there, easily dwarves all the items listed combined

Trick answer - the logarithm of 1 is zero

Most of my disappointments with Linux come from the proprietary bits to be honest. Both the hardware drivers, and the games and other apps. And even the few times I'm let down by open-source apps, it's because of abilities from their proprietary counterpart that they are yet to implement.

Reminds me of the Chinese emperor that tried to achieve immortality by drinking mercury, guess what happened next!

It's entirely possible this reviewer had COVID and didn't know it

Specifically, they want to be able to use the utils without having to open-source the derivative works. Same reason why Google is developing the Zircon kernel for Fuchsia OS, by the way.

Waiting for the phone to ring has never been so exciting

Amazing to see all four major players in the AAA gaming industry shooting themselves in the feet one way or another:

• Xbox trying to spread itself thin between consoles and PC, going into studio purchasing sprees that it was unable to maintain long-term and churning them out as we speak
• Steam getting bitten hard by the AI bubble, making their Steam Machine dead on arrival in price, power, and availability of games (although the latter is partly due to a lack of anti-cheat solutions that can be legally deployed on top of an open-source kernel)
• And Nintendo pushing for more expensive games than the competition, and deploying Game Cards for physical games as the worst of both worlds

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Cold water. Or a cold drink really. I'm a bit too forgetful with my hydration

There's this game, Vampire Therapist, where you play as a vampire with knowledge of CBT. Good thing it wasn't "Vampire The rapist", where you'd play as a vampire with knowledge of the other CBT. store.steampowered.com/app/248…

Piracy still gives them a platform to justify their surveillance. The only correct take is a full boycott