Patronage typically leads to at least a public "thanks to...", unless you want to remain anonymous. NFT does nothing here in either case.

But if it convinces some more people to give you a patronage... well, again, it's useful for that.

But they don't. NFT adds nothing here. It guarantees nothing here. Only by assigning shared ownership (via copyright law) and contractually agreeing on payout terms do you get that. And then, you don't need NFT to do it.

Just like every other use of "the blockchain" and related "technology;" the only actual use is convincing someone else to give you money. So ask yourself: are you convinced, or are you the one making the money?

Also, why has no one made PtbarneumCoin?

E3 was pretty relevant in 2000. It was still fairly relevant in 2013 when the stumblings of Microsoft with the XBox One (that is, the first XBox One, not the XBox One S or X, or the original XBox) lead to Sony's wildly successful "this is how you share" video a day before E3 and their press conference, and them basically dominating the generation.

Its relevance has been going downhill since, though, since everyone realized they didn't really need E3 to have a conference or communicate with fans, etc., given this newfangled Internet thing all the kids were watching videos on anyway.

I mean, when we were kids, it was child actors peddling goods on TV, in movies, magazines, or whatever. Commercials, movies, shows... anything for kids was basically to sell merchandise after the fact. Remember video game magazines? Saturday morning cartoons? Unless you lived under a rock, had no TV, were permitted to see no movies, read no magazines, etc (I knew a few kids like this), your entire childhood was steeped in targeted commercialism.

Surely you realized this at some point. Which is why I have to ask: why this? The medium and format changed a bit, but little else.

Google: usually takes you where you want to go, unless your search happens to include a single trending term in which case you will never what you're after.

Bing: takes you to the knockoff of where you want to go, with a bunch of extra "features" thrown in; if you use Microsoft products, tends to sneak in like a creepy landlord

Apple: would take you to one of 3 curated sites, and that's where you want to go; if you don't think so, no, that's where you want to go; it would be impossible to ensure privacy and security and comply with the CCP otherwise

DuckDuckGo: takes you to the 4th page of Google search results

I meant to add: This assumes this is a problem anyone (who can) actually wants to solve. I would not. With "CODB" fines, the company makes money, the government makes money, the people in charge can claim they've done something, people who otherwise don't care can reassure themselves something has been done, and the few left aren't enough to matter.

Anything else would cost those-involved money. The thought of implementing the above would likely scare the crap out of everyone involved.

There's a wonderful 2-part solution:

1. Halt stock trades for 3-6 months
2. Directly fine all investors

The first prevents this from turning back into "cost of doing business" where you can sell a bit of stock to pay for your profits. If you put everyone making money suddenly on the hook, you can bet change will happen fast, as people dump stock on reports companies are misbehaving (as they-personally will be liable), or sue the company for damages.

If you just want a device you can slap up, click a button, and use.. well, that's what you're paying extra-plus-privacy for.

However if you want to do a bit of legwork (fingerwork?), this stuff is actually amazingly accessible. Grab yourself some Pi Zero 2 W (or Pi 4 depending on reqs), something from like the camera department or some kind of speaker/mic board or whatever you want. (There are plenty of sources and plenty of hardware variety for this stuff.. adafruit is just recognizable.)

Want a custom voice assistant? You might think Mycroft, but they want signup for most of their stuff.. try Rhasspy instead; a bit of work but actually surprisingly easy to set up, and surprisingly easy to customize. Want a security camera? Search for "raspberry pi camera motion detection" and you'll get articles and videos all over.

With the relatively low cost of the hardware, in a weekend or few you're likely to end up with a better, private network of gear that works how you want, than you would have off-the-shelf anyway.

When was this mythical era? They've had different stuff basically every version, different trainwreck UI, fotm API, and the "stability" (or lack thereof) has been a running joke for decades. Though your post does apply pretty well if you replace "Microsoft" with "Apple," especially regarding the mobile/desktop UI stuff.

Probably hard with Linux on a PC. Maybe possible if Windows botches some EFI changes you can't undo. Also probably possible if you have EFI flash that becomes unwritable or similar? But that's not OS-specific.

All of this of course is mostly an issue with laptops, but probably less likely over time as hardware support improves, vs more likely with older Apple hardware that's not paid up on its protection money.