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Comment Patents don't advance the public good (Score 1) 44

Stamping ownership over a process and letting a person or other entity charge others for use of that, particularly given that when an idea has all its prerequisites in place independent discovery is almost inevitable - look at how often the sciences see independently dupliicated discoveries - means that patents are more letting any jerk put up a toll gate anywhere they please in the space of ideas.

Comment Steam deck's hardware needs a v2 (Score 1) 59

If Linux usage on Steam is significantly SteamDeck, then the increasing age of the Steam Deck hardware is probably a good part of this. Unlike with traditional portable gaming consoles, people think of it as being more like a PC, and are less enthused to buy/use it when it starts to get creaky.

I would've bought a version 2 of mine ages ago if they would've sold one (a real version 2, not just the variant with the nicer screen).

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