... until it affects rich people.

All the useful nonprofits end up infiltrated and become controlled opposition at a certain point in their lifecycle - the obvious and incredibly-effective role PETA has played in diminishing animal rights is but one of many excellent examples.

"Seem primarily financial in nature" is saying "money can cure any harm they suffer as a result of a stay not being granted." I tend to disagree with the court on this one because the current state of their industry means if you fall behind (which the reputational harm of "The DoD says we are a threat to national security" makes a real possibility) you're almost certainly going to be left behind. The hypothetical "we would have won the AI race and been a ten trillion dollar company" or whatever is a hypothetical the court will not entertain at the damages stage.

The foldables I have seen have been...unimpressive. In particular, after they age a bit, there is an irritating distortion at the fold. I wonder if having two screens (which would show two different apps) wouldn't be better.

Amazon's DRM has changed a couple of times. If you want to get purchased content out of the Amazon eco-system, using an older Kindle is easiest. I suspect that's the only real motivation here.

We really need legislation around the client/server issues. There is no technical reason (other than DRM) to disable these devices. Similarly, game studios that choose to stop running servers for non-profit able games. What does it mean, to "purchase" a client that can be disabled st the whim of the producer?

By "everyone" I assume you're referring to "conspiracy theorists?" Humans were there because the only thing that can actually secure an area are boots on the ground. The C-130s were there to bring the MH-6s. This is pretty simple, and in order to complicate it you have to really want it to be something else.

I wasn't dumb enough to read their obvious bullshit but regardless, they'll still real need fencing.

Retards might not have noticed but geofences and physical fences fulfill slightly different needs...

...know how to use a [fucking] question mark??

Cattle ranchers seldom rely on dogs anymore - and they're still going to need fences.

This is just plain not true. Microsoft has about 1/4 of the global cloud computing market and, if nothing else, the number of things that just use Entra for auth is insane. I'm not suggesting this is a good thing, I'm just saying your claim that Microsoft is some kind of edge case in "internet service" is ridiculous.

... let's make off with their TV! :D

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"No user serviceable parts inside"

Or, in simple English, repair requires skill, training, knowledge, some combination of the three, beyond that a regular and common user would possess.

It also works, in the real world, to identify some product that can not, in fact, be repaired at the component level, either due to physical reality (epoxy potted components come to mind) or the manufacturer's inability to source the required components (third-part complex parts, I could offer examples which should be obvious to anyone able to make an argument from knowledge).

Sometimes this is more a statement of reality than an attempt at obfuscation. 'cause some stuff cannot be 'fixed', and the average user would not even understand why.

Disclaimer - I fully support Right to Repair. I also acknowledge the reality that some stuff is really difficult. And in the example from TFA, We are generally talking about equipment that is not so much 'repaired' as either replaced at the subassembly level, or more likely, in the example, problem-solved in software. You want the right to repair your router's software? Or just access to it after the explicit agreement or arbitrary agreement with the manufacturer says no? As in, you paid for support during the warranty period, but after that expired, the manufacturer soon abandoned software support...? Read the EULA. Ask the State to force them to do whatever the State decided to do. Watch innovation die.

"So, let the companies retain their monopoly over repair and then regulate that repair business"

Your solution is the highest abuse of rent-seeking for the ostensible purpose of 'making things right'.

And this is how government destroys our lives, beyond even the efforts of 'those evil corporations' that are assumed to exit merely to exploit us.

Your proposal is the opposite of liberty. It substitutes the State for the Corporation. And diminishes us further with no benefit, because the State will act in its own interest. The solution is less of the State, more of the individual. Right to Repair does this better than regulating repair.

How do you know that the Candida (or whatever else) you're most assuredly harboring hasn't already been equipped with similar features? TPTB no longer needs to wait for outbreaks of ergot to sit back and watch society get stupid.