Try banning open source software that anyone can spin up an instance.

Recent versions of Flight Simulator already has simple outlines of most buildings, they also have little cars driving around as well.

Those who can't physically get to the store whether due to disability or transport issues have to pay the extra margins. As someone who relies on delivery a lot I notice the extra fees. This is not a new idea, when suburbs were being created in the mid 20th century "milk-floats" would provide a delivery service for milk and other goods.

A rogue employee at Nintendo can print as many so called rare cards as they want. All economics no matter what is being traded is a scam, it's just made up numbers you barley evolved monkeys.

Apple said it best, there are many people who have very different ways of thinking that don't fit into traditional academic or socially typical ways of thinking. Sometimes someone with a different way of thinking can literally change the world, while the same way of thinking can get you seen as disabled and hopeless at the same time. The whole DSM and Academic grading framework needs to be thrown out and rewrite to reflect the true diversity of human thought.

In fact, I say with the fight against AGI coming up, the ones that don't fit the mould will be able harder to replace.

I remember that Apple never ported their QuickTime codecs to Linux so had to be reverse engineered and that a big argument against desktop Linux was that video playback was poor, along with other stuff like DRM, DeCSS and patents that hindered Linux video playback as well.

Every few years they make a "new" codec that expands the video patent landscape for another 20 years, even MPEG-2 has a patent still active in Malaysia, leaving MPEG-1 as the last codec if you want a truly free video system. The recent stories of laptops having their decoders removed because of patent frees are infuriating.

The original MacOS X required 128MB, the original Mac only required 128KB. Now modern Macs are seen as useless if they don't have 16GB. We mostly write the same spreadsheets and documents as we did in the 80s, just pissing away supercomputers worth of ram for liquid glass effects. This ram shortage should make vibe coders not even employable at McDonalds.

If they want to print itchy and scratch money they should pay the full cost and go to the back of the queue.

They are already a thing with AI scrapers, spamming and DDOS, soon copyrighted material will be laundered through them as well. This will also lead to the rise of Wardriving again.

From self-checkouts running Linux to getting the weather from Linux powered super computers. Watching Linux powered smart TVs and driving Linux powered cars. Plus 97% of web users use a KDE derived web browser. Linux's "infrastructure" market share is huge, not to mention BSD's dominant market share on game consoles.

Is the network equivalent of still using floppy disks and deserves to be ripped off. Don't say but my legacy devices as Windows NT from 30 years ago had an ipv6 driver.

We may have freed up RAM capacity by limiting unnecessary computer purchases.

There's something like 12 million now. Stop holding up progress and actually use your inventions instead of just hoarding them.

Opting out of fads is a good thing.