Not for linux itself, no, but for desktos distros it makes it hard to keep it fully open source and free of proprietary stuff.

Saved you a click: It was the underlying mpeg-related patents used by the DivX codec. Filed by Siemens AG.

I remember back in the day that this was why everyone preferred xvid instead.

So did Ultima Online almost a decade earlier.

Why is UO so often forgotten when people talk about early online play? I’ve even heard Everquest described as the first MMO.

He’s tried nothing and is all out of ideas.

3d printing sounds like the way to go, but there are plenty of services and individuals that can print for you.

If the letter count was the main concern, I wouldn’t call it a mouthful now, would I? Or does it take you six times longer to say “sleeve” than “I”?

“Lgbtq+ rights” is a mouthfull. We should call it rainbow-rights instead.

Girl, you thought he was a man
But he was a muffin
He hung around till you found
That he didn’t know nuthin’

• Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift

• Dimmu Borgir - Puritania

• Devin Townsend - Kingdom

Honorable mention: The darkest and most evil song ever made. Satan himself couldn’t conjure a more effective earworm.

Factorio and Project Hail Mary.

…and that’s how the Factorio expansion “Space Age” was born.

Like, if you took a morning-after pill, you can take an after-morning-after pill?

“This is a CD player, not a DVD player. You’ve been scammed”

• 90% Empty beer can
• 100% An SFP+ module (most likely for multimode fiber)
• 80% prioritypass card that’ll give you free entry to a nice airport lounge on the opposite side of the planet
• 20% a wedge of blue cheese
• 100% a guitar pick

Imma move there and start DeepDish Linux (forking Hannah Montana Linux, obviously) just for the media attention

Scandinavia, provided the banter between the people/cultures remain

“Melts down”

Yup, not reading that…

I assume that at most we’re talking about a couple of asshats posting their frustration on Twitter.

I’ve done both. No need to grovel, but you can call me “your excellence”

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I like the idea, and might get back into it (restarting), but previous time I started it I was thrown off by the overuse of metaphors. Maybe it’s just an introduction-thing, but I found it very cumbersome to always have to read “The thing was X, like and Y that had undergone Z” instead of just “the thing was worn and green”.

Yes, I know that writers should show rather than tell, but when the reader has to spend most of the reading time parsing metaphors that could’ve instead just been a factual statement, it becomes a very cumbersome read.

But I will give it another go. I like the sci-fi classics, and I suspect I’d like this one too

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