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I wouldn't argue just that it should be; I would argue that it is and we have a massive problem with the FTC failing to enforce existing law.

What, did Windows somehow get better?

Good way to avoid getting paint on your clothes. 👍

Conveying something to someone in perpetuity (i.e. "selling" it to them) when you don't have the right to do so is fraud. Just because Amazon or whoever's right to continue offering the thing ended doesn't mean their customers' property rights somehow end with it.

It's exactly as absurd as a car dealer stealing back all the cars they previously sold just because they ended their agreement with the manufacturer.

There is absolutely no sane world in which stealing your customers' property could ever be the "only legal resolution!"

That, by itself, is absolutely outrageous and absurd. The game developer's failure to license the music appropriately is between them and the music copyright holder; nothing gives them the right to steal the content back from the third parties they conveyed it to in perpetuity.

That's not "questionable," that's straight-up evil and totalitarian. There's not any ambiguity about it, at all: the ESA wants to destroy private property ownership and subjugate us all as cattle to be milked.

It doesn't fucking matter. Not even a little bit. It's 1000% an attack on property rights and must be stopped by any means necessary.

Micropurples

I feel like excessive parking for cars is a much worse problem than inadequate parking for bikes. But yes, parking for bikes could be better (and very easily, too).

I think stuff continued to get better for a long time after 1991, but upvote for Tandy.

(I wish I still had my Tandy 1000 RLX/HD.)

Free Software is better than it's ever been, but that doesn't outweigh the enshittification going on in the rest of the world. Way too much of my effort using Free Software is spent actively defending myself from surveillance, propaganda, and other threats.

I live in Atlanta, which ain't exactly the poster-child for bike-friendliness. But even here, at least in my part of town, it actually is getting to the point where short trips are genuinely more convenient on a bike. Dropping the kids off at school definitely is because I don't have to wait in line, and any destination downtown is best reached on a bike because I don't have to pay for parking. Going to the grocery store isn't quite better by bike, but the margin is close enough that I bike anyway.