I wouldn't say NFTs per se, but I do think a blockchain could help here. If you can point to a specific block that documents that you purchased a copy of a piece of media, you should also be able to transfer that block to another person.

Big capitalism has a way of taking things that should be fair and stacking the deck in their favor.

Banning binding arbitration means that class actions can happen.

That's irrelevant to the point I'm making. Class action is, almost by definition, a case where there is unequal power.

Throwing away proprietary cables is a sin. Throwing away standard commodity USB cables is not so much

Give them away to a thrift shop instead. Then you've helped somebody else who will find that cable in the thrift shop. So they can put it on ebay and sell it back to you when you need it two months later.

Yeah its hard enough when you need a Mini USB cable. When you need the proprietary RS232 cable for an old piece of hardware, at short notice, that stings.

what the shit

Musk probably came across the shape as a child and drew it on a napkin to carry it with him, like he did with the Cybertruck design after "beating" Car Designer on either the Apple II or PC

It's confusingly similar (by the "average person" metric( but I don't think it's identical

The average person has absolutely never heard of X11.

Buc-ee's has won infringement suits against far less confusing logos.

Commodore was very protective of their DOS. Perhaps the Spartan DOS Board was a means to sidestep that by requiring users own a legitimate 1541

That's a really generous presumption. The direction this industry is moving towards is to use AI to avoid human involvement.

At best, their algorithm flagged it, and a human rubber-stamped it.

I mean, the FBI guys that drove to the school probably read it.