My sister in law bought a plotter, I should suggest that name for it

I like the errors that strongly signal that the system was not produced by a corporation. They’d never get through coffee review where I work

That space where the arch sticker was

My old ThinkPad has non working ethernet. When I moved it to Debian after Ubuntu made 32 bit hard a non-free USB was by far the best way to get online

I presume you don’t host any services.

It will be the non-free drivers package. If installing Debian, also grab the non-free drivers, you’ll need it for wifi

Compiling your own kernel was often useful or even necessary back in the day. I think it was the only package I regularly compiled for myself back then, and I think I was on red hat

For example, when GNU/Linux was unpopular, there was no malware for it; when it became the world’s favourite server software or became a valuable target

If you want an OS that is really malware-free, you need to run temple os.

*anything unpopular

There’s always GNU/HURD, if you want a little compatibility

They encourage creation. Trademarks are different. In order to do so properly, they should be far more limited.

Right now the forever copyright means no one can remix sixty year old stories

Right now patents are issued for trivial IT “inventions” which stifle competing products.

Trademarks are fine. They are intended to protect you from misleading products. They let Apple sue people that sell stuff which might mislead you into thinking it’s an apple product.

Of course trademarks are also abused, for example Apple uses trademarks to prevent recycling iPhone parts. That couple be fixed.