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>Go freely walk out your local supermarket without paying.

that's your definition of freedom?


It's an example of constraints that still apply.

Don't pay taxes. Steal cars, punch Trump, call a black person the N-word ... see how it goes

Paper and pencil offer a far more blank canvas compared to the very specific hardware constraints of a phone, and ecosystem of software limited to the common languages

Software dev and use is, comparatively, heavily constrained and on rails compared to sitting by a tree and imagining

To buy the phone ones agency is coupled to the subset of legitimate options to make money

Same for electricity to charge it, battery replacement, screen repair if it breaks.

Really just quickly becomes a ball and chain

So free!


but you/stuff still needs to go from a to b. taxis (or individual self driving pods) should however be the future of public transport.

They simply lack the required space density.

most of them live in a different time zone


microsoft bribed them to come back


I think most of its features predate unity (compiz was integrated but existed before)


a lot of people don't even have a computer and do everything on their phone. Given androids market share, one could argue Linux is already present on most desk tops and therefore has already won.


and "Schwammerl" is even a term people use for other people


>I'm not really sure what you think the difficulty is.

the heat of the car and the burning surroundings, and of course the toxic fumes.


The building is made of ordinary building stuff like wood and plastic which can be extinguished using ordinary means, you just need to remove the car so it doesn't set it on fire again. The same means (dousing it with a fire hose) can temporarily lower the temperature of the car. Firefighters already have the equipment necessary to deal with toxic smoke.


your argument is a slippery slope. Unless you are amish, I don't think you would get very far without ending up looking like a hypocrite


I suppose 3d instead of 2d with destructible paths adds to the complexity


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