That's why the Free Software Foundation calls it by it's more appropriate name: Treacherous Computing.

Game server Terms of Service always give the server owner the right to do whatever they please, for any or no reason. They will most certainly spell out that you have no expectation of permanence for anything you buy for their games. All in-game purchases are ephemeral, and are subject to the whims of the server owner.

There certainly was; and it was present in Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, and Kubuntu. Perhaps it was just coincidence that it went away on the first Kubuntu release of systemd.

I bought a PinePhone a year or so ago (I don't remember exactly when). When I got it, the PostmarketOS was all but unusable. It was sluggish, and very little actually worked. I bought it with the intent of developing on it, but it turns out that my life is already filled to capacity. So I installed Mobian on it (which made it far more useful and responsive), and found that phone calls worked, texting worked, but the camera was all but useless. While phone calls and texting worked, they didn't work all the time. So I neglected it for quite a while (several months at the very least).

My interest in using it as my main phone, and leaving Android entirely, was recently rekindled, so I installed the most recent Mobian on it and tried again (I love how the default OS can be overridden via the SD card). This time, I found that the SIM configuration had been greatly simplified. It was simplified to the point that it no longer worked. I could no longer configure my SIM card, so phone calls and texts no longer work. It's stupefying how the Mobian developers arrived at the decision to cripple SIM configuration and make a phone that can't make phone calls.

The camera driver, however, has been fixed. Live previews work at full speed, and pictures can be taken (I haven't tried video). The pictures are saved as TIFF's, rather than JPEG's, but it works. I'm confident, though, that Mobian will continue to improve over time.

I use KDE, so I can't speak towards GNOME. The most noticeable changes for me before and after systemd revolve around USB devices. Before systemd, they were sometimes recognized, but frequently weren't. I could plug in USB devices and watch the kernal log do nothing time after time. After systemd, they were always recognized.

From an end-user perspective, that is more important than just about anything else: interfacing with the computer is simple and reliable. Before systemd, USB recognition reliability was extremely low. After systemd, that reliability became rock solid. I'm glad the old init system is (all but) dead. It sucked.

My guess is User Replaceable Electronics.

Writing malware for Linux has never been particularly hard. Getting it to automatically spread, though, is damned hard. Social engineering is, by far, the easiest route to spread Linux malware, as human security is much more lax than Linux's security.

Of course Facebook's success was built on algorithms. All software is built from algorithms. An algorithm is simply a defined list of steps to take to get from Point A to Point B. Every piece of software ever written was built on algorithms. Even the standard Hello World starter program is built on an algorithm. The headline is a lot like saying that the bonfire's success was built on it's heat. No kidding.

Facebook's success was built on exploiting the knowledge that a great many people will actively harm themselves in exchange for knowing what other people are doing. And the need to know what other people are doing is driven by low self-worth (other people are better than I am). It takes a particular breed of sociopathy to exploit that widespread mental disorder and actively use it against those afflicted with it.

I just had a radical thought: instead of squeezing more money from the bloodstone, how about our government spend our money more wisely? We have shit tons of government corruption that costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year at the low end, and trillions of dollars a year at the high end.

Because software Freedom is their entire mission, as is evident by their very name. Cost isn't even a distant second, as they are fine with developers charging money for their products.

It doesn't, but that's not the point. When I wiped my final Windows install in 1999, I started learning how to do computing without Windows-only software. Over time, I found Linux versions of everything I need. I went cold turkey, so I had to ramp up quickly. What I learned, though, was how to function without Windows. I haven't had to deal with Windows stupidity for over twenty years now.

It's a lot like recovering from alcoholism, or some other mental disorder, but without the constant craving to resume the bad behavior. Or maybe a more accurate analogy is that it's like having left an abusive relationship, and feeling pity for people who feel like being constantly assaulted is an inescapable part of life.

The Facebook account requirement is the ONLY reason I still have a Facebook account. The Quest is, by far, the best thing Facebook has. The moment the law catches up and disallows that tie-in (which, I agree, seems like an illegal arrangement) is the moment my Facebook account goes bye-bye.

That's like saying that you escaped the murderer by killing yourself.

I couldn't agree more. I hopped on board when my city started offering municipal broadband. I already enumerated all the benefits I'm getting from this, so I'll be more brief here:

1) Symmetrical gigabit for MUCH less than the Cable company charges.
2) No data caps, thus no overage fees.
3) No usage restrictions, including running servers (the service encourages this).

I can't imagine the criminal incumbent ISP's existing in my area for much longer, and I hope the door DOES hit them in the ass on their way out.