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But that’s something that I witnessed change since the 80’s and makes the electronic crappier, it’s the fact that appliances in the 70’s-90’s were incredibly easy to fix. It was not rare for the manufacturer to even give schematics in the user’s manual. There were shops to repair stuff everywhere and it was something approachable by anyone who could hold a soldering iron.

I’m sure you’ll find some old devs who still prefer CVS over SVN. Don’t underestimate the force of habit. Even in a field like development where you should always update your knowledge and skills, there are tons of people who are very reluctant to changes.

Helvetica is a font, definitely not the proper name of Switzerland. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica

You’re probably thinking of Helvetia, which is neither the real name of Switzerland as it is an allegorical figure which represents Switzerland.

If you want the real official name of Switzerland, then you’ll have to get it into one of the official languages:

• Confédération suisse in French
• Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft in German
• Confederazione svizzera in Italian
• Confederaziun svizra in romanche

On English it would be the Swiss confederation, or… Switzerland in short.

Today definitely, because their use was twisted by those big corporation. Forcing artists to give them the rights to the IP.

Definitely a big problem for copyrights, patents are still 20 years, but they are also problematic. Biggest issue is patent trolls, companies who patent anything, sometimes even things that don’t really exist, just to attack companies who innovate.

Not sure if this is sarcasm, but yes, I do think artists should be rewarded, but not for more than 100 years after their death, that makes no sense.

This! Patent, trademarks, copyrights, all those intellectual properties laws were created more than a century ago, a time very different from us, with no corporations capable of pushing hundreds if not thousands of patents per year.

Those laws are so outdated that they are played to the inverse of what they were supposed to do. They were created to protect the inventor to make sure he can win money on his invention, today they are used to protect big corporation to make sure they can buy or kill whoever who would risk attacking their revenue.

They were invented as a way to push creativity and protect it but they are used today to limit and block creativity. There’s a good reason why creativity in technology in the last 10 years has come more from open source movements (additive manufacturing, blockchain, machine learning, etc.). It’s the only way to still protect creativity, making it open, therefore non patentable.

It’s their age and sex, Gandalf is indeed 2049 years old during the events of the Lords of the ring.

Can confirm for Switzerland. It’ll probably be some crappy tea bag quality, like lipton yellow or Twinings. They’ll also probably charge you 4-6 CHF (about the same in USD) for it.