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Maybe for some models? IDK I haven’t seen one but I’ve noticed there is a much smaller selection of matte protectors in general vs glossy.

I don’t think there’s any reason they can’t.

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It does though. Installing a matte screen protector was one of the very first things I did after I got it.

Put a matte screen protector on my iPad a few years ago to cut down on the glare and that was it, everything had to be that way from then on.

Downside is you do lose some image crispness but it’s so very worth it for the huge reduction in glare.

Also matte protectors aren’t nearly as popular so there’s a lot smaller selection to chose from.

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Mint (MATE). It’s preconfigured closest to what I want, with just a couple tweeks I can do whatever I need with utilities and a GUI I’m familiar with.

If Its a headless machine Ubuntu or Debian. Again familiar with both can do whatever on both without having to relearn low to build a wheel.

Primarily a windows user but I do use Linux for some applications.

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Probably a full overlap with people that have fully functional keyboards.

I finally gave up and just set a wireless keyboard on top of the built in keyboard.

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If it’s room sized and sold to other companies it will rapidly be in multiple countries.

There wouldn’t be any way to keep it to one company with it being public knowledge.

Like realistically I’d think any country would ignore whatever laws on the books and just outright sieze the tech as a matter of national security and duplicate it for their own use if they found out a company was hiding such a thing.

From there it’d again leak to all other major countries in short order.

If it’s small and easy to duplicate, (can it replicate itself?) It would spread like wildfire and would like piracy be completely uncontainable.

I don’t think there is anyway the tech could be either contained or kept secret any real length of time.

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So how do you combat that if even their family dying around them isn’t enough to get them to even consider those people on tv might have lied to them?

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I don’t remember that bit but I think I only watched the first season of the Orville and that was years ago.

But yeah really depends on how difficult the equipment itself is to replicate.

If it’s some massive machine the size of a room it’s going to make some company extremely rich, they’d sell product for slightly less than normal market value taking over the market with perfectly consistent product and insane margins allowing legal capture.

Why feed everyone when you can almost literally print money?

If it’s something small that can be easily transported and duplicated? Piracy. Nobody will give AF about patents and everyone will have them within a couple years no matter what laws they try to implement or how they try and prevent it.

This has actually already happened with media and this is exactly how it has played out and a lot of people still seem to be in denial.

They can complain and sick lawyers on as many people as they want but they can still make a million copies of something that cost 400 million to make for less than than the cost of a gumball.

The law surrounding it is completely broken and it’s crazy that so many industries are trying to continue on like nothing has changed.

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Sometimes I wonder what they would do if you could make endless perfect copies of objects like you can mp3s.

Dududdo you wouldn’t copy a car. You wouldn’t copy a cheeseburger Copying is a crime.

Like remember it’s only been recently that it became possible to make endless copies of media at effectively no cost.

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Hey covid will still kill you even if you call it a hoax.
Rep: you God damn liberals are ruining this county Several family members die
Rep: they died of pneumonia not covid covid is a hoax and a Chinese bioweapon.

Like I can’t tell that they actually give a fuck about reality anymore even when they can directly see it killing them they still deny it.

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Genuine games being sold with cracks to remove the DRM instead of recompiling it without the DRM because the DRM doesn’t work on modern machines and they can’t be arsed to recompile and actually fix anything so even they resort to piracy.

It’s absolutely ridiculous.

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