cellardoor
@cellardoor@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump administration decides to fund CVE cybersecurity tracker after all 1 week ago:
Too little too late. The CVE Foundation is now a thing. Link
- Comment on Happy three years to the Steam Deck - the Linux gaming machine that changed everything 1 month ago:
Time flies when you’re having fun.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 2 months ago:
TL:DR patents are important, but easily abused.
Yes, I’ll try.
Patents can cover many aspects of design. Sometimes, these aspects are positive and deserve protection for the original inventors. Other times, the claims could be so obscure and ‘thats obvious to anyone’ that it’s a waste to protect them - but (sometimes ignorant) patent attorneys fail to do their research and award patents anyway.
It could be that the keyboard being below the screen in that form factor was considered novel. It could be the trackball used in the centre. It could be the two combined, then attached to a phone. It could be the shaping and ergonomic aspect of the keyboard. It could be raises or detents to aid location of keys for fast typing on a handheld device.
- Comment on Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says 2 months ago:
- Comment on BMW’s new iDrive turns the whole windshield into a heads-up display 3 months ago:
Ah yes another medium for advertisements.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 5 months ago:
Valheim!
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 5 months ago:
Really interesting to scroll through and see. Picked up a couple of new tools to look into, too, thanks!