Nothing at all. Most people are not creating derivative works.

It’s less clear than you say.

In principle the First-sale doctrine should apply but it has not caught up with reality yet.

For most people that is a distinction without a difference.

Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

That was part of it clearly but I think more so they wanted an escape route as Microsoft enshittifies (further)

Button that doesn’t look like a button.

Unclear phrasing…

Now, am I saying it’s impossible to understand? No. Do I think it rises to the level of law-suit worthy? Barely.

Is it anticonsumer and intentionally designed so as to make it more difficult to unsubscribe and put up barriers to get people to stay? Absolutely.

They’re both anti-consumer; the difference is in the degree.

Disk storage is also digital.

Still takes more work than just giving them that information.

Fair enough to feel that way, but we’re taking about windows here.

It’s not about whether you know how to turn it off; it’s about the fact that you have to do that at all. Also that you’ll have to do it again when Microsoft decides to reset the option behind your back. And pushes you away from changing it (default browser option). And ignores it (default browser option).

The general feel of it all is incredibly frustrating.

Then what are these?

I also remember seeing Candy Crush appear mysteriously without any prompting…

“Diacritics” is the word you are looking for.

And unfortunately the kind of people who decide whether people get to board a plane do care about that stuff.

And the terminology is misleading, resulting in problems. shrug.

“Changes” are not the same thing as “files”.

I’d expect that files that are not in version control would not be touched.

I dunno, “discard changes” is usually not the same as “delete all files”

Seriously… the Pythagorean Theorem is the single most important piece of practical math that can be easily taught to everyone.

The only time I’ve been prompted to enter a PIN is when using the same card as a debit card vs a credit card.

Even though the you already have to use the PIN at an ATM.

No idea why there’s such a big functional difference between “credit” and “debit” cards.

Closer to html “view source”, or the “developer tools” you find in a web browser.

https://kb.corel.com/en/127364

Predecessor to Excel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan