This makes no sense. There was no patent related reason FAT32 couldn't be have larger sizes, and in fact since the issue was Windows GUI related only vendors could do any number of user friendly yet completely solutions:

a) Format FAT32 in hardware without limit.
b) Provide FAT32 formatting in their software without limit.
c) Provide a simple GUI front end that calls Windows existing formatter from the command line to format without limit.

Specifically I use a lot of memory cards in a lot of different devices. One thing I've not done in 20 years is formatted a memory card in Windows. All devices with memory card provide means to format them or "initialise" them internally. So while the exFAT debate may have been a thing back in 2010 the reality is users ultimately didn't find themselves in a position to format devices themselves in the exFAT format.

About the only time users formatted anything themselves it was USB sticks for PC-to-PC data transfer, and they weren't using exFAT for that.

Who said a movie rip is pirated? Are you ignorant or a corporate bootlicker continuing to spread the lie that format conversion is 100% legal and not piracy?

It could format them from the command line. Just the GUI gave you no option to do so.

It didn't really, Linux support was via a FUSE using Paragon's proprietary driver, and the latter definitely paid Microsoft. Samsung also had a driver of dubious quality and even more dubious legality. It was used in Samsung products (paid for by Samsung) but the rest of the Linux world didn't touch it. The second exFAT had it's IP released (August 2019) exFAT was submitted to the 5.4 Kernel release.

Yes they did. How did you miss this? This was the specific reason that the Linux kernel did *NOT* explicitly support exFAT (no capitalisation on the first letter) until 2019. Prior to 2019 if you used exFAT it was via a user space and closed source FUSE driver that was provided and paid for by Paragon. If you wanted to include exFAT support in Linux you did so via Paragon's *paid for* software. In 2019 Microsoft opened the specification and made them patent cost free and a very VERY rough exFAT driver made it into Kernel 5.4

In 2020 Samsung (who had their own proprietary exFAT driver to Microsoft's spec) open sourced their own driver and released it for the 5.7 Kernel release.

But prior to August 2019 Microsoft got money for you reformatting exFAT in Linux.

That is just not the case. Ticket scalping has existed for all eternity even in places in the world where there aren't anti-trust issues. Having 100 different venues each with their own ticketing system does precisely nothing to stop the practice when ${popular_artists} comes to ${venue} and someone rushes and buys up all the tickets to scalp them online.

Even back before the days of ticket master a typical venue offered you possibly one... maybe a maximum of two places you could source the tickets. Anti-trust will just have no effect on this.

Also your scenario literally doesn't work now either. You can't buy an entire run of a handful of venues. Tickets are only released for a specific venue at a specific time, never for an entire tour at once. Whether a scalper goes to Ticketmaster to get tickets from Amsterdam Arena at 9:00am and then Ticketmaster again at 11:00am for the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, or if they need to go to two different website to get tickets is completely irrelevant to them.

I have a better one for you: People don't respect their own privacy and their own data, but they do tend to respect not getting scammed.

You want to end scalping? Do a test charge on people's credit card to verify its the same card which purchased the ticket at the gate. The number of people who will hand over a functioning credit card to a complete stranger buying a ticket is smaller than the number of people who will stare into an orb for the nebulous reason of "privacy".

When you yourself are extreme right, then everything looks like leftist propaganda, even a service like the BBC which is rated just right of centre: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmediabiasfactcheck.com... Maybe concern yourself with yourself more than the BBC.

That is ignorance of what these "comedians" actually do. Yeah in some cases they are rambling joke makers, but in others they provide well written, well researched information scattered with humour throughout, often providing a more accurate and more factual story than many "newspapers". Some lean politically, just like newspapers, some are rubbish just like newspapers.

Lumping them together by a label and declaring one label superior is a true sign of idocracy.

You not understanding the term "reason" and conflating it with "thinking" is the only problem here. "Reason" is literally what algorithms do. It's literally baked into one of the standard definitions of this word. You don't even need to have LLMs or AI to do it.

They did not. China's rare-earth supply was perfectly steady in price right until the US started a trade war with them. If you think that was a rug-pull I'll bet you were the sibling who cried to mummy "but he hit me back!"

The idea that this is a rug-pull is born from the minds who failed basic economics class. China subsidises their car industry for their own gains. Their own people need cheap cars. The fact that this industry built huge economies of scale and exports around the world is secondary. You can't rug-pull by fucking yourself over.

It's more complicated than the headline admits. There is no "Europe" jet fuel. Jet fuel is highly localised. E.g. Schiphol airport gets it's fuel from Rotterdam via pipeline. Rotterdam refineries are showing zero reductions in utilisation due to getting precisely no fuel from that area of the middle east. Port-Jerome is also running at full utilisation so that's Europe's two largest airports having precisely zero impact on jet fuel supply.

Now here is the kicker, Airfrance-KLM is one of the airlines implicated in TFA. They are in fact cutting flights. Why? Because the oil price caused a retail fuel price spike due to speculative trading. The flights being cancelled are being done so not because they are out of fuel, but because the pre-booked and paid for flights can't be flown at a profit given the cost they purchased fuel for.

Europe isn't out of fuel, it's out of *cheap* fuel. The entire world is.

Turns out trains don't travel across the oceans. Unless we've invented some new tech that I haven't read about. I know Americans don't understand the concept of travelling beyond one state over but much of Europe does.

By the way I just arrived home from the Airport. I came back from Alicante, a 2.5hour flight, or a 20 hour train ride along some of the best high-speed rail networks in Europe (France and Spain). Please tell me you're not as dumb as I think you are.

This war has literally reverberated effects around the entire world. I mean fuck look at the first word of the fucking title on of this story.