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I like owning things. The recent AMD driver kerfuffle has me wondering what that really means these days.

I’m old enough to remember when buying a physical item meant you had it for life. It would run as advertised until it could no longer—perhaps a part would break, a motor would burn out. Even then, things were mechanical enough that you could open them up and tinker, in an effort to fix them.

Now with so much software required to make hardware perform intended function, that line has b

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