Microsoft faced a very similar situation, but Windows was never open sourced.

Check out the Sleep With Me Podcast[1]. Same concept: Dull, meandering talking to lull you to sleep.

[1]https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/

I wondering how switching to a diet of grass would work out for the average human...

As we have only one stomach and lack symbiotic bacteria that allow ruminants to digest cellulose the average human would quickly starve.

Grasses are some of the most common food staples. Wheat, rye, barley, rice, maize, oats, and others

No, it doesn’t prevent a proprietary system from being built, but it does provide the end users/customers a choice to support products that uses an open system.

For the curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging

Yes!

The first real contender to the ESP8266 is set to release September 1st: the successor to the ESP8266, the ESP32 - now with dual Tensilica cores (and a bunch of other stuff).

I'm waiting for this one to drop like a little girl for a pony on christmas. Hope its not gonna be a disappointment for some reason.

I agree. Most mobile games I've downloaded prioritize ads views/in app purchases over making a 'hardcore' game. There are a few exceptions, such as Vainglory, but the vast majority are the equivalent of the super ball vending machine at the grocery store.

Ugh. I had a friend who played an incremental clicker game. He urged me to download it on my tablet. It didn't offer anything interesting over any other incremental clicker game, but every so often, a giant ad would display in the middle of the screen.

You'd be surprised at how many touch events you can register before your device has the ability to switch to your browser. After I closed all 10 or so tabs, I uninstalled it immediately.