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Funny, I recall seeing a post on HN that such a patent did in fact exist. From the NPR [1]:

> It turns out, a couple giant companies — IBM and Halliburton — have been working for years to patent what patent trolls do.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-...

The landing page looks nice, but I'm curious how well it works. Has anyone on here used this or participated in a private beta?

I 100% agree.

I went to a dealer to buy a car in cash (well, a cashier's check). They had a touch-screen computer with all their forms for me to fill out. It came to a credit approval/application form, and I refused to fill it out because I wasn't opening a loan. The lady assured me it was "standard" and that it wouldn't be used for anything, because I didn't need the loan/credit. I kept refusing, and she kept insisting they only needed it because the software required it to continue. After this impasse, I stood to walk out, and she suddenly changed her tune and somehow "figured out" how to bypass the form. Classy.

I just listened to Dan Carlin's "Destroyer of Worlds" [1] podcast episode, and it was very enlightening. I was modestly familiar with nuclear history, but still learned a lot from this episode.

[1] https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-...

Have you considered System76? I've been interested in their laptops for a while