What I spent ages on:
It hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.
democratically support the same authoritarianism
Did you see the US election results yet?
Wait, are you saying my degree has real world use?
Just like the teacher at school who kept turning all computers’ screen resolutions to 640x480 because the text was too small.
There used to be a lot of cards based on same or similar chips, but with small differences. That made little changes to drivers common. It’s a bit like LCD modules or audio chipset quirks. One driver with tons of little differences depending on what each manufacturer decided to do differently.
Paper from the lowest bidder.