I was too young to really buy software but the most expensive game I bought as a kid was 40 guilders. If use and inflation correction calculator and convert to euros that game in 1995 would be 36 euros in todays money, about 40 dollars. This was a gameboy game.

A pc game back then was between 50 and 60 dollars (converted with inflation).

But this was all in a physical store, where you would get an actual box, book, cartridge or disc, etc.

No, but I also don’t expect that as a user. It is also fine if the developer makes version 2.0 and I can decide to buy the new version or not. Before the internet this was pretty much how it worked, a new version came on a new floppy or disc you’d buy in a store.

Maybe for the short term, but there is software you use every day, for years. Some android apps I have been using since 2014.

No you’re thinking of luchables, fungible is when you catch a Gible and he’s loads of fun. Keep looking in the grassy areas.

Pro Rights would be better, it should not be just a choice it should be a human right.

We should make taking an “introday” a thing. Wanna hang? Nah, I’m taking an introday. Cool, sometimes that’s needed.

I first thought you wrote boolean float, not sure if that’s even worse.

I have a different theory.

When you buy a desktop or laptop 99.9% of them will come with Windows preinstalled. Unless you get an Apple product, but than its 100% macOS.

So everyone running Linux has chosen to not go for the easy option, but spend some time and effort to install something they prefer.

So that immediately is a filter, where people that just go for the default easy option are filtered out.

So it makes total sense the Linux community has more people that are not afraid to choose a path they perfer instead of just doing what everyone else does, because doing something else is harder and for many people scary.

My experience (and this is purely anecdotal) is that the hacker/cybersecuruty community is also like this and has a lot of trans people compared to the total population.

Comment to find this back later! I’m over 40 and just accepted my hands being fucked up as part of life.

It was my sabbatical, and be really smug when you say it, like I’m better than you.

Yeah in the Netherlands nobody would even try to park in a buslane or bicycle path, because you’d either get a fine or you will be towed and that we’ll probably cost you 350 euros or more.

Can you even call yourself a Linux user if you didn’t fuck up GRUB a few times? 😀

I’m pretty old an have been working in IT for almost 20 years now. Back in the day in would be more like this “hey welcome to the team, here’s your PC”. Someone would point to a desktop with Windows (XP) on it. If your company was “good” at IT you would have roaming profiles, so you could use any desktop with your own profile. If you would get a laptop (usually if you did IT consultancy that would be the case) it would be some locked down version of Windows where you would not even have admin rights.

In one of my first jobs a colleague (developer) couldn’t do his job because his pc was so slow and locked down. One day he came into the office with a CD-ROM that had Ubuntu on it. He just wiped the desktop and installed it. As a young office worker I was shocked! You can do that???

I used MS-DOS as a kid and installed Windows 98 when I was 12. Started to use Linux in my 20s.

Granted I am old.

I don’t know how this works in the US, but where I live after a year subscription (let’s say for your internet provider or something). They can only renew per month. So if the year subscription is over you can cancel any service every month and they can’t hit you with any fees.

Back in the day if you’d forgot to cancel your plan you’d be stuck with them for another year. It sucked!

I can only watch it with revanced and sponsorblock, otherwise I’d just watch some of my old downloaded stuff.

Also don’t promise stuff you just can’t deliver on. Like how a Tesla would be full self driving in 2014 but next year, or that amazing truck that would be the end game for every company moving stuff, or the new roadster from 2017

Yes and even if he would be smart, I know really smart people that would probably suck at running the economy. Having 0 experience doing something makes you a n00b by default.

The weirdest thing is that people expected a buch of real-estate guys to somehow be good at international diplomacy.

I don’t expect my butcher to also be good at cutting my hair!

Thanks, it’s kind of weird how much change this made in a few months. It also really changed my relationship with my parents and made it less superficial. Can highly recommend to dig in your own past a bit and see what you pushed way down, and actually deal with it.