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You've been through the wilderness, friend.

I don't think I've ever seen such a hard sell for a font.

Been on Linux for 18 months as my daily driver. Can't possibly love it any more.

The guy's not a Lannister. I mean, he probably would fuck his sister, but still...

Dads that quote this are engaging in a form of Dunning-Kruger effect. Often they aren't self-aware enough to realize that if you have to say you're so smart, it often means you ain't that smart.

This 100%.

The education system was not OK, and has not been for a while. Its main goal is limiting liability, not educating kids.

"You have a presentation on Tuesday at 10. Here's the PowerPoint deck. Don't mess this up for me and I might top you up with another fiver ;)"

Yeah, I have an old SSD in an SSK container and that's where I've banished windows to. As long as GRUB can find the right drive and system partition, it's not hard.

Feel the love of Free Open Source Software.

That's why I put it in quotes. Its sarcasm to us, but sounds legit to the ignorant consumer.

Because the benefit is that we've habituated ourselves to a system where $9.99^plus tax^ is both good advertising, and it means that the vendor passes the tax on to the consumer. As if they can just their up their hands and say "Sorry man, I don't like it either. Here's how much you owe the government." Gas prices all include a tax of 9/10 of 1 cent per gallon for the same reason.

It also likely stems from early on implementation where no one was sure of the vendor actually paid all those taxes after all, so it's a bit of "added transparency" even though it's not really.

Of course, it's 2025, this would be an easy thing to undo, but Americans are creatures of habit as much as anyone else. Try and charge a Boomer $10 even and say tax is included, they will absolutely think you're ripping them off.

A book about this was published last year. "Your Face Belongs to Us" by Kashmir's Hill