also a big thing was the rapid openings of malls in the 80s and 90s. honestly they opened too many of them then just kind of limped along as it was too hard to close and Sears kinda funded them till their death.

the problem is food cost is more often than not the least expensive cost of a restaurant. especially a fast food restaurant. So giving you a large Fri vs small. is so small for them it’s not even noticeable from their cost. their loss comes from two things the sizes and price difference are only their to get you to buy the one with the beter profit margin. small and medium are only there to make you feel like you got value from buying the large. it cost more for the card stock Fri container than it does for the Fries.

very true the only reason I’m okay with it is the files are standard markdown and there is no database that locks you in. the only thing keeping me with them is features and workflow. if any open source project gets feature parity I would switch tomorrow

you are correct i feel guilty every time I use it. but making my company pay for a license on every job I work on. it’s got one of the best licenses you can get for proprietary software. my only concern is it might go away and can’t last forever like open source can.

tracker-tag works

no judgements but I’m curious what’s the need for the folder to be sorted first that something like folder pinning or tagging doesn’t work for you?

a substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

by definition food is considered a drug, so no one I guess

i mean it will still used for storage

that has more to do with evangelicals and events some catholics got conned by corporate interests in the early 30s in response to what FDR was doing with the new deal and the sweeping socialist thinking going around in churches at that time. read up on James W. Fifield Jr and NAM ( National Association of Manufacturers) you will see the destruction of US churches and the rise of the mega church and the 700 club.

yeah that is a good idea I have almost 1000 hours in satisfactory and have a real problem of telling myself I will go to bed after I finish this production line then I blink and it’s 4am.

satisfactory on my 8th full playthrough and the game is not even 1.0 yet

Honestly that should go for all transactions. someone calls you to fix an issue or pressure you into buying something. Just hang up and call the company back. one thing I have learned from many years of support is the person calling always has power over the person being called. So flip the dynamic. same goes for car sales just walk away. hell go look at cars when you don’t want one and practice just walking away and see how much power you get.

works fine for me

yep by no means are they perfect but they are not hostile and that’s fine by me.

they always leave off that registry change gets reverted on the next update and it’s now a new change you have to do to turn off the new ad showing up. I also don’t need to change my country location to uninstall a built in browser. Also do you think the registry is just something everyone knows how to use. It’s cryptic as hell and I know they are following a guide on some site. At least when i change a config file there are comments above the change most of the time not cryptic dword codes.

I agree but with timeshift im able to be back up and running in 5 mins tops so I take more risks.

honestly I think it’s 95% there and would get that last 4% if you could go to a retail store and just buy one. the perception would be enough to get hardware and software vendors to start supporting it in a very short time. kinda like how cyberpunk has a steam deck present.

Would it be over night? No but real change is never quick. Perception has to change before the change happens. Why do you think MS and other Software vendors pays so much money to PC manufacturers to stay on Windows.

Remember with a windows PC purchase and bloatware. You’re a customer and a product, your desktop is a billboard. So it’s against their interest to give you agency in what OS you use.

The logic I always subscribe to is, issues in Linux can be fixed maybe not by you or me but someone at some point in the future. On a long enough timeline we win. Where as it’s not an issue with Windows, but a business decision to annoy you and thus can never be fixed.

I would ask

how did we survive climate change?

and if we didn’t try to get any details we tried and didn’t work or wasn’t fast enough to try again for a better outcome but realizing I would create a bootstrap paradox I would get really depressed.

Then I would spend the rest of the time. Showing the traveler a good time as my time is much nicer then where they came from and I want to let them enjoy what they can before they goes back.

that looks like a NFC sticker I wonder if they used it for identification. I use stickers like these all the time to program devices around my home.