Nice to hear that about Poland. In the US people love to have DoorDash deliver them fast food at double the price so they can spend more time consuming entertainment.

I’ve been making bread regularly for years. A 1-lb loaf costs me about 90 cents USD for ingredients and 15 cents to run the oven. “Nice” Safeway bakery loaves that roughly correspond to what I make cost anywhere from $3-$6, and the whole process takes me 10-15 minutes of actual effort (including cleanup). I don’t count rising and baking times because I’m doing other stuff.

Having also consumed a lot of packaged food (I’m not a crusader against it) I would say cooking meals from store-bought ingredients costs around half as much. Home-growing vegetables adds a huge amount more work. I did a garden for 2 years, many years ago - it was more of a fun project. On the scale I did it I never felt the hours of labor paid off dollar-wise. And what with mulch and other things gardening is something you can pretty much spend as much money on as you want lol.

Fun fact: if you go to the deli counter and get them to slice meat for you it’s about half the price of the store-brand deli packs on the shelves, which are the exact same meats, sliced and packaged by the same people. The only difference is you stand there waiting for a minute while they do it instead just grabbing it off the shelf. The high price of even marginal convenience.

Also most people can’t throttle their work hours as needed like that. We cook during nonwork time - free as in both speech and beer.

I figure more like 15 cents to bake a loaf of bread (gas oven, 15 minutes preheat, 30 minutes bake). Maybe another 20 cents if I rise it in the oven. In cold weather running the oven is essentially free, since the heat stays in the house and the furnace runs correspondingly less. In warm weather I just leave the kitchen door open to let the excess heat out.

DIY bread is a real winner. Costs me about $1.05 to make a 1-lb loaf. That includes flour, yeast, salt, and gas to run the oven. An equivalent quality loaf of Safeway bakery bread costs anywhere from 3 to 6x that much. And it’s like 10-12 minutes of actual effort, including cleanup. I also make hoagy-style sandwich loaves, soft dinner rolls and other things. Same basic recipe, just a few minutes more effort to handle the dough differently. I’m totally addicted to fresh bread.

Now when you say “asks”…

Dictators are always afraid of their own people.

That would explain it.

That’s so weird, tons of people use Linux for dev. Do they say why you can’t?

First thing I noticed about this photo is that she’s holding her hair away from the ground while putting her mouth right on it. I’m not sure why but that seems funny to me.

If somebody says it costs $5000/mo, how could they say it in a different way that you would define as “transparent” - do you want receipts?

Nowadays I tend to only donate to projects that have full transparency on what the money is being used for.

If you believe he’s spending $5k/mo to run the server, even if you send him $20 and he blows it on blackjack and hookers, it means he has to spend $20 of his bj/h money on the server. So I don’t really see an issue. Does that make sense?

The expense of running busy servers is too much to expect of anyone. I haven’t even tried to figure out how the math would work but I wonder if the ultimate solution could be more of a BitTorrent architecture where the “server” is a hive of users’ computers all sharing the load? I’m a software developer but have never worked on anything in that area, but since BitTorrent works it certainly seems feasible. Comments?

Don’t dual boot, flatten and rebuild.

“B-but my gaaaaaamez!!!”

oops thanks, fixed.

The 9-10 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 and didn’t bother voting in 2024.

edit: fixed date typo

Came here to say this. Thefuck is the most awesome linux accessory ever created.

Because it works well and is fucking awesome!

Unless Scarlett is right!

I actually thought adding the alien element probably saved it from being a boring movie about ship combat.