dirtikiti

Snap opinion made by a software dev who thinks the entire world revolves around software development and this dev's workflow.

There's any number of reasons an org would choose teams over slack, or any Microsoft product over an alternative, even your example of the cost shows a clear lack of knowledge of information outside your narrow scope.

How do you know your org is paying the price you found on a website?

You realize there are other vendors people pay infrastructure contracts through who bundle Microsoft products in their contract?

Stay in your lane.

Browsers literally sandbox their own tabs.

And the entire Linux user space is already sandboxed by design. This is why you type sudo.

If os and software developers actually designed with the Linux filesystem in mind, there would be no need for Flatpaks and Snaps and AppImages.

There's a whole directory for user applications and their libraries.

/usr

Keep using it, there's tons of bugs for you to find in Fedora.

My favorite was a system-upgrade that installed broken video drivers, as recently as late 30x releases.

if i were 17, i'd learn a trade.

What part about that is puzzling?

A population 30-40x the size, split out over 50 states, with different laws and regulations, different political governance, different geographical and economic considerations...

Why wasn't Switzerland compared to the rest of Europe?

Comparing the whole of Europe to the whole of the US is a closer comparison.

Not a fair comparison. 30-40x population difference.

I have lived in both Europe and the US. And I have installed fiber internet commercially.

When I lived in Italy, the best internet I could get was DSL, while a few years before, in the US, I had cable internet at more than 3x the speed.

Likewise, there are still rural communities without access to truly high speed internet in the US, as I'm sure there are in Europe.

The big telcos were broken up in the US decades ago. Now you have a few major providers who collude, and a bunch of small regional providers just trying to turn a profit.

The large providers service so many accounts it costs billions to upgrade the infrastructure at their end -- before even rolling out last mile to consumers.

And for the regional providers, its not worth the cost to upgrade both their infrastructure and the last mile infrastructure.

Also, population density is not the same thing in the US as it is in Europe.

US large cities are sprawling. European large cities are not.

It is far less expensive to service a large city in Europe than a large city in the US.

A tattooed, true believer nazi has a Jerusalem Cross tattoo?

Weird, thats like the exact opposite of a nazi.

>>But as the article points out, this is an expected outcome and will be blunted by subsequent tax rate decreases.

the tax rate decrease will be on the multi-million dollar homes.

not on the new property tax valuations of everything else.

I know, personal responsibility is such a vile concept.

Everyone can be so much happier if they can blame everyone else and the system for everything bad in their life.

That's exactly what my single parent did. Took responsibility for being a teenage parent, joined a trade union, paid more for a crappy apartment on the edge of a good school district, and busted their ass everyday to provide.

I don't see what you're arguing here? You're the only one playing a stupid game.

If school choice is a thing, everyone can choose where they send their kid to school... they don't have to pay more for a crappy apartment on the edge of a good school district.

And to top it off, the only poor people this actually affects are poor people who live in an area where there is an actual choice of schools to be made.

Which means there is most likely access to transportation.

I'm a jerk because I've bought them and tried to find a use case for them, but found they weren't as good as other solutions?

You have issues.

I have bought an rpi at every generation. And I still have yet to find an actual use for them.

Everything they do from a compute perspective is just better with a mini pc or old laptop with a mobile spec chip.

Everything they do from a programmability perspective is just better with a microcontroller specific to the task.

I just don't see the actual market position for these things. They were supposed to be a cheap board, but you can't actually buy them cheaply because the vendors upcharge so much.

I would love a VAT tax instead of the never ending stream of taxes we pay on everything else.

Americans are stupid. They see a higher tax on an iPhone they don't need, they will cry about it.

But they pay more at the end of the year on income tax, property tax, car registration, etc., they could care less.

Most Americans don't even look at their pay stub, and are more than happy to overpay their income taxes every paycheck so they get a bigger tax return at the end of the year.

They don't realize that money was theirs to begin with.

They complain about not being able to become wealthy while they give the government an interest free loan, when they could be investing that money and earning on it.