Everyone should follow the tipping guidelines from the olden days of when I was a child (80’s). I was taught that you tip your server, your barber/stylist, your driver (taxi/delivery) and the bell boy/valet. For the most part this still works today.

• 10% meh
• 15% good
• 20% exceptional
• Bell boy / valet $5 flat rate

Imagine if someone fucked up the code and this worked.

Good thing I am a patient gamer.

Absolutely. Enterprise license and MSDN was expensive and a pain in the ass. Once we dropped support for Microsoft as a whole and transitioned to Google Apps (early adopters) everything became easy. OSX never broke, although the hardware could be problematic at times. The main reason most of us started transitioning to Linux from Mac was Apple’s hardware choices. That said, I have a MBP M3 Max for music and graphics and that Apple silicone is absolutely beastly.

All of our laptops are either Mac or Linux. Eight or ten years ago it was all Mac but now it’s mostly Linux. Ultimately, clients that have closed Windows ecosystems always provide us with laptops or a jump station to connect to. So if they are going to do that anyway, there was no need for us to Windows internally.

This is Lemmy after all.

LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is a wonderful self-hosting platform.

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

…the French, in principle, rarely distinguish between fact and impression.

The author comes out swinging and still manages to bore quickly.

Smells just like the Brexit gamble.

The movie was 27 years ago.

Bro, what did Millenials ever do to you to deserve such violence?

Dear lord, no. That is not at all true. I am 51 and when I was a kid, the wreck of the Titanic hadn’t been found yet. People were still fascinated. I remeber watching a movie called Raise The Titanic, which in turn was based on a best selling book. Why do you think James Cameron was obsessed with the Titanic?

Yes, we are that starved for kindness.

You fully missed the point. If you read comments around credit cards you’ll see that most people don’t understand the impact of credit cards on their ability to borrow. Yes, if you do not need five cards or $25,000 credit limit (or both), then you should absolutely start closing cards and reducing limits. People don’t understand that. They go buy a car and the loan rate is through the roof. They think that is how it is and never imagine that the rate might have been triggered by the three unused credit cards.

IMHO, you should always have one credit card with a limit just slightly higher than your monthly burn rate. You should use it instead of debit cards, and you should pay it off in full, automatically, every month well before it is due. Only one credit card. Again, just my opinion.

I’m pretty sure Biden didn’t beat Medicare.

Biden pulled a Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Instead of declaring that he would not run for reelection early on, we now find ourselves in a situation where the end of American democracy is not only possible but probable.

EDIT: Downvote away but if you think a Trump win isn’t the end of American democracy, then you are delusional.

You can only decrease what you owe on a loan but a credit card is an open line of credit that you can max out at any time. Because of this, the entire credit line counts against you when evaluating your debt. If you have any questions, ask your local bank manager or financial advisor.

EDIT: By the way, most people also believe that only the outstanding balance is counted.

If you have a credit card with a $25,000 limit, that limit counts against your total even if you are not using it. For example, if it is determined that you can sustain mortgage debt of a maximum of $400,000 at current interest rates, you will not qualify for that amount because you also have an open credit card with an available balance of $25,000 at a significantly higher interest rate.

EDIT: You can only decrease what you owe on a loan but a credit card is an open line of credit that you can max out at any time. Because of this, the entire credit line counts against you when evaluating your debt.