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It's not that odd that they have a preference, even if it costs them. My work provides tea bags and milk, but I bring my own because I like them more.

So at my work the coffee is shit because it’s a fully automatic coffee machine and it is also not properly cleaned. I usually make my own at home and bring a thermos.

Really depends on the workplace. I will not drink coffee and I'm no longer drinking hot chocolate even from my work. Mainly because a lot of my co-workers are slobs and everything is unsanitized. I had just witnessed last night, someone from day maintenance, had their gloves still on (presumably from touch dirty trash bins, scrubbing toilets .etc) just go about touching some things before realizing he needed them off.

And I ended up vomiting last sunday because nobody checks expiration dates on what we have and I ended up drinking hot chocolate that might've been expired. So, it depends on the workplace.

Inertia?
Or is there some local channel that they like that doesn't have a youtube presence?

How technical is your dad?

Also honestly. Sometimes it's a lot nicer to just push a button and have something come on.

One of the main reasons I use Plex is their random feature. "Wanna watch a syndicated episodic show and don't care which ep? Press random" vs other streaming services you have to actually choose an episode.

Not every country has safe tap water

When you put tap water in a bottle and put it in the freezer, so you'd have a cold bottle of water for an entire summer day, the water from the tap tastes "saltier" for some reason, while bottled "spring" water doesn't. The "saltier" taste is kinda unpleasant 🤷‍♂️

Also my city has some chemical spill into the river where the city gets the water supply from, they gave out a emergency alert very late, and the city wasn't really transparent about that whole ordeal, some people in my city are already doubting the safety of the tap water, reminds me of Flint, Michigan, so I kinda just don't like the tap water 😖

I know this sub, and basically most of Lemmy, are pro Linux. But honestly? It's not as good as Windows and macos for everyday folk. We are kidding ourselves.

It CAN do anything they can, but it's way too hard, and you might have to code your own drivers for some of it.

You pay for it to just work, and that's why I 100% get why you pay for an OS.

Note: I don't think anyone feel like they even pay for their OS, if it's not enterprise. It's preinstalled, nobody thinks further than that.

Small bits of code can be made and maintained as a hobby or a passion project, but larger things begin to require money. Although a lot of FOSS is maintained by volunteers, money still has its role in the equation.

Free porn tends to be full of abuse towards its actors. Not that paid porn is automatically ethical but there are definitely indie options where no one is being coerced into performing sexual acts they're not comfortable with. Also if you have a niche fetish sometimes the only options are paywalled.

How is it surprising people pay for operating systems? The vast majority of computers sold are bundled with an operating system license, and most people just use what came with the computer.

Where can you get free water? Unless you have a well or something.

Most countries don't have tax software.

They have a website usually. A free one, from the government. That calculates their taxes for them. You just have to check if it is correct from your side.

It's funny that the IRS has now been offering their own tax-free service. Intuit thought they could strong-arm people but even the IRS thought "no bruh, you're crazy".

I just never saw the appeal of paying for tax software/services, well maybe I can see it in services because there's still a lot of people that have trouble with filing taxes and they may be in unique tax situations that they don't understand.

But Tax Software makes it stupid easy to understand so it should not be something we pay for.

I agree for the big ones, but we have a local one I've subscribed to a few times, for a couple months at a time.

They pull all the ingredients from local farms, do local delivery or pickup at farmer's markets, and they're minimal on packaging, and they reuse the bags and ice packs. I haven't done it in a while but it was pretty nice and it was helpful to break out of the routine of the same meals week in and out.

I default to piracy too, but I'm guessing you don't listen to a lot of new music. The thing a music service offers isn't just access, it's discoverability. It didn't replace my FLAC collection, it expanded it. What it replaced was listening to the radio to find new stuff.

For video I'm more with you. I'm happy to rely on word of mouth. Especially since the streaming services drop movies all the time and discriminate against watching in a browser. Getting a good rip means you can watch it anywhere, anytime, and not have to worry about it disappearing.

Not everyone has access to libraries. However anyone with internet access and a device capable of reading ebooks can read for free with libgen, zlib, and sci hub.

I like owning my own stuff.
By that proxy you could also just rent your home instead of owning a living space.