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Cake day: January 16th, 2026

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  • Some people are in industries where tipping is possible, others are in industries where it isn’t.

    Since this is Europe and (theoretically at least) everyone is being paid a fair wage for the job they do, tipping would be unfair and should therefore not be encouraged.

    If you live in a third world country where people serving you do not earn a fair wage then that’s a different matter. I’m very glad I don’t live in such a country. But if tipping culture were to become normalised it might lead to such a situation here too.






  • I basically cut Microsoft out in 2001 when I first installed Mandrake Linux, though continued to dual boot until 2006. I had found myself rebooting to Microsoft fairly rarely, so when I had issues with my NTFS partition, I simply didn’t bother to reinstall, and have only ever single booted my desktop since.

    I bought a MacBook around 2005, with Mac OS 10.04 (Tiger). Apple wanted to charge me for upgrades, so once support for that finished (I forget when that was) I put Ubuntu on it as a dual boot. Back then the Unity interface of Ubuntu was very similar to that of MacOS. And with the greater freedom that Linux offered me I then ditched MacOS too.

    From that time the only Microsoft operating system I’ve ever owned was Windows CE on the MediaNav of the two Dacias I owned. I can tell you once I found out they were running Microsoft it was almost a deal breaker 😂






  • Forgive me, I’m new here (and I’m not OP). But I thought the title was actually valid comment, and basically was at least in part what the BBC title was saying but not in so many words.

    I know some groups in “the other place” (which I’m weaning myself off slowly) have a rule that titles have to be the same as that used in the article, but I’ve checked the rules here and that doesn’t seem to be one.