Itâ(TM)s definitely about the law requiring pricing to show the final price. I get it that tax rates are variable based on locality in the US, even within a state or a city. Thereâ(TM)s much less variability here in the UK (VAT is the same rate everywhere and only varies if certain goods are deemed worthy of a discount). No reason why taxed and tax free prices canâ(TM)t both be shown in the US. This is also common in some places here, especially where businesses will be buying items with a VAT exemption.

The only time I come in contact with Edge is in my Windows VMs or remote servers and I want to download something directly in to the VM on to the server, or I accidentally click on some Microsoft crap that opens the default browser. My annoyances:

• * It eventually forgets what my open tabs were from the last session. It does this frequently. I have tabs in Safari I've had open for for years, and that's the way I like. You fail Microsoft.
• * Configuring Edge is a headache. Default choices are shit and changing that involves going through too many steps.
• * Whatever the browser core, for decades now, Microsoft defaults to a busy noisy page. Their product manager must have been introduced to browsers in the late '90s when everybody had to have a portal. Most of my Windows access is to remote servers, so the last thing I want is it opening an animated page that kills the performance of the remote connection. Sure, it's not as bad as it was 20 years ago when latency was higher and bandwidth was lower, but still annoys the shit of me. Just give me a minimal page by default.
• * It's not even an independent product anymore. Using it means supporting Google. No thanks.

They couldn't make their browser successful when they developed it in-house. They had to make and cuts opted to wrap somebody else's browser, and even now, that can't make that successful.

Good luck getting FFmpeg running on a console from 1996!

Actually, at Demuxed 2025 recently, somebody did make a presentation detailing how they got a Sega Genesis (Megadrive) to stream and playback video. What an awesome hack!! Itâ(TM)s here: https://github.com/joeyparrish...

FFmpeg, written primarily in assembly language

Not even close. 90% C, 8% assembly, at least according to GitHub.

The Air Passenger Duty tax is significantly more expensive: https://www.gov.uk/government/...

If society doesnâ(TM)t want this, they should pay more taxes and hire more police and spend on other schemes to provide more opportunities and education, etc. Doing it through the back door and hiding the cost in the price of your groceries is piecemeal and less effective.

Getting your children to do things around the house and garden or taking them to a firing range has nothing to do with home schooling and can be done by any parent anyway. The fact that you mentioned "likeminded parents" sounds more like indoctrination.

Theyâ(TM)re not really 24, 30 or 60. Theyâ(TM)re stupid fractional rates like 30000/1001. I wish NTSC fractional frame rates would die, along with interlacing.

LOL. Thanks for the witty reply; I wish /. would let me just react like every other modern app or site.

Iâ(TM)ve never had a vacuum that lasts for such a short period of time. My current one (a Dyson) has been going 14 years and no reason to believe it will die anyone soon. I got rid of the 12 year old Hoover I had before only because I moved country and it wouldnâ(TM)t work with 220V. What is your wife doing to break so many vacuums, or are they just cheap crap that fails frequently? Youâ(TM)ve spent way more on vacuums than I have.

Here you go;
https://youtube.com/shorts/MbQ...

Apple arenâ(TM)t leaching off OSM; they pay TomTom plenty for maps.

Maybe it's a case of the experienced developers have retired or been replaced for being too expensive, and the new generation doesn't have the knowledge or experience and are having to learn it all again the hard way.

I remember well when the original Halo was released and the hype around it. I grew up on Wolf3D, Doom, Doom II, Quake II and Quake III. I completed Halo in under a week when it was first released and was just left thinking: WTF was that? Waste of money. Each to their own, eh?

Why would you drink cider if you want sparkling wine? If your criteria is that you want a yellow drink with bubbles, fine, but that also doesnâ(TM)t sound like your average champagne drinker either.

Itâ(TM)s like expecting somebody who wants a BMW will be happy with a Ford instead. Theyâ(TM)re more likely to just delay the purchase of the Beamer until they can afford it, and also have less money to spend in the local economy.