what also needs to show is individual incomes.

I would also include other very significant income costs
Health Insurance
Auto Insurance
Phone/Internet Bills
Electric Bills (not just kw/h)
Gasoline
A few more core food items Chicken, Beef, Bread, Broccoli
cost of media (netflix was enough, not it's not and it went up in price too)
Taxes (mine went up 3+ times since then, which was % base before so it really hurts)
And, last but most important is wages!

because websites are hard and apparently passe... so they turned to the worst wordpress platform there is.

GOD! I hate discord, but that's where users are, and have been trying to nudge people to matrix, which is still a pile of crap but at least allows open communication.

I miss icq/aim/yahoo messenger.(oh the days of using everybody and pidgeon!!) I miss being able top send files to friends. (and no, things could work even when both parties nat'ed) and things can still be open and secure even if something has to sit between on occasion to get 2 nat'ed p2p devices to work.

Examples: torrents work between nat'ed people, so did starcraft/broodwars (both where everyone connects to everyone)

and the phone required nonsense, grrrrr!! This Internet feels worse than AOL in the 90's!

I've ran into this, sucks so bad, I have to give in to this kind of crap for kids to play w/ their friends otherwise they get left out of friendships.

All this "security" isn't anything other than forced obsolescence. (in all its forms, from phones, etc)

95/98 where good. NT was great. xp, 2000, 2003 was good. windows 7 had some reason but was largely good. windows 8 trash, windows 10, well not as bad as 8, and somehow upgrading to it was at least not as bad as 11..... and 11 was kind of better than 8. Oh yea, vista was garbage.

But 10, and 11 forced MS online only accounts and onedrive and all the spyware and store front crap.... If the Gov was only as corrupt as they where in 90s they would have been taking to cort a dozen times over.

its not free.

Granted sometimes it makes sense to staywith them since there is no competition and they all rape you hard but still those prepaids are a lot cheaper, especially when you include they all charge like $5-10 per line/month for the privilege of not hooking your bank account.

If it was up to me, I wouldnt even have a f**** cell phone. , at least not a plan. Keep mine / the keyboard and replaceable ssd and battery just so I can do maps and wifi usage.

How else are you suppose to buy clothing at costco?

You apparently haven't met very many women, like my wife who uses her space heater even in june/july when I have to hide it from her....

There is still tons and tons of captchas going on. Sure, some of those have been replaced with doing a checkbox, but I am seeing captchas as a whole more now than say 5 years ago.

sure, but they could have still allowed it to work, they chose to make it stop working.

No new features, or bug fixes fine. But to remove windows 7 games from running on windows 7. (or even win xp games)

I swear I have dues ex working on my rig..... I'll have to go double check but I recall doing it somewhat recent...

(sometimes i have to use older wine installs, and or lutris for some games)

What really bothers me, is trying to get older games ported to say ubuntu 10.x or 16.x(from gog), that don't work anymore, or at least wont without a lot of work.

really, only 1? I've run into many "gold" games that should be bronze at best (with pages of people saying how bad it runs in linux), or other more minor annoyances like hell-divers2 not keeping my mouse in the window. Or v-rising that doesnt scale the window right.

Most games I've had to do some tweaks. Some of them having to do with the anti cheat or launcher workaround. Even so much as getting temp banned by attempting to launch the game in linux...(vermintide 2 or was that back4blood....)

but when it comes to using the proton website to fix or optimize things, the suggestions are so random its not really helpful.

But yes, it's amazing how much the games do work under win(when you remove distro wine/mesa/etc and install latest stables) or proton. When steam stops supporting win10 like they F* overed win7, then my kids PC's will have mint xfce or possible popos or Manjaro Linux. Will let the kids pic I suppose.

Just because someone may have some overlapping symptoms or behaviors doesn't mean its the same thing but less.

You have a highly social person who diagnose as autism because they get fixated on things, big woopie. That's completely different from those who are broken socially IMHO the base core of autism is they lack the ability to communicate mostly non verbal cues. Yet those social butterflies who excel at it, and always have as a normal person, get classified as autistic to the point where those who have real autism (high or low) get drowned out.

So sick of hearing people claim autism over fixation on a topic or some such. Yet they perform like an actor all without spending years of training/counseling to pretend to be human let alone make eye contact.

I'm also so sick of all the parents with puzzle bumper stickers, they don't accept autism. their kid is their autistic little "pet" that they show the world how good of parents they are. I've seen countless people who "love" their autistic kid(in most cases the kid really is), but just give him a screen to be alone in the corner, yet most of those could be nurtured into a one who wouldn't be reliant on them or even make more money by them

Sorry, guess I let the rant take over

I would love to get rid of my gas range/oven, but $$, and even would love induction, but more $$$$, and I would have to replace all but 1 of my cookware, I don't think even my stainless set, which doesn't attract a magnet.

Oh, and I have to open windows as my microwave above doesn't vent to outside. Wonder how much my plans and merv 12 filters help...

Ever since gnome 3 they been saying FU to the users, no biggie, I went with mate and xfce. But then they removed the ability of GTK to change desktop colors to force the other desktops based off it to suck too. So now I hate gnome because they forced the better desktop GUIs to accept their bad UI elements. (I can make a list of other things I hate that they've done)

No, I'm not bitter or anything....