Napster got shut down. Kim dotcom was shutdown and sued for everything he had.
But youtube has loads of copyright material. Youtube has ads, but they are easy to bypass. And, as I understand it, the content creators get little to nothing from the ad revenue.

Nice trolling.

Package management seems better. At least for my needs.
Not so much snap this, flatpack that, docker something else.

Nothing is perfect, but FreeBSD makes a better desktop than many people might expect.

You can get a decent phone for about $150. You can get a decent plan for about $25 a month.

That has been my experience. Verizon stores refuse to help. Verizon customer service refuses to help.
My parents used Verizon. When my father died, they would not let my mother cancel his plan.
Verizon is overprices and horrible in every way.

I don't see where the article you cited claims that US has lost 11,000 factory jobs a month.

The article claims that growth is in the manufacturer sector has not been great, but that's about it.

Why study for years, accumulate huge debts, only to be replaced by an offshore working, or a visa worker?

It's a growing problem, and should be mentioned.

I don't html uses or anymore, now it's and . Lots more typing, much less intuitive.

Why should I have to pay for what you like to watch?
Why should republicans have to pay for media that is 100% biased for democrats?

There are enough people in India alone to take every US job, easily.

They will offshore all they can.
If they cannot offshore, they will hire a visa worker to replace you.
It has been estimated that about half of white collar jobs will be replaced by AI.

Is that $100K debt still worth it?

My wife has a membership there. I am not sure why.
We live in a two person household, if we buy ten pounds of onions, or carrots, they will just go bad.
We can never do all of our shopping at Costco. They just don't have everything. Costco's selection is very limited, they just don't carry a lot of things we buy. For example: we cannot get decaffeinated tea, we cannot get regular soy milk (just organic soy beans and filtered water). What do have is only sold in huge quantities.

I suppose Costco works for some people, it's not great for everybody.

JMHO.

IBM owns Red Hat. Linux is used by big corporations far more FreeBSD, or any of the BSDs.

They have to be paid for one way or another.
Florida has no state income tax. So would you rather pay at the toll booth or out of your paycheck?
By charging at the toll booths, tourists pay for much of the road construction.

Whatever works out best for you, remember: nothing is for nothing.