I was going through my Wal-Mart+ subscription plan that I got for free and I saw their offers. One of which was EMeals, that was a 60-day trial. I thought that this was like Blue Apron or other meal delivery services so I thought I’d take a crack at it and hope that it would get me on a path to eat better.

Turns out, it’s just a meal planner. And it’s absurd to me why and how would anyone pay for something when there are countless and countless recipes and meal planners readily available for free. Who’d the fuck would want to pay for a planner? That’s like paying for a calendar app.

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Operating systems and porn.

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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.

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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.

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Uhhhh you answered your own question. Why pay for an OS when it should either be included, or free Linux.

Therefore it’s surprising when people pay for an OS.

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I use windows. I haven’t paid for a windows key since windows 7 iirc. Windows has been free for years. (I know you pay with your data etc. Good luck convincing average Joe who uses all social media services that this even matters)

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But “included” doesn’t mean free. You still paid for it.

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I’m currently on Emporium. But I have paid for more porn than I’ve stolen. And porn is cheap.

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So many people I know complain about windows having ads, that it’s auto installing bloatware, has annoying checks, forces you to login…

I paid the full price about a decade ago and haven’t been bothered by any of that. And yes, I’ve upgraded to windows 11

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I’ve had the exact same experience. People on this site don’t like when others don’t hate Windows.

I like it because it just works.

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It definitely “just works” alright. And damn do I appreciate that on the machine I like to use to relax

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