Paying 80 for a product that is worth 100 and have ads is standard practice nowadays, to the point that not doing this puts you in competitive disadvantage. You are than asked to pay the remaining 20 or put up with ads.
You see this in every lemmy discussion about smart TVs. People complain that TVs have ads and there's always someone that suggest getting a "dumb" TV but complain that they are more expensive. It's almost like ads subsidize the purchase price or something...
And if you wear a mask it even free!
People weren't willing to pay with money. Usually every tech product with ads has an "insert coin to remove" option. If you don't insert coin, advertisers will.
Over here in the EU we still need gas and oil. I'd much rather import it from Canada than from Qatar or some other middle eastern dictatorship.
I would change "not always" to "practically never". Every e-commerce site I have ever used warns you that you are responsible for import duties if shipped internationally.
It writes itself? Is that why it has a spelling error?
I have a Ricoh that doesn't give me any problems, works out of the box with Linux pcl6 drivers. Bought a third party toner cartridge like 8 years ago, still using it today. It's an old model, but worth checking newer ones.
Ask Richard Stallman ;)
A stalinist comic about freedom of the press. Do you have one about the futility of mustaches, too?
Whoever posts on reddit can copy paste to other platforms, if they are to lazy to use a software that consolidates it for them.
For God's sake, it's not even all caps in 45 degree angle...
I feel the same. Find it annoying when in the US the waitress introduces herself, asks where I'm form, etc. Do you work for a diner or the CIA? Just bring me a steak with fries, medium rare, please and thank you.