Endymion_Mallorn

Talk to me when I have a proper screen reader on Linux. On days my eyes are bad, I use Windows because I have dspeech and other tools. On days it’s really bad, I just use my iPad.

Because Google wants subtitles hidden behind their server. There’s your answer.

If you’re in the area i am, the place I’m talking about is on the 163 line.

You’re right. My markup % was off. I’m glad I have a computer calculating it at work.

I agree. But I think I sort of mentioned, what I found was that through serendipity, it works out to the packages being pretty accurate to 8 .25lb burgers, aside from the onion, mustard, ketchup, and pickles.

I would make a family meal out of that - in fact, I think I might this weekend. You’re right, time isn’t free. But I’m not going to pay more than double the retail COGS for a sandwich that’s produced on commercial scale and not cooked by hand. If that’s what they need to do in order to keep the lights on, then they need to cut overhead or negotiate more effectively to reduce COGS. But we all know that these are not ‘keep the lights on’ prices. They could cut the price and still make a profit.

If it was a locally owned small business where I believed that my support would be valued, or where they were reinvesting into the local community, I think I’d accept it. Heck, I do accept it. One of my local places serves a $13 burger. I buy it, because I know where they get their beef, and their veggies, and the staff and owners are in my area. Everything but the tax comes back into my local economy. That’s not how McD’s works.

Yup, and that’s just a burger. Mind you, I live in spitting distance of NYC, so I do admittedly have a cost that’s inflated due to high taxes and high minimum wage. But all my other costs were based on my local supermarket that’s within walking distance of the McD’s I used for price reference. If I’d used the Walmart that’s in the same lot, it’d be even more extreme.

I mean, I’m an American. I have a pro-American sentiment when it comes to food and drink.

I also happen to have an anti-overpriced-crap sentiment when it comes to the things I eat and drink.

In my area, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is $10.50. Now, I may not compare exact apples-to-apples here, but let’s go for it.

From my local supermarket, I can get 20 1/4lb. patties for $25 - that’s the premade patties, not from the butcher section. That means not only can I decide how well-done I like my burger, I can season it as I choose. And I have confidence in my local supermarket that when they put on the side of the box “Ingredients:80% Lean, 20% Fat Ground Beef”, they mean it. That makes each patty $1.25.

Now, if I want to buy the exact same ground beef, but not formed in patties, that’s $3.25/lb (usually in 2-3 lb. packs, but I can ask the butcher and get a custom size) - so now we’re down to $0.81 for the patty.

The rolls, I can get store brand. 8 for $1.50. That’s $0.19 cents a roll. That means that if I buy my own ground beef, I’ve now spent exactly $1 on a quarter pound burger. So let’s talk toppings.

The cheese first - one slice of American on theirs; I would go a different way, but stick to them. Springing for a little extra, $3.59 a pack for Borden Melts cheese, 16 slices. $0.22 per slice. Our burger is now at $1.22 COGS, and I have the makings for 7 more in buns and probably that in beef, plus I could make each burger with 2 slices of cheese, so each burger is $1.44 so far.

Onions, I can get for $1.50/lb (or less!), and each onion is less than that. But I definitely have enough to do a burger and meal plan - let’s say an ounce, about $0.10. Mustard, I’m not going to factor in the cost, because it’s so little as to be a joke. Buying a jar of good mustard can last you a year or more. Ketchup I’ll say the same for. It can last a long time and the amount per burger is negligible. So let’s be generous and say $0.10 each. Pickles can be more expensive if you get good ones, but store brand we’re talking $0.16 per ounce (with brine), and you’re not putting on a full ounce of pickle. So in toppings, we’re adding ~$0.50 value.

Total cost of the burger is around $2.00 at retail, not at scale; about $3 if you want premade patties. Sure, there are costs to be amortized like rent and tax and cooking - and the biggest cost, labor. But each individual burger shouldn’t be socked with an 80+% markup from COGS, and taste worse than the home-made version.

Why should I buy from McDonald’s ever again?

Now I want everything science related written in conspiracy voice. Then again, with the current US government, that’s how our leaders read them anyway.

Then why should it allow me to save different expressions of the same meaning ever? If it’s going to let me search for it case-insensitive, just head the matter off at the pass and save it that way. Either that, or automatically create link files for every case permutation to the same folder as soon as the file exists.

I did, because they’re different ways of expressing the same meaning. They all mean (apologies for borrowing mathematical notation for linguistic applications) |file|. I don’t care what the expression of a thing is, I care about meaning. And as a result, when I save a file and then search to recall it, it should not matter what case it’s in - only for the meaning to match. The state of my shift or capslock should be totally immaterial.

Ah, one more reason for me to despise NTFS.

Good for him. I hate case-sensitivity, and it’s what keeps me going back to DOS & Windows. FILE, File, file, and FilE should all be the same thing at all times.

God’s final temple on Earth,

Honestly, I think the biggest question with FreeDOS nowadays is whether you want to use FreeDOS or DOSBox-X. That’s been my situation for a while now, and I go back and forth.

Oh geez, I never realized how deep into the rabbit hole I go. But for me FreeDOS & ReactOS are just because… I was there when they were first relevant. I started with FreeDOS because of the DR-DOS scandal. I’ve never really gotten I2P to work. TempleOS is still ambitious. And I actually jumped on here because I got annoyed that I can’t use Lynx, only Links (I’m on Linux Mint).

I only touched Plan 9 From Bell Labs when I was in or around Lucent.

Tails USB should be in my go bag with a machine that has no HDD, XMPP/Jabber - don’t use it anymore because everybody left it for other things.

And yeah… from there up, I have pieces too.

Poor Ms. Oldbag.

And specifically SGI UNIX, right?

They survive - even when the lawyers and programmers don’t.

The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That’s what happened.

I like Mint. It looks like Windows, runs the software I want (including a lot of what I use on Windows). To me, the best thing an OS can ever do is stay out of my way. If it has any learning curve between me and doing the things I need and want to do, it’s a bad OS for my needs,