I've noticed Buffalo Wild Wings now has a 99 cent "takeout fee" for exactly this.

TIPS as you posted it is actually a backronym. Something clever made up after the fact.

From snopes:

Tip is an old word, and it has nothing to do with either acronyms or the act of attempting to influence quality of service. Although the word has many meanings, both as a verb and as a noun, the use of the term as it applies to monetary rewards to servants dates to the 1700s. It first appeared in this context as a verb ("Then I, Sir, tips me the Verger with half a Crown" from the 1706 George Farquhar play The Beaux Stratagem) and was first recorded as a noun in 1755. However, the use of tip to describe the act of giving something to another (where that list of possible 'somethings' could include small sums of money, intelligence on horse races, or the latest silly joke) goes back to 1610. Tip slipped into the language as underworld slang, with the verb 'to tip' (meaning 'to give to or share with') being used by shady characters as part of the then-current argot of petty criminals.

I gave up on cloud providers and just rolled my own with a nas.

The consumer friendly *NIX is macOS.

Me too, although I do pop in occasionally anyway.

Of course this means the reverse is true as well. Everything we would sell to an euro denominated country would be more expensive in your example. Slowing our sales.

Agreed. I had to install Gnome extensions on Fedora just to get a stupid minimize/maximize button in a window.

If it were COBOL it'd be DB2

I recently dove back in after a few years of being dismissed with problems (on the desktop anyway, my rpi server has been flawlessly running headless). Tried out Fedora 36. No windows style "start menu" , no Mac style dock, no minimize button on a window (apparently that's super-H I found after some googling), and no way to change all these decisions made for me at first glance. No way to customize any of this in the settings panel. You were going to use the super key and type the app name and like it! or use a mobile phone style app grid! (yuck)

Did a whole bunch of googling and digging around and installing Gnome tweaks from the command line. I've got it mostly working the way I want it now. Added a dock and the minimize button back. It still starts up to making me choose a workspace instead of going back to my last used one. Haven't figured that one out yet. But there's no way I would have expected anyone non-technical to do all this leg work just to get a functioning desktop they are accustomed to.

Actually, they do this whenever beef prices skyrocket and pork prices fall at the same time. It lets them offset costs.

Kill it with fire before it spreads.

I used to play endless hours of Minotaur from Bungie on my LCII using a dialup connection with my buddy. I still miss that game.

68k.news and frogfind.com are a great way for a vintage machine to surf a lot of the modern web.

I put 11 years and 200k miles on my Highlander before trading it in (basically the same as the RX series of the time - just not as nice on the inside). Didn't have any issues the whole time. Was running like a champ when I got something new.

Apple already made a social media app and failed. See: Ping.