Dempf

It goes without saying that the U.S. tax system is terrible.

That said, owing some money at filing time is more efficient for you. If you are owed a refund, it means that you are getting paid back an interest-free loan that you offered to the government for the year. Offering that loan to Uncle Sam gives you zero benefit. If you want to save the money for a big purchase, it's better off sitting in a interest-earning savings account, at the very least.

On the other hand, if you owe money at filing time, it means the government offered you an interest-free loan. You were able to take advantage of it throughout the year, and ideally put that money to good use. Now you have to pay it back, but at least you don't have to pay interest on it.

The later scenario is part of why underpayment penalties exist.

Of course the whole system is pretty terrible especially as knowing the number at filing time requires reading a damn horoscope or something. But with a bit of savvy and planning, you can end up with a better outcome.

By the way, if you want something at a cheaper price point but still high quality for your son, I've been buying from these guys:

https://www.stirlingsoap.com/collections/eau-de-toilettes

I don't think they have anything that smells like Chanel No. 5, and most of the scents are more masculine. But a few are feminine (duchess, queen of hearts, evie, sweet stuff, witchy woman). Some of their scents are "inspired by" (basically copies of) more well known and expensive scents.

My personal favorite is Haverford, named after the Parks and Rec character.

I am seriously not into perfume/cologne at all, and I'm sure someone more knowledgeable would have better suggestions. But thought I'd throw in my 2c. Especially since the stuff that Sterling scents are inspired by is often 5x or 10x the price.

I'm sure I've already used every bit of that RAM over the years. ZFS loves to use all the memory I throw at it. If there's any killer virus hiding in the ones and zeros....I guess I already have it.

By coincidence, I inherited the RAM and CPU from the work computer of a guy who later shot up my workplace. Luckily he was the only one killed in the shooting. I still use the kit from the shooter to run my home server.

I looked and found 6 unclaimed funds for my brother and my parents in the state I'm originally from. They were all under $100. Probably won't know exact $ until they make a claim. The types of funds include: insurance premium refunds, customer overpayments from banks, a refund from an ISP, and a trust liquidation.

I had one die in my home server. Hadn't gotten around to any backups or redundancy yet because it was "just" for configs and metadata for media apps. Took me like 5-10 hours to rebuild the config though which was annoying. Would take me much longer now if it happened again. I no longer have that SSD as a single point of failure in my system.

Some places in mountain towns the avalanche danger can rise to the level that authorities declare it illegal to leave any building, and violators will be arrested. It's called an "interlodge". Basically it's saying "it's so dangerous outside that we don't want to have to mobilize search and rescue just because your dumb ass couldn't follow the rules". Interlodges can potentially last for days.

Technology Connections wants to know your location.

Based admin(s).

https://github.com/VR-25/acc

I see. The word lie is strong, and it's entirely within the realm of possibility that you never had any issues arise with your install. I see your point, and apologize for perhaps a bit of grandstanding on my behalf. I was more focused on the pros/cons of different types of distros, and missed the reason why you were acting defensively.

I feel this kind of conversation still isn't super helpful though (for either of you). I mean it clearly can be true that one person (or one chunk of the community) has no issues, while another person (and maybe another good chunk of the community) does have issues. Though perhaps in getting involved, I haven't really helped either.

I've had my own issues with two different laptops over the years, and in that time I've seen multiple packaging/dependency issues hit a majority of Arch users. My own issues are often caused by bugs on the bleeding edge that users on a non-rolling distro dodge altogether. For me these have mostly been easy to resolve, but it's a much different experience compared with "stable" distros, where similar changes that require manual intervention (ideally) happen at a predictable cadence, and are well-documented in release notes.

I still strongly prefer Arch, as I've hit showstoppers and annoyances with "stable" distros as well. I guess I'm saying I don't really understand your responses, and why you seem so critical of user anecdotes in this space, when your original comment was a (perfectly fine) anecdote about how everything's working for you. That's great! But we can also point to many examples caused directly by bugs or dependency issues that only crop up in a rolling release. Taking all these data together, good and bad, pros and cons, working and not working, can help us learn and form a more complete picture of reality.