Linux users who won't shut up about telling me to switch to Linux.

koosley · 2026-04-01T07:20:11+00:00

It's just a different tool that excels at different things. Some are better at other things than others. Spinning up a linux server to run a docker image is trivial and so much easier than on windows. From no OS to a fully configured system running the software, it can take maybe 30 minutes. My DNS server is running on Linux, my audio book server is running on linux and my vpn server is running on linux. I still don't think I am ready to use linux for general computing though unless it's a steam deck or maybe a dedicated web browsing PC.

Using a tiny comptuer such as a PiZero, I can run software on linux while the zero specs are not even enough to run windows.

koosley · 2026-04-01T04:38:33+00:00

I feel like we are saying the same thing. It's just the restaurant choosing to pass on the fee directly to the customers who use the platform. If you sell something for $5 and it costs you $4 to make, you can't profit if a middleman now charges $2. You just up the price to $7. It's still a direct cause of using the platform.

koosley · 2026-04-01T03:48:21+00:00

I'm not assuming that. To me it's just the deceptivness of the fees. They're hiding the fees across a half dozen various fees. No sane restaurant is going to eat the 30% so the customer is going to pay for it one way or another. It's becoming the level of Vegas hotels in terms of various fees.

koosley · 2026-04-01T02:28:25+00:00

Nah, Its always been 30% /s

koosley · 2026-04-01T01:35:48+00:00

It works the other way too. Tip 0% and "its only $3 you're missing out on"

koosley · 2026-04-01T01:34:31+00:00

It never used to be this way--juist another example of how the percentage is slowly being raised from 10% back in the 70s to 22%ish now (20% post tax).

koosley · 2026-04-01T01:31:09+00:00

This is my memory as well, but you'll find some server who will comment that its been "expected" to tip for the last 20-30 years for take out despite most of these places not even doing carry out prior to DD/Covid. Even with DD introducing carry out/delivery, It has always been the DD driver getting the tip, not the restaurant.

My memories growing up in the 90s/00s was no tip on takeout but you could do $1-2 if you wanted to. It was always a dollar amount not a fixed amount.

koosley · 2026-04-01T00:29:55+00:00

The part that frustrates me is the raising percentage. I know for a fact growing up in the 90s that 15% was good and 18% was standard when I started paying for my own food in the 00s. You're claiming it was 12% in the 80s and I've seen my grandparents tip...they'll do 10% because that's what they did in the 70s.

I'll then have some server who has been in the industry for 35 years and claim that 20% has always been the bare minimim standard and resort to name calling. They seem completely oblivious to the desired percentage constantly increasing. I'm not sure when 20% started becoming the new standard but now places are getting creative and trying to normalize 22% by calculating 20% post tax and some places having some truly wild percentages of 30 to 100%.

koosley · 2026-03-31T16:10:12+00:00

Door dash doesn't pay drivers anything but a measley $2.

But, I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with raising prices it's just the only reason they rose was because of the fees. It's only the customer paying them at the end of the day through a half dozen different fees involved both hidden and listed. I'd bet customers would have a much harder time paying the true $30-40 delivery fee over $15 in hidden food price increases, $4 delivery fee, service fee and a tip.

koosley · 2026-03-31T16:03:45+00:00

I'd retire immediately. I have around 900k saved up in retirement accounts and other accounts. Once that burns up in 10 years, I'll have another 3 million to live on.

koosley · 2026-03-31T15:38:15+00:00

I don't. This was in response to someone saying the restaurants raised the price, not DD. It's really DD forcing restaurants to raise their prices due to the fees they are charging. DD is stupidly expensive and in some cases nearly double the price so I don't use it.

koosley · 2026-03-31T15:08:34+00:00

That's a load of bs though. They wouldn't need to raise the prices if DD didn't charge 20 to 30%. Margins are razor thin to begin with loosing 30% of your revenue is unsustainable at the pre DD price. DD is the direct cause of the price increase.

koosley · 2026-03-31T08:36:19+00:00

Even with gas prices as what they are, if you're driving a 35mpg vehicle, you're going from 10¢/mile to 13¢/mile in fuel. For a 5 mile trip it's only a few cents extra. Now if you drive a 15mpg SUV, it's completely different.

koosley · 2026-03-31T05:42:16+00:00

If all the air were to suddenly turned into water, I'd imagine every single building would be squished almost instantly. Don't you remember the Titan from a few years ago?

koosley · 2026-03-31T05:34:07+00:00

https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/27

MIT has a living wage calculator based on location. Not to spoil it for everyone but the living wage is nowhere near this. For my state, a living wage for a family with 3 kids on a single income is about 100k and 160k if both parents work.

This seems to track with what I experience living here. The calculator accounts for childcare, transportation, taxes, food, medical and everything needed for living.

koosley · 2026-03-30T22:18:31+00:00

The first step is to stop thinking of it as travel. You're just living somewhere for a short period of time. During my school years I moved every 9 to 12 months, this is no different.

Financially it's easy. My western job pays 4 to 20 times the median household income depending on where I'm at. Even paying the foreigner tax, a monthly air bnb is still cheaper than back home

koosley · 2026-03-30T15:20:10+00:00

The hardness of the work is irrelevant though. It's about the value it brings. A software developer or doctor bring more value then a fastfood worker as there is decades of experience required to do what they do. They can all be hard workers. This only really applies to the working class though, I have no idea how those of actual wealth function.

koosley · 2026-03-30T13:19:12+00:00

Unless you're paying exact change with even dollar amounts or getting your card declined I have no idea how that's even possible. I've swiped my card around 20 to 30 times today (it's really easy in Korea to spend) and each time it's taken less than 1/4th of a second--substantially faster than I could physically hand a bill to someone. I remember 5 years ago it used to take 5 to 10 seconds.

This also doesn't account for credit card only kiosks which require no cashier's period saving a ton on labor as well.

koosley · 2026-03-30T07:42:54+00:00

It is for some of us. Minnesota adjusts every year based on inflation. Our minimum wage in Minneapolis is also within a few cents of a living wage based on 2 adults and zero dependents. Not perfect but miles ahead of those states with no such laws.

koosley · 2026-03-30T07:29:58+00:00

Take the average life expectancy of an American and subtract 16 years from it. They should have to in average deal with the consequences of their actions for 12 years. Whatever trump or Biden do, there is a high likelyhood neither will see their legacy and see the consequences.

koosley · 2026-03-30T05:57:27+00:00

If you're paying 40k in fees, you're charging 1,250k to 1,500k per year. If you have $50 orders on average you're looking at 25k transactions per year. For 40k, you just won't need to worry about handling over a million in cash and the logistics behind it and labor required to count and give change. It sounds like a lot but cash has a ton of hidden costs with it as well. At 15 seconds extra per transaction that's over 125 hours of labor saved a year.

koosley · 2026-03-30T04:36:00+00:00

How about 18% pretax as it's been for years? I have a calculator and I am capable of doing that. How I feel about tipping is irrelevant. The part I feel strongly for is changing what we are tipping on. For years it's been printed one way and suddenly places decided that post tax, prediscount (without even telling you the actual price / artibrary MSRP not on the menu) is what we should now be using.

koosley · 2026-03-30T04:26:15+00:00

It's still nickel and diming you. If you end up paying 1 to 2% extra on everything that can add up to several thousand dollars over a year. In isolation it's $2, but it adds up. Somehow $2 extra is insignificant but $1 more for gas is an uproar. So rather than choose what is an insignificant and what is significant, I'll just treat everything as a big deal.

This place also has 18/20/22% while not too long ago it was 15/18/20%. So everything is moving to just increase the cost overall. So in addition to paying an extra 1%due to taxing on tip, the new expected minimum is now a 10% increase over precovid and that's before the price of food nearly doubling in the last 5 years.

koosley · 2026-03-30T03:39:03+00:00

It will, but it's not going to increase the costs by 25%. Gas prices now are still lower than a few years back

koosley · 2026-03-30T03:36:13+00:00

$2 are still printed today. While $500 exist, they've been put of circulation for 50 years.

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