Dollar Tree.

It used to have been an unreal experience witnessing the existence of these stores when they came out. Everything for a $1. No joke. The quality of some things have had corners cut and the quantity might’ve been laughable, but there was a good solid purpose for these stores.

And then I started seeing the signs after a few good solid years of shopping there. The first sign was how they stopped selling eggs. This was before the Bird Flu. They stopped selling eggs because they simply couldn’t afford to buy stock and then the price hike to $1.25 happened.

And now they’ve hiked the prices again to $1.50 for some products in a handful of stores. Additionally, they’ve incorporated items going from $2 ~ $15 so they have long lost the role and title of being the most affordable places to shop.

Gone were the days.

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          The OS is riddled with ads. How can anyone be okay with ads running at the OS level is beyond me.

          The tracking is also getting much much worse, they spy on every fucking thing they can.

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              Lemmy is a bunch of Linux users who genuinely don’t know how to custom-install Windows without all the bloat

              It’s bizarre, how the fuck are they managing Linux if they can’t even do that?!?

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                My days of installing LTSC, ShutUp10, Massgrave, modifying ISOs, unchecking 20 checkboxes during install and installing hosts files are over.

                Nowadays I just install Linux and it does what I want without begging for it.

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            The OS is riddled with ads

            Is there a particular edition that’s prone to this? I don’t see any on my work or personal laptop. Either that or they’re so subtle that I don’t even see them.