for most people at the very low end of low income and low education group, this is a huge barrier.

Look: I haven been neighbours with people who had to search their whole appartment for a working simple pen to take a note - when asking for it they looked at me like an Alien: Really poor and uneducated people have high barriers in even the simpelst things.

Is there any real difference between the more expensive shelf places ("on eye height") than the more cheap one?

Id suspect its just intelligent re-labelling/re-packing for different brands?

Or is there really a difference in the quality/taste of the expensive ones?

In my country, it doesnt matter if i spend 2 bucks or 5 bucks in the supermarket

(Both instruments are not that popular in my country, so my daily language is to put both of them as synonym, while they are different animals in some details)

More accurate: The price for an _option_ to buy/sell oil was negative, not the price of the barrell itself.

There are _plastic_ tea bags? Really?

Didnt know that we reached that level of degredation already! :-D

Another example comes to my mind: In lot of European conutries, at "cheese corner/bar" in the supermarket, every time a piece of cheese is cut, they are removing the foil, cutting the cheese, and then re-packing it in new foil after that - and this for every chees bar in every supermarket: How much kilometers does just one branch waste per year?

Children cost a lot to raise in most countries, ending up with two parents working 100% + 75% while you have to put your offspring into (expensive) "external day care" (if you have no relatives near to you)

The capitalist system in this implementation is just "anti families & kids", so people make such decissions.

- tinkered for HOURS to get enough EMM/XMM memory by tweaking Config.Sys & Co to get whatever game running (and having dedicated boot options configured, because you could unload some drivers from mem and could then run other games)

:-D

https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/gnu/www/directory/all/rhide.html

:-)

And you could use VESA linear framebuffer above 256KB - this was a breakthrough back then :-))

There was this book 20 years ago: "Secret of Methamphetamine Manufacturing" by Uncle Fester

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Uncle-Fester-ebook/dp/B00305GTWU

(Actually, 8th edition :-D)

:-D

In general I view VS Code and VS.NET Community + SQL Server free universe as the most effective option :) I think these products are great actually.