Servers make the same federal minimum everyone else does, their employer just gets to claim ~$5.50 an hour from tips in order to pay it. More in states with a higher minimum.

If no one tips the employer has to pay the full minimum wage themselves, not just $2.

I don’t understand how this is any different to just not tipping? Both situations lead to the worker needing to look for another job, right?

This is just wrong. If tips stopped tomorrow you’d still get whatever your state minimum wage is (or at least the $7.50 federal minimum).

The standard federal minimum wage still applies. If tips aren’t enough to get you there then the employer has to make up the difference.

Tips are literally a subsidy paid to your employer so that they don’t have to pay you (just the $2.13 federal tipped minimum wage).

Your advice would require people to drastically change their lives right now. Everything’s tipped.

Telling people to stop tipping requires almost nothing from them.

And yes, it will make things worse for the exploited workers - they’ll have to find new jobs if they’re not happy with their agreed-upon remuneration. But it’s this that will convince the employer to pay more - if they can’t attract staff they’ll have to offer more

Stopping tipping also puts the burden where it should be. You are the one saying your pay isn’t enough (and thus need tipping) - you fight for it yourself.

It’s so much nicer travelling in places where service workers are valued by their employers.

I still support the anti-tipping people though - it’s the single best option they have to effect change. It’s something small, concrete, and moves things to the desired end-state.

Stop tipping and donate the amount to community organizations fighting poverty instead.

I’m not sure they’d want the legal hassle.

As long as Steam allows skins trading these sites will exist. I can’t see them removing this feature from their community because of activity off their platform.

Locking a trading account and nuking the inventory just means that one site will shut down - the operator will likely just set up a new one and a while bunch of users will be angry at Valve.

If enough money is at stake Valve might even find themselves sued by the site operators. “Tortious Interference” is what it’s called here.

If consenting adults enter into agreements outside of Steam, what business is it of Valve’s to interfere?

I quite like adding a fuzzy finder to the history search - helps when I can only remember part of the command line I was using. Have just started using atuin.sh which seems okay.

I’d say the explosion of gaming in general through the 00s helped make PC gaming more mainstream. Consoles with online gaming helped blur the lines between platforms.

Then there was also World of Warcraft. It may have only reached ~10 million people then, but it seemed to reach well beyond those who were part of the traditional PC gaming culture.

Why not? He was personally seeing to their security.

If you outsource your work, you outsource your reputation. BYD is absolutely responsible for the conditions of the workers.

Spills and dropped items are kind of expected in a kitchen, no? Wouldn’t most of this damage be categorized as normal wear and tear? As a tenant it’s not expected that you hand back the property exactly as it was when you took possession - it’s up to the landlord to budget for normal maintenance.

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous is an amazing game if you can look past the politics though. Also, the spyware thing is pretty standard now - it’s usually called “telemetry” in most EULAs. I haven’t read it closely enough to know if they’re overreaching any worse than others, but they did walk back including the AppFlyer tool after pushback from users.

You might need to try a different therapist.

I can’t tell whether this is supposed to be advice on what to do or not. I can certainly see people getting upset at all of them for putting your feelings and perspective at the forefront however.

I liked the look of Aurora as well, ultimately decided that Bazzite was a better fit as I spend so much time gaming. Still learning how to get things set up the way I want, but at least Steam works out of the box.

Good to know. Will probably be a while before I replace it though as it’s a 3080. Will just play the games that work in the meantime (which is most of them so far).

Thanks. That helps. I guess I’m just used to less precise usage, whether something is linear, greater than linear (exponential) or less than linear (logarithmic). I don’t often hear people talk about polynomial growth.

What do you think exponential means?

Any possibility, no matter how small, becomes a certainty when dealing with infinity. You seem to fundamentally misunderstand this.