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Check-in baggage getting more and more restrictive or expensive on weight/size, maybe?

I don't disagree. Might be dependent on specific drugs/effects? :P

Did they really expect 3rd shift people to be clean lol

I tried to like psychedelic rock, man. I really tried.

Happy birthday!

Same at 33. I was amongst the lucky few at school with an internet connection in the mid 90s. There isn't a very long period of my life I didn't have access to console and a PC.

Same. I still suck. I haven't finished a single one of them games. It took me months of playing on and off to get past Vordt in DS3. But once I beat him and reached the undead settlement, that was it. I was hooked. I also just rarely finish RPGs in general lol. The art direction and general ambiance, the combat hitboxes, the music, the learning curve, the variety of builds... Fromsoft just knows something about games that most other companies don't.

I'm utterly convinced overloading the term "open" was a very bad mistake in terms of how much confusion it created. Yes, "open-source" in the OSI definition means open to read, but also open to modification and redistribution. Having to make the distinction and explain the difference with "source available" is in itself a failure in communication.

A link promoting any other commercial product with a free tier. Like AWS, or YouTube.

So it's still an ad to a product, or it's not?

As I mentioned in another comment, it's still a commercial offering, that happens to have a free tier. Would we be okay with a YouTube link in the same spot?

Honestly, it doesn't bother me that much. It's more that you can see a more and more corporate-y trend in Canonical's decision making, which I personally don't really care for. If I used Ubuntu with the default shell I'd probably just override the MOTD and go on with my life.

It's a commercial offering with a free tier.

This. Any unsollicited communication that's meant to make you investigate or buy a commercial product is an advertisement. That's all. Is it less intrusive than the TikTok ad in Windows start menu, I think it may be, but it's still an advertisement, by definition.