If you read my other comments you’ll see that I defend exactly what you said …

Yes I think we both agree with that. It was a misinterpretation on my part of OP arguments: no charging at Vs charging students

but a society which levels the financial burden on the student is imposing an artificial and indefensible barrier on their collective progress.

I absolutely agree with this.

Finally, taxes don’t pay for anything when the funding originates from the issuing entity of a fiat currency.

Not sure I understand your point

A society which charges students to acquire knowledge values neither.

Because this is literally what he said. He never mentioned sports, just charging in general.

I understand his sentiment, but it’s not practical.

Read my comment again, you entirely missed my point: I want to think about it as paying it for others. I’m all for it I’ll gladly pay taxes to allow others to go study, it’s one of the things I’ll defend fiercely. An educated society is a better one

What I meant is someone has to pay for it, it’s not free lunch. You’re right that the students don’t pay it through taxes, but someone has to. Myself as a working person do pay for others through taxes

Edit: as people seem to have failed to see my point: I’m glad my taxes help pay for other’s studies

That seems like an Utopian view you’re not paying for the knowledge but for the resources to learn and accreditation. Universities, professors, etc don’t pay for themselves. Even when University is “free” you are paying it through taxes - which is still fine by me.

I don’t agree, though, with the prices practiced in the US, that’s just a way of restraining the population. Where I’m from, going to college is not expensive, I cannot fathom having to pay those ridiculous prices.

I bought CLion’s license for many years for personal use. I could easily work on c++ and python on the same project, and could still use it for Rust (same project or not). I decided to stop with the license when they deprecated Rust’s plugin in favor of RustRover. I don’t like jumping around between “different” IDEs.

Can you point out exactly what is misrepresented and lies?

I’m currently looking for a 13’’ computer (or a small 14’'), I’d love to support Framework as they are exactly what I’m looking to support… But, they still don’t ship to my country and I don’t want to spend so much for a laptop (and I don’t need very modern features on a personal machine).

This means I’ll end up buying a used ThinkPad to serve my needs for the next 4/5 years. Though, If they did ship to my country I would be spamming my employee everyday to buy them.

“Ghost Of Perdition” enters the room …

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It depends on your needs. I have minis that cost <100$ and have others that cost 500$. My cheapest mini has currently 3TB of backups of my personal things, so it serves my needs very cheaply. I don’t need a GPU so it keeps the costs down.

This is per capita for sure

They are power and space efficient, and usually very quiet. That’s fascinating enough.

What I mean is better licenses that make sure you get paid if companies profit from it, and harsher penalties for those that get caught infringing the license

That’s why Foss will always be better, and we need to support these developers. They also need to protect their software better from capitalist ghouls that will profit from it for free

And the apple fanboys appear. Let’s blame the consumer for what is a design flaw …

It was a bit tongue in cheek I know. I have a very similar setup, but why being judgemental with such a simple thing? It seems like a waste of time and energy. You need those to tweak the setup instead.