I'm in Singas, and there's a Danish canned pork (luncheon meat) that we buy on occasion. It's cheaper and better tasting than spam.
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Clancy had the Soviets use a similar tactic in Red Storm Rising.
Yup. I think I've only visited twice since I signed up. There's no reason.
I had it for more than 5 years before abandoning it. I still got ads. I'd complain and YouTube would tell me it was a rare bug, or my browser, or the phase of the moon. They'd promise it'd never happen again and it still kept happening. I suspect it was a test to see what they could get away with.
Others in the comments have similar stories.
You occasionally still get ads, even with premium.
GenX. I used IRC back in the early 90s, but by the mid-90s I'd moved on. Probably to ICQ. I can't recall.
Then, in the mid-noughties my millennial work colleagues were going crazy for Mirc. I was shocked to discover it was just IRC with a pretty face but all the same issues that caused me to leave it 10 years before.
And it's still going. Although, no longer flavour of the month.
Mint works reasonably well out of the box, but there are always edge cases (weird hardware/missing drivers) that can throw a spanner into the works. Hopefully as Linux becomes more widely used, we'll see hardware manufacturers release drivers and keep them up-to-date like they do with windows and Mac.
Not without proper insurance.
I've been using Linux since 93 and I love it. I'm confident enough to support my family's machines, but there's no way I'd offer more than basic advice to a stranger, let alone a group of them.
Ignoring the missing features, is stoat a better experience for non-techies coming from discord?

Jump where? The alternatives currently require a small selection of hardware; are expensive; don't offer the same level of service; or all the above.