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Cake day: August 25th, 2023

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  • Not historically, no. Were my taxes always used properly? Probably not, but I believed in the overall system generically.

    But since Trump’s second term I’ve cut back significantly on Federal taxes I pay (I still pay State). I’ve converted some FTE-related income to 1099 and ceased paying quarterly and I’ve claimed 10+ allowances on W4 income to reduce taxes withheld.

    I’m on a payment plan of $250/mo with the IRS and they most recently told me to just keep paying monthly as best I can.

    Thing is, I owe far, far, far more than 100x that. So I guess they’ll just never get all their money. I don’t care.












  • It’s not even viable for me. I simply cannot use Linux daily because all my jobs require software that doesn’t have a Linux version, or it does but it’s lacking necessary features, or there’s an alternative but I have to burn extra hours making it work with their systems/setup - hours I don’t have.

    Or I have to use internally configured Remote Desktop profiles over a VPN (not to be confused with RDP), and you can’t do that specific use case on Linux because it requires using the company’s internal Windows Store with specific Remote Desktop installation.

    Or I have to use a specific Outlook instance, locally installed, because somehow they’ve blocked web access (I still haven’t figured out exactly how they set this up).

    After a 12 hour day, sure, I can switch back to my dual boot Linux instance and spend 1-2 hours for personal use. But the ratio is still Windows-leaning no matter how you slice it.