The experience of modern theaters isn’t enjoyable. They don’t pay their labor enough for the service to be decent so everything is already gross even though most have been recently refurbished. The size of a big screen over a very large tv doesn’t really matter to humans as we normalize the size in our head after a few minutes. The sound is great so long as everyone is actually watching the movie and not making their own noise. The chairs are supposed to be comfy loungers but I can’t seem to find one that’s comfortable for my size. The concessions don’t taste good anymore. The popcorn is dusty / dry most of the time and the fake butter is far more chem than butter for the last 15 years. It was more common to have a shared experience before covid. It seems like there’s less of a shared experience in theaters now. I’m indifferent to how much a theater costs. If it cost a nickel or a hundo, it’s still the same poor experience for me.

Reference: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309630912_Watching_Movies_on_Netflix_Investigating_the_Effect_of_Screen_Size_on_Viewer_Immersion

Cheap debt.

Beat you by couple years but that was mine too. My next were redhat which seemed to not be very good at the time other than a nice installer. After that suse for year until I switched to irix to finish the 90’s. Back to suse in the 2000’s, bsd in 2010s, and Mac now. What was your patch from Slackware?

Fun fact, this isn’t $20K but that’s what it takes to get people, to share the article. The actual arrival says that it’s $20K after government rebates in the US. So it’s actually expensive without tax dollars.