In the US about 5-10% of people are "self-employed" and have access to all their pre-tax income.
Essentially a single employee business, they are required to withhold their own taxes from their earnings, including the employment taxes normally paid by the employer, etc. which is an additional 15.5% on top of the progressive income tax.
Aside from that, in the US there are forms you fill out at the beginning of employment which determine how much is to be withheld. While they can be updated at any time, it's not always done promptly. Divorce or death of a dependant child could increase how much is withheld.
I have arch kde on a similarly spec'd computer, and it runs great. Fairly easy to install with archinstall. Not sure about the 10-series GPU, but the nvidia drivers work fine on my 3070 under arch
Spent $4000 on a plumbing repair because the previous owner flushed a bunch of wipes. The plumbers removed about 15 pounds of shitty wipes and then replaced the pipe.
windows plans to handle updates the same way Linux does
Windows will have snaps and flatpacks and user repo packages that all update separately using separate update utilities, which are themselves separate from the package manager for the general OS?
Even without tariffs, the collusion between nand manufacturers to keep prices high meant 2030 would be the earliest that 8tb SSDs would be "affordable"
It's only a hack in the sense that anyone can lie on their taxes and not to pay the use tax which is sales tax on out of state purchases used in Washington.
Kitchen staff aren't typically tipped employees. That's more the exception than the rule
employers can require tip pooling among employees who regularly receive tips, but not for non-tipped staff unless the employer pays the full minimum wage directly.
In the US about 5-10% of people are "self-employed" and have access to all their pre-tax income.
Essentially a single employee business, they are required to withhold their own taxes from their earnings, including the employment taxes normally paid by the employer, etc. which is an additional 15.5% on top of the progressive income tax.
Aside from that, in the US there are forms you fill out at the beginning of employment which determine how much is to be withheld. While they can be updated at any time, it's not always done promptly. Divorce or death of a dependant child could increase how much is withheld.