Well, uh
There’s at least a dozen, not all have a GUI, very few of them have payment mechanisms. There’s so much variety that I cannot with confidence place which one you’re referring to. Maybe Gnome Software? Dpkg can technically do it but it’s on the maintainer to build in the mechanism to phone home to a third-party server and allow/deny functionality based on payment status.
Rereading your post, I think you might have meant that paid and proprietary deployment methods are needed, but proprietary packages are very much already a thing, and the reason that Ubuntu gained so much headway over Debian, in that they assume you do in fact want your wireless card to work. They’re also the ones with the esm payment mechanisms, where they can turn off repository channels if you cancel your plan.

Hahahaha. That website was very entertaining. I’m going to think about that every time I have to fill out a form online.

I hate the loooooong toe in the back the most

We need Girl from Unix Surrealism
https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/unix_surrealism

That’s exactly what they are, one of my co-workers just got one. The quack sound is software you install and can bind to any key, duck or no duck.
Duckeys also sells single ducks with different kinds of hat.
Golly, autocorrect had a hard time with this post.

Blursica

0.9.final.revised.25BAK.lastbest.final

Same. I don’t know why it came as a surprise. I really thought it would come to me naturally.

You’re really not getting it, huh?

“imo it looks terrible” friend…,

ah yes
tautology

I cannot connect to the boredom one at all. Are there books, video games, stone tablets, cool rocks to look at? Outta here with that boredom nonsense.

If we’re in a room, and we’re comfortable enough to carry out a casual conversation, I’m gonna tease you for clinging to a bad take.

Not watching ads

I got to “Barges? BARGES? We don’t need no steenking BARGES” and threw the book away

Ahh I think you’ve misunderstood.
He’s a raging, obnoxious capitalist who thinks poor people are poor because they don’t try.

Ooh, if you want waste of time read the Alvin Maker series. Oh but I think he wrote another one since I read them (not that I’m willing to give it the chance to change my opinion).

Yeah but some things are bad because they are deliberately trying to make you bad too

Me too, friend.
After ruminating on it though, everything I liked was just lifted from better works.
Leatherclad red-themed group of women who enjoy causing pain and are able to negate men’s magic? Red ajah.
What other examples are there?

I read them all (so far anyway) and they’re decent enough.
I don’t think he redeems anyone who is irredeemable or has any special insight into humanity. There are some awful people who are complicated and there are his favorites who get away with anything and come back from death multiple times. They all make good decisions and bad decisions and get good consequences and bad consequences and those don’t always line up.
I don’t want to diminish your experience but I really don’t see it.