Alright, so for your specific case, it wasn’t necessary, but your experience isn’t typical.

Granted.

Even having a sign on your building saying what your business is is a form of advertising.

Agreed.

At its core, to advertise is just letting people know that your product or business exists, which is why it’s not inherently a bad thing.

Hard disagree.

Of course you can find examples of it being a bad thing, but it’s not true in every instance.

Even where the harm is minimal, it’s still harm. At best, it’s a waste of resources that could be doing something useful.

I already explained that it was a small town, my first customer called me while I was still finishing up the paperwork to establish an LLC.

I didn’t have to tell anyone, I already had a reputation for tech competency and word travels very fast in small towns.

You seem to be projecting. I started a mobile PC repair business in a small town that got into the black in the first month on word of mouth alone.

That’s too good for them.

They deserve minimum wage jobs with no benefits.

As if your game of devil’s advocate was ever in good faith?

All advertising is egregious and I go out of my way to avoid ads to the point that I will stop patronizing businesses for mailing me a flyer. Spending money on marketing is a signal that the business doesn’t trust in the quality of their own product or service.

It’s a really accessible concept and one of the most common small business types in the country, plus most of my suggestions that apply to it are largely applicable to many other types of small businesses. Seemed a better argument than a lecture-length fully generalizable concept of “getting a new business going without paying assholes to shove it in my face”.

Are restaurants not a kind of business?

A restaurant without a storefront is just a ghost kitchen.

They put a sign on the building that says “Now Open”, put the building on the maps, and invite local food critics in for a review.

But hey, at least the empire is finally dead.

April Fools Day stopped being fun when Woot sold out to Amazon.

0, and I’ve done 4 of these in the last year.

Also, it’s my favorite beer and I’m trans. =3

Hehee, thanks, but I’m just being me 😺

Assigned male at birth

Sorry to confuse the issue, but I’m an AMAB enby that fits both and neither of these categories. =3

Good for them.

What’s the issue?

None of these are fountain pens, the obviously superior choice over ball-points.

I’d presume the check mark means the language pack is available locally and the warning sign probably means it’s missing some localization strings.

Omfg.

I was trying to remember the name of kdirstat ladt night when I stumbled across filelight and made use of that instead.

And now there’s a thread on this exact topic. Y’all need to quit it with all this Truman Show nonsense, Baader-Meinhof alone isn’t enough to explain how frequently shit like this happens. XD