Childless and European here :). But I put like 3 months of salary there. Really nothing that could financially ruin me. I went YOLO on housing though... That shit is expensive.
Desperate people will do whatever they can to improve themselves. Imagine you have neurogenerative disease and in few years you will be stuck to wheelchair forever.
You would still need to spend a lot of energy for the process, which brings us to the beginning. This could maybe be used when we have fully renewable enegry in excess to pull some carbon out of atmosphere.
Are you using Safari by any chance? I used to get a lot of these on Safari, but issue is almost gone on Firefox. I think it's connected to how Safari handles cookies.
I already pay over 100$ a month for subscriptions I rarely use. If we get alternative to Google that is simply on par or slightly better, 10$ is nobrainer just for the de-googlification. For something significantly better - like option of paying some extra cash for more processing power - 20$.
For company I am working at, it is acceptable to pay more for even long term consultanst, than to pay market price for experienced developers. The reason explained was, that it is different budget line - HR does not want to "overpay" for emplyees, so consultancy is the only option.
There is company in Czechia which provides optics via sewage. I guess it is cheaper to use existing infrastructure than to place new pipes under roads.
I think it's mostly about PR. End consumers will care only about Intel = good, AMD = bad (or the other way around). It helps selling laptops with Intel inside sticker.
Safari was also buggy for me for some of our service web pages like Ambari - for some reason Safari took 1 core to 100% and internet stopped working everywhere. Only solution was to kill the process. With Firefox, everything seems to be working perfectly (albeit Youtube loads slower). I also find the redesign delightful and visually appealing.