Yes, this is very much the case here in Sweden. When people started thinking about environment and second hand became fashion, all the second hand stores suddenly became as expensive as buying new. I have always been buying second hand so I'm a bit miffed.
There is companies that send email with invoices where you have to click a link. There is no way of logging in on their site to get to the invoice. It is an easy fix for them (we use the same invoicing company as they do so I know). All they need to do is click "Allow sending bills directly to customers bank". Every month I get the email, I use the included chat function on the webpage to ask when they will enable this and it's always not possible. Mabe some day.
I wish we could stop training people to click links in random messages just because we want to be able to track their movements online.
Some registrars make this easy. Think it was cloudflare that has a button for "Do not allow email from this domain". Saw it last time I set up a domain that I didn't want to send email from. I'm guessing you get that question if there is no MX records for the domain when you move to cloudflare.
Windows has always been backward compatible with old hardware. There has never been a big problem where you couldn't just upgrade to next version on the same computer. This big jump is not a good one for MS, it is locking out a lot of people that would be customers and are now getting Linux Mint instead. I have several friends that are non-techies and installed Mint on their own without any problems. No support needed even, nothing close to how they need support for Windows. They have dualboot so their old games work on Windows and everything else on Linux. Sooner or later that will be gaming on Linux and Windows never get booted again.
I missed the point of the leaderboards completely. It is to show exactly that when you get blamed for using AI to write. You can point out that you already used it in 2009 or whatever. For that it is very useful yes :-)
This is why we only had ascii in the start. You don't need those other characters anyway. (For english...)
Meanwhile there are a lot of languages and cultures. Somewhere all those characters were useful for something. My Atari had a very fun utility that gave you a compose-key that could combine just about everything on the keyboard to access all those weird characters of the extended ascii table. <compose>+ao would give you "a" with a ring on top (å), <compose>+ae gave the danish welded together character that I can't even type any more on windows.
Thanks, have tried that one but I just don't write enough and the special characters I need is natively on my keyboard. But it's very nice for those that actually do write other things than code :-)
I remember participating in a small thread on how to type an em-dash, on different OS's. It was in March 2023, so before the em-dash meme had started—it was an innocent question then.
I think they meant after the release of ChatGPT. If someone never used them before and now uses them all the time it might indicate that they're using ChatGPT... or it might just mean that they learned how to use them after widespread discussions about it.
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