Yeah but this is the US.

You think we’ll be using trains?

17-20 C

Because it looks awesome, and they can.

The drive had a sensor that detected the notch status and either allowed (or not) the write ability.

Basically the same as SD cards today, it’s just assumed that the drive will respect that switch.

Older 5.25-inch floppies you would cut a notch in a specific place, and you could use tape to cover it and make it writable again.

VHS and audio cassettes work the same way too.

I love filter views, no real complaints there except that other people can’t manage to figure out the difference between filtering the whole sheet and setting up a filter view.

Tables seem kind of pointless but better than a separate database app I guess?

Not sure about “little pills”, do you mean the drop downs? That’s in validation, and it’s a little odd but better both in interface and function than Excel. There’s really only one version and two ways to do it: “data validation” and “insert drop-down” (the latter is just a shortcut to the former, but with relevant options selected). Checkboxes are the same (both live in the insert menu).

I’ve never known the “paste style” menu, I mostly use keyboard shortcuts when pasting. I might be misunderstanding what you’re describing there.

Some of it is just familiarity but I found Google sheets to be a breath of fresh air and still find Excel just painful.

Although Google has really gotten pretty cluttered lately as they add features and slap them in whatever menu they pick at random.

Similar but with an interface that refuses to do anything new for 20 years.

I’d describe it as making computer systems reliable.

Why is that? What do you feel is the downside?

Yes, kind of.

Someone might correct me if I’m wrong but it’s that, plus extra tooling to redirect the stuff that needs to be writable, plus more extra tooling to allow you to temporarily unlock the read-only parts in order to do system updates, plus a system updater that puts the whole system more-or-less under version control.

I mean something that demonstrates a consistent culture of hate, not just one comment disagreeing with you.

Got an example?

I don’t believe in free will, so when I see someone act this way, I don’t even really blame them. I don’t see it as a conscious decision, but more as a behavior they’re helplessly repeating. And people rarely change that kind of behavior unless the motivation comes from within - not from outside pressure.

That’s an interesting angle. But without free will, wouldn’t it be that they could never change the behavior unless it was already preordained?

Honestly it’s easy to get that definition of DEI when it is poorly explained and/or poorly understood.

Plenty of people particularly on the right believe all the explanatory reasoning behind DEI is thinly-veiled “reverse racism”.

That’s fine but it’s disingenuous to say one has no idea what the OP is talking about.

I only use it incidentally but my biggest gripe is the total inability to perform its one function of teleconferencing.

The bit where it lags the audio badly and then speeds it up to catch back up to real-time is absolutely infuriating to listen to, and such a failure of a tool that had. one. job.

“Algorithmic steering” is okay as long as the algorithm is relatively straightforward, public, and well-understood.

The problem is when the corpos tweak it to suit their mass-market advertisers.

Awesome. That seems like the way to go then!

That’s fine.

In that case you can feel free to ignore the US-specific portion and go back to the first “no, they are synonyms” statement.