Exactly. My point is to move to a single universal standard that is used by literally everything so this never happens. Just cut off everything that can’t be updated, and it can just sink or swim based on how well it can parse the new table.

Fuck all that ancient non-updateable shit. There’s no good reason that old table still exists, much less be possible to use this side of 2000.

Obviously this has legacy problems, but fuck those systems, everyone gotta get new shit now, tough shit. The old table should be cause for new shit to fail compiling in the first place. Shouldn’t be possible to use it.

Let’s just make forward progress, and lose the chains.

Can this really not be fixed?

I still see this in various text that’s meant to be readable.

Usually ampersands are the biggest culprit, but is it just a really sacred data type that can’t be upgraded to include punctuation, but can include the foreign looking wingdings that try to stand in for it?

I’m just confused on why those characters have multi character reference names that aren’t part of the regular alphabet or punctuation set either, but those still show up instead of having room to just remove the erroneous reference with the actual character.

It’s 2026, just dig out this fossil and fix it already.

Preach!

I get pissed off by typos in general, but when it’s just a quick chat and they missed the correct letter by one or just bad autocorrect, I can deal. (at least until they “accidentally a word” too many times to be readable)

But going to a group you disagree with to ask questions and get answers while, speaking like a kid in elementary school is actually bewildering.

Unless they actually are a kid in elementary school.

I’ve been out on medical disability since '21.

I dread this possibility when I try going back to work soon.

I knew as soon as I heard about Win10 having candy crush on the start menu that it would be the last Windows I ever installed. I had been meaning to switch for years before that (actually dabbled with a dual boot of Ubuntu back on whatever version number “Edgy Eft” was-- 5? 6?). I stayed mainly on Windows because I don’t really think Wine or Proton was around yet (who knows maybe I just hadn’t heard of it yet), but I did really like how non-Windows it was.

It was always in the back of my head and I knew my time was coming. Just had to get my system cleaned up (file wise) and ready to move over.

Then I ended up making a new build first so instead of moving I just never put Windows on this machine at all.

Anyway the last time I worked I still use Windows at home. So other than attempting to set up a printer on my sister’s computer one time (which didn’t work out because I was only there for about 20 minutes total and it had some wireless pairing to do but just wouldn’t find whatever it was trying to find), I’ve never even touched 11. But the tiny bit I did see have me the same ick that moving from Win7 to 10 gave me. Things like how they fucked with the control panel and made a new, half-redundant settings app, had built-in cortana in the task bar, etc all bothered me.

But given that the awfulness that was 10 is longed for now, I really hope whatever job I get doesn’t have to use Win11.

I mean based solely on the picture I would choose Debian. I would change to Arch for my horny outfit.

Speaking of which, can we decide on canon skirts/dresses for these? 😂