This is nothing new.

Work emails need to be short and to the point. I know, it sucks when you have something complex, but people prefer to talk. So email needs to be more if a record if high points of conversation, or a quick verification of something.

If you choose to read literate writing as passive aggressive, well then you can fuck right off.

And that would be my response to anyone behaving this way toward me. It’s wholly a you problem.

Good afternoon.

You first.

YOU made the initial claim about this “new” meaning, onus is therefore on you to substantiate it.

For my defense, I’ll start with Elements of Style, the OECD, and any other English dictionary or grammar book.

Because if you really want to play “who has the best evidence for their case”, you’re gonna lose to several hundred years, and millions of written documents.

They didn’t make Publisher, it had been around for a few years before they acquired it.

At the time (early 90’s), DTP was growing, fast. Publisher was stupid cheap compared to Aldus and Quark and could do all the day-to-day stuff for a fraction of the cost (and faster).

I was using all 3 at the time, and my go-to was Publisher as it was easier, and way faster on the hardware then.

I’d use PageMaker for multi-page, ongoing docs, but a single page? Publisher.

MS acquired Pub around 1995. (They’d deny it, like they do with OneNote, but I was using Pub before they owned it).

(area code) 867-5309

Nice bigotry, only “minorities” door dash?

The racism is in your head

Syncthing or Resilio Sync for regular, instant, no-fuss between devices you control.

I use Syncthing-Fork in my phone (has more flexible sybc conditions) to keep specific folders in sync.

I use Resilio Sync on my file server just for the Selective Sync feature, which enables me to easily grab any file from the server from anywhere.

As I recall, 8 inch store no more data than 5.25

Which predate computers and floppy disks

9"

Hahahaha, dammit you win

This is the reason to buy such phones.

Battery life by just switching to Lineage is easily 20% better.

Lineage with Root.

God this stuff drives me crazy. It’s my damn device. Let mechoose what’s important.

Isn’t that partly because the US has like 52 sets of law (50 states, DC, Fed) and maybe more (County/Parish, etc)?

And this really exposes a major challenge with FOSS.

Names have meaning - it’s why Office is called Office.

This gnu naming isn’t much of an issue, because this is stuff only technical folks handle. But if we want end-users to embrace things, we need meaningful names - meaningful to them.

Whenever I tell my friends or family to install Jellyfin so they can access my media, the look on their face says it all.

MediaMonkey - alright, I get it (yea, not FOSS)

Plex? OK, if someone then says “think MultiPlex Theaters”, you get it. (Also not FOSS)

Jellyfin? What is that? Jam on a sharkfin?

These work really well:

Resilio SYNC (Yeah, not FOSS, but the name makes sense)

SyncThing (FOSS)

FolderSync (not FOSS)

Notice a trend here?

I have a printed spreadsheet for all the software I use - if I haven’t touched a service for a couple months, I’ll forget the meaningless name.

Exactly.

Phones don’t age the way they used to. For most people, new phones offer little.

If they’d learn to simply reset it when it goes wonky from installing a million things…

I’m hard on phones from a software perspective - I do a lot of testing because I’m the family IT. I’ve always used 2 year old phones. My current phone is a Pixel 5 running a Lineage fork, and it works great. I’ll replace it when hardware (other than screen battery) dies.

Because people like to keep their jobs?

Lots of pirating going on…

Yep, I’ve had 2 only because it was the hardware I wanted.

Oh, they were very nice to hold, sleek, futuristic. And both immediately got cases so I could hold the damn things.

The only reason we want thinner phones is because of material like this causes us to put cases on them, making them wider.

The only one I can figure out is the folder. The rest are utter shite.