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That's pretty advanced usage - hiding stuff from yourself.

I actually just tried looking that up, to see if such a word actually exists in English. I found a stack exchange thread asking this same question but no one had a suitable answer. So, yeah, I guess it's up to you to contribute to society by inventing and popularizing this new word. Enjoy your new destiny.

I dunno, I think they're kinda ... neat, I guess? Like, yeah, they're technically pretty ugly, but somehow in a way that makes them interesting.

Yeah, I'm guessing there must be some archaic code in their system (probably undocumented and which no one understands) keeping them from taking that step. I've worked in the embroidery industry for quite a while and our machines used 3.5 inch floppies for years. We finally upgraded to a drop-in USB replacement like 5 years ago.

Good to know. Regardless, as much as I expect it to be inevitable I'm gonna put it off until I really feel the need.

"The system is currently working just fine, but we know that with each increasing year, risk of data degradation on the floppy disks increases and that at some point there will be a catastrophic failure," Tumlin told ABC7.

Have they literally been using the same set of disks for decades? Surely they can just ... make fresh copies on new disks? As far as I know, they're still being made for specialized industries just like this.

Certainly, they should upgrade their system - this just doesn't feel like the most important reason to do so.

People on X with Nvidia cards are gonna have a bad time.

Oh, for sure. I get that they need to play the optics game and I (for the most part) am happy with Plex in its current state. I definitely agree they have to walk a fine line.

However, I think it's inevitable that they'll eventually go the way of every for-profit tech company and continue to water down their platform. I'd love to move to jellyfin but my previous run with it was much less smooth on the user side than Plex is. Hopefully in time it'll be just as bug-free, but even then I'm not looking forward to onboarding all my users.

Most people use the service to access streaming content legitimately.

Yeah, citation needed on that one. I know they're pushing their own streaming to try to pivot toward "legitimacy", but I think we all know why the platform is so popular.

I think it's the same here in Canada as I find most regular ketchup (especially Heinz) sickly sweet. I actually buy a no sugar added variant that's much better to me. It tastes more like tomato-infused vinegar.

Ah, I see what you mean. That still sucks but at least you still have the (less convenient) option of using an alternative. I had understood it as being that they blocked everything but Bing.

As someone in IT I get an employer enforcing Edge (I don't do that, but I understand why an IT department might), but why would anyone enforce a specific search engine? That seems bonkers to me.