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That would be kind of going against language’s natural evolution. Many words used to be spelled with way more letters than they are today.

Many people can’t handle the existing alphabet, imagine for a second if they have to deal with extra letters.

It’s spelled with a z (“Pozidriv”), hence this short form.

Somewhat even more annoying with ankle length socks and non-tall shoes - works fine with many, but with some particular pairs the socks run down just enough to make it impossible to fix without untying the shoes.

Yeah, but even if that’s the case, I would expect it 1) to refuse to run at all if something’s not fit or 2) to just be bottlenecked by the network instead of making data disappear altogether.

If software depends on specific infrastructure to work, then it should have it as a hard requirement. Haven’t tried Ceph myself, but this sounds like there’s something very wrong with it conceptually or the way it’s set up.

Capitalisation is lost in spoken word. Blame capitalism?

/s

Hurts just to look at.

What’s interesting is that the first time I’ve heard about it was from someone I would actually help with computer problems, just locally.

Yeah, that’s one use case. I’ve used TeamViewer for things like that.

For serious, does anyone use it out of free will and not because it’s mandated from work?

I still buy CDs, but there’s no sense playing them directly - I rip them and I listen to FLACs.

Winget and scoop are adequate, but those are probably catering to 1% of Windows users.

It’s meant to stand for “digital download”, but that’s what you get from trying to shorten everything to one word or less.

You’re part of the problem.

If you buy from scalpers, you’re part of the problem.

Again, depends on what your use case is. Even if you find a stripped down OS that’s less resource heavy, you’ll probably still be using the same other software (i.e. same browser on the same modern web, and you’ll be out of RAM once you open 10-20 tabs). If a manufacturer has meant this as base specs for a thin client, you’re not tricking anyone (but yourself) by trying to use it as a full featured computer, and you’re still driving sales (at least on the hardware part) on a deliberately crippled product.

If you want to vote with your wallet (as IMO everyone should), you don’t buy this and repurpose it; you simply don’t buy it.

Depends on what you do and depends on how it’s set up.

At a previous job we had thin clients set up to connect to some remote desktops, and indeed they were running an OS locally, but had barely enough resources to run the OS and the client app.