Yes, like "el agua" but agua is a female word. Soo confusing when you are learning it.

Yes, many languages have no gender or have a generic option besides genders.

I always find this very annoying in Roman languages, where every object has an arbitrary gender, and to make matters worse it's not always the same. A word that is female in Spanish could be male in Italian or Portuguese. It trips me up a lot and it's annoying because the gender is just some arbitrary thing there, it has no meaning because objects have no gender. If we're talking about people I can understand but things?

But languages are not very logical. They are something that melted together over centuries out of habit.

But my friends and in the LGBT+ communities chat groups I only see people using the x and @.

I'm Dutch myself and I hate many things in Dutch culture. Especially those stemming from the calvinist influences. It's one of the reasons I don't live there anymore.

And they are also catching up on feminism. Until recently here in Spain a woman would have to prove there had been violence when claiming rape. There was a big headline-making case where some rapists went free (well until supreme court appeal): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Manada_rape_case It led to the "only yes is yes" law which was already prevalent in other countries.

And no it's not just privileged white people. My Spanish teacher was a Colombiana and she always pointed out the innate patriarchal traits of the Spanish language while rolling her eyes.

I have been watching a bit of prime video and getting ads for cars, baby diapers and gambling sites, all things I have zero interest in buying lol. I've not had a car in 10 years and I'm single and don't even buy lottery tickets. I keep sites isolated a lot in Firefox containers but Amazon of course has my purchase history there (there aren't many other ecommerce options left around here) so I'm surprised they don't have me figured out. But I'm glad.

I'm not really sure about the legal system but I'm in Europe, it's a lot more restrictive for that kind of stuff.

If blocking ads won't be possible anymore then I'll just pirate everything. And jailbreaking TVs and other hardware.

And on flock cameras they still do.

It's like this, once you have the data they will come for it.

Nothing is more compatible with ms office than ms office.

But in terms of features it's not really any different than office 2000. The ribbons were introduced and Excel sheets can be bigger but it's really just the same. There's hardly been any innovation. That's what Microsoft do when they own a market, they just sit back. It happened to internet explorer and it happened to office.

Anyone else would have made a better product if it weren't a non-starter.

As an example: in my job Excel is not used for numbers but abused as a database. It really deeply sucks at that, you need to copy paste vlookups and it chokes on a few hundred thousand rows. On a modern computer that's ridiculous. It doesn't enforce type integrity and sometimes people type over vlookups breaking the formula in that row.

"Formatting as table" is a bit of a workaround and changes a lot more than just "formatting" implies. But it doesn't solve the core issue which is that this is just the wrong tool for the job, period. It just smoothes over some of the ridiculous workarounds.

Any company that cared would either make it do databases better, or would find out why users don't grok the actual database product, ms access, and keep abusing a spreadsheet for this purpose. They would improve the database product so it would be great to use. And port it to all platforms, ms never bothered to port it to Mac.

Access is difficult because it's too closely tied to SQL concepts. And thus a complex 70s mindset hell bent on minimising data storage. This could be so greatly reinvented, wouldn't necessarily have to be an RDBMS. The only reason people screw around with excel is because they know it. Not because it's actually good for this purpose.

Another example: they never fixed the CSV-semicolon issue outside of the US or the ambiguity of translated function names.

It annoys me because these guys never tell us anything we don't know and they are just in the way because they want to butt into everything to prove their value.

It feels like management doesn't trust us either. Though the reason they're there is more kickbacks and old boys network corruption. Our previous department head got a high paying job at Deloitte.

For sleeping I prefer rain sounds though

But I know some people love it. Everyone is different <3

In the early days of BYOD, all they could do is delete the device if it would be lost. Which was not really a bother to me because I back it up to my own servers anyway, and in that case it would be lost anyway. And they would enforce a few basic things like setting a decent pincode and device encryption.

But lately the MDM and antimalware solutions have become more intrusive. Recently my work's MDM complained about an app I had on the personal side of my phone, something they should have no visibility of. Also they now want to route all the traffic through their VPN to inspect it which was obviously a non-starter.

Besides, I would not comply anyway. I would just delete the device.