It has passed me by as well. I've been living in one of the largest cities for my entire life and have never batted an eye. There's just as much of every other cuisine as there is katsu curry.
I could probably make a 'The x-ification of Britain' for quite a lot of food items. Majority of brits in the comments echoing the sentiment.
Also, that site should probably do something about the botted comments?
I use Logseq for all my note taking and documentation.
I will often mark pages as 'public' and commit the modified files to my Github repo - which triggers a website update workflow to my docs.mypersonaldomain.com.
If I want to document further and for whatever reason it is not something that looks great on Logseq, then I pull the data out and use whatever. Usually Github, as I typically want as much content I've worked on to be visible to the world.
I purchased 1 year of MuseScore PRO+, March 2022 and stopped using it a few months later, but forgot to unsubscribe. I'd get an email or two from MuseScore every few months, but usually just marked read and forgot about it.
MuseScore hid the upcoming renewal reminder at the bottom of a newsletter styled email, two months early and then essentially said 'we reminded you about this change' later on.
An email titled "Your new year of MuseScore PRO+" arrived Jan 29th 2023 - quite a length email with lots of blue buttons telling me to read more about customer success, values of the products, how they've added x amount of new music scores to my subscription yadda yadda.
Then it goes on to fill up the screen with 'top scores' with images, more buttons to explore - where to go for help, discover new music........ blah blah, typical new year new company email. Except the very, very bottom of this email stated 'Oh yeah we're going to be renewing in March'. I had no emails from MuseScore between this newsletter and the renewal. So it fell completely off my radar until I had a 'Payment Received' email.
I then tried to refund, knowing that you have 14 days from subscription - and was offered a discount. The same style as the article, except the offer was 45% not 35% - heavily pushing how this was the best they could do in my really unfortunate circumstance. I thought, that doesn't sound right - and stumbled across lots of articles on Reddit about just quoting their own terms.
I emailed back, quoting the TOS and then received a very robotic 'prorated refund of the amount.. has been issued to you" email.
Since unsubscribing I have started to receive sales emails - that I could block but find it amusing to see how long it goes on. I count, between March 2023 to today:
12 'Spring Sale' emails, ranging from 65%, 70%, 83% off annual plans
4 '[Last Chance] emails, same discount range
1 'For your eyes only' 70% off
11 'Summer Sale' emails, some of them 'special summer sale'
1 'BLACK FRIDAY SALE'
1 '[Last Chance] Summer Sale'
Promotional emails 2023 by month:
March - 1
April - 2
May - 7
June - 9
July - 8
August (to date) - 3
I'm just interested to see if the rate of emails continues to grow or will hover around 1-2 per week. Has also become ritualistic to clear MuseScore emails from my mailbox - which is quite therapeutic.
It would be interesting to have your perspective, as an Obsidian user, on Logseq(https://logseq.com/). I say this, as like you - I moved towards this for local-first file storage, where content can be edited on any device with any editor and where I have more control over my data.
I did try obsidian briefly, but eventually gravitated towards Notion for knowledge and project management - but found that the bulk of the content I put into this would eventually go stale/unused simply because content was not linked and would instead be held in a table, within a project/area full of other pages of notes. I then found myself on Logseq for the reasons mentioned prior.
I stated two things I like about it over it's competitors, I didn't brand them as the best or most important features on offer.
I specifically stated PDF editing, not just viewing PDF files.
SSO works better on Edge in a work environment, mainly as it connects to the Windows profile. This means that I do not need to make changes to additional browsers or have end users struggling to sign in to various applications. Specifically with Edge, I can simply provide each user profile a folder with shortcuts to the likes of email quarantine, support, Outlook etcetera and they will either see their account listed or only need to enter their email address.
Coupled with appropriate training, this has cut down on users signing into Microsoft login pages that have been designed to look like the legitimate organisation using logo's and other branding. When in doubt, the users can visit the shortcut provided to them.
I'm an IT Admin with 15+ sites across my country. I'm not angry about this change.
Myself and most of the people I've networked with either have or are transitioning away from other browsers, towards Edge. As a browser, it's fine. It has good PDF viewing/editing features, performant and works well with organisational SSO.
I could probably make a 'The x-ification of Britain' for quite a lot of food items. Majority of brits in the comments echoing the sentiment.
Also, that site should probably do something about the botted comments?