I really struggle to believe that #32 (forced updates at inconvenient times) is (still) a real thing.
I get it, I'm a tech and Joe Normie shouldn't have to know the difference between DISM and WSUS. But even under the default settings in consumer Windows, the "Active hours" will be set to standard work hours or adjust based on your usage. So on Wednesday morning after Patch Tuesday, my PC has restarted overnight. If I defer an update or reboot, it will remind me and still only force a reboot outside of those active hours.
And Microsoft are the worst. On my Apple and Samsung devices its just a notification with the ability to defer and a notification of when the update will happen automatically. Even Microsoft Office on my work PC will have a white popup saying "close your apps to update?" and I can defer.
Things may have been worse in the past, but right now it feels a little bit like postponing an oil change too long and being shocked that the car acts funny.
It is, and I'm aware of the less charitable (perhaps more likely) readings. But much of the time it isn't difficult to know who to attribute because they are explicitly featured in podcasts about the respective article.
And rugby is actually "Rugby Football," as I learned from the local Medway Rugby Football Club.
There's association football (soccer), rugby football, gridiron football (American and Canadian), Aussie rules football, and probably others either in certain niches or in the past. I've been calling the NFL and CFL "gridiron" exclusively for a few years to avoid any confusion.
Yeah, cause you all stop offering them within one upgrade cycle! I just checked my carrier, and the only phones they offer with jacks are the lowest end Motos and TCLs.
NY Times almost got it with Seattle! Although my weird hybrid accent was definitely something that isn't fully in line (and I also use y'all because its fun.) I loved my sociolinguistics courses in university, although definitely felt a bit self-conscious at times.
You may be onto something with the first point though: while (southeastern) Brits may chuckle at northerners calling lunch "dinner" or the southwest sounding like farmers and pirates ("ooh er! combine 'arvester!") Americans do enjoy mocking words like "fortnight" and the pronunciation of "chewsday, innit?" too. So maybe everyone just mocks everyone else and I'm reading too much into the trans-Atlantic angle. After all, the way you speak is like a constant shibboleth and that's why I default to "what's your background?" instead of "where are you from?" in very cosmopolitan places.
Edit: Kitty-corner was the giveaway for Seattle, Spokane, and SLC. Although the one I always think of was this Starbucks which used to have another Starbucks kitty-corner from it in downtown Vancouver: https://maps.app.goo.gl/LPSk9XRaJMnDUGa66
I moved from the UK to Canada as a pre-teen* and what I found shocking was how bothered a lot of Brits are about the fact that some people or places use different words and pronunciations. "We gave you a perfectly good language and you buggered it up!" my mother oft-repeated. You see it in shows like Top Gear and Taskmaster and especially the football vs. soccer thing with the world cup right now. The UK has so many regional dialects that I can only assume it's a national pride thing, especially as the US has eclipsed the UK in population, economy, and media.
* side note - emigrant parents, please try to time your move so that your kid doesn't have to experience puberty AND immigration at the same time.
Can you to into more detail on your Steam Deck setup? I have a MSI Claw running Bazzite and I would love to look at some different options, especially Alpine.
I'm from the UK (although haven't been there for a decade+) and remember "lead" being used in place of "cable" or "cord" by those around me. Plug would be the other end, which goes into the Mains.
Even if it is half an hour, that's half an hour of /no functionality/ - whether that is acceptable to you is a personal decision, but to claim it's not a functional problem is a lie.
My Sony wireless headphones have a similar issue. They cannot be used (with Bluetooth / ANC) when charging. My ReDragon USB mouse does not have that issue - it has a standard USB-C port on the front edge and I only need to charge it every few weeks, which is far less often than I charge a phone, so insertion cycles is not a concern.
I get it, I'm a tech and Joe Normie shouldn't have to know the difference between DISM and WSUS. But even under the default settings in consumer Windows, the "Active hours" will be set to standard work hours or adjust based on your usage. So on Wednesday morning after Patch Tuesday, my PC has restarted overnight. If I defer an update or reboot, it will remind me and still only force a reboot outside of those active hours.
And Microsoft are the worst. On my Apple and Samsung devices its just a notification with the ability to defer and a notification of when the update will happen automatically. Even Microsoft Office on my work PC will have a white popup saying "close your apps to update?" and I can defer.
Things may have been worse in the past, but right now it feels a little bit like postponing an oil change too long and being shocked that the car acts funny.