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What's the most painfully obvious thing you've seen have to be written out?
Things along the range of:
“Checklist - 1. Ensure that the thing is on.”
I’ve seen stories of people who just don’t get it and need their hands held all the time, so what are things where you kinda feel that things are a bit too “hand-holdy”?
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What’s the wildest sentence you’ve had to write to cater to the aforementioned corporate five year olds? Like say, a painfully obvious thing that is apparently a very niche detail?
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I have a personal MediaWiki installation on my computer (same software as Wikipedia). Been running it since 2022. Most recent offsite backup is from the start of December. I also have a very Wikipedia-like writing style as a result, too.
Any of my descendants, if they will ever exist, will probably have a great time going through great-grandpa’s writings 🙂
screenshot of Special:Statistics. WARNING: LIGHT MODE
The pages figure doesn’t sound as impressive when you realize a lot of them are templates imported from Wikipedia lol
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never been to the Rumble Quarantine Zone but I would put on a hazmat suit first if I were you
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OpenTTD (2004), which traces its roots to Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994)
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I’ve seen people call it GQ: new name, but the same great two-letter brevity of PE
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I’m primarily focusing on organizations and places and anything that isn’t a single individual person changing names, to be clear
the original post
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we either put it in virustotal, spin up a VM, and run the thing without network access, and just hope for the best
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I can definitely see a Derry/Londonderry situation forming regarding the city’s name. I prefer the name Port Elizabeth though, I have a thing for feminine given names and linguistics. Oh, and that linguistics obsession of mine has granted me the ability to do the Gq-click. And I’m not even South African!
And my brain is still obsessed with trying to ask as many South Africans as possible about the city’s name so… thank you for the answer, haha
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Speaking of South Africa, what do people in the Eastern Cape call that large city? You know… that city that got renamed?
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Almost forgot to mention but here in the Philippines, our basketball teams are the ones with the sponsored names…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Template:Philippine_Basketball…
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What are your opinions on name changes in general?
I personally like to minimize name changes as much as possible because usually, the current name Just Works and I don’t really think it’s worth it to break muscle memory or replace signage and stuff.
Marginally related; what is it with American stadiums being named after big companies? And when the naming rights expire, people just have to get used to the new name??
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There’s so many I’ll pick a random one: A picker tool. I play a game called OpenTTD and pressing F to select a decoration object I’ve already placed instead of scrolling through the menu and accelerating the rate at which I develop carpal tunnel to find the object
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