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Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out there now champ

Yeah sure I’ll take a beer

My wife has been selling handmade crocheted stuff on Etsy for a while and I am constantly catching her going through listings and getting infuriated about designs that look awesome in the photos but are unrealistic or impossible in execution, and yet people keep buying them

I will continue to globally not use Office 365 again for another year. Easy.

They definitely create an account-ish record for you when you purchase on one of their hosted stores, whether you voluntarily register a new account in a traditional sense or not. There is sort of a composite key of the shop’s unique store ID and references to personal information collected about during your session, such as the email address you use when checking out. If you’ve used your email address on one hosted store and then use it again on another, your customer record will be associated with both stores. I work on this stuff every now and then. They already know all about you, and I don’t really feel that it’s necessarily super evil, but I also don’t think it’s marvelously great either. It’s just kind of a practical use of the solution to a problem lots of retailers don’t want to solve/maintain/fund themselves, and so they pay the platform do it for them.

mrcranky.com was a pretty good early message board that is utterly gone now. I’ve barely even thought about it for like 20 years, but it was fun while it lasted.

I think the thing that irks me more than anything else about Windows is that it always refers to itself as “us”. I hate it.