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Hmm. It seems weird that any tricolour flags would have different entropies, but I don't know how you would otherwise do a multichannel entropy.

I was imagining a kolmogorov-esque doodad

You ever drink from the leaded gasoline hose? Hoo boy!

How are you defining the entropy of a flag?

Do you want to trim my hedge with that non-secuteur?

If you think your chosen OS doesn't have irritations of a similar magnitude either you're looking past them or they just don't irritate you.

My Linux laptop has a problem where, when unsuspended while docked, tends to lose the dock in such a way that the USB devices attached to it become unusable - even if they are then plugged in directly; the USB stack just gets completely broken until reboot. It's really annoying - but I put up with it, because there are other things about Linux I like. If I had switched from Windows to Linux because of a nag screen that I could just click to get rid of and this was what I got in return, I'd be back to Windows in a flash.

At this point I've been using Linux for multiple decades and would never go back. Not even if Windows became genuinely better. I mean, it has improved a lot since when I switched away, but I'm used to Linux now and it's comfortable.

And that's what people don't get: Windows, for most people, is comfortable. Comfortable and good enough. There are many reasons why it's not good enough for me, but most people don't share the mindset behind those reasons, so they don't apply to them.

So hopefully that explains "why stick with Microsoft".

No, but to me it's a stereotype of Tumblr users that they go fucking nuts for any of that kind of "counter-cultural secret knowledge" stuff even if it's straight up lies.

So I'm not saying "Tumblr version" to mean they invented it but to mean they love it and (helped) popularise it.

There is a good writeup on the English Language stack exchange and on Wikipedia all of whose early sources are for the normal version or things like it https://english.stackexchange.com/a/508940

If you have a better citation, please share, but since they only find the Tumblr version from the 1990s I'm saying it's bollocks.

Cursed, I'm telling you.

No it isn't, someone on Tumblr just made that up

That's not the full quote and before internet smart arses decided that every single idiom needed a fake "original full version" it didn't exist.

The point of the phrase is not literal though. Customer service means pleasing the customer, which means you sometimes have to act like they're right even if they're wrong.

It's so common there's clearly something wrong with phones. Maybe they're cursed?

Over ten years ago I had to make a phone call to a foreign country to book a hotel, and my heart rate was as if I'd just sprinted somewhere

I feel it's unfair that bussy is already taken and this has to get the frankly third-rate "bunussy"