Yeah agreed that while you're more than likely not gonna get sick from it unless you have an allergic reaction of some sort, it's still probably dusty as those things are a nightmare to clean and so not a pleasant lick

I hoped it'd be read as sarcasm

It's not a serious hatred, but most major/Western European nations (at least Germany, UK, Spain, Italy and probably France themselves) have at least a friendly rivalry with the French despite being on friendly terms either since 1945 or even longer, with France having been fairly positive for Europe since at least the 80s, so it's incredibly hard to justify that the "hatred" of them is rational

Although the Italians may have twisted it into a surprisingly valid case, just ask about how almost all famous French food is just Italian recipes with a French name and they will be incredibly convincing even if it may not be objective fact

Every European: "but my hatred of the French is prefectly rational, does that mean it's not xenophobia?"

It's not scrolling though - using the arrow keys on a keyboard or d-pad on a controller you'd use up to go up and down to go down when navigating documents, menus etc. As far as I'm aware unlike when you're moving a viewport either by scrolling or in games there's no debate when it comes to moving a caret.

And as you said, "having grown up in the tape era". Just because it was logical for that application and so is logical to you doesn't mean it's still logical - people who grew up with record players could just as easily argue for two spinning knobs as you're moving a potentiometer to increase/decrease the volume, and spinning the record forward/back; having grown up in the CD era I had both of them being up/down or left/right as the buttons were either beneath or either side of the slot/hatch most of the time, same with tv remotes having both as up/down, and given there was no standard then I don't think either one "just makes sense"

Issue is that people like to categorise other people into groups, and so even if you only believe the plausible or even provably true parts of it, if you try and propagate it you'll lose credibility in a lot of people's eyes

I mean Booths aren't that small, they're just exclusively north-western & fill the same niche as Waitrose, who have virtually no stores in the north west as a result

That means their customer base is pretty much a perfect intersection of people who won't want to use a self-checkout - older people & people who are friendlier to strangers

Solid in the same way the designers heads are solid bone I guess...

A 3.5mm adapter is not an answer as it causes wear on the USB C port in ways it's not designed for (but 3.5mm is as it's circular so the cable rotates and breaks before the port), and it's hard to get a good dac that isolates the power noise when using a multiple charging/listening adapter that's also that small

Yeah nah

It looks just as similar to pretty much any desktop interface of the past 40 years, and openwindows isn't even the first thing with that design

Floods, generally

Generally the houses are old enough that they're from before we forgot that building on floodplains is a bad and that entrances should be perpendicular to the slope, and when every few years we'll get a day with 200mm of rainfall these houses are generally fine even if some roads get ripped up and swept away, but the new houses that get designed by people hundreds of miles away who think the 1500mm of annual rain they get is as much as anywhere could possibly get (try twice to quadruple that...) often get absolutely destroyed

People also generally have 4x4s as you will need something raised to get through roads sometimes, or to pull people who don't out

Especially with swipe typing - the only times I find I'm typing in a whole word is if swipe typing repeatedly doesn't get it (eg have when I'm trying to type gave), or when I'm typing a word that isn't in the dictionary. That means the vast majority of the time autocorrect would kick in it would be unwelcome anyway

Nah, I get spam for my personal website where I host projects etc and also use as a convenience domain... It's pretty clear that I don't actively want to be indexed (if they wanna do it then sure but I'm not sure what they're searching for) and yet they're still talking about how they can get me more sales for my... Open source tokeniser and instruction set I guess?

I don't envy you...

Anything over 20° is just uncomfortable