I HATE this. Got absolutely shellshocked by this on a work computer recently.

Luckily, you can “just” change your locale! This is a process that took me a whole hour to figure out, required admin access as well as a system reboot. And it didn’t even work properly.

The same day I ran into a quirk regarding the filename field. Fun fact: Word pulls this directly from the OS. This almost makes sense, except if you want to decide whether or not the file ending is displayed (ie .word). Then you need to set this IN YOUR OS?! There is no other way to set this, and it is broken. When you finally figure this out and set it back to not display the file ending, word keeps doing it, seemingly forever. Yes also through reboots. This issue was fixed over 10 years ago, and then promptly reintroduced and never addressed again. Libreoffice just has another field, this took me all of 30 seconds to discover. But then you have to save in odf, because the word format is ass apparently.

I came here to see if anyone else suggested Simon Tathams puzzles - it’s a real gem! Perfectly dull, all-quality puzzles with no bullshit!

Not to say that they’re somehow clean, more so that the energy demand is insane enough to warrant considerations like this

I don’t have a source for numbers, but I’ve read a handful headlines about tech companies building nuclear reactors for their datacenters.