Brewchin

Possibly, on both counts. I know the Guardian and BBC News style guides use that convention.

Yet there’s this regarding the AP Style Guide:

https://grammarmill.com/ap-style-rule-for-acronyms/

It mentions odd rules like “if an acronym is longer than 5 characters” and such.

Either way, my money’s on an internal style guide that Microsoft (in OP’s example) requires its staff to use.

Me too.

People learn from reading that kind of thing. Aside from it being unnecessary and confusing, there’s going to be a percentage of people who’ll think “Ascii” (or whatever) is a name rather than an abbreviation.

They probably have a style guide, as most media outlets do, that says pronounceable acronyms/initialisms are to be written like a name and the rest as everyone expects.

So you get Ascii, Unix and Nasa alongside IBM and PCMCIA.

The core of what you’re saying has been my approach for many years. Never go “all in” on anything.

Convenience is one thing (to me, but it’s everything to so many), but it’s just one factor. And if it means I am (or my data is) the product, it costs too much.

Isn’t free market economics essentially about stripping government restrictions and regulations, specifically enabling this kind of commercial foul play by removing the legal tools to prevent it?

Basically the opposite of how everyone expects it to work.

Could this be due to the post visibility setting of your post, your account, or the server you’re on? Or perhaps a synchronisation delay. I ask because…

Browsing that link in Firefox on Android shows me a preview?

When I view your profile with my Pixelfed account (using Moshidon on Android) shows no posts?

They claim their support is 24/7 but live chat / phone is just business hours

It’s increasingly common for “24x7 support” to mean access to their KB/FAQ and the ability to raise a ticket, while the actual support is a skeleton crew working regular hours.

Not unlike “your call is very important to us…” 😅

Spotify is AFAIK Swedish

It was started in Sweden where its operations are still based, but it’s headquartered in Luxembourg and it chose to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

Luxembourg screams “tax efficiency” to me, so their list of pre-IPO investors must be quite the thing.

Dunno why you’re getting down voted.

I visited Israel 10-odd years ago for work and I loved it. Beautiful country and people… if you ignore all the politics. As with the US.

What I hated while there was the demonisation of everything Palestinian. It’s like a cult: if you don’t agree, you’re one of them. (Get fucked).

As others have said, it comes down to people not enforced on/off switches. You can’t (well you can, but should you) stop people living their lives.

I was out with 3 friends tonight (all middle aged), meeting first for coffee, moving elsewhere for dinner and drinks, and ending with tabletop games (the place we eat/drink is happy with it). One of our group couldn’t stop looking at his phone throughout the time we were together, and the rest of us didn’t pull our phones out of our pockets once. (None of us were on call, contacted by family, or anything like that).

Just as some people have their phone ping them for every notification (often loudly, every few minutes), some feel they can’t live without the dopamine hit of a meaningless social media interaction from a stranger. 🤷‍♂️

I encounter this mostly with manga. (I’ll not rehash what others have said).

FWIW, and in that use case, I deal with it by renaming x5 to x5.0 so it will sort before x5.5. And then usually put both into an x5 directory and then zip that into a CBZ.

Hosting your own email server is a challenge, as DMARC, SPF and random hand waving by email companies (who should know better) make it needlessly problematic.

There’s also the issue of whether your home ISP allows inbound email ports (25/tcp, etc). A lot don’t.

It’s possible(?) a hosting provider can do decent email, but I tend to think of that like 1990s-era ISPs who provided email: liable to be discontinued at any time with little/no notice and not portable.

But it’s your call. Good luck.

Many email providers have an inbuilt tool that will handle all this for you.

Fastmail, for example. I switched to them 4-5 years ago, and the process of migrating over a decades worth of mail was straightforward and pretty quick.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/migrate-to-fastmail/