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Screw rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Situation: There are 20 screw standards.

John Corporate: "20 standards... I know, I'll create a new type of screw that will be unique to my corporate overlords and prevent users from repairing their own devices!"

Situation: There are 21 screw standards.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Relevant xkcd:

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To be fair, UTF-8 did win the character encoding wars. Kudos to the Unicode designers I guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Wish Windows knew that

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