If companies use year numbers for versions, you end up in a situation like mine where you are upgrading to *cough* SQL Server 2022 and it's already 2025, which I find personally embarrassing explaining to users :-)

(Work for a large financial institution that takes a while to certify "new" versions for production use)

I mean, that's very funny and all that, but it is another unintentional example of America-centricism on Slashdot. Try and deport me if you like, I don't live in the States!
And I'd live to come and visit again, but not while you're holding/deporting people for what's on their phone... Or maybe what they've posted as Anonymous Coward!

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"revert" argh

Piss IN it, if I remember the smell of a phone box from my youth...

My old SE died just before christmas (the battery would often drain to 1% straight away after unplugging from the charger, so it made it rather unreliable).

When I went into the second-hand phone shop, they looked at it like it was some sort of artefact, and when I asked for the smallest iPhone they had, I got looked at like an artefact!

Phones nowadays have become ridiculously big. If you don't live your whole life on it / run your influencing business from it, there's really no need for them to be so big - they don't fit as easily into a pocket, etc.

I ended up with a second-hand 13 Mini, which is only a bit bigger, but feels a lot larger in the hand. There's much more screen space than the old SE, though, which is nice!

Remember the days when they were just getting smaller and smaller? Zoolander was pointing the way!

But the eggs you get are vastly superior to most shop-bought ones?

Where I worked in the late 90s, they had a policy of bringing in excellent programmers on managerial salaries. That way, the programmers could go beyond a normal programming salary without having to do managerial work, which they were no good at or had no interest in. And the company gained by having a load of experienced excellent programmers doing actual programming.
That was the 90s though, when there was more money in my industry (finance, if you want to know).

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I'd just add Slow Horses to this. I'm waiting until I have a little gap in my schedule to re-subscribe, watch that, then dump Apple TV again!

Nom nom

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"When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my father, not kicking and screaming like his passengers".

Thank you, I'm here all week, please tip your waitress, etc...

Thank you for summing up why I (a massive Eno fan) probably won't bother with this.

When my son was a very small baby and I was extremely tired, I nearly fell for a "your card has been used at an Apple Store" scam.
It was the classic pressure situation, and I panicked and gave out far too much information, including calling "Hammersmith police" using the same phone (so it was still the scammers on the line).
I only twigged when they said they'd send a courier to pick up my card, which rang a "SCAM!" bell in my head, and then I told them to f off.
My only plus was that I'd made them waste a good 20 mins on me, so I presumably spared some other poor schmuck having to go through the process (even scammers have to clock off, and these were definitely UK scammers, with London accents).
I thought of letting the "courier" come, and dealing with it with a cricket bat, but that sort of think always escalates badly against criminals, no matter how brave you're feeling...
I've never been targeted since - I wonder if they have a list of parents of new-borns?!

In Yorkshire, you don't fix t'government, t'government fix you! :D

BASIC allowed many kids to get started in programming.
In secondary (high) school in the UK in the early 80s, one autumn a few kids came in for the new term in sports cars (cheap and old, like MGs and Spitfires).
It turned out they had sold ZX Spectrum games to a publisher and bought the cars with the money.