Dima

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[–] Dima@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, tbh I was surprised several years ago when I found out it was still being updated and included with 365, since they basically don't do anything to push people to use it. I still can't believe they aren't allowing people on 365 to use it unsupported after they drop support or at least release a good converter to convert them to .docx or .pptx - I can imagine there's plenty of businesses on office 365 that either: will forget that an important document is in publisher format or will completely fail to take any action to convert/migrate their publisher documents and will be scrabbling to try and replace/convert them.

I remember using publisher a lot in school in the 2000s because it was better for doing layout stuff for posters, etc. than word or PowerPoint were at the time. Nowadays I'd just use word or maybe PowerPoint (if I'm using MS office for it).

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I understand dropping support because it's not that used anymore and word or PowerPoint can do similar things, but stopping people from being able to use it or open existing documents is crazy. If you're on office 365 and don't convert your files before MS shuts down publisher you simply won't be able to open your old publisher documents with the office suite you pay for.

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Nowadays I see them mostly used by creators for sponsor or product links, probably because it lets them track how many people click on it and when

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe, but it seems like many just drop the umlaut (or whatever it's called in Swedish) rather than trying to mimic the sound: here's a BBC article that did the same as Reuters and here's TripAdvisor also calling it Orebro

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It might be part of their guidelines to only use the English alphabet for the location at the start of the article

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Currys

*Curries unless you're talking about the electronics retailer

those Indian takeaways... tandori?

If you're just referring to the restaurants, I'd just call one of those restaurants an Indian (as in the cuisine) or maybe a curry house. Tandoori, Balti, etc. all relate to styles of cooking and may be used in restaurant names, but if I was referring to restaurants that serve Indian style curries in general, I would just call it an Indian.

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I think this is likely what happened, will be interesting to see what the investigation finds. I'm surprised there isn't any sort of backup power for the voice recorder, it's there to help investigate incidents, those 4 minutes would have contained a lot of vital insight into what was going on.

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Runways can be used from either direction, usually they try to land with a headwind if there is significant wind I think. I think the localizer antenna can be at both ends of the runway if both directions have ILS approaches, but I'm not an expert. The concrete mound for the antenna is getting a lot of focus because it made a runway excursion so much worse.

It seems to me like they may have decided to make the landing then due to losing altitude and thinking they wouldn't be able to climb again, but hopefully the investigation can figure out what probably happened.

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can help with balatro and internetisbeautiful communities if you still need. I'd probably struggle to post to them too often, but can check for spam, rule breaking etc. a few times a day

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 17 points 7 months ago

This will definitely be the topic of a mentour pilot video at some point I think

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago

Fair enough, I agree the situation is mildly infuriating, whatever the reason you wanted it. A lot of restaurant/pub chains over here will throw out extra food if they prepped too much, rather than letting staff take it, probably because they don't want people creating waste on purpose but also don't want to spend the minimal effort required to stop people abusing the system if they allowed people to take excess food home. The distrust of low paid workers leads to most stores being unable to deal with special requests unless you are speaking to the manager and I don't know where I'm going with this...

[–] Dima@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

If it's so much effort to try and get fat trimmings from butchers, why not just buy a block of lard from the supermarket?

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