Seems Dutch. The price includes all taxes including VAT as is mandatory in Europe but still it’s very expensive. Price seems about 3 times too high for a novelty beer from a small brewery. My guess is that this fridge photo is taken not in a shop but in a drinking establishment, such as a bar or food court.

In my experience it’s more common in industrial (plc) and embedded software. Where people don’t have to work in large teams.

Ideally you want the OS to be updated, because old OS are vulnerable when the computer is networked. In fact most IT departements require every PC to have an up to date OS.

It’s not always a matter of bothering - many applications are customized and made for a specific purpose. An application could have been sold to only one company as a one off, or even developed by a long retired employee. Want an update after 20 years? Sure, after paying another invoice, provided that the developing company still exists and is still willing to support such old tech.

It is just a given that many companies are stuck with some old software somewhere in their process. That explains the policy for Windows.

Windows: “if we stop shipping this 25 year old library 5% of corporate users will experience problems which will cost us money and reputational damage, so we keep it compatible.”

Linux distro: “we are going to replace X with Y because it is better. Things will break and it is partially up to the community to solve it.”

What is the application you had issues with? It’s very uncommon for a 10 year old application to not run on Windows. And if it doesn’t, it’s usually not the fault of the OS but of some obsolete technology.

What is the problem of running 10-30 year old desktop software locally? This is actually very common in some sectors, such as governmental infrastructure or industrial use. It’s not like those applications are reachable from the internet or even contact a server. Windows itself ships with applications that haven’t changed for decades, such as the character map and resource monitor.

Not sure what you mean by old.

10 year old Windows software? Will definitely run.

20 year old Windows software? Will run but might require admin rights or compatibility mode.

30 year old Windows oftware? Might run but probably need a VM.

For Linux the focus is more on improvement, less on compatibility. That’s a deliberate decision.

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Europe doesn’t use split phase.

US split phase uses a special local transformer (with a center tap) to split a phase voltage in half. Thus resulting in 240V and 120V, both derived from the same phase upstream. We don’t have such a complication. We use just the three phases that are transported all the way from the power plant, of course transformed down in voltage but not split.

The phases are 120⁰ apart. The voltages between the phases is 400V and the voltage from any phase to neutral is 230V (all voltages ± 10%). New buildings get 3 phase connections standard. Single phase is supplied to older houses which limits their power use to around 230V x 40A (current depending on the country) or around 9 kW.

380V is a decades old standard from the time when different European countries still had minor voltage differences

Fair enough. But what makes you believe our generation will fair better in 50 years, when we are “veterans” in important positions? When that time comes, our current values and beliefs will be outdated as well. And upcoming generations will say the same about us. We can blame boomers, but in the end the future is our responsibility, and we have yet to prove we can achieve more.

Depends on the country and their social circle.

Boomers have little to do with it. Boomers normalized contraception, were among the first generations to discuss sex openly and played a significant role in changing attitudes toward homosexuality, from being widely criminalized to becoming more socially accepted in many countries.

Even if boomers die there will unfortunately still be conservatives and religious people of all ages that oppose anything other than being straight.

Your explanation is solid but it’s also very dev-centric.
Wysiwyg has been a solved problem in GUI for over 40 years, when people first started using editors like MacWrite and WordPerfect/Word.

Web browsers still don’t have a wysiwyg editor built in after decades of development, thereby forcing developers to use js-like solutions. Which obviously suck as you mention.

So developers resort to a minimalist markup language like markdown (even though html is already a markup language) but then still the implementation is not up to par with what users expect. Most developers aren’t skilled in UX and resort to doing things “the dev way”. That is the explanation why pressing Enter doesn’t always introduce a new line for ordinary users, trying to type a few paragraphs of text on a discussion platform.

It can help to give an analogy. But in this case it would be more clear if you would demonstrate the usefulness of this feature by explaining why a user wants to prefer to hit enter and not get any result, instead of hitting enter and getting a newline.

I’m with you on this one. The behavior is not as people would expect it.

Hitting enter/return should result in a newline. That’s what users expect.

The UX is inconsistent because it shows a newline in the entry screen, yet doesn’t show it after submitting.

I can personally tell you that riding a motorcycle without fairing or helmet at high speeds is also not pleasant. The wind gets annoying quickly, there is an ear defending noise and getting a mosquito in your eyes at 100 miles per hour is definitely painful.

Plastic cups are not all that prevalent anymore in homes here in Europe for environmental reasons.

Paper cups are used for drinking parties. But if we want to be inviting to our guests we serve drinks in glasses. Glass can be quickly cleaned and reused so no need to have hundreds of them.

You can usually go up to 220 ⁰C. It reduces the time to bake and that makes the pizza crust crispier and the topping less dried out.

When you put away your phone, place it just out of reach.

Not sure, but I always search for the movie Airplane and it’s always in vain.

English is the number one language for trading, even if the US falls into despair. It is the most dominant second language in the world. Even the Chinese learn English starting primary school these days.