This doesn't have anything to do with data centres.

Honestly, this is a complaint of mine with a lot of software. I'm Hungarian and live in Hungary. The amount I have to struggle to have British English language, American keyboard layout, and Hungarian time in Windows is insane.

And how would you quit the terminal version?

Control-C is the usual for that.

Have you tried doing something similarly meditative instead?

I tried using matcha tea instead and it is kind of similar in that general direction but it doesn’t work quite the same mostly due to being constant effect for a few hours after a strong drink instead of a precise impulse.

It was alright for a couple of projects but the day I drink matcha is firmly a “matcha day” with its characteristic of great energy at first and then feeling kind of shitty the rest of the day. It shapes your day too much.

I am sure there are some substances that are similar to nicotine in mechanism and less harmful to the heart and blood thickening but they aren’t easy to get usually or aren’t well researched.

Despite all nicotine is fairly well known and tested on huge population not to mention virtually unlimited access for any interested adult.

I don't mean any sort of substance, but a habit. That can be consuming something (be it cigarettes or tea) but it doesn't need to be. I used to be in a similar position as you (except with food). I've found that doing something similarly meditative, in my case listening to music, achieves much the same effect as food did.

Nicotine is a bonafide stimulant though, hard to get that any other way.

It wasn't. Lifespans were almost a decade shorter.

No, it's going to be about either the roll back of nuclear reactors or various social movements.

Does Windows muscle memory work? The vast majority of shortcuts are completely different for the casual user, and for the power user, there's no regedit or control panel and other such things.

> there's no regedit or control panel and other such things

That's not a bug, it's a feature.

Be that as it may, it means that the muscle memory (or more accurately, the mental model of the system) is gone. I've long held the belief that power users or knows-enough-to-be-dangerous users have a harder time switching for that exact reason.

A control panel (or cross-distro YaST) would be very welcome in the ecosystem I think.

> muscle memory (or more accurately, the mental model of the system)

That's not "more accurately", that's just a completely different thing. When I'm on Mac, my muscle memory is thrown off. I'll be typing and my ctrl+s, alt+tab, win+4, ctrl+left* all cause wildly unpredictable (to me) things. I'm currently using Linux, and all of those things work how I expect (with a tiny asterisk on win+#). When I want a control panel, I press the windows button on my keyboard to open something functionally equivalent to the start menu, and open System Settings to get something functionally equivalent to the control panel.

I have no doubt that I could learn the deep differences between Windows and Mac over time, but the initial muscle memory causes me stress before I get to that point. When I switch to Linux I don't have that stress, and so I've been comfortably learning those differences.

* - save, switch to the previously in-focus window, switch to the 4th program on the taskbar, move the cursor one word to the left

We weren't talking about whether the registry was better or worse, we were talking about how similar the two OSes were.

... in case of the registry, you were also talking about replacing a unix philosophy system (each application has its own standalone config file) with a windows like monolith (everything goes into the registry).

Tbh it's not even muscle memory, how often do you edit config files?

Alt-Tab to cycle windows.

The increased costs are from the increased rate of chargebacks.

This is no longer as common as it used to be, and besides chargebacks (plus fees) get passed to the merchant.

Chargebacks don't cost a payment network anything.

They keep the payment fee, and they charge you a large chargeback fee. They don't lose or spend any money out of their own pocket on it.

If you have high fraud rates, they charge you a higher per payment fee.

Our company is both a payment network and a merchant, depending on specific product lines and such. We spend a lot of time preventing credit card fraud on our merchant lines of business, and very little on our payment line of business, because chargebacks cost us nothing there.

As designed.

I can't believe people keep perpetuating this lie, that they very obviously haven't thought critically about. It's so frustrating. It's like everyone just repeating gormlessly that the sky is actually purple when they can just look at it.

Is that really a fact?