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I've worked for plenty of companies using MsSql.

They have all been dotnet ecosystem, but self hosted rather than Azure

I think the latest versions of SQL Server also run on Linux now.

Same here. I've been trying to find a "plain Android" phone but everything seems heavily customised UI by the manufacturers now.

I just found out today I can't call anymore due to 3G ending in my city

I'm keen for a Motorola Graphene and then just install Google services anyway. For me the value is being freed from manufacturers UI and software

Are there unicode characters specifically for delimiters?

If Excel had a standardised "Save as USV" option it would solve so many issues for me.

I get so many broken CSVs from third-parties

For a very basic example, lets say I want 3 columns

FirstName|LastName|Age

And client files look like

ClientA: First|Last|Age

ClientB: Age|FirstName|Last

CientC: FullName|Age

ClientD: DateOfBirth|First|Last

So they all have the required info, but some intervention is required.

Column matching/renaming

Column order

Splitting full name to first/last

Converting DateOfBirth to Age

Not actively or consciously, but my purchasing desires have certainly reduced.

Laptops:

Lost interest because I find them too expensive or complicated. Either to get what i initially want, or for upgrades down the line. Obviously my opinion would change if I travelled extremely frequently, but for the last many years I've had 0 need for portability.

Tablets:

Never felt the need for one after i got a decent phone

Phone:

Never felt the need to upgrade since I bought a phone that did everything I want and fast enough. Xiaomi 9, extremely happy with it

Desktop PC:

My preference. Good thermals, easy individual part upgrades. Can get great deals either new or second hand. Computing power has been strong enough for a while now that I happily run a few generations behind without feeling the need to upgrade.

Semen has the opposite problem of Elle. The English translation isn't good for a name.

Perhaps the website could add dictionary definitions of the names in each language to help avoid these issues

Fairphone 5 3 years ago

That can't be right. The last phone I bought (Xiaomi Mi 9) only cost me $600nzd and that's the most expensive phone I've bought.

And it's so powerful it still does everything I need years later.

Are normal people actually utilising phone specs these days? Sure some people game but surely everyone else is barely using the CPU etc