Long-form tweets are already available through this simple hack:
1) Type a post in a notepad app up to 1,000 characters
2) Screencap the note & paste it into a tweet as an image
3) copy/paste the actual text as the ALT-text for the image
4) add up to 240 characters in tweet body ...
6) PROFIT!

There are a LOT of milk choices, I already have to decide between Cow, Oat, Soy, Coconut, Cashew, Flax, Hemp, and Blends/Pea Protein - also unsweetened, original, chocolate, and vanilla for the plant-based options - and skim, 1%, 2%, whole, and A2 for Cow.. If I need to then scan multiple cartons with my phone (and USE MY DATA) to finalize my decision I'd be pretty annoyed.

If you have to individualize the Qcode, the cost to continue to include a human-readable date is trivial so why not both? But if you do remove the human-readable date, at least have a scanner right by the fridge so I don't have to use my own phone and data.

I do like the idea of automatic price reductions for milk nearer expiration, we go through four cartons a week here, so milk with four days to go would usually be fine.

I don't expect support from any vendor on any platform. It's that simple.

Support? I use Debian. I do my own support and use "the Internet" for that. My SteamBox is literally Debian 11, booting into a very lightweight DE, autostarting the Steam client in Big Picture mode... all of the info to do that, is available online.

PLEX is losing track of why they even have paying customers in the first place. My Smart TV does the multi-platforms content search quite well ,thank you very much. I no longer care for other platforms' content when I open PLEX; I want to browse and then stream my local content FAST and with no excuses for transcoding especially on LAN.

Try VueScan. (Satisfied customer here)

I love that you started running the numbers, ground that idea some... some great ideas when put up to "what does that really mean in reality" test, fall down quick, or become more reasonable than imagined

No need to swear, I'll take your word for it, haha ;)

its wild that thoughts from close to 25 years ago are still out here, I left a cryptic message to myself that I now have to decipher where I am in life now, that gave me a good laugh I've seen change too, I'd be sad if I didn't, but there's always the core that holds steady

that's a great analogy, its familiar, somewhat comforting, and for me, and maybe time has softened the edges, the arguments were never infuriating, almost expected with certain topics....but considered back and forth....there were times I've re-thought parts of my position, the trolls were pretty obvious, but even those with opposing stances, they were reasoned and fairly level maybe I was just lucky, or rose colored memory viewers are on lol I was telling a non techy friend about this site back in the heyday, a lot of good ideas and thought and personalities on here, at least for my two cents, then life's twists and turns...

It's "PC Master race" after all, eh?

/me ducks and runs...

Maybe like me, whhttps://slashdot.org/poll/3205/what-was-the-worst-version-of-windows#oever created the poll blocked it out of their memory because of PTSD?

Having used versions of Windows going back to 2.0, I have to say 2.0 and 3.0 were far worse than WindowsME.

And even the relatively stable 3.1/3.11 releases should have been made TCP/IP friendly far earlier in their life cycle.

Also, grouping Windows 10 and 11 together is not a good idea for this poll. Having used it for a few weeks now, I'd say Windows 11 is a bigger departure from Windows 10 than Windows 10 was from 7.