Signing in for the first time in years. This is where you've been sucked in by the hype.

The classic design in 2014? Not too bad. The classic design in 2018? Probably not going to cut it.

No, the classic design in 2014 is green with text and it is great. In 2018 if it is still green with text it will not be any worse than it is today.

Yep, I closed my account there. This new site will simply be a replication of any router manuals you may have laying around. It will deliberately go out of its way to discourage any form of discussion or even the documenting of useful general techniques, because it will be too 'open ended'.

I hate SO with a passion and I used to enjoy it a lot. Good luck to them with the new arm though.

That old guy in the blue top in the foreground looks way too happy. I reckon it was him.

This is ridiculous. Are we seriously saying that the suspect description for a bombing at a marathon is anyone who had a backpack?

The site in question tries to load content from no less than 13 other domains. How were people stupid enough to use it in the first place?

Or better, we flash a custom ROM that lets the phone run for weeks on standby, and remember to plug it in for half an hour sometime in that period.

All arguments about this particular situation aside, it's stupid to point your finger at a particular technology company and say "bad privacy!!1!".

Your credit card company knows what you buy and where you live. The checkout chick at Woolies/Kmart/Whatever can know your name when you hand over the card. eBay has a record of everything you've purchased (and when, and from whom...). Anyone at all you've dealt with could be storing your previous address. Need I go on?
 
...and don't even get me started on store loyalty cards!

Track changes is only required when working in an MS format. For any other half reasonable file format, Beyond Compare and SVN will track your changes BETTER than any office suite.

What was the 'feature' that we all needed the ribbon for? Having less efficient access to a completely disorganised collection of newly skinned buttons?

These.

Piss me off no end. Learn grammar and go back to Reddit.

To look at the analogy another way, MS Office charges you a higher rate so that it can turn up in a gay robe and wig, whereas Open Office rocks up in jeans and t-shirt but does 99% of the same things for far less money.

But for those of us who can spell and just want to type a letter in less than the time it would take with a pen and paper, ALL of these products are just bloatware.

Stop trying to confuse the issue by citing all the features that normal people haven't cared about in the last 20 years and never will.

Ummm yeah, we're talking about the other way around. Can you open my PPTX resume with star-wipes on your 13 year old platform/software?