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#3460123 10-Feb-2026 08:48

I'm not going to name the site, but its ad blocker detection is broken. "We noticed that ads aren't being displayed", it emblazons on a popup I have to manually close. The underlying page does, in fact, show ads.

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#3461501 14-Feb-2026 19:00

^ Use reader view

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#3463756 23-Feb-2026 12:58

Outlook spellchecker is set to en-GB. Spelling is checked according to that dictionary... with the exception of the Subject line, which is using en-US.

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#3463768 23-Feb-2026 14:41

Behodar:

Outlook spellchecker is set to en-GB. Spelling is checked according to that dictionary... with the exception of the Subject line, which is using en-US.

It's a bit like choosing English (NZ) (or pretty well any other English speaking country with the exception of the UK) on a lot of apps and you'll get the very confusing US MM/DD/YY date layout by default. The US is of of the very few English speaking countries that uses this layout yet it is assumed everyone except the UK uses it.

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#3463770 23-Feb-2026 14:47

A while ago (15 years?), before en-NZ was commonly available in browsers, I had my browser language set to en-GB. Quite a few websites would then give me prices in pounds, because apparently language and location are the same thing.

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#3463774 23-Feb-2026 15:22

E-commerce website which show prices in $... is that USD? NZD? AUD? It's surely not much effort to specify.

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#3463777 23-Feb-2026 15:37

Technofreak:

Behodar:

Outlook spellchecker is set to en-GB. Spelling is checked according to that dictionary... with the exception of the Subject line, which is using en-US.

It's a bit like choosing English (NZ) (or pretty well any other English speaking country with the exception of the UK) on a lot of apps and you'll get the very confusing US MM/DD/YY date layout by default. The US is of of the very few English speaking countries that uses this layout yet it is assumed everyone except the UK uses it.

I set some apps to En-GB to get the correct date layout.

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#3463778 23-Feb-2026 15:49

Of course everyone knows America is the only country in the world!

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#3465482 27-Feb-2026 15:22

Today, Apple. I connect my Mac (OS 12.7 - may be fixed in newer versions) to my home VPN and find that I can't connect to my NAS. Upon further investigation I look at my public IP address and find that it's not using the VPN. I check that "Send all traffic over VPN connection" is enabled. It is.

It turns out that despite that, you also need to set the "service order" so that VPN is higher priority than Wi-Fi. So much for "send all traffic"!

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#3465495 27-Feb-2026 15:45

Behodar:

Today, Apple. I connect my Mac (OS 12.7 - may be fixed in newer versions) to my home VPN and find that I can't connect to my NAS. Upon further investigation I look at my public IP address and find that it's not using the VPN. I check that "Send all traffic over VPN connection" is enabled. It is.

It turns out that despite that, you also need to set the "service order" so that VPN is higher priority than Wi-Fi. So such for "send all traffic"!

Apple seem to have some of the dumbest smart people working for them. Every time you update Mac OS, it switches WiFi back on. It's infuriating.

Let's not discuss how Apple ruined one of the Macs best features, scheduled shut down and startup, by removing it from the System Settings. Now you either have to find (purchase) software to do it, or use the terminal. Just brainless.

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#3465510 27-Feb-2026 16:02

John19612:

Apple seem to have some of the dumbest smart people working for them. Every time you update Mac OS, it switches WiFi back on. It's infuriating.

Yep, I know about that one. "Why is my game laggy? Oh, because there was an update and now it's using Wi-Fi." And then if you tell it to "forget this network" to stop it from connecting, it deletes it off your phone as well. Re-add it on the phone and it starts auto-connecting on the Mac. "Infuriating" is right!

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#3465649 28-Feb-2026 09:57

I just remembered another Apple thing that I discovered last year when I was overseas. Apple Maps has the ability to download so-called "offline maps". However, it doesn't actually use the offline maps by default: after downloading them you need to explicitly enable them or else it'll just chew through your roaming plan to re-fetch the same data that's already on the phone.

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#3465800 1-Mar-2026 13:15

Behodar:

I just remembered another Apple thing that I discovered last year when I was overseas. Apple Maps has the ability to download so-called "offline maps". However, it doesn't actually use the offline maps by default: after downloading them you need to explicitly enable them or else it'll just chew through your roaming plan to re-fetch the same data that's already on the phone.

It may be better to just leave Apple Map as it is, using it for live maps -- and get a different app that's actually designed for offline use e.g. Organic Maps. Bonus of having two maps apps is overseas I often find some places are easier to find in either Apple or a different app -- so if you can't find it in one app you have the other app as a backup and it might have it. Also useful for walking tracks -- often one app will have detailed walking tracks data for one area but not for other, and it'll be the other way around somewhere else in the same city.

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#3466399 3-Mar-2026 13:25

Has anyone noticed that websites can randomly drop from your Edge or Chrome internet history, breaking your flow of how you came to a particular site? Seems to always be around Google searches. Like, I was searching for some sports gear last night and I wanted to go back to a specific page or search result but had it dropped from history altogether.

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#3466458 3-Mar-2026 14:19

The death certificate application site that asks if you're completing the form for yourself or someone else (popped up on my socials on Sunday).

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