>They just want you to log in. This costs nothing.

You pay with your data...

>> What matters is domain age, IP, and compliance with DKIM/DMARC.

>Maybe it was my IP, but I cycled a few with my hosting provider and none of them made a difference. If I am unable to reliable obtain a 'trusted' IP, what good does it do?

That's true. I have a Class C IP range and a domain registered for 30 years and yet Gmail still started ignoring my email server a couple of years ago...

Perhaps, but if you set your browser language to US English you have dates displayed as MM.DD.YYYY and there's no way to change it neither to European nor ISO (YYYY-MM-DD) format.

Your concept appears to have coherence until you consider that numbers are not necessarily expressed in decimal notation. What about hexadecimal numbers in filenames? Should they be sorted your way?

And what about very long strings of digits in the filenames - so long that they are too long for even the longest available numerical representation? In some apps, they are converted to floating point...

It seems nobody remembers the reason for the F-key assignment in the original i.e. Norton Commander... The assignment was very logical and easy to remember (and use) on the original PC keyboard, where F-keys were located in two columns on the left edge of the keyboard: F1, F2, then F3, F4, and so on. You can immediately see the advantages of the F9 location (the leftmost key at the bottom) and of the proximity of the Browse and Edit keys. I used my left thumb to press F10 - it was in the correct place almost without palm movement...

Nowadays I almost don't use Mc (except for file manipulation) because the Linux version has a serious weak point - it blocks the most important keystroke in shell: Tab. It is of course traditionally reserved for panel switching but this role could be deactivated when instead a single command line zone MC would allow to have a multi-line (in NC it was 3 or 4 line) zone for the shell scrolled display. This way it would be possible to have the full-size panel display (with the Tab switching panes) and one keystroke away reduced-size panels with full functionality of the shell tab key in the alternative panel mode... Another disadvantage is the complicated way of changing settings (especially the colors and file attributes display format) in practice forcing trial and error mode... True, it's not needed often but spending hours on it is rather deterrent.

Until there are no unified, standard solutions this is too difficult to be achieved in practice.

There is a standard solution, it works well. What is still being worked on is portability, but if you are securing your most important stuff (banking, email) then passkeys are definitely workable without portability since if you switch ecosystems you can sign in with the old ecosystem and register the new one.

> What the hell is gpf?

My guess would be gallons per flush

Hmm... In all the cases I saw the prices were mentioned in EUR not USD as the unit. I consider it a clear indication that the discussion participants are mainly non-Americans ;-)

>most car manufacturers have 3-10% gross margins.

I remember some analysis saying that it is true for classic versions like sedan. But on SUVs it is a couple of times bigger...

It is used in all European countries (I don't know any European country that doesn't use it). I know the long scale under the name "European" and the short scale as "American".

>I don't know any European country that doesn't use it

With the exception of people over 70, the UK has pretty uniformly moved to the American system. All of our govt statistics, corporate finances info, day-to-day conversations involving billions refer to "one thousand million"

Same in Australia. I vaguely remember learning the old scale at school and being confused by American usage. Now everyone uses short scale, and most young people probably don't even know the old scale existed.

Same in Ireland, the long scale was already an elderly person thing when I was a child

UK used to do it the European way, but has adopted American way since (IIRC) about 50 years ago. As a Brit I wish we still used the traditional way.

(And despite Brexit, UK still is a European country!)

It may take fifty years, but I think that you will eventually rejoin the EU.

I definitely hope so! (And hope it won't take that long, but it wouldn't surprise me.)

Or whatever the thing is then.

I guess US could change to Long scale and that would make their debt sound way less, it is no longer in trillion dollar range!