There are, but “long haul routes” are definitely better for a train.

What an incredibly infuriating waste of effort that would be so much better spent on trains, driverless or otherwise.

As a sometimes Windows admin, I completely agree. Plus so many things that become simple one-liners instead of taking forever farting around in a GUI tool where a little misclick screws up everything and documentation requires 27 pages of giant screenshots.

That’s good to know. It’s interesting that the other commenter thinks emacs shortcuts are illogical. I’ll make my best guesses at the logic

• ctrl-a/ctrl-e for start/end of line

a is the beginning of the alphabet; e for end (of line)

• ctrl-u to clear the command you’ve typed so far but store it into a temporary pastebuffer
• ctrl-y to paste the ctrl-u’d command

No idea here. Seems similar to nano with k-“cut” and u-”uncut”.

• ctrl-w to delete by word

w for word obviously.

• ctrl-r to search your command history
• alt-b/alt-f to move cursor back/forwards by word

r reverse, b back, f forward. Not sure why alt vs control though; presumably ctrl+b and ctrl+f do different things although I know emacs likes to use Alt (“Meta”) a lot.

If you or someone you know wants a taste of that experience on Windows, try out winget or chocolatey.

Why the hell did they misspell (and presumably mispronounce) tilde?

I love filter views, no real complaints there except that other people can’t manage to figure out the difference between filtering the whole sheet and setting up a filter view.

Tables seem kind of pointless but better than a separate database app I guess?

Not sure about “little pills”, do you mean the drop downs? That’s in validation, and it’s a little odd but better both in interface and function than Excel. There’s really only one version and two ways to do it: “data validation” and “insert drop-down” (the latter is just a shortcut to the former, but with relevant options selected). Checkboxes are the same (both live in the insert menu).

I’ve never known the “paste style” menu, I mostly use keyboard shortcuts when pasting. I might be misunderstanding what you’re describing there.

Some of it is just familiarity but I found Google sheets to be a breath of fresh air and still find Excel just painful.

Although Google has really gotten pretty cluttered lately as they add features and slap them in whatever menu they pick at random.

Similar but with an interface that refuses to do anything new for 20 years.

It’s just some mostly-unwritten rule of English grammar. If you do it wrong it sounds wrong but most English speakers don’t think about it.

Edit: reference.

I guess I was thinking of “special characters” like Ł, ñ, ă and such.

ruby shoes that are red

You mostly nailed it but this one would be “red ruby shoes”

determiner, quantity, opinion, size, physical quality, shape, age, colour, origin, material, type, and purpose

Special characters suck in on-screen keyboards

Not as much as they do on physical keyboards with their “hold alt-gr and hope” approach.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/R_Stevie_Moore_with_Irwin_Chusid/Swingin_Singles/csr044_swingin-singles_side-b_08_r-stevie-moore-with-irwin-chusid_so-be-it-soviet_the-undertow

Not true at all. (I see someone else already mentioned it but…)

I love mazes that intentionally defeat this method.

I’d describe it as making computer systems reliable.

Why is that? What do you feel is the downside?

Yes, kind of.

Someone might correct me if I’m wrong but it’s that, plus extra tooling to redirect the stuff that needs to be writable, plus more extra tooling to allow you to temporarily unlock the read-only parts in order to do system updates, plus a system updater that puts the whole system more-or-less under version control.

You mis-spelled “to-day”.