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Poll: Lemmys outside the Anglosphere, do you have your computer set to English or your mother tongue? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh god! Localization on function names must be one of the stupidest things Microsoft does. A literal anti-pattern.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 4 points 5 hours ago

If you’re a small strawberry farmer in rural France, it’s fine. If you’re doing something even a bit more serious like making technical or scientific calculations, you’re using a wrong tool. Excel wasn’t designed for that even though pretty much everyone is constantly pushing those limits.