90% of people calling support lines are due to questions that are in the top 10 ten on the FAQ. They're just the type of people who don't like reading and just want a social answer. The same kind of people who get told "just do a search, this is asked weekly" on Reddit.
If there was a way to direct the "I just need a FAQ that I don't need to read myself" people to an LLM and the "something is actually broken I need real help" to people, that would be ideal.
The Affinity Suite started out as macOS-only apps which later got ported to Windows so I would be very surprised to hear they had any substantial portion written in .net
History: I used/preferred Android until the iPhone 4S. I still have Android phones/tablets laying around for software testing.
One fun story: I had to implement the Google Pay equivalent of Apple Pay QR code passes and holy crap was that a shit-show. One Android phone I had had literally two different things called Google Pay, one as an app and one hidden in the Settings menu, with different feature sets and different passes. What the hell???
To access a different LAN, e.g. a network at work, or your NAS at home. You configure it so your internet traffic still goes over your normal connection but only the LAN requests to the specific subnet goes over the VPN. This was the original use case they were built for (roadwarrior businessmen logging into their corporate portal from a hotel or whatever)
Checking what a fridge cost you in 1980 in an old Sears catalog, you'd be paying $4000 today accounting for inflation.
Each 7-11 in Japan has one of those big business multicopiers. You can copy, print, scan, fax. The printing is sweet because it does photo printing on glossy paper, but also laser printing up to A3 size or even making custom post cards. They also have databases of paid content like sheet music and stuff you can print. I prefer Lawson/FamilyMart though since they also have sticker printing!
Exactly like vinyl!
This is why when when CDs originally came out, the industry kept saying "soon CDs will be super cheap since they're so much cheaper than manufacturing tapes!" (which really DO need to be dubbed linearly, even though they can be done at like 10x speed in digital high-speed dubbers) before they realized people were still perfectly happy paying $15 for a disc.
This is also why they kept trying to make laserdisc (and RCA's CED) be a thing, since they were cheaper to mass manufacture by stamping than prerecorded video tape's slow dubbing process. It was thought that prerecorded video tapes were always going to be too expensive (originally they were like $100 a tape, hence the rise of video rental stores)
Some things make more sense with additional context. Like, Europe was on the PAL standard while Japan was on NTSC, so even if you put them both in the same region, they couldn't watch each other's discs, so the region code could be re-used without it actually conflicting.
Usually it's because they have a distribution deal with a local TV station in that country where the deal prohibits them from distributing it themselves. The local station wants you to watch it on their own streaming service. That would also explain why it's mostly English-speaking countries since nowhere else would carry an English-centric news show like this.
I just googled "YouTube region block checker" and there were a bunch of results, I used the first one https://watannetwork.com/tools/blocked/
OK someone quick shoot at and near-miss Biden as well so the martyrdom evens out!!11