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How does this work with different versions of Windows? I know a few apps that are broken on Windows 7+ and it would be nice to have a modern OS that can run older Windows apps without having to have that actual OS in a VM.


Unless they've moved their target, ReactOS was aiming for binary compatibility with Windows XP.


https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_FAQ

To be exact they aim for compatibility with Server 2003.


The lack of voting booths does seem a bit silly, in the UK during elections there is usually voting booths in pretty much every church, school and town hall so you'd struggle to live more than a mile away from one.

I once got called a "god botherer" by some kid after leaving to vote in a church, that was a bit bizarre.


> in the UK during elections there is usually voting booths in pretty much every church, school and town hall so you'd struggle to live more than a mile away from one.

On election day or in the month leading up to an election? We have plenty of places to vote at in Germany, but only on the day of the election, not for early voting.


Only on the actual election day.


Its not silly, its by design to disenfranchise voting, which benefits one party in particular.


I caution the use of emoji, I've seen so many stack overflow job posts with memey use of emojis and it just makes me cringe and I find it hard to take the company seriously.


Why can't I just disable emoji in email subjects in gmail? I'd definitely like to.


If settle for just being able to disable animated emoji in the subject line.

(I was shocked the first time I got spam that started playing animations before I opened it.)


I never thought I'd see the lack of unicode support in my terminal as a feature...


Emojis in subject line reliably increase open rate in my experience. Also others report the same:

https://www.outreach.io/blog/will-emojis-increase-reply-rate...

Maybe SO emails go over the top though


How much did they increase your open rate?

The linked report actually indicates a decrease in replies.

  Combined across all seven test variations, we saw a 42% decline in reply rate when the subject line featured emojis.


Tbh I've never optimized for reply rate so this could have been true for me as well. Generally selling dtc. Open rate and sales increased reliably 10-15%. Haven't done any comparable email marketing in two years so things may have changed since then and obviously my anecdata may not be true for you.


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