MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation

Re:MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation by Eric_WVGG on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @12:26PM (#30165940)

Wow. I've spent a lifetime vaguely hating MySQL because I'm bothered by computer software that projects first-person pronouns onto users (Microsoft Windows "My Computer" — um, no, Windows, you're not me, if you're addressing me, it's "Your Computer").

I'm going to be spending a long while contemplating this. My. That's so sweet.

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Re:MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation by macksd on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @12:38PM (#30166125)

You misunderstand - the computer belongs to Windows.

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Re:MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation by carlhjerpe on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:12PM (#30171711)

Didn't they change this though?

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Re:MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation by kinjba11 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:03PM (#30173146)

Yes, 'My' was dropped in Vista. It is now 'This PC' in Windows 10.

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Re:MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation by omgmajk on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:00PM (#30168352)

The pronunciation of the name My, or Y in Swe/Fin is somewhat different from English, it's hard to write down what it sounds like but you can use google translate to get somewhat the right thing.

Here, the word yxa (axe) comes close. https://translate.google.com/?sl=sv&tl=en&text=yxa&op=transl...

Edit: Found someone saying the name My, as in Lilla My from the moomins https://forvo.com/word/lilla_my/

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Re:MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation by stonecharioteer on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:22AM (#30178795)

Holy shit. I have been on Linux for 17 years and while I've used Windows for work, I'd forgotten that the file explorer launcher is named My Computer since the first thing I do is remove all desktop icons. That brought back so many weird memories.

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