I‘m wondering why nobody has brought up the term "acquired taste" yet. Such a beautiful expression, sadly I can’t find a good translation in most other languages.

Does anyone have an example of a design team concluding that the right move is not to change anything?

I really think a big chunk of the problem is that it’s very hard for anyone to say to their employer that they shouldn’t be doing work. People like having a job and finding work not to do feels scary.

Maybe one of my favorite examples

https://plaintextsports.com/

Another well known one and particularly interesting since it's one of the most valuable companies in the world and this is their real website and not something they've just kept for historical purposes or something. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

I would pay good money to watch a clear-glasses-framed youngster pitch Buffet on turning the BH website into a progressive web app.

Lots of examples here (although many do have some amount of styling): https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html

Earlier I used FreeBSD on ThinkPad W520 (because keyboard):

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/freebsd-13-1-on-th...

.. and recently moved to FrankenPad T25 that is based on T480 (because keyboard):

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/freebsd-14-3-on-fr...

I do everything on FreeBSD including work.

Some of the topics I covered:

- Unlock Laptop with Phone

- Conferencing and Meetings

- Netflix Signal Telegram

- Network Management with network.sh

- FreeBSD Power Management

- FreeBSD Suspend/Resume

- Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD

- Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container

- Secure Containerized Browser

- Print on FreeBSD

- Scan on FreeBSD

- Sensible Firefox Setup

- Operate Android Device on FreeBSD

- FreeBSD Alongside Windows

To just name a few ... because I am slowly closing to 200 of these FreeBSD related articles.

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Regards, vermaden

Trains here are bad and the ones to/from Frankfurt are almost always delayed IME but surely you have other options to fall back on for getting there (or to whatever airport) that take less than "several hours".

“Frontiers” journals are crap, so it’s no surprise. But I don’t understand why editors let this happen. It’s similar to academic fraud: if you lie about results nobody cares about, you’ll never get caught; if you lie about big things, suddenly the hammer comes down. And for what benefit? It’s not like they walked away with a payday from splitting the open access fee. There’s nothing wrong with desk rejecting an author by saying “if your result is true, publish it somewhere better”