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In light of "smartphones", Fauxbook, Twitfart, &etc., I suggest that Marshall McLuhan preposition be given a proper FIFY: "The medium is the message"
And I am aware of the irony of using FIFY in this post
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. . . when archeologist dig up and unlock computer data from our time, they'll come across a significant number of instances of "Lorem ipsum dolor . . . ". It will be found often enough to be deemed a very important tome and decades will be spent by hoards of scholars attempting to translate it.
As we'll be well composted by then, I'll enjoy my laugh now.
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You wait until they finish with that and try to make sense of Farcebook and Twatter! 
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I see your point but you forgot to take into account that the "Cause of the Great Fall and Return Into Darkness" - as those two are referred to, historically, after their merger and expansion to broadcast services, was well documented.
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"Fat" lot of good that will do! In fact, by comparison I prefer OG's connection to extinction.
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Actually, it's not that hard. "Lorem ipsum dolor . . . " - distorted version of Cicero book passage. It's Latin with deliberately made mistakes. 
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You'd think spellcheck or autocorrect would take care of that. 
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GenJerDan wrote: spellcheck or autocorrect
They, too, will take their toll on the archeologists of the future.
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And no doubt will become the basis of a popular religion as it conveniently gets translated to a list of things common folk should never do. 
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I like the way you think. Can we monetize this yet?
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Why not? L. Ron Hubbard did something similar...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Which will leave the scholars confounded, as other archeological research determined that technology was rapidly replacing spiritual beliefs, and yet there seems to be this "Lorem..." incantation used to a new god of technology.
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Don't forget those twin gods Foo and Bar
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Don't forget their sibling Snafu.
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They will have a tough time deciphering this too :
#include <stdio.h>
Perhaps this occurs a lot more times than Lorem ipsum.
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They may, however, deduce from the remain construct over which it presides that it has some sort of reference to definitions as it is followed by (ultimately) mathematical-looking prose. The Lorem ipsum is in a paragraph form - as though it were conveying some information.
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But they already know what that means, since it's been used in the printing industry for hundreds of years.
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My Downloads directory, like all others is ordered by file name - that's just how I like it. But every so often when I go to view it, it has had its contents grouped by Date modified. So I reset to no grouping and it reverts to 'normal'. And then at some other random time after a download (but not always) it will be grouped again.
It is only mildly annoying but I wonder is it some feature that I am not aware of?
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following @KornfeldEliyahuPeter 's suggestion I googled and found this: Why does Windows groups Downloads files by date?[^].
Seems to be working ...
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modified 26-Jan-21 6:55am.
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Same here, Microsoft knows what's best for you 
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Yup, it's REALLY annoying, and as you say: Every time you fix it, after some time, it reverts to date order.
I've Googled a lot but not found any lasting solution to it... 
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I had it... And done something (can't remember what) and it went away... What I do remember, is that I found it on the web...
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Your Google result is the generic response from EVERYBODY who has tried to solve this.
It works for some, but not for everybody... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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