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Morse proficiency was removed from Radio Amateur ("ham") requirements a few years ago.
I am curious:
(1) How many CPians actually know Morse code (at least at the Radio Amateur level)?
(2) If you know (or 'have known') Morse, have you made serious use of it, e.g. for a QSL, this millennium?
For myself: (1) At least I knew Morse. I wouldn't claim so today. (2) You must go a lot further back in time!
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1. I know a tiny, teeny bit of morse code
2. I use it pretty much every day
My company initials are SOS and my logo is formed of three circles, a gap, three rounded oblongs, a gap, and three circles.
 
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I never learned Morse code, but I earned a semaphore merit badge in the scouts, some 600 years ago, give or take.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Uhhhh - I learned something reading your post, I'm just not sure what. 
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I am sure it was not informative
Guess I am just too old and remember when business used logic to remedy a customer request
In this case Home Depot would have spent a lot of money to return the item
and offered no resolution that included customer satisfaction
I am sure the post was not a teaching moment
Except I now know how to spell Morse Code
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Isn't it a lesser trouble if the email / phone number is just given to HD?
Time taken to delete unwanted mails, messages is much lesser than the waiting time there, isn't it?
modified 5-Sep-23 3:59am.
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I tend to agree
My initial approach to this issue was to give bogus email and phone number
but the Credit Card seems to have my phone number tied to it for fraud so not a practical idea
YES I can delete spam email except at the time I was not using Proton Mail
which in 3 years I have never had one spam e-mail
NOW if I want to communicate with a company I know will spam me I just create
a new Proton Mail email address and delete the email address after I am done with that company
I have used the White House Phone number or BBB but very seldom
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Hmm. All I can say is that whoever is actually at "test@test.com" gets a lot of spam that people thought they were sending to me. Similarly 07555-555555 is one unlucky number. Much, much simpler than the hassle of not having comms at all.
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Yes I have used my first ever email address when we had dial up
dwight@ezo.net company is out of business
Thought about a bogus phone number did not someone else to get a spam phone call
Considered not being on the net but it is my educational tool
to learn programming and woodworking and national news
Gave up TV in 1998 Grew up in Canton, Ohio you put an antenna up
and watched news from Cleveland, Ohio market
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Hi All,
Being a child of the 80's I think SDI as Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars (Space lasers taking out commie nukes). I am bothered by this please tell me I'm not alone... 
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You are not alone. I'd have to google what else SDI could refer to.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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k5054 wrote: google what else SDI could refer to
Slum Dwellers International?
Serial Digital Interface?
State Disability Insurance?
...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You are definitely not alone; what else could SDI mean?
Don't panic! And don't forget to take your towel...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: what else could SDI mean?
Software-Defined Infrastructure?
Secure Digital Intercommunications?
...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Serial Digital Interface ?
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Is there a Hitchhiker refernce I have missed?
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Not that I know of, just that when dealing with space lasers, I think it's a good idea to keep a towel handy. You never know... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Strategic Defense Initiative is correct answer
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Not according to Trinamic! 
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I don't get it. Trinamic?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Sorry, a little contex the widget I was playing with that had the SDI bus which was the cause of the question was a Trinmaic stepper motor control board.
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For me SDI stands for Single Document Interface (the opposite of MDI). I blame it on my early days with Delphi.
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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I associate SDI with the name of a group of small, local convenience stores (long since closed): Super Drive In.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I have a C++/MFC SDI application whose development started in 1999 and I'm still maintaining. It was never a candidate for MDI.
Software Zen: delete this;
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