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by iguanayou 857 days ago
At least they stopped putting "My" in front of everything.
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Be that as it may, I would nevertheless campaign for “My Mistakes” as the log folder.
But that was just brutal honesty: it's not your computer anymore.
I've never liked the "my" prefix for labels because it wasn't immediately obvious whether "my" referred to me, or to the person/company/entity/software which created the thing.

This is particularly annoying when error messages are written from the point of view of an entity or fictitious person, e.g. "Sorry, I wasn't able to..." but things on screen are labeled "My..." Is "me" the user or the software?

Back in the Windows 9x days, Windows didn't refer to itself with first-person pronouns. That was a development that occurred a few years after "My Computer" morphed into "This PC".
My Lions! My Tigers! My Bears! Oh my!
So, Thycrosoft now?