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SanDisk's Name is Now Mud (petapixel.com)
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[–] daddyjones@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It took my sleep deprived brain far too long (less than a second, but still) to realise this wasn't a genuine name change.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 59 points 1 year ago

Me too! I was thinking, "Why would any brand rebrand themselves to Mud? That is even worse than Twitter rebranding to X!"

[–] mapro@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. The stupid capitalisation of nouns doesn't help.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I grew up with title case being a thing ☹️