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		drdeca 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Splash-free urinals (2025) Most of the time someone uses a urinal, they didn’t purchase it. The customer is different from the user in this case.
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xyzelement 5 days ago [–]

That's often true in software as well. Perhaps it's actually the etymology of the term.

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