I was 18 in 1999, there wasn’t that much actual panic. At the time people already generally knew the media was overreacting.

There was a pretty awesome shoe commercial a few minutes after midnight. It had a guy jogging down the street, presumably on Jan 1st, while in the background ATMs are spewing cash, planes are falling out of the sky, traffic lights are flashing randomly, and other chaos. Then it had a tag about new years resolutions. That commercial made it all worth it

Autocorrect “helping out”

It was actually a bit of a big deal. Luckily it got figured out with enough time to fix it before it really effected anything. They were pulling cobalt programmers out of retirement to fix old systems and auditing anything important for years before 2000.

Well, it is pretty nice …

I just got it to happen by flipping my phone back and forth

It doesn’t happen all the time. I’m currently on an Android 14 device and it seems to happen sometimes when the screen rotates to vertical. Sometimes toggling the orientation by rotating my phone sideways and back fixes it, sometimes not. It’s very inconsistent.

Navigation buttons covering the Voyager UI is an Android/Voyager bug. It has happened on my last two phones.