Hey #css friends! Looking at CSS Anchor Positioning... I've got an arrow on a tooltip, what's the path to _knowing_ which `position-try-fallbacks` is actually being leveraged to ensure the tooltip is displayed correctly?

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Many moons ago, I worked internet tech support for an ISP. Only experience up to that point was mom and pop computer shops, but I had a lot of knowledge about hardware and web development for the time. Shortly after I had started this new job, the company started to offer our internet subs with personal email and a very small and meaningless personal webspace via the Zimbra suite. This was around the time Zimbra was bought by Yahoo.

Anyways, I didn't have internet through work, but those that did were given the same set up as our customers. Part of the "allure" of the email was you could set up to something like 5 or 6 accounts. You know, Mom, dad, Jane and Johnny. And each one could have their own little matching webspace. Being the new guy, I had befriended a few of the techs. I had become close to a few of them and one of them, when asked, she made me an alias in her mail account so I would have something to work with in troubleshooting.

Very long story short, I was messing around one day in the web builder and noticed something very odd. Within the URL of the web builder, it had not just my username, but also my password. Plain text. Not thinking anything of it at the moment, I left it. Few days later, we had a bit of down time. Unreal, especially for an internet call center. So I jumped back into the web builder and again noticed the URL. Curious, I saved my build and got the external link to share. I sent it to my friend and asked her what she saw. She didn't catch on at the moment. I asked her to build a page and send me the external link and she did. Low and behold, the URL looked similar to mine, but obvious changes.

I told her I was going to send her an email from her internet account to her personal. She looked at me oddly and when she checked her personal email, there it was. She freaked! Rightfully so. We called over our manager and explained the issue, and he seemed to not care or it went over his head. A few days later, I spoke with the teams "problem child." Very intelligent guy but was always on the write up list. He knew how serious the issue was and went to the manager. Again, nothing happened.

A week later when I get to work, my manager and another manager called me into a meeting. Apparently someone did send the information up, however, it was skewed and I was blamed for hacking company software. I explained the issue and stated firmly, I didn't hack anything but showed them a very serious bug. I even went as far as having my manager, who had his personal laptop in his office to open the link from my web page.
Showed him where the username and password were and had him log into my account and send an email. But I also had him reset my password.
FInally it dawned on them. That was the last I heard of it. Few weeks ago by and I happened to be playing in the web builder again and noticed the URL had completely changed. It didn't even show the username. I never got so much as a thank you, that'a boy, nothing. But it did get more techs talking to me and I made more friends.

About a month later, the manager from the first floor of "smart kids" showed up at my desk asking me a bunch of odd questions. Suddenly, she was, Monday when you come in, you report to me on the the first floor. Not even six months into this job and I was promoted. From there, I went on to what I thought was great work at the company until the buyout. But that's another story. For the following 7 years, I became to the go to guy for all of the odd, difficult and weird phenom. I once, even got a lady connected to the internet using the Windows calculator so I could remote in and remove a virus from her machine. I felt like I was making a difference at the time.

Moral of this story, I miss those days. The days of poking and prodding. Being curious. It seems the longer i've been in this business, the more it has worn me out. Attending meetings all day, watching and running reports. I'm so burned out at the end of most days, I don't want to touch a computer. Most days, I don't feel like I'm making that difference anymore. It's not the kudos for a job well done that's lacking. I get that all the time. I feel like the contributions aren't enough anymore.