Have two emails: one for personal and one for school. Since your school offers Office 365, they may also provide an email address. I have two email addresses: my personal email (Protonmail) and the one my school assigned me.
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I actually have that exact setup currently. My old Google emails are linked to a couple things so I only use those in my Foss apps to access them
Are you having to do shared docs? If not maybe email and a flash drive could work. What OS do the computers you use run? If its windows you could install Libreoffice and point the install folder to your flash drive instead of the hard drive.
Shared doc are very rare, but I have used them.
My personal devices run Linux and windows, but I also use public computers running mac and windows. And in worse case scenario I note take on my phone as well
I might try this if no other options exist however.
It disgusts me that schools were complicit in giving Google our children's education data.
its a damn shame. Instead taxpayers focus on banning queer kids from showing themselves. Meanwhile corpos are building entire profiles on your kids.
This might be unpopular here, but if you're still quite young, and will be in school for a while, it might be worth switching to Office, but using a second email address.
I've got nieces and nephews going through school in the UK, and they've found that Office is more closely integrated as they get older. It's little things like files sent in Office's 'open' file format, so the layout is slightly off in other programs. It can be worked around, but it's extra work.
Using a second email address should mean that you can isolate it from your non school activities, usually by having a separate profile on your devices. You should be able to lock the profile down too, like not allowing location access.
Might be worth thinking about. Either way, good luck :)
Thanks for the suggestion! Only have two more years left in my rad tech program. I'm down to use office, just wanted to see if some easier open source options exists.
No worries, good luck with the course :)
P.S. I was disappointed to learn that rad tech has nothing to do with early 90's computers ;)
Thanks
P.S. some of the equipment is still old 90s computers, the CT at the place im learning at is from a late 90s build running linux
A big flashdrive might really be your best bet. Just make sure to regularly back it up on your home PC!
Try OnlyOffice. It's like Microsoft Office (and compatible!) but free, open-source, and lightweight
This might be what I need! Do you have some good setup docs? I don't have any self hosting setup currently but I see you can host it on other sources
Hi, I would like to recommend LibreOffice over OpenOffice.